Previous activities

26-28 June 2023, NORLA is hosting a large-scale conference for translators of literature from Norway, at Lily Country Club, Kløfta.

For the first time, translators who wish to participate in the conference have be invited to apply. The deadline was 28 November and all applicants will receive response in early January.
We will invite 150 translators who will be chosen to reflect the position and dissemination of literature from Norway in the different language markets, and also contribute to the recruitment of new translators of Norwegian literature.

The conference is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Read more in Norwegian here

Their Majesties King Harald and Queen Sonja will be travelling to Denmark on an official visit between 15th and 16th of June. During their stay they will be visiting the literature festival LiteratureXchange in Århus.

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.

To follow up last year’s major commitment towards the Polish book market, NORLA will be attending the Book Fair in Warsaw between 25-29th of May.
Roy Jacobsen and Anneliese Pitz will also be taking part, presenting the Polish translation of their novel The Man Who Loved Siberia.

There will be a Norwegian stand at the fair organised by NORLA. You will find us in Sala Mamurowa in the Cultural Palace on stand 121. Here you will amongst other things find a reading area where we will be reading Norwegian books in Polish translation. There will also be an express Norwegian course for those of you who want to learn some Norwegian.

We invite the audience to participate at our events!

Norway will be Guest of Honour at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2026. Please join us for the Opening Conference at the Norwegian Festival of Literature in May.

We are happy to host visits by several international groups during the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer:

NORLA’s offices are closed Wednesday 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.

As part of the preparation for Norway to be Guest of Honour at the Cairo Book Fair in 2024, NORLA is organising a seminar on Arabic translation on Thursday 11th of May. We are particularly interested in getting across to those who are already translating from Norwegian to Arabic, or those who would like to start. There are already a substantial amount of Norwegian literature in Arabic, but we need more translators!

We encourage everyone who would be interested to please get in touch.

Time: Thursday 11th of May. Talk and workshop from 2 pm to 6.30 pm, followed by dinner.
Place: Fritt Ord’s premises, Uranienborgveien 2.

On Tuesday 9th of May, NORLA and the Norwegian Embassy in den Haag are organising a seminar for dutch publishers on current Norwegian fiction. NORLA’s Selected Titles will be presented by NORLA’s representative and dutch translators, followed by speed-dating with the publishers. The seminar will be concluded with a lunch.

Are you going to the book fair in Leipzig this year? If so, you will be able to meet a big team of Norwegian authors, as well as NORLA.
All nine Norwegian authors participating have recently published their book in German:

Our Senior Adviser Oliver Møystad and Dirctor Margit Walsø will be attending this year’s London Book Fair.
Please contact Oliver in advance, should you like to book a meeting. NORLA is present at table G101 in IRC.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there has been a great demand in Norway for Ukrainian language skills as well as knowledge about the country itself. One way of gaining insight into Ukraine’s history, culture and mentality is through fiction. Many Norwegian publishers want to publish fiction by Ukrainian authors, however there is currently a lack of qualified translators of Ukrainian to Norwegian.

We will close for the Easter holidays from Monday, April 3. The office will reopen on Tuesday, April 11.
We wish you all a pleasant holiday!

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 annually hands out an award to a talented emerging translator of Norwegian literature. The award is given for translations directly from Norwegian as an encouragement towards continued efforts.
This year, during our translator’s conference at Kløfta in Norway, we will be handing out TWO awards:

The 2022 award will be given to a translator of non-fiction, and the 2023 award will be given to a translator of fiction.