2025-06-10

NORLA’s translation subsidies in 2024

Each year, NORLA awards grants to support the translation of a wide range of Norwegian books into other languages. In 2024, a total of 529 grants were awarded for translations into 47 languages. NORLA received 546 applications in total, covering 445 works of fiction and 101 nonfiction titles. Of the 529 grants awarded, nearly a third were books for children and young adults — in total 147 publications.

Jon Fosse was the most translated Norwegian author in 2024, according to NORLA’s translation grant allocations. Here we see the Italian edition of Fosse’s "Collected Poems", translated by Andrea Romanzi and published by Crocetti Editore in 2024. Portrait of Jon Fosse by Agnete Brun.
2025-06-02

Mariana Windingland – Translator of the Month

Our Translator of the Month for June is Mariana. She was born into a typical middle-class Argentinian family, making her background a wonderful cultural, ethnic and religious mosaic. Her father was Norwegian, and her mother was Basque and Italian. The Spanish spoken in her childhood home was very diverse, with various different accents and many words imported from other languages, particularly Norwegian and Italian. Mariana has dreamed of travelling the world and learning different languages since childhood – she eventually settled on Norwegian, English, French and Swedish in addition to Spanish.

2025-05-30

Norway as Guest of Honour at the Cairo Book Fair

NORLA launched its largest international initiative outside of Europe when Norway was the Guest of Honour at the Cairo International Book Fair in 2024, one of the world’s largest public book fairs, attracting nearly 5 million visitors.

2025-06-12

The largest literary festival in the Nordic countries celebrates its 30th anniversary

Oh! How we enjoyed spending last week at the Norwegian Festival of Literature, in Lillehammer! Along with crowds of happy festival goers, we celebrated the festival’s 30th anniversary and a wonderfully packed program with a focus on Sápmi. It was a sheer delight to take part in it all.

2025-06-06

NORLA’s annual report for 2024 is now available.

2024 was another successful and eventful year for Norwegian literature abroad. The German translator Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel was named the first recipient of the new Fosse Prize. At the book fair in Cairo, Norway, as Guest of Honour, was able to build a literary bridge to the Arab world. Preparations for the upcoming Guest of Honour appearances at the book fairs in Leipzig 2025 and Bologna 2026 also moved into detailed planning.

2025-05-28

The Fosse Prize for Translators 2025 - Read the acceptance speech

On April 24, the German translator Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel was awarded the newly established Fosse Prize in a dignified and splendid celebration at the Royal Palace in Oslo. He held a wonderful acceptance speech, and we are now thrilled to be able share his words, by popular demand.

2025-05-27

Norwegian Drama goes global

Following Jon Fosse being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 for both prose and drama, a collaborative initiative was launched to promote contemporary Norwegian drama, by PAHN (Performing Arts Hub Norway), The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting – NCNP (Dramatikkens hus), and NORLA. The initiative is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

2025-05-23

NORLA Launches Talent Program – New Voices for Children and Young Adults

This week marks the start of NORLA’s new talent program, New Voices for Children and Young Adults. The program is aimed at Norwegian authors writing fiction and non-fiction for young readers, and its goal is to provide emerging authors with international experience through travel, networking, and a deeper understanding of the outward-facing aspects of being a writer.

2025-05-14

Hooray for the 15th season at NORLA's Translators Hotel!

This week, we have warmly welcomed five translators to Oslo for a two-week stay at Hotel Bondeheimen, our Translators Hotel.

2025-05-12

Why I translate Fosse: Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel

Jon Fosses German translator Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel discovered Fosse by chance at a NORLA seminar in 1992. Here, he discusses the joy and challenges of translating the Nobel laureate, and trusting the power of simplicity. 

2025-05-02

Sabine Richter - Translator of the Month

Sabine Richter translates fiction and non-fiction from Norwegian to German. She is originally from East Germany, but has lived and worked for very many years in Norway, as well as the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Spain and Iran. Sabine now lives in beautiful Vienna, but commutes to both Oslo and Madrid.

Her most recent translation work are two novels by Kjersti Anfinnsen, De siste kjærtegn and Øyeblikk for evigheten, which were published as one volume in January 2025: Letzte zärtliche Augenblicke (Septime Verlag).

2025-04-25

First Fosse Award presented

In a very dignified and splendid celebration the German translator Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel received the newly established Fosse Prize and the French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion gave the inaugural Fosse Lecture at the Royal Palace in Oslo.

2025-04-11

A Dream of Spring / Traum im Frühling – Thank You, Leipzig!

Norway’s Guest of Honour appearance at the Leipzig Book Fair 2025 has come to an end – and it was a resounding success!
Over the course of four days, around 50 Norwegian authors were presented in approximately 80 events in Leipzig. The two main venues for the Norwegian program – the Norwegian stand at the fair and the prestigious Schaubühne Lindenfels – were packed to the brim every single day.