Sample translations for translators

Translators abroad and in Norway can apply to NORLA for subsidies for sample translations from Norwegian books of interest.

Dissemination grants for translators

NORLA is now offering funds to translators who have ideas about how literature can be circulated either digitally, or in the usual manner, within the parameters allowed by the COVID-19 situation.

Travel grants for translators, agents, publishers and the press

NORLA offers funding for travel to Norway for translators, agents, publishers and members of the press for meetings with Norwegian publishers, agents and authors.

The scheme may be adapted to the current corona situation. It is therefore possible to apply for expenses for “digital travel” instead of physical travel, or in order to carry out digital meetings with a mentor.

Mentor Scheme

Starting in the spring of 2014, NORLA has the pleasure of being able to offer a special mentor scheme for translators of Norwegian literature.

The scheme may be adapted to the current corona situation. It is therefore possible to apply for expenses for in order to carry out digital meetings with a mentor.

NORLA's (digital) translator’s pastry shop

Since June 2021, we have had the pleasure of offering a translator’s pastry shop for translators from Norwegian. This is an informal, hour-long meeting, held once a month on Zoom.

Our goal is to create a friendly forum for collegial meetings and professional exchange – a place that offers something a bit different to a regular seminar. Participants meet other translators of Norwegian literature, and the groups are kept small so that everyone can get to know each other properly.

NORLA’s translators hotel

NORLA started in 2014 a pilot scheme for a translators hotel for translators of Norwegian literature. The scheme has been an unconditional success and has been renewed in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

This spring (2022), we finally got the pleasure of welcoming to Oslo the translators who were originally granted a stay at NORLA’s translators hotel, in the spring of 2020. Due to the pandemic, their visits had to be postponed.