Previous activities

NORLA’s offices are closed Monday May 17, due to Norway’s Constitution Day.

We wish everyone a Happy 17th of May!

Digital book trade meeting focusing on children’s and young adults’ literature. NORLA’s selected title films. will be screened.
Speed dating with Norwegian agents.

Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London.

NORLA annually hands out an award to a translator of Norwegian literature. The award is given for translations directly from Norwegian.
In 2021, the award will be given to a talented young translator of fiction as an encouragement towards continued efforts.

We would very much like to hear from you about deserving candidates!

Digital book trade meeting focusing on non-fiction. NORLA’s selected title films films will be screened.
Speed dating with Norwegian agents.

Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Warsaw.

Physical book trade meeting with screening of NORLA’s selected title films.

Organized by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Reykjavik.

Are you a Nordic publisher, editor, sub-agent or scout who is interested in publishing and working with Norwegian literature?
Then save the dates 26 – 28 May 2021!

Translator’s webinar for translators into English, with the presentation of new titles for children and young adults, including screening of NORLA’s selected title films.

Translator Guy Puzey gives a key note speech on translation of literature for children & young adults. Participants will also have a workshop on translating an excerpt from Morten Solheim’s first book Totally Childish (original title: Sykt barnslig) with the author present.

Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London.

Digital book trade meeting with a focus on children’s and young adults’ literature. NORLA’s selected title films will be screened.
Speed dating with Norwegian agents.

Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Paris.

Read more about the translation subsidy for Norwegian fiction here.

Foreign publishers may also apply for production subsidies for children’s and young adult’s picture books by Norwegian authors and illustrators.
Read more about the scheme here.

NORLA’s offices are closed for Easter as of Monday March 29.
We open again Tuesday April 6.

Wondering what to read during the holidays? See our tips below

Happy Easter!

We set off our international activites this spring by hosting three webinars for international publishers. Here we will present NORLA’s selected titles and let the participants meet Norwegian literary agents in speed dating sessions.
We look forward to welcoming the participants!

Read more below

Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for non-fiction (for the consideration of applications for translation subsidies with deadline 1 February).

Read more about the translation subsidy here.

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

Literary agents and publishers in Norway can apply to NORLA, for support for extended sample translations; made possible by funds from the Ministry of Culture as a step towards making Norwegian literature exports an industry.

Read more here (in Norwegian only).

On Wednesday 24 February, NORLA is hosting a webinar for 8 translators from 8 countries on the translation of Ida Lødemel Tvedt’s essay Drafts from the Mariana Trench (original title: Marianegropen). The author will be present.