Previous activities

NORLA’s offices are closed until Tuesday June 2, due to Whitsun holiday.

Due to the corona virus pandemic, the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer has made substantial changes to its original plans and programming. NORLA has also made changes to our program during the festival.
Read more below.

Due to the corona virus, we have decided to postpone the spring season of NORLA’s Translators Hotel in Oslo, at Hotell Bondeheimen.
We are hoping to instead be able to welcome the four translators of Norwegian literature to Norway sometime this autumn.

Read more about NORLA’s translators hotel and previous guests here.

This year’s fair was initially postponed to May, and has taken a digital form.

Visit the Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s website.

NORLA annually hands out an award to a translator of Norwegian literature. The award is given for translations directly from Norwegian.
In 2020, the award will be given to a talented young translator of non-fiction as an encouragement towards continued efforts.

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

Read more about NORLA’s Translator’s Award and former winners here.

Suggest candidates by May 1, 2020 by clicking here.

NORLA’s offices are closed Friday May 1.
We open again Monday May 4.

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

Read more about the translation subsidy here.

NORLA’s offices are closed for Easter as of Monday April 6.
We open again Tuesday April 14.

Happy Easter!

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

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.

The librarian and press trip to Oslo has been cancelled, as has the opening of the new main library in Oslo.

The book trade meetings in The Netherlands and Belgium are cancelled.

POSTPONED: Due to the latest developments concerning the coronavirus and new guidelines from the Institute of Public Health, the conference marking the end of the Literature Go Global program is postponed.
This is seen as a necessary measure to limit the risk of spreading the corona virus. At the same time we are doing our best to set an alternative date for the conference.

The conclusion of the Literature Go Global programme was held Sepetmber 25. “Read more about the event here”: https://norla.no/en/activities/385

The Book Fair has been cancelled.

Visit the Leipzig Fair’s website.

The Book Fair has been cancelled.

Visit the book fair’s website.

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