Previous activities

June 5 2018
Romania

Translator Workshop, Cluj

Author Lotta Elstad are participating in a translation workshop at the University of Cluj, Romania, where there is an active Norwegian community.

Elstad is one of five writers participating in NORLA’s “New Voices” program this spring.
Read more about her here.

Full information about NORLA’s “New Voices” program can be found here.

June 1 2018
Norway

Application deadline: Translation subsidy for Norwegian non-fiction

Read more about the translation subsidy for Norwegian non-fiction here.

Foreign publishers may also apply for production subsidies for the publication of Norwegian non-fiction containing a large number of illustrations or with exceptionally demanding technical production requirements.
Read more about the scheme here.

May 30 2018-June 6 2018
Ukraine

Translator seminar / book fair in Kiev and Lviv

Between 30th May and 6th June, NORLA will be in Ukraine together with two of spring’s “New Voices.” At the book fair in Kiev we will participate in several events about literary collaboration, Gudrun Skretting will present his hot new translation to Ukrainian and Øystein Morten will lecture on Norwegian Vikings in the Kiev Empire. After Kiev, we are all traveling on to host a translation seminar in Lviv, where there is an active university environment and many Norwegian translators.
The visit is being organised in cooperation with the Norwegian embassy in Kiev.

May 29 2018-June 1 2018
United States

NORLA to the New York Rights Fair

At the end of May the first ever New York Rights Fair will take place. NORLA will be present at a Nordic stand along with with our sister organizations (the NordLit network).
On May 29th NORLA will host a book publishers meeting at the residence of the Norwegian Consul General where three authors of children and young adult literature will present themselves and their books. We look forward to introduce Kari Stai, Agnar Lirhus and Ingunn Thon for American publishers.

Read more about the The International Adult & Children’s Content & Licensing Marketplace here.

May 29 2018-June 3 2018
Norway

NORLA’s activities during the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer

International publishing seminar
NORLA and The Norwegian Publishers’ Association annually invite foreign publishers to a seminar on Norwegian literature during the Norwegian Festival of Literature. Interest in travelling to Oslo and Lillehammer is increasing; and this year, fiction publishers from France, the Netherlands, Poland and English-speaking countries have been invited. On day one, the publishers will meet Norwegian colleagues in Oslo. The day after, they will visit several of the central Norwegian publishers before catching the train to Lillehammer. In addition to a cultural program, they will also see presentations from a number of current Norwegian fiction writers. The seminar is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Translator seminar

May 17 2018
Norway

NORLA's offices are closed Thursday May 17

NORLA’s offices are closed Thursday May 17, due to Norway’s Constitution Day.
We wish everyone a Happy 17th of May!

Read more about the Norwegian celebration here and here.

May 17-May 20 2018
United Kingdom

Four Norwegian authors at Crimefest, Bristol

Gunnar Staalesen, Kjell Ola Dahl and Thomas Enger are all known to fans of Nordic Noir. Together with half American, half Norwegian author Alex Dahl, they go to Bristol’s crime fiction convention on May 17 – 20.
Click here for event info.

May 15 2018
Norway

Project support for participation in the Frankfurt project’s culture program

Norwegian artists or persons engaged in the cultural sector can now apply to NORLA for project support for participation in the cultural program. The project must have a grounding within Germany.

Read more in Norwegian here.

May 9-May 10 2018
Norway

Johan Harstad and Gunnhild Øyehaug to The Netherlands and Belgium

The second week of May, the two Norwegian authors Johan Harstad and Gunnhild Øyehaug will visit The Netherlands and Belgium.

May 3 2018
Norway

Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for fiction

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.

April 30 2018-May 1 2018
Norway

NORLA's offices are closed until May 2

NORLA’s offices are closed Monday April 30 and Tuesday May 1.
We open again Wednesday May 2.

April 26-April 29 2018
Canada

Norwegian authors to Montreal and book trade event in Canada

Authors Morten A. Strøksnes, Torkil Damhaug and Heidi Sævareid will be guests at The Nordic Spring Literary Program at the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal, Canada. NORLA is also hosting a Norwegian-Canadian literary event on April the 26th, in partnership with the Norwegian Embassy, Livres Canada Books and the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.

See the complete program here.

Visit the Blue Metropolis Festival’s website.

April 16-April 29 2018
Norway

New season at NORLA’s Translators Hotel

We are looking forward to welcoming four new translators of Norwegian literature to NORLA’s Translators Hotel in Oslo, at Hotell Bondeheimen.
This spring is the eighth season of our popular programme.

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

April 10-April 12 2018
Norway

NORLA to the London Book Fair

NORLA will be attending the London Book Fair at Olympia 10th-12th. April and, as before, we can be found at the Norwegian stand: 6F70.
We look forward to meeting both established and new contacts. Please contact us to book meetings!

April 1 2018
Norway

Application deadline: Translation subsidy for Norwegian fiction

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.