Arne & Carlos and NORLA to attend the Seoul International Book Fair

This year NORLA will attend the Seoul International Book Fair for the first time. Arne & Carlos’ knitting books have taken South Korea by storm and there are great expectations surrounding the authors’ visit this year.

Read more about Arne & Carlos here.

Read more (in Korean) about the visit on website of the Norwegian Embassy in Seoul here.

See the covers of Norwegian books published in South Korea through NORLA’s translation subsidies since 2011 here.

(Photo: From the cover of the duo’s book Strikk fra Setesdal, published by Cappelen Damm, 2013. Read more about the book (in Norwegian) here).

Upcoming activities

September 1

Application deadline: Sample translation of Norwegian literature

Publishers, agents and translators abroad and in Norway can apply to NORLA for subsidies for sample translations.
Read more here.

September 15

Application deadline: Translation grants for Norwegian contemporary drama

The Writers’ Guild of Norway (in Norwegian: Dramatikerforbundet) may award grants for the translation of Norwegian dramatic works to other languages. The primary purpose of the grant scheme is to contribute to the presentation/production of Norwegian drama abroad.

October 1

Application deadline: Translation subsidy and Production subsidy

Please note that there are new application deadlines in 2025, with three deadlines in total, for Norwegian books in all genres:
1 February, 1 June and 1 October.