15 May - Deadline for next applications for travel grants
The Icelandic Literature Center contributes towards travel costs for Icelandic authors travelling abroad to promote their works.
The Icelandic Literature Center contributes towards travel costs for Icelandic authors travelling abroad to promote their works.
Travel Grants
The Icelandic Literature Center contributes towards travel costs for Icelandic authors travelling abroad to promote their works. Icelandic authors, foreign publishers or organisations arranging events can apply for travel grants for Icelandic authors travelling to promote their works abroad. It is possible to apply for the grant up to eight weeks after the travel.
All publications (brochures, programmes, handouts, electronic publications, etc.) connected with an event must include the logo from The Icelandic Literature Center.
Application deadlines: 15 January, 15 May and 15 September. From January this year all applications form for subsidies from the Icelandic Literature Center will be online and open from 4 weeks before next scheduled application date. Further information and application form is found here.
Once you have submitted the applications
You will be informed of the committee's decision no more than 6 weeks after the deadline. Once all cases from the same deadline have been completed, the result is sent out by email.
15 September – application date for translation grants, Nordic translation grants and travel grants.
Translation grants are available for literature, non-fiction of general interest, comic books and children's books. Travel grants available for authors travelling abroad to promote their works.
Translation grant from Icelandic
The fund is open to foreign publishers wishing to publish a work translated from Icelandic.Applications for support can only be made after the applicant has acquired the rights to the work and signed a contract with the translator. The Icelandic Literature Center cannot grant support to a translation published before the deadline for which the application is submitted. The aim of the fund is to promote Icelandic literature abroad. Grants are available for literature (prose, poetry and drama), non-fiction of general interest (including essays and biographies), comic books and children's books.
Application deadlines: 15 February and 15 September.
From January this year all applications form for subsidies from the Icelandic Literature Center will be online and open from 4 weeks before next scheduled application date. Further information and application form is found here.
Once you have submitted the applications
You will be informed of the committee's decision no more than 6 weeks after the deadline. Once all cases from the same deadline have been completed, the result is sent out by email.
Nordic translation grant
The Icelandic Literature Center awards grants to cover translation expenses for works which have been published in Iceland and translated directly from Icelandic into other Nordic languages. The application must be accompanied by a signed copy of the publishing contract between the Nordic publisher and the Icelandic copyright holder, a signed copy of the contract between the Nordic publisher and the translator and a short explanation of why the work is to be translated. Applicants are also asked to submit the translator's CV and general information on the publishing house.
Application deadlines: 15 February and 15 September.
From January this year all applications form for subsidies from the Icelandic Literature Center will be online and open from 4 weeks before next scheduled application date. Further information and application form is found here.
Once you have submitted the applications
You will be informed of the committee's decision no more than 6 weeks after the deadline. Once all cases from the same deadline have been completed, the result is sent out by email.
