Icelandic Literature Center
The Icelandic Literature Center offers grants to foreign publishers for translations from Icelandic. Grants are available for fiction (prose, poetry and drama), non-fiction of general interest, comic books and children’s books.
Applications can only be made after the foreign publisher has acquired the work and signed a contract with the translator. Applications can be made to cover all or part of the translation fee; grants will usually only cover a part of the fee. Applications are assessed on the quality of the work to be translated, and the qualifications of the translator. The deadlines for applications each year are 15th February and 15th September.