Cappelen Damm Agency Fall 2020 - Fiction by Cappelen Damm AS

Cappelen Damm Agency FICTION

Fall 2020 Here you will find some of Norway’s leading contemporary authors.

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FICTION Cappelen Damm Agency 2020

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CAPPELEN DAMM AGENCY Cappelen Damm is Norway's largest publishing house, publishing approximately 1000 titles a year within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, educational books and children's books. Cappelen Damm is owned jointly by Bonnier and Egmont. Cappelen Damm Agency represents the rights of all of the authors in this catalogue. This includes titles from Flamme forlag, an imprint of Cappelen Damm AS. The Agency is responsible for all foreign book rights, as well as rights for TV, film, radio, anthologies, electronic media etc. We are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the authors and the sales of foreign rights.

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Vigdis Hjorth

IS MOTHER DEAD The protagonist of Is Mother Dead is an acclaimed artist, Johanna, who has spent three decades in the US with her husband and child. When her husband dies, she returns to Norway, where she is invited to put on a major retrospective. What remains of the life she left behind in Norway several decades ago? What does she expect to find when she returns? How will she manage to build a bridge between past and present? We follow Johanna’s self-examination as well as her attempts to understand and come closer to her mother. In this novel, Vigdis Hjorth digs deeper into the mother-daughter issue, once again writing compellingly and profoundly about a timeless theme. Er mor død 130x205 mm / 368 pages

Vigdis Hjorth's Is Mother Dead is a brooding and searching novel that proves why she is among our very best. The book resembles a thriller; the crescendo is edge-of-your-seat literature. Hjorth is an expert in plotting and linguistic rhythm. Long sections are broken up by pages with plenty of air and low-key reflections, several of which you will return to and read again and again. DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV Vigdis Hjorth is back at her best, with a raw and painful book. Brave and uncompromising. DAGSAVISEN Vigdis Hjorth (b. 1959) has made an exciting literary career and has written many popular books for both children and adults. Today she is an awardwinning author and one of Norway's most interesting, contemporary writers. She has won a number of prizes and awards, amongst them: The Gyldendal Prize in 2011, the Critics Award in 2012, The Honorary Brage Award and the Amalie Skram Award in 2014, The Aschehoug Award in 2015 and the Booksellers Prize in 2016. Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Finland (Schildts & Söderströms), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Turkey (Siren Yayinlari), United Kingdom (Verso), United States (Verso Books), Italy (Fazi Editore)

Excerpt from Is Mother Dead:

'I hadn’t had anything that could be called a conversation with mum for thirty years, perhaps I never had. I met Mark, applied in secret to the Institute in Utah where he taught and was accepted, I travelled with him across the sea, away from my marriage, my family, it all happened during one hot summer. It’s true, as they say, that one look is all it takes, one glance, and I burned with an inextinguishable flame, it was seen as betrayal and a slap in the face. I wrote them a long letter at the time to explain why I had done what I had done, I poured out my heart in that letter, but the short reply I received was as if I hadn’t written to them in the first place. A short, blunt reply with threats of ostracism, but stating that if I 'came to my senses' and returned home immediately, I might be forgiven. They wrote as if I were a child and they my guardians. They reeled off what it had cost them financially and mentally to bring me up, I owed them quite a lot. They meant it, I understood, that I was literally indebted to them. They seriously believed that I would give up my love and my work because they had paid for tennis lessons when I was a teenager. They didn’t take me seriously, they didn’t try to understand me, instead they made threats. Perhaps their own parents had had such power over them once, perhaps they had themselves trembled on encountering their parents’ words, especially the written ones, that they thought their own would have just as strong an impact on me.'

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Vigdis Hjorth

WILL AND TESTAMENT Vigdis Hjorth's new novel starts as a classic story of inheritance, centred on two summer cabins on Hvaler. Two children have been looking after the place and their parents for many years. They are due to inherit the cabins. But there are two other children, who have partly broken away from the family. How do they fit into the inheritance dispute? During the inheritance discussions another story emerges which brings violent forces into play. It's all about family history. Wills and Testament is a powerful novel, which certainly created great debate when it was first published in 2016.

Arv og miljø 130x205 mm / 352 pages

WINNER OF THE NORWEGIAN BOOKSELLERS AWARD AND THE NORWEGIAN CRITICS AWARD IN 2016.

NOMINATED TO THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019. NOMINATED TO THE NORDIC COUNCILS LITERATURE PRIZE 2016. FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE.

Rights sold to: Azerbaijan (Qanun Publishing House), Bulgaria (Aviana), Croatia (Ljevak), Denmark (Turbine), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Faroe Islands (Sprotin Forlag), Finland (Schildts & Söderströms), France (Actes Sud), Germany (Osburg Verlag), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), Italy (Fazi Editore), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), (Den Nationale Scene A), Poland, Russia (EKSMO), Spain (Nórdica Libros), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Turkey (Siren Yayinlari), United Kingdom (Verso), United States (Verso Books)

‘Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.’ SHEILA HETI, AUTHOR OF MOTHERHOOD AND HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? ‘Will and Testament is a compulsively readable novel, one that turns questions of shame into weapons against silence.’ PARIS REVIEW ‘Like Knausgaard, Hjorth is writing against repression, against the taboo on telling things as they really are. But he urges us to look at dead bodies; she forces us to regard bleeding souls. Hjorth seems to have formulated from her experiments with living models a model for living, in which exposure—of the self and of others—serves a larger purpose.’ NEW YORKER’ ‘Hjorth’s thoughtful, drily funny, and often devastating novel will leave a deep and lasting impression on readers.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ‘Will and Testament is a reminder that it’s easier to hide darkness than face it ... Hjorth argues cogently that conflicts and atrocities often stem from what a nation represses or denies.’ OBSERVER ‘In a ruthless yet patiently delivered work, Hjorth does something that few writers achieve: Will and Testament is both economical and overwhelming.’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘An extraordinary book ... Hjorth’s precision, on the other hand, becomes a quietly devastating mimicry of the effects of trauma, and of ambiguous and conflicting memories, on a human being.’ NEW STATESMAN ‘In this unappealing but compelling book, Hjorth proves brilliant at revealing the stubborn, unredemptive quality of childhood suffering.’ THE GUARDIAN ‘Hypnotic.’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘The strength of the novel lies in Bergljot’s convincing and continuing vulnerability, in her mixed feelings and her flaws … A clear-eyed and convincing story of a family’s doomed attempt to reconcile and the limits of forgiveness.’ KIRKUS

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Beate Grimsrud

I SUGGEST THAT WE WAKE UP A white envelope flies through the air and lands in Vilde Berg's letterbox. She is at a midpoint in her life, and has everything she needs. But the envelope contains a message that will turn her life upside down – she is seriously ill. Exuberant and curious, Vilde has always asked questions about herself and the world, and she has never taken the answers to these questions lightly. When your own life – something you take so for granted – can come to an end, what questions do you ask then?

Jeg foreslår at vi våkner 130x205 mm

Time now seems both in short s upply and drawn out – how long will she have to wait for answers, to hope and to recover? Does she have to hurry and use her time as best she can?

Parallel to Vilde's story about wanting to live, are all the stories about Vilde's childhood in the fabled Dovre mountains, where she stole a golden pen from grandfather. From this pen spring tales of a wistful and playful rat longing to be noticed and loved by the fox with the beautiful tail. I Suggest That We Wake Up is a new milestone in Beate Grimsrud's career, trembling with raw nerve and wild hopefulness, combined with the author's stubborn energy and distinct sense of humor. ‘… deeply original and meaningful reading experience that you will surely remember for a long time.’ VERDENS GANG

Beate Grimsrud (1963–2020) was a creative and versatile writer. She made her début with the short story collection There are limits to what I do not understand in 1990, and in 1998 she was nominated for the Nordic Council Literary Award for her novel Sneaking past an axe. Her international break-through came in 2010 with the novel A Fool Free. It earned her the Norwegian Critics' Prize 2010, the Swedish Radio's Listeners' Award 2010, and a nomination by both Norway and Sweden to the Nordic Council's Literature Prize 2010. Rights sold to: Denmark (Barzer & Co.), Sweden (Albert Bonniers Förlag)

Foto: Maja Hattvang

IN LOVING MEMORY BEATE GRIMSRUD 1963–2020

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Roy Jacobsen

ONLY A MOTHER Return to Barrøy! After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has finally returned to Barrøy. Life has become more stable, but the war still casts its long shadows across the country. Former collaborators face cold shoulders or obscured retaliation. Others simply wish to leave the painful years in the past. One day a boy arrives on the island. Shortly thereafter, his father disappears. Ingrid assumes responsibility for the boy, and adopts him. As such, Mathias becomes a central part of the Barrøy community, together with Kaja, Ingrid’s daughter by birth.

Bare en mor 130x205 mm

Life on the island is demanding, but the letters from friends in Oslo and Trondheim tell of a Norwegian society undergoing dramatic changes. Which stories should Ingrid keep to herself, and which ones should she bring to light? What kind of future is she imagining?

Only a mother is the fourth book in a series of novels that have delighted readers in Norway and abroad. It’s a novel about being a parent, being a part of a community, and about living under conditions that require hard labour. It is also a story about parts of our near past that have stayed in the dark. And it’s about an unusual woman, who has to navigate painful experiences in a rough, weatherbeaten, and diverse society on the coast of Northern Norway.

Rights sold to: Poland (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie), Czech Republic (Pistorins & Olsanská)

Photo: Maja Hattvang

Roy Jacobsen (b. 1954) is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary authors in Norway, and has since his sensational debut in 1982, with the short story collection Prison Life, which won him the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas’ Debutant Prize, developed into an original and daring author with a special interest in the underlying psychological interplay in human relationships. He has been nominated three times for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2017 he was shortlisted for both the Man Booker International Prize, as the first Norwegian author ever, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, for The Unseen. In 2013 Jacobsen’s authorship reached a new milestone with the publication of The Unseen, book one in his now completed Barrøy trilogy. It is set in the first half of the 20th century on an island on the North-Western coast of Norway, and is a monument over human courage and life-saving practical and social knowledge. White Shadow followed in 2015, and The Eyes of Rigel was published in 2017. The Barrøy trilogy became an immediate critically acclaimed sales success, it has been translated into 28 languages, and has sold nearly 500.000 copies in Norway alone. In total, Jacobsen has been translated into 36 languages.

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Roy Jacobsen

THE UNSEEN

SHORTLIST BOOKER PRIZE

This novel is set in the first half of the 20th Century on the island Barrøy. The island is small, there is only space for Ingrid’s family. Life on the island is difficult and the Barrøy family is poor, but certainly not without guts and skills. They live off of their small land, they have some livestock, they fish in the sea and make use of whatever the waves wash ashore.

De usynlige 130x205 mm / 256 pages

The dramatic ocean and the seasonal changes make for a plot in itself. Roy’s descriptions of man and nature are breath taking. The family’s love for their environment is brilliantly communicated. A life somewhere else is unthinkable to them. This is their paradise on Earth. The Barrøy family is depicted with great wisdom, sensitivity and narrative skill. Roy turns their practical knowledge into little gems of stories with metaphorical and existential depth. FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE. RIGHTS SOLD TO 31 TERRITORIES

Rights sold to: Azerbaijan (Qanun Publishing House), Bulgaria (Aviana), Catalonia (Biblioasis), China (Writers Publishing House), Czech Republic (Pistorius & Olšanská), Denmark (Rosinante & Co), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Faroe Islands (Sprotin Forlag), France (Éditions Gallimard), Germany (C. H. Beck), Greece, Hungary (Scolar Kiado), Iceland (Forlagið), Israel (Keter Books), Italy (Bompiani), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House), Macedonia (Shkupi), Netherlands (Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij) Poland (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie sp. z o.o.), Portugal (Relógio D’Água Editores), Republic Of Korea (Fiftyone K. Inc. Zhan publishing), Slovenia (VBZ), Spain (Alianza Editorial, S.A.), Sweden (Norstedts), Syrian Arab Republic (Mamdouh), Turkey (Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat Yay. Ticaret ve Sanayi A.S.), United Kingdom (MacLehose Press)

Reviews for The Unseen: ‘... as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read. ... There is a unique universality about The Unseen. Jacobsen's prose is beautiful, clean, poised and plain speaking, but there are interludes of Shakespearean grandeur in the dazzling descriptions of storms.’ THE IRISH TIMES Reviews for White Ocean: ‘He is the master of the coastal folk, Roy Jacobsen, a virtuoso, poetic portrayer of coastal culture – with its fish, boat crews and practical activities. … The novel is safe in the hands of a novelist who commands a wonderfully beautiful language and has a poetic power. The dialogue and the powerful expressions in local dialect create authenticity. The chapters and scene after scene are rounded off with elegance and finesse. Roy Jacobsen masters the short format. A joy for heart and soul.’ VG  ‘Roy Jacobsen is a true storyteller; with his capacity to give the reader both overview and detail in the same image – without losing perspective. … In White Ocean, life is portrayed with both beauty and brutality.’ BERGENS TIDENDE  Reviews for The Eyes of Rigel: ‘Roy Jacobsen’s third novel about Ingrid Barrøy is a beautiful, poetic and at times brutal story. The entire little but great novel gives a tantalizing picture of life after the Great War, life after the catastrophe, life after love. Read it yourself, this exceptionally beautiful voyage from the ocean to the wooded inlands and back, amongst people with visible and invisible scars, war within peace.’ VG  ‘Jacobsen’s images of a society in rapid development, is as sharp and detailed as his pictures of nature, woods, bird song and the absence of the ocean – in what becomes Ingrid Barrøy´s peculiar journey. This book is a highlight!’ NRK ‘When I close the book I think – like I always do with Jacobsen; Damned, how good he is!’ DAGBLADET

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Roy Jacobsen and Anneliese Pitz

THE MAN WHO LOVED SIBERIA

A butterfly collector's memories of East Siberia

Fritz Dõrries (1852–1953) lived a life that few of us can grasp today. During his 22 years of adventurous travelling in Siberia, he collected tigers, deer, eagles, plants, and butterflies. He was a mixture of Ed Stafford and Carl von Linnaeus travelling alone in a sled across Siberia. Cold, beauty, and suffering. This novel is based on his memoirs – an incredible story about nature, travel and discovery.

Mannen som elsket Sibir En sommerfuglsamlers erindringer fra Øst-Sibir 130x205 mm / 288 pages

‘That this story has fascinated the knowledge-thirsty Roy Jacobsen is easy to understand – and thanks to the prolific German of his wife, Anneliese Pitz, they were able to join in writing a novel of warm prose, that is close to the life of insects and animals on the taiga and tundra.’ VG Roy Jacobsen (b. 1954) has, since his literary debut in 1982 with the short story collection Prison Life, evolved into an original, strong and analytical writer with a special interest in the underlying psychology at play in human relationships and actions. Roy Jacobsen is a wonderful storyteller with obvious political engagement. He has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award: for The Conquerors in 1991, and Frost in 2003. He was short-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2009 for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. In 2017 he was shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize for The Unseen – as the first Norwegian writer ever. And in 2018 nominated for The Dublin International Literature Prize. His books have been published in 36 territories. Born and raised in Belgium, Anneliese Pitz came to Norway in 1974. She has a PhD in linguistics from Trondheim, has been teaching for 24 years at Oslo University, researches grammar and also speaks Russian. Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Sweden (Norstedts), Poland (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie), United Kingdom (MacLehose Press)

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Henrik Langeland

SHOWTIME!

The third, and final, novel about Christian von der Hall

In Wonderboy, we met Christian as a 34-year-old, when he was dreaming of becoming rich. In The Prince, he had turned 47 and discovered that power often trumps money. In Showtime!, our hero is approaching 60 and has begun to wonder whether he should be striving for that most powerful of forces – namely, love. Or as Christian von der Hall, a true-born man of his time, often calls it: entertainment.

BESTSELLER! Showtime! 130 x 205 mm

Press: Wonderboy 'A satirical firework. One of the most fun reads in years.' TERJE STEMLAND, NRK 'Intelligent, revealing, and howlingly funny – and so well written that it is impossible to put the book down.' BJØRN TORE BRØSKE, BERGENSAVISEN Press: The Prince 'Few authors master this genre better than Langeland.' ØRJAN GREIFF JOHANSEN, ADRESSEAVISA 'A well-told robber story from modern Norway … a naïve belief that money can buy everything worth owning – power and influence included.' LEIF EKLE, NRK

Henrik H. Langeland is one of Norway's leading contemporary authors. Of particular note can be mentioned the novels Wonderboy, The Passion of Francis Meyer, The Prince and The World Champions. Langeland holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature on the works of Marcel Proust. He has formerly been the editor of the literary quarterly Vinduet and held several other engagements in Norwegian business- and public life.

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Synne Sun Løes

ARE YOU HAPPY, SISTER? When she was a baby, she was taken from an orphanage in South Korea and sent for adoption, to a new life in Norway. Twenty-six years later, a note turns up at the orphanage. It contains the name of her biological mother and father. They want to make contact. Now she is an adult, living an ordinary Norwegian life with her husband and two sons. It turns out that she has a sister one year younger than herself in Seoul. A single career woman who works from 09.00 to 23.00. Who is her sister and how does she live? Are they like one another? What have they chosen in life and what has been chosen for them? The two sisters start to write to each other.

Er du lykkelig, søster? 130x205 mm / 176 pages

Are you Happy, Sister? is a powerful, gripping and humorous epistolatory novel about sisterhood and melancholy, about politics and everyday life in Norway and South Korea, about identity and belonging. And about the weight of love.

Synne Sun Løes (b. 1975 is based in Oslo. She debuted in 1999 with the book Yoko is alone. For her young adult novel, Eating Flowers for Breakfast (2002), she won the Brage Prize.

Excerpt from Are you happy, sister?:

I often think about you, sister. I often think about Father and Mother, too. About that time our brother found you in Korea. Even though it was years ago now, it still feels very recent. I remember the first letter Father wrote to me just after you met. In his letter he wrote about his life, about all his sorrows. About the poverty he experienced as a boy. About the loss of his father and his three brothers who died in the Korean War. About the loss of his mother. He wrote about losing us, his two firstborn—our brother and I. He wrote about the weight of his sorrow. About how many kilos of sorrow he carried on his back every single day. He wrote about the weight of his love. About how love was just as heavy a burden. As sorrow.

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Lars Saabye Christensen

ECHOES OF THE CITY – The Shadow book Lars Saabye Christensen has put his ear to the conch of the city and listened to the sound within. With finely tuned sensitivity he listens to every detail. He sees the light casting a shadow one way as the sun is setting over the city that was, and the other way over a city waking up to a new time. Inevitably the question arises: Whom are we who are living in this city, this country and this time - and who will we become?

Byens spor – Skyggeboken

At the centre of the third part of Echoes of the City we find Maj Kristoffersen. Her destiny is intimately interwoven with Oslo and its streets; but not as much as the people she shares the city with. First and foremost her children Jesper and Stine, as well as her fellow women of the Red Cross, the invisible social backbone of Fagerborg borough.

The children are grown up and times are changing. Hopes and dreams are challenged by a world no longer on track. The pains of growing are visible in them all as new doors open and the old are closing. This is the riveting, grand and thought provoking final of the trilogy Echoes of the City. FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE. ‘One of Scandinavia’s greatest authors, and a narrator with a God gifted talent’ INFORMATION, DENMARK ‘A portrait formulated with the poetic melancholy, so typical to Saabye Christensen when he is at his best.’ DAGBLADET  ‘In the references, but maybe foremost in the loaded dialogue between the people in the book, echoes a certain lingual musicality delivered by one of

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Lars Saabye Christensen

ECHOES OF THE CITY – Maj This is the first part of the Echoes of the City trilogy. In this book Maj – and not least her struggle to bring up her children, Signe and Jesper – is in focus. Jesper and his best friend, Jostein the butcher’s son, grow from children into young men in each their own way.

Byens spor – Maj

Lars Saabye Christensen

ECHOES OF THE CITY – Ewald and Maj This is the second part of the Echoes of the City trilogy. We’ve all stood on a street corner and let the city’s lights and sounds pass by. What do we hear when we listen to the sounds of the city? What traces do they leave in us? Who is at the other end of the line when the phone rings? What story can we deduce from the protocols from Fagerborg’s branch of the Red Cross in the post-war years? How do the stories all connect? When someone loses something, someone else finds something different. The city and the streets are the same as before, but the people who emerge in Echoes of the City have never been seen before.

Byens Spor – Ewald og Maj

At the center are Ewald and Maj Kristoffersen, but their fates are closely interwoven with the city and the streets they live on. Rights sold to: Denmark (Grif), Poland (Literackie), UK (MacLehose Press), Czech Rep. (Kniha Zlin), Germany (BTB Luchterhand)

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Lars Saabye Christensen

MY CHINESE GRANDMOTHER After the first Opium War in 1842, China ceded Hong Kong to the British Empire; after further conflicts and uprisings, the two parties entered into a contract in 1898 whereby the British would lease Hong Kong for 99 years.

Min kinesiske farmor 130x205 mm

It is to this British enclave, a trade and seafaring hub, and an international melting pot where East meets West, that Jørgen Christensen travels in 1906. He is on his way to take up a post with Svitzer’s Bjergnings Enterprise. The forward-thinking Copenhagen-based salvage company has set up an office in Hong Kong. A couple of months later, Hulda joins him. Jørgen and Hulda Christensen are Lars Saabye Christensen’s paternal grandfather and grandmother.

When his father is on his deathbed, Lars Saabye Christensen asks him about China, and about his grandfather and grandmother’s years in the East. Who were these people he is descended from? What persuaded a young woman from Copenhagen to set out on a long and arduous sea voyage alone? How was their life among the colonials and traders? Lars Saabye Christensen opens up a Chinese box, whose contents are not always what we expect them to be. He has gone through letters and photographs in the possession of his family as well as official documents to painstakingly bring the story to light. In the process, he discovers that the author of fiction cannot help him: in this case, neither imagination nor guesswork can fill in the gaps in the story; he cannot invoke elements that are not already documented in the annals of history. But precisely by remaining true to the documented material, Lar Saabye Christensen sketches a fascinating picture of a time, a family, a couple and an individual, and thereby, also, a compelling picture of our own time – and perhaps also of us and the author himself? Originally published by Grif/Denmark

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Foto: Anne Valeur Lars Saabye Christensen (b. 1953) has published a number of novels, poetry and short story collections since his literary debut in 1976 with The Story of Gly. His breakthrough came with Beatles (1984), one of the greatest literary sales successes in Norway that, over the years, new generations continue to hold close to their hearts. He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for The Half Brother in 2001. Saabye Christensen has also received the Riverton Prize, the Critics' Prize, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, the Dobloug Prize and the Norwegian Reader's Prize. He has been published in 36 countries.

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Erlend Loe

HELL

Illustrated by Kim Hiorthøy

Newly divorced Rakel has moved from her villa into a smaller town house, and she has custody of her children every other week.

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She has plenty of time on her hands the weeks she spends alone. One day she decides to take on her small patch of garden with a rusty shovel she finds in an old shed. Just as she starts digging, she stumbles upon a doorway that happens to lead straight to Hell. Helvete 120x180 mm / 136 pages

This journey to the heart of darkness comes with typical Erlend Loe absurdism and lots of dark humour. FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVALIABLE

Erlend Loe

NEGOTIATING WITH REALITY 'At first, I travelled on four wheels. Then three. Then, for a long time, two. Now: one. A reduction is under way.' In the end, in some years’ time – nobody knows how many – I’ll have no wheels. And will return to the earth I’ve loved cycling on.

Forhandle med virkeligheten – Ett år på ett hjul

I never would have believed I could do it, but now I fly low across the landscape. My eyes are 220cm above the earth and the trees whizz by. The path beneath me is soft, everything is soft, even if, now and then, it is also stony and uneven. Sometimes it is wet and slippery. Regardless, I must be fully in control, from second to second. An elevation there, a stone, a root, a puddle that may be deeper than it appears to me. I could fall at any moment. But I don’t fall. Because I can fly. But now and then I do fall all the same. Or jump off to avoid falling.

Erlend Loe (b. 1969) is one of Norway's bestselling authors. His work has been published in 41 territories so far. He made his literary debut with Captured by the Woman in 1993. His breakthrough both in Norway and internationally came with the publication of his second novel Naiv. Super in 1996. His 2004 novel Doppler was critically acclaimed for its depiction of the modern man and has become an international sucess. Erlend Loe also writes books for children and has had great success with the Kurt series.

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Gro Dahle

GIFT When Gro Dahle writes about Christmas, she creates warmth and glitter. And cold chills. Christmas is the season of miracles, of traditional pastries and walking the dog and starry nights and presents and old grudges and arguments and birth and tears. For the time around Christmas is so dense. Dense of expectation, joy, disappointment. Here is the families gathered around a large table, and around plenty of traditions. Here is Mary who is giving birth, and can’t quite understand how she got to be pregnant. As always in Gro Dahle’s books, we find the elevated and the everyday, the hurt and the pleasure, side by side.

Gave 115 x 215 mm / 144 pages

Gro Dahle (b. 1962) is a prize winning author, writing for both children and adults. As a children's book writer she is known for her poetic books on themes that are often given little attention. She has also published novels and short stories.

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Gro Dahle

SISTER 'It takes at least two to tolerate a mother,' sighs the narrator in this poetry collection as she longs for a sister. Somebody who just is there, naturally. The particular bond between sisters is perceptively and yearningly described by the only child in the poems. Gro Dahle uses warmth and humour to express the many aspects of being a sister. An ideal gift for a sister or a soulmate. 'Sensual and playful poems about sisters in one of the autumn’s best poetry collections.’ BERGENS TIDENDE 'What most characterises Dahle’s style is her sharp eye for both the difficult and the beautiful aspects of everyday life.' DAG OG TID

Søster 115 x 215 mm / 144 pages

Gro Dahle

HOME, SAYS THE DOG A home where the door is open, a home where the windows are dark, a home with a quilt, a home made by two people, a home where people are noisy, a home where one can be alone, a home with a throne, a home with a dog. All stories collect in the home. In this wild, rich and inquiring collection of poems, Gro Dahle spreads out a large canvas and shows us what lies within four walls – and what can leak out.

Hjem, sier hunden 115 x 215 mm / 144 pages

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Ingvar Ambjørnsen

NO ONE CAN HELP ME ‘A brief fitness report along with the plan for reading Michel Houellebecq’s novel, Lanzarote: Despite my six decades on this earth, I currently suffer no mental or physical ailments. In many respects, I am better than I have been for ages.’ Elling chuckles in recognition and cringes in horror as he reads and writes about Houellebecq. Come along on an entertaining and painful reading journey, with Elling in the driver’s seat.

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‘Nobody can help me is yet another testament to the rightful position Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s authorship holds at the height of Norwegian literary history.’ NETTAVISEN ‘… the touchpoints between literature and Elling’s own experiences, or the lack thereof, create a successful experience.’ BOK365

‘… one of Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s weirdest and wittiest books ever.’ VG ‘Yet again, Ingvar Ambjørnsen displays how unusually good he is at creating densified drama in the small challenges of everyday life.’ DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘… a declaration of love to the novel – with all of its inherent possibilities and contradictions.’ DAGSAVISEN Ingvar Ambjørnsen (b. 1956) is considered to be one of the greatest storytellers of contemporary Norwegian literature. Since his literary début in 1981, Ambjørnsen has written a number of novels as well as three collections of short stories, essay collections and books for children and young reders. He has won a number of awards, including the Riverton Prize, the Brage Award, the Booksellers’ Award and the Riksmål Prize. Several of his books have been adapted into films with great success. The movie Elling, based on Ambjørnsen’s novels The Bird Dance and Bloodbrothers, was nominated to an Oscar in 2001, and Elling the theatre play has appeared on stage in several theatres around Europe to great acclaim.

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WORKS BY STIG SÆTERBAKKEN: Stig Sæterbakken (19662012) was one of Norway's most critically acclaimed authors. His books have been compared to works by artists such as Beckett, Bernhard and Polanski. Sæterbakken's novels often explore the inner life and morality of human beings. A darkness looms in his stories, and yet they are written in a brilliant language.

Works by Stig Sæterbakken has been sold to: Denmark, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, The Czech Rep., Turkey, Germany, The US

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Ingvild Schade

THE MANNEQUIN MURDER The Mannequin Murder is a fascinating and dramatic account from the literary talent Ingvild Schade. It is a beautiful and painful, burlesque and grotesque novel with unexpected twists and turns. Reviewers have compared Schade with Kurt Vonnegut and Mikhail Bulgakov.

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Karsten is a meticulous and gaping young boy living in a normal family. All objects and events, big or small are subject to Karsten’s intense interest and exploration. Suddenly one morning Karsten’s father asks him to say goodbye to his childhood home. An overnight bag is packed, and his father says they are leaving for a trip – and everything is set into motion.

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‘Ingvild Schade is in the process of creating her own literary subgenre.’ MORGENBLADET ‘The protagonist of Ingvild Schade’s delirious new novel has a lot in common with both Patrick Bateman and Holden Caufield. … With The Mannequin Murder she confirms her role as a writer who seems totally independent from the current beat and tone of Norwegian literature.’ DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘To master style in this way is unusual and sorely needed … This is a prose cornucopia, a linguistic calorie bomb. You have to read Ingvild Schade. And she needs to write more. Just a friendly suggestion.’ KLASSEKAMPEN ‘Ingvild Schade follows in the footsteps of Tarjei Vesaas and Ingvar Ambjørnsen, but with a more extreme linguistic skill than them. … Ingvild Schade appears as a daring and energetic storyteller.’ AFTENPOSTEN Ingvild Schade (b. 1987) received rave reviews for her debut novel Drammen Book of Records (2014). Schade has attended the Hordaland Art Academy of Creative Writing, and writes both novels and plays.

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Rune Salvesen

THE ANTI-FEMINIST Damned anti-feminist, Stine says to her husband Fillip. But she doesn’t know a thing. Because Fillip hasn’t told her about what happened when he was a child. When he has to clear out his mother’s house after her death, the smell of cheap perfume and cigarettes still lingers. Among all her belongings, Fillip finds his old diary – where he wrote about everything. Now he must face how the experiences of his childhood home has affected him and his family.

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‘Salvesens painful little novel deals with raw masculinity, depicted with tenderness and understanding instead of condemnation. It positions Salvesen as an author with a big heart as well as a something important to say. And we are not exactly spoilt with writing like that.’ KLASSEKAMPEN ‘Salvesen is an efficient renderer, with a penchant for compression.’ DAG OG TID

Rune Salvesen (b. 1978) lives in Sandnes. He debuted with texts in the anthology Signaler in 1997. His first novel was published in 2005.

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Stig Aasvik

THE DEAD OF THE YEAR Stig Aasvik writes his life. The Death of the Year expands on the themes covered in his two most recent novels, The Lofoten Wall and The Mayor of Oslo. Once again, we are in Stig’s head. We read about childhood and grief, problems large and small – like combining cohabitation and parental responsibility with self-loathing and other acute existential challenges. As always, Aasvik’s gaze is honest, curious, sharp and dreamlike.

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‘He writes the way a meticulous and sensitive Knaugård might do, merciless but carefully and tender about his close ones. The text grows in a well-groomed and rich inner language.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD ‘The Lofoten Wall is sweet. The language is radient. The transitions from thought to thought come naturally. Not for a moment do we miss an external narrative.’ ADRESSEAVISEN

Stig Aasvik (b. 1970) lives in Oslo. His debut was The Electrical Elephant from 2002. Internal affairs from 2012, his third novel, was awarded The Booksellers Scholarship for Authors. It received great reviews and was nominated for Book of the Year in the publication Natt & Dag.

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THE LOFOTEN WALL The Lofoten Wall is a fragmented, intense and meandering insider's tale from within Stig Aasvik's mind; events past and present are intertwined in one long stream of consciousness; his childhood, his mother's sudden and untimely death, travels to his father's hometown in Lofoten, family life, work, everyday events, events great and small, wounds great and small, difficult and painful experiences. Everything pours out, is turned inside out and enlarged. This is an ambitious story, an inner struggle, a complex, musical, dark, dreamy and lyrical tale about being a human being – here and now.

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Stig Aasvik

THE MAYOR OF OSLO The Mayor of Oslo continues where the critically acclaimed The Lofoten Wall left off. The main character is being hounded by the Unemployment Office. He still needs a job. We find him on a job-seekers course, at the café, on a trip to Australia, at football training with his son, back to his mother's sudden death, the break-up and arguments with his father. The Major of Oslo is a dark, funny, desperate and original novel.

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Sondre Midthun

THE EARLY RAIN Northern Norway in a future blighted by drought and extinction of species. Inge and his daughter Live are struggling to continue with their lives after the rest of their family was killed in an accident. Inge processes his grief in solitude by wearing his dead wife’s clothes. But the suspense ratchets up when pushy Tidemann finds out about Inge’s secret. What should Inge do? How will this be used against him by the top dog in the neighbouring village?

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Sondre Midthun (1986–) has worked as a journalist, magazine editor and at the Academy for Creative Writing in Bergen. He has contributed to the anthologies Signaler and Gruppe 11.

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Aksel Selmer

THE KISS Why is it so difficult to make the right choices in life? What are the right choices? And what is a mother supposed to do when her children are grown and no longer need her, whereas she feels with her whole being that she needs them? The Kiss is a wise and thought-provoking novel about suppressed longing, about isolation and about what happens when you don’t seize the opportunities life offers you.

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Aksel Selmer (1958–) made his literary debut with a poetry collection called More should have come here in 1992. Since then he has had another collection of poetry published, as well as ten novels for adults and young people. He is loved by the readers and critics for his portrayal of funny, quirky characters and his warm sense of humour, especially in Norway and Denmark.

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Ida Fjeldbraaten

WOLVERINE The main character in the novel Wolverine lives in an institution, working as a cleaner at the city zoo. She has an underdeveloped gaze at the world around her. She is closer to her basic instincts and drives than most of us, and she has to fight herself to restrain the fury and forcefulness raging inside of her. In the Nordic nature area of the zoo, we meet the wolverine. The wolverine is among the most skilled survivors of the animal kingdom, but trapped as the weakest of his pack, the beast within him is cowed.

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Wolverine is a novel about the animal in humans and the human in animals. The novel examines zoos as a luxury. What happens in a place like this when the society beyond its walls breaks down? Wolverine is a brutal, tender and compelling tale of bodily fluids, jaws, teeth, mud and bites; about nature, culture and about powers that reside in all of us – and can, perhaps, never be reined in.

‘Ida Fjeldbraaten’s Wolverine is an unusually interesting debut. KLASSEKAMPEN ‘ … The author has managed the feat of portioning out the disturbing elements, so that the reader feels mostly like a microwave oven, where the terror heats up from the inside.’ DAG OG TID

Ida Fjeldbraaten (b. 1984) is the Creative Director of the Hausmann marketing bureau, and a marketing director of the small publisher Teori & praksis. Wolverine is her literary debut.

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Kjersti Halvorsen

IDA TAKES CHARGE Ida's greatest fear is terror. This doesn't get any better when she meets Aksel at University; a lone wolf with dubious interest in weapons. Aksel has become an outsider, and Ida needs to take drastic measures: How can she save Axel – and the world? Perhaps equally important: How can she save herself? Ida Takes Charge is a dark and funny debut novel about overcoming fear and finding your calling in life. NOMINATED TO THE TARJEI VESAAS DEBUT PRIZE 2019. ‘This book is freakishly well written about anxiety in general, and specifically anxiety about terrorism’ ADRESSEAVISA Ida tar ansvar 130x205 mm / 224 pages

‘This book is a gem, in many ways a mystery novel. Halvorsen writes with a razor sharp edge about internet stalking, anxiety and fear in general. It is a story about keeping our catastrophe thinking in check, something many of us might need right now.’ DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘Kjersti Halvorsen strikes a nerve between fear and crippling anxiety. She is good at writing about what is nasty and disgusting. The book has a dark humour in its mellow deadpan way, a humour that suits the anxiety.' KLASSEKAMPEN ‘Brilliant language … precise and observant.’ DAG OG TID ‘Kjersti Halvorsen’s debut bases itself on a brilliant idea.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Kjersti Halvorsen (b. 1993) has attended author-studies at the college in Bø and studied psychology at the University in Oslo. She made her debut in 2019 with the novel Ida Takes Charge, a book that earned her a nomination to the Tarjei Vesaas debut prize.

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Ingrid Tørresvold

REGARDS, RUTH It’s hot in the capital. Extremely hot. So hot that Oslo city council shuts off the taps to save water. So hot that people leave town. And further north in the country, the forest fires are spreading. There’s a state of emergency.

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In a small cafe in Oslo’s Veitvet district, 37-year-old Ruth stands sweating. She works here one day a week. It’s just a shame that nobody wants hot coffee in the heatwave. In the absence of customers, Ruth tries to make friends with her colleague Sofie instead. She has become pregnant and turns to Ruth for advice about what to do.

Ingrid Tørresvold (b. 1992) is a previous student of the creative writing programme at Bø college. Regards, Ruth is her first novel.

Kitty Byng

THE BODY IS A MURDERER Nina and Kitty are married and live an active life in Oslo, with careers and good friends. If they want to have a child, the time to start is now. It’ll take more to make it happen than a romantic evening or two. They have to make a choice themselves if anything is going to happen. And life is so good just the way it is. They start to click around on a donor website, just to take a look. What does trying to have a child entail? Will it corrode their relationship? Is Kitty’s body even capable of bearing a child? And why does the thought of new life make Kitty think of death? Kroppen er en morder 130x205 mm / 368 pages

The Body Is a Murderer is a complex love story about Nina and Kitty; an urgent and intimate examination of the life we have and the life we make.

Kitty Byng (b. 1980) lives in Oslo. The Body is a Murderer is her debut novel.

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Tone Myklebust

IT DOESN’T STOP HERE It Doesn’t Stop Here is a collection of eleven short stories told with heartfelt humour, about failing relationships, families on the brink, women and men seeking love, freedom or jobs.

Tone Myklebust (b. 1970) makes her literary debut with the short story collection It Doesn't Stop Here.

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Frida Andersen

NO SUDDEN MOVEMENTS Do you take care of the people you love? Do you remember only to go home with the kind people? Have you written the letter you’ll leave for other people to find if you can’t cope with life? The main character in Frida Andersen’s debut novel is a young woman who seems both vulnerable and strong, loving and abrupt. The stories in her young life are painful, funny, tragic and everyday.

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Frida Andersen (b. 1994) makes her literary debut with the novel No Sudden Movements.

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Anna Albrigtsen

THE SUN STRIKES THINGS OTHER THAN US An intense chamber piece involving four family members on holiday at a Swedish summer house. What are they running away from? What do they want from each other? The cheese in the fridge is mouldy, the bread is dry and the clock on the oven has stopped. The first-person narrator of the novel is constantly alert to her surroundings. Especially when her mother takes her on a nocturnal car trip. She holds the gas pedal down just a little bit too long. What happens when all the rules are revoked? Solen treffer andre ting enn oss 130x205 mm

Anna Albrigtsen (b. 1995) makes her literary debut with the novel The Sun Strikes Things Other Than Us.

Bruno Jovanović

EVENTUALLY, YOUR EYES GET USED TO THE DARK Damjan comes to Norway from Bosnia at the age of four. With a mentally ill mother and as a gay adult man, he has really learned what it means to be an outsider in Norwegian society. Now his mother moves into his flat, but Damjan cannot share all the difficulties with his boyfriend Filip. A ruthless debut novel about the costs of being an outsider and the things that bind us humans together, in spite of it all. Etter hvert vil øynene venne seg til mørket 130 x 205 mm / 176 pages

Bruno JovanoviĆ (b. 1990) makes his literary debut with the novel Eventually, Your Eyes Get Used to the Dark.

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Karina Aase

SAD-FACE It’s Christmas time in Bergen. Everybody’s on holiday, it’s cold and empty in the shared flat, the wifi is down and our heroine counts her pennies as she dreams of Sad-Face, the man with bookshelves and a career who she thinks is Mr Right. But is she sophisticated enough to satisfy Sad-Face? And isn’t Sad-Face actually a bit too bourgeois for a one-time punk? A fun, sharp, political tale of a failed student life.

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Karina Aase (b. 1985) makes her literary debut with the novel Sad-Face.

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Ane Barstad Solvang

STUPID NAKED Stupid Naked is a novel about the relationships people have with themselves and others, about being lonely but finding your own autonomy; about Porsgrunn, Oslo, London and herpes.

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Ane Barstad Solvang (b. 1991) makes her literary debut with the novel Stupid Naked.

Maren Granrud

THERE’S NO REASON TO FEEL SORRY FOR ME, BUT I DO When i was little i watched baywatch and the little mermaid so often that sharks started coming up through the plughole in the bathtub although mum said it wasn’t possible because the pipes are so skinny and i understood then and there that i couldn’t trust that woman.

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Maren Granrud makes her literary debut with the novel There’s No Reason To Feel Sorry For Me, But I Do.

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Lukas C. Rotevatn

IT ALWAYS SOUNDS LIKE IT’S RAINING WHEN I’M WITH YOU The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck; this is the motto, written by Paul Virilio, that Lukas C. Rotevatn has selected for his debut poetry collection. Which is true, of course. In just the same way as a breakup is created at the very moment a relationship is formed. And the misunderstanding at the same time as the understanding. And so on. That doesn’t mean that all ships will be wrecked. But some will. Or that all relationships will fail. But some will. And how do we take care of the wreckage? Poetry is one way. And Lukas’s poems are just such carers. Equally driven by determinism and free will. These are sharp, sensitive and vulnerable poems that you will read over and over again.

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Lukas C. Rotevatn (b. 1997) makes his literary debut with the novel It Always Sounds Like It’s Raining When I’m With You

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Ellen Mari Thelle

PART ME, PART YOU Part Me, Part You is a novel about being a mother, becoming a mother and having a mother. The latter is mandatory, the others are choices. This is also a novel about life and death, birth and every day life. The thin line that separates it all. The sudden. And slow. Memories. Life shaping life. What is lost.

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Ellen Mari Thelle

BERNHARD COMES KNOCKING – Is it dead now? I whisper. I hunch down. – I think it is dead, you answer and bend over. I put the newspaper over it, pushing it slightly. – It is dead. I lift the bird, carrying it over to the garbage room. You follow, holding the door for me. I throw the dunlin in one of the grey binges. – Coffee? I ask, as I leave the room. Bernhard Comes Knocking is a novel about hoping and waiting. About it never being to late. And that it suddenly might be to late after all.

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Ellen Mari Thelle (b. 1977) made her literary debut in 2009. This is her fourth novel.

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Nils Christian Moe-Repstad

WUNDERKAMMER Stories, portraits, parables, essays, theses, theories, encyclopedias biographies, aphorisms, riddles, paraphrases. Could a limit of three lines per poetic form, spanning near 800 pages, justify an exploration of these literary terms? This is what Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad sets out to discover in the poetry collection Wunderkammer (27 catalogues). Also published by the author: Theory of the only (2013) 19 poisonings (2014) Poetry 1996-2014 (2015) The beautiful white draperies (2018)

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Nils Christian Moe-Repstad (b. 1972) made his literary debut in 1996 and has since published nine collections of poetry. His poems have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish, and he is considered to be one of Norway's most important contemporary poets. In 2020 he was awarded the prestigious Dobloug Prize by The Swedish Academy. Rights sold to: The Netherlands (Azul Press), Germany (Die Horen and Wallstein Verlag)

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Linn Strømsborg

NEVER, EVER, EVER «I am 35 years old. I do not want children. It’s not something I talk to other people about. It is something that I am ashamed of, a topic I avoid; take long verbal detours around. When my friends talk about having kids, I change the topic. I do not want to be to certain or unbending, because I might suddenly wake up one day and find that I have become one of them, an ordinary woman in her thirthies wanting to get pregnant, wanting a family, wanting to expand my life, my body and my heart to make room for more than myself. You are allowed to change your mind.» The main character in Linn Strømsborg´s novel Never, ever, ever has never wanted children. She has been living with Philip for eight years, and they have agreed to not have children – up until now. Aldri, aldri, aldri Because maybe Philip might want to 130x205 mm / 224 pages become a dad after all? And while her two best friends are expecting their first child, and her mother is constantly nagging about grandchildren, and her everyday life is full of parents with toddlers and births and the struggle of others to have enough time for it all, she is firm in her life and her choice about not having children. Never, ever, ever is a novel about why we have children, and why we do not have children. It is the story about choosing something other than what is expected of you, but at the same time wanting a normal life. ‘The story is elegantly composed, at times cinematic. Strømsborg has written rare and energized prose about a timely and somewhat taboo topic.’ VG  Linn Strømsborg (b. 1986) made her debut 2009 with the novel Roskilde, the story of a group of young people at a music festival, and followed up with the chap book The Øya Festival in the same year. She has since written two novels about the main character Eva; Furuset in 2012 and You're not gonna die in 2016. She is one of the most interesting young voices in contemporary Norwegian fiction today.

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Reviews for Suburbia: ‘A moving and beautiful tale of adulthood that didn’t come when it was supposed to. … Every decade, every place needs its young Werther or its young Eva from Furuset.’ NRK Reviews for You’re not Dying: ‘... a hopeful book about anxiety.’ KLASSEKAMPEN ‘Maybe one could say that Strømsborgs authorship is moving in a more serious direction with this book, but there is still something unmistakably Strømsborgesque with this novel that portrays the circumstances of a no longer quite so young, anxious woman in an essentially questioning and wondering way, with a hint of misery, melancholy, a sense of lost time, life passing you by, while you’re sitting alone in an empty room, like Demi Moore in St. Elmos Fire, just being scared.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD ‘... a strong, beautiful and vivid novel.’ VÅRT LAND

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Lotta Elstad

I REFUSE TO THINK I Refuse to Think has much of the same sharp and smart humour as Lotta Elstad's earlier books. We meet Hedda Møller after a traumatic plane landing and hazardous journey back to Oslo, through a Europe in crisis, on buses and trains, dirty hostel rooms and a one-night stand in Berlin that will not stop sending her messages in CAPS LOCK. Back home she discovers that she is unwantedly pregnant. That should be an easily solved problem. It´s not. I Refuse to Think is a dark, feministic contemporary comedy about p olitics, love – and an abyss that is getting d angerously closer. ‘A feminist direct hit!’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD  Jeg nekter å tenke 130x205 mm / 240 pages

‘Lotta Elstads energy, wittiness and precision makes I Refuse to Think to one of this year's most enjoyable reads. Within its comical genre, it is absolutely perfect; stimulating, exciting, funny, sharp – and somewhat dark.’ FÆDRELANDSVENNEN  ‘Lotta Elstad has written a novel that is funny, even if it is political. Elstad writes with energy and good timing. The suspense lasts until the last chapter.’ DAGSAVISEN ‘Lotta Elstad creates observing and fresh comedy out of the unwanted pregnancy of a freelancer. There has not been a lot of room for the easy going in Norwegian contemporary literature. Lotta Elstad clears the space for this kind of writing. That is why it is so easy to let yourself be excited by her novels.’ MORGENBLADET ‘I refuse to think is a Sareptas Jar of a book; energetic, cheeky and daring. But under the cheekiness there are thoughts about work-life, housing, health and the difference between Norway and the rest of Europe.’ KLASSEKAMPEN Rights sold to: Denmark (Hoff & Poulsen), France (Marabout), Germany (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), Netherlands (Uitgeverij Prometheus)

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Lotta Elstad

A ROOM OF ONES OWN Anna Louisa Millisdotter has her own room and a bank account full of money – what more could a 70-year-old want? Anna Louisa is ripped from her quiet retirement by an article in the country's second biggest newspaper. The author is the same woman who once persuaded her to go into public exile. The woman who claimed to have been lured into prostitution by her academic supervisor. Former student Catherine Wolf, now a professor in Anna Louisa's old faculty. And suddenly the game is on for Anna Louisa. She decides to show her face in public again – for the first time in 20 years. A Room of Ones Own is feminist satire, a chamber play with room for both bitcoins and saloon guns. Et eget rom 130x205 mm / 208 pages

‘Lotta Elstad writes like a love child of Dag Solstad and Vigdis Hjorth: Intellectual, engaged and witty.’ DAG OG TID ‘In light, satirical style and with a precise depiction of distinctly Norwegian s ocietal structures, Elstad explores the need to find a place in the world and give life meaning, and how banal the outcome of this struggle can be no matter how strong the fighting spirit once was.’ KLASSEKAMPEN

Lotta Elstad (b. 1982) is a writer, journalist, historian and non-fiction editor. She has since her debut in 2008 published several acclaimed books, both narrative non-fiction and novels. Rights sold to: France (Marabout)

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Sondre Lerche

ALL SONGS ARE ABOUT YOU All Songs are About You consists of enthusiastic and personal essays about music, some of them reaching as far back as into childhood days in Bergen, and the young Lerche´s almost selfeffacing obsession for the band a-ha and vocalist Morten Harket. In other texts he writes about other heroes like Prefab Sprout, Fiona Apple and Milton Nascimento. There is also room for concert experiences from the United States, with amongst others St. Vincent, Beyoncé and Kygo. And there is also long distance running, in Los Angeles, with ambient in his ears.

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According to Lerche there are no guilty pleasures in music. There is only pleasure. And just as important as the music we know and love are the more coinsidential musical meetings, those who take us well outside our comfort zone. Music that some might find useless can have powerful meaning for your neighbour – or millions of people. The texts of this book embrace that fact.

Sondre Lerche (b. 1982) made his musical debut in 2001, with the album Faces Down. Since then, he has released several critically acclaimed records with a broad appeal, inspired by genres such as jazz, rock and club music. The great shift in Lerche's discography has occurred with his two latest records, Please (2014) and Pleasure (2017), which are marked by his will to explore new musical regions while wearing his dancing shoes. Since 2012, Lerche has also written regularily about music in Norwegian daily newspapers Dagbladet and Klassekampen, and for American Talkhouse.

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Annicken R. Day

FLY, BUTTERFLY Maya Williams is an ambitious, hardworking New York Business Woman, stymied on her way up the corporate ladder by sexist, male executives. But when she is sent to a conference in Hawaii and expected to lie on stage, she does the unthinkable – she tells the truth. After the event she has a break down on the beach, and then decides to stay in Kauai´i for a few days. After all: she was just fired.

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In Kauai´i she meets people who open her eyes to different ways of thinking and being, she begins to see life, work, love – and her self – in a whole new light. She learns how to chill, to breathe and to be more in the moment. All of a sudden she has a vision of wanting a life that might be totally different from what she thought.

When Maya returns to the corporate world as an executive, can she implement her new philosophies and still succeed? And will her personal and professional metamorphosis ultimately bring her the happiness and freedom that she dreams of? ‘Fly, Butterfly is a page turner that draws you in and makes you nod furiously, laugh deeply and then sob with empathy. This is a powerful novel that has the energy to inspire change.’ AMY BRANN, Author of Engaged, Make Your Brain Work and Neuroscience for Coaches. ‘Annicken R. Day has a gift for transforming bureaucrazies into businesses that buzz with creativity and joy. With her debut novel, she shows that she also has a knack for crafting stories about transforming ourselves.’ ADAM GRANT, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take. Annicken R. Day has worked with corporate culture for more than 20 years, i.e. as President of Culture at Norwegian Tandberg, and Cisco. Since 2012, she has been running her own company, Corporate Spring, where she leads her team in helping leaders and teams all over the world in building great places of employments and engaged corporate cultures. She is also a globally renowned public speaker, having written articles for Huffington Post and Business Insider, and co-authored the book Creative Superpowers. Her first novel, Fly, Butterfly, is a story that in many ways reflect Annicken's own experiences, philosophy of life and personal choices: Choosing the heart over the head, trust over fear, and keeping the courage to live one's own life on one's own terms. When Annicken is not travelling, she splits her time between Norway and California. Rights sold to: Germany (Suhrkamp/Insel Verlag)

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Siri M. Kvamme

WONDERFUL WERA Welcome to Wrydale, the Twin Peaks of the Norwegian fjords! Here Vera sits in the ticket booth at the local swimming pool, hoping that somebody in the municipal administration will die. Or retire. She isn’t wicked, just desperate. And with good reason, as it turns out. Wonderful Wera is a novel that brims over with life and vigour, love and lies, humour and warmth, pipes and rebellion, laughter and sheer desperation.

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Siri M. Kvamme (b. 1975) is a Norwegian author living in Haugesund, a city on the west coast of Norway. Kvamme has studied Literature and Writing as well as worked as a journalist and literary critic for over ten years before she started writing full time. Along with her writing, she also arranges a very popular Literary Salon in the public library in Haugesund. Kvamme made her literary debut with Read and apart (2001), a collection of short prose. Her first novel Winter Heart (2008) was well received by the critics. In 2012 she published the novel Nightwanderer. The world is playing hide and seek was pulished in 2016.

Excerpt from Wonderful Vera:

Vera has the wind at her back, and it feels surprisingly easy to pedal up the hill. She cycles all the way to the top. Sure, it’s steep, but that is probably why the Wrydalers are all in top shape, why their life expectancy is so high. When just popping by the neighbours becomes an up-hill race, it is only natural that their performance curve is set to match. Either they die of heart attacks midways up a hill, halfway through their glorious life. Or, they live until the nurses at the old folk’s home play rock paper scissors to decide who will euthanize them, to lay their old hides to rest. Vera leaves her bike in the garage. There is plenty of space, as she doesn’t have a car. With the climate crisis and everything, it’s really more of a statement not to have a car. Nobody has to know that it’s because she can’t afford it. Now that it’s trendy to own less, Vera is hyper-modern. If anyone should care to ask, she can always say that she prefers to own less. Instead of seeming poor, she will seem hip and modern, an environmentally conscious minimalist, almost a bit zenlike. If not for the total mess. The chaos behind the scenes. Furthermore, she could say that she is doing a no-buy challenge. That is both sustainable and modern. This she can also use against her children, whenever they want something new, and she has to say no. After all, they are the ones who will inherit the earth.

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Magne Hovden

CIRCUS Funny, elegant and entertaining novel about a traveling circus and a woman's fateful choice. A cynical, self-centered businesswoman inherits a circus and sets out on a journey that introduces her to a world of traditions, dedication and camaraderie that gradually causes her to reevaluate how she'll spend the rest of her life.

Cirkus 130x205 mm / 320 pages

Send in the Clowns! ‘I would rather shovel Elephant muck!" seems to be the moral of this cross over between Jonas Jonasson’s The Hundred Year Old Who Climed out the Window and Wall Street. In other words likeable and well written entertainment.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD ‘Hovden has succeeded in writing a colourful, satirical and catchy novel.’ DAGBLADET

Rights sold to: Estonia (Tänapäev Publishers), France (Les Edition du Seuil). Italy (Fabbri Editore/ Mondadori), Germany (Droemer Knaur)

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Magne Hovden

WITCHES AND BIRDWATCHERS Ragna Emanualsen got pregnant at a young age, and never had time to find out what she wanted to do with her life. Ragna and her football-trainer husband Rune, the local hero, have drifted apart. What’s more, she’s becoming increasingly convinced he’s keener on men than women. Everyday life is turning into a predictable routine of children and husband. An absurd coincidence convinces Ragna that she has healing powers, and she signs up for a group tour led by a shaman to Vardø, one of the world’s most powerful energy points. Tor Hellebust is longing for a break from his everyday life. His relationship with his wife Frida has cooled dramatically since she cheated on him with their relationship therapist. Every day, Tor visits his senile mother at the nursing home, where he desperately tries to revive her memories. When Tor, a passionate birdwatcher, gets wind of a group tour to Vardø on an internet forum, he spies a chance to cross an extremely rare species, the cattle egret, off his observation list.

Hekser og fuglekikkere 130x205 mm

In Vardø, tensions build between the two groups, which are both deadly serious about their passions.

Magne Hovden (b. 1974) is from Ålesund and lives in Kirkenes. He had his breakthrough with the novel Sámi Land (2010), which received sparkling reviews and was sold to several countries. The author also writes for film and television.

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Gunn Marit Nisja

IN THE SAME DREAM It’s a perfectly ordinary evening in Vilja’s student dorm when her mother rings. But the conversation is far from ordinary. Her mother speaks in a confused and incoherent way. Has she been drinking? That isn’t like her. A frightened Vilja takes action, getting her mother admitted to the local hospital. When Vilja arrives, the doctor says her mother is suffering from an acute brain disease. In the Same Dream is a novel about life’s sudden upheavals – a tale of a daughter who has to take responsibility for her mother’s future as well as her own, and the dilemmas that brings. But it is also the story of a divided family trying to find their way back to each other in a new situation. I samme drøm 130x205 mm

Gunn Marit Nisja writes with beautiful subtlety about the lives and dreams of ordinary people.

Gunn Marit Nisja (b. 1978) debuted in 2011 with the novel Naked in Hijab, which was nominated for the Booksellers' Prize and sold over 20,000 copies. Readers have also thoroughly enjoyed The Porcelain Girl (2013) and The Olive Stone (2014).

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Ellen Gustavsen Simensen

BELIEVE ME WHEN I LIE Police officer Lars Lukassen sees the chance of a promotion when he is called out to investigate a dead body. The situation at the police station in Hønefoss deteriorates when a sinister figure starts plaguing schoolchildren. At the same time, teacher Johanna Brekke arrives in town and Lars is attracted to her. But what is Johanna running away from, and who is friend and who is foe in the quest for truth? Believe Me When I Lie is a psychological crime novel that spans a wide canvas, from eastern Norway to the far west of the country.

Tro meg når jeg lyver 130 x 205 mm

BESTSELLING CRIME DEBUT

The language is playful and colorful, with nature descriptions approaching the poetic and filmatic. Especially when the plot turns to western Norway, she’s good. Very good … This book debut proves to be a solid and suspense-driven thriller, where the author shares her keen insight into the human mind. RINGERIKES BLAD

Ellen G. Simensen (b. 1975) is educated works as a career consultant. She has attended Cappelen Damm’s crime author programme, hosts a crime podcast and has arranged several writing courses for young people.

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Torkil Damhaug

LOOK THE OTHER WAY Two destitute brothers, Karol and Marek, make a living from robbing people in downtown Budapest. One day they suddenly come across a valuable and deadly catch. Marlen, a Norwegian anatomy student, is studying in the Hungarian capital during her first year. She meets Marek by chance, and is quickly swept up in a nightmarish maelstrom. Is it a coincidence that the people around her are dying, one after the other, in quick succession? Look The Other Way is a psychological thriller from the beautiful and brutal side of autumnal Budapest.

Se en annen vei 130x205 mm / 368 pages

TWICE RIVERTON PRIZE WINNER

Praise for Look the Other Way: ‘It’s simply a text free of any superfluous word, but full of excitement and psychological detailing.’ FÆDRELANDSVENNEN ‘In this large-scoped, meandering text, [Damhaug] unites soulful depth, outer excitement factors, political-historical considerations and moral-philosophical seriousness. Within its genre, this is a premium novel.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Torkil Damhaug (b. 1958) has a degree in medicine with a specialization in psychiatry. His debut novel, Flee, Moon caused a great stir when it appeared in 1996. His Norwegian and international breakthrough came with the psychological thriller Death by Water in 2009. The novel has since been optioned for a movie. For the novel Fireraiser, Damhaug was awarded the prestigious Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime fiction novel in 2011. He was again awarded the Riverton Prize 2016 for his crime novel A Fifth Season. Rights sold to: Denmark (Modtryk)

Praise for A Fifth Season: ‘Torkil Damhaug is a crime writer who is unusually assured in his form; I am unaware of any other writer who can invoke the way in which desperation lies in wait in the most everyday situations in quite the way that he does.’ VG ‘Damhaug is a fantastic storyteller, who painstakingly unravels his well composed narrative. Through dialogue, shifts in perspective and a broad spectrum of minor figures, his characters are depicted as a consequence of suppression, conflict and failure. The book is structured as a crime novel, but is also a masterfully constructed study of young people’s environment in the most precariously emotional time of anyone’s life, where anything can happen, for better or (in this case) worse. This book could be described as rural Norwegian crime writing with a high degree of literary ambition.’ DAGBLADET Praise for Heart of glass: ‘The personal voice is one of the strengths of Damhaug as a writer. His way of writing makes him a magnificent example of a true literary crime writer.’ DAGBLADET ‘With the sharp portrayal of a nouveau riche, multicultural Norway – where the lines of conflict are crisscrossing in confusing patterns and where the ambiguous solutions are only found on Facebook – Heart of Glass is experienced as a rarely relevant crime. No Norwegian crime writer has done it better in a long time, maybe not since Damhaugs own Fireraiser from 2011.’ AFTENPOSTEN 67

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Karin Fossum

LOVELY CREATURE Konrad Sejer #15

A single mother finds a disturbing drawing in her son’s room. A young man and a teenage boy meet by chance on the shores of the deep lake in Svartland Forest. The next day, sixteen-year-old Gritt Zeeland is found dead in the same forest. There are so many reasons why a pretty young girl might be in danger. Police Superintendent Sejer finds himself dealing with a distressing murder mystery that has many possible solutions. Gritt Zeeland let almost nobody get close to her, but there were plenty of people –young and old – who had noticed her. Bakom synger døden 130x205 mm / 384 pages

Lovely Creature is a profoundly penetrating crime novel about beauty and ugliness, tenderness and violence, great lies and painful realities.

N E W CRI M E FROM BEST SELLER K A RI N FOSSU M

Karin Fossum (b. 1954) made her literary debut in 1974 with the poetry collection Maybe Tomorrow, for which she won the Vesaas First Writer's Award. She has published books in several genres, but is best known for her crime fiction series about Inspector Konrad Sejer. Several of her books have been filmed for the screen and TV. She has received a number of prestigious awards, including an LA Times Book Award and The Brage Prize for her novel The Indian Bride. In 2017 The Riverton Club named her Best Norwegian Crime Writer through the times! Karin Fossum's books are translated into 34 languages. Rights sold to: Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Sweden (Forum)

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Karin Fossum

THE DARKENING Konrad Sejer #14

A married couple check into a hotel with their 15-month-old son. The next morning, the boy falls from the sixth-floor balcony and dies instantly. His parents' explanations differ substantially. Both of them have something to hide. Who has the right to have a child? How could a child die in such a way? This time, Konrad Sejer knows it is extremely important to find out the truth. The Darkening is a masterful crime novel and a dangerous

Karin Fossum

THE WHISPERER Konrad Sejer #13

Ragna Riegel works at The local shop and lives alone in her childhood home. Her parents have died and her only son has moved to Berlin, and they have no contact other than occasional Christmas and birthday cards. Ragna lives within close confines. She must have order in her life. And she does, until one day she finds a letter in her mailbox with her name on the envelope and a clear threat written in block capitals on the sheet inside. The letter reinforces a nightmare where Ragna Riegel's life is threatened by an unknown enemy and she realises that she must use all means possible to defend herself. The novel takes the form of Konrad Sejer's interrogation of Ragna Riegel after the worst has happened; after it is too late.

Hviskeren 130x205 mm / 336 pages

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Hans Olav Lahlum

THE SWAN KILLING A new highlight in the K2 and Patricia-series! The young private investigator Aurora Holmes suddenly appears in the life of K2 in the summer of 1973. K2 is soon smittened with her, but shortly after she is found murdered in the Aker River. K2 agrees to lead the investigation, and the leads take him back to The Cold War, WWII and the Finish Civil War in 1918. The Swan Killing is the ninth book in the bestselling series about K2 and Patricia. Retro Crime with original and interesting main character.

Svanemordet 130x205 mm

Hans Olav Lahlum (b. 1973) is a writer and historian. He made his literary debut with the critically acclaimed biography Oscar Torp in 2007. He has since published a number of crime novels and non-fiction books. His crime novels have become bestsellers in Norway, and are available in English, Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, Danish, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Russian, Slovakian and Korean.

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Øistein Borge

I AM NUMBER 13 In his dark rage, murder is art – Now he wants to sign his masterpiece In September 2017, a Norwegian exchange student is found murdered in a park outside Amsterdam, taken out with a bolt pistol. Criminal investigator Bogart Bull is sent to Amsterdam on the first flight. In the Dutch capital, there is a man who calls himself Rezník and regards himself as a groundbreaking artist. And Rezník has only just begun.

Sorenskriveren som ville bli gatefotograf 130x205 mm / 192 pages

A new murder takes place, this time with a weapon that bewilders the police. ‘Øystein Borge is a writer who masters the craftmanship of crime writing to perfection.’ VG

Rights sold to: Germany (Droemer Knaur)

Øistein Borge

THE BASTARD A Jewish man searching for justice. Two Romanian siblings fleeing hopelessness. A Norwegian policeman on his first overseas mission. All meet their fate, just hours after arriving on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca. The temperature on the island is approaching 40 degrees – a heatwave appropriate for the hell that awaits Bogart Bull in this holiday paradise. And as befits a hell, there is also a devil here, pulling the strings.

Bastarden 130x205 mm / 368 pages

Øistein Borge (b. 1958) has a background in film and advertising, where he has worked as a director, text writer and creative leader. In 2016 he made his crime debut with the first book about Bogart Bull – The Seventh Demon. Both this book and its follow up What Never Dies were well-received by Norwegian critics, and he was nominated for the Mauritz Hansen Prize in 2017. Both of the books have been sold to successful German publisher Droemer-Knaur.

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Øistein Borge

THE SEVENTH DEMON When the Norwegian realty magnate Axel Krogh is found brutaly murdered in his home in the French Riviera, investigator Bogart Bull is sent from Oslo to help with the investigation. The motive for the murder is unclear. The walls of Kroghs mansion is covered with art worth millions, but the murderer has just stolen one picture. A small, seemingly insignificant painting, signed with the number seven. ‘Intensity all the way through!’ TRØNDER-AVISA «««««¶

Den syvende demonen 216x146 mm / 313 pages

‘Diverse and genuinly exciting debut.’ AFTENPOSTEN Rights sold to: Germany (Droemer Knaur)

Øistein Borge

WHAT NEVER DIES Bogart Bull, the crime investigator that we first met in Øistein Borge´s critically acclaimed debut The Seventh Demon, is this time in Northern Irland. Shifting between two different timelines in the past and present, we follow Bull as he is hunting the guilty from Belfast to the island Rathlin in the north and all the way south to Armagh, known as the bandit country.

Det som aldri dør 216x143 mm / 295 pages

Rights sold to: Germany (Droemer Knaur)

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Marta Breen and Jenny Jordahl

WOMEN IN BATTLE 150 years of freedom, equality and sisterhood

150 years ago, women and men led very different lives. Women could not vote or make their own money. They had no control over their own bodies. The father would make a womans decisions until she was married. Then her husband would take over. This changed when women began to organize. In this book writer Marta Breen and illustrator Jenny Jordahl tell the story about the women´s movements many dramatic battles.

Kvinner i kamp 150 år med frihet, likhet, søsterskap 198x272 mm / 128 pages 12–99 years

R I G H TS SO L D TO 27 T ER R I TO R I ES

Breen and Jordahl have cooperated about a number of book projects, amongst others The F word. 155 reasons to be a feminist a title for which they received the Norwegian Cultural Ministry nonfiction award in 2015, and the bestseller 60 Women you should have known (2016).

‘… a combination of a textbook and a manifest, a book that has a mission and also underlines the will to say something with a solid presentation.’ SERIENETT ‘… presents the reader to a playful and whole picture of the cases that has defined the fight for women´s right´s through times. It manages to be a celebration of those who fought the fights, and at the same time remind us to never take these rights for granted.’ EMPIRIX Marta Breen (b. 1976) is a writer, journalist and one of Norway's most profiled feminists. Jenny Jordahl (b. 1989) is an illustrator, designer, blogger and cartoonist. She is well known for her collaborations with feminist writer Marta Breen on books like The F Word and 60 Women You Should've Met. She illustrates a regular environmental column for Aftenposten Junior and does her own cartoon series: Life among the animals. Rights sold to: Albania (Ejal Publishing), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Bulgaria (Prozoretz), Czech Republic (Argo spol. s r.o.), Denmark (Gyldendal DK), Egypt (Mahrousa), Estonia (Tänapäev), Finland (Sitruuna), France (Larousse), Georgia (Bakur Sulakauri), Germany (Suhrkamp), Greece (Papadopoulos Publishing), Hungary (Cser), Iceland (Forlagið), Italy (TRE60 - Mauri Spagnol), Japan (Godo-Shuppan), Netherlands (Boom), Poland, Portugal (Bertrand), Republic Of Korea (Hankyoreh), Russia (LLC Samokat Publishing House), Spain (RBA Llibres), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Turkey (Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat Yay. Ticaret ve Sanayi A.S.), United Kingdom (Bonnier Books UK), United States (Little Bee Publishing)

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Anna Fiske

EVERYTHING THAT IS NEW Everything That Is New is a picture book for adults. We meet a young woman and follow her over several weeks in texts and illustrations. She has a job, a husband and child, and lives in an apartment block but now has to move. To a new place, to a new home. The main character in the story is due to start a new job and her child will start at a new nursery school. Everything is new and strange. A cosy, intimate and poetic book about problems everybody can relate to.

Alt som er nytt 197x197mm/ 104 pages

Anna Fiske (b. 1964) is an author, illustrator, and cartoonist. Fiske’s playful and distinctive style, both literary and pictorial, has earned her numerous awards and honours for her works. Several of her books have been published with great success in many countries.

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Flu Hartberg

AN ABC OF TALKING SHOP Flu Hartberg’s drawings have set their stamp on Norwegian newspapers for many years. An ABC of Talking Shop brings together some of her best strips, ordered in a way that offers an overview of the new Norway. Separate pages for each letter help readers navigate our strange, sometimes tragic and always comical culture. An ABC of Talking Shop is the perfect gift for anybody who wants a good laugh – but also a new perspective on our times.

Fagprat ABC 198 x 272 mm

Flu Hartberg (1979–) has a background in art, having studied in both Norway and England. His comic series have been published in stand-alone form and in various magazines. He also works as an illustrator, and has produced work for several children's books.

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Knut Nærum

THE HEARSE It is Year 81 in a new era. Humans have built new cities. The tallest of all is Utropolis – a place with little space and insatiable energy needs. Where does the energy come from? What becomes of the dead? And what goes on out in the shantytowns? The Hearse is an intricate, exciting graphic novel about people seeking answers and authorities who treat the populace like idiots – all conveyed via Karstein Volle’s unique drawing style.

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Knut Nærum (b. 1961) has created eleven books of comic strips and fifteen books for children and adults. He is also the playwright behind the production Henrik Ibsen's Collected Works in 68 minuts. Karstein Volle (b.1974) is a cartoonist, illustrator and musician. He has published ten graphic novels, and is well known for the widely published cartoon Facts about the World.

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Per Dybvig

THE MAIN LAND The Main Land takes us to a windy peninsula. The bridge to the main land is closed, the ships keep gliding by and there are more than enough empty plots for houses. The Municipality and the Tourist office do what they can to get more people to come. Mean while the inhabitants do what they always have been doing: keep on with what ever they have been up to. The Main Land is the third picture book for an adult audience from awardwinning artist and picture book illustrator Per Dybvig. Fastlandet 130x205 mm / 352 pages

Per Dybvig (b. 1964) is an illustrator and one of our foremost children's book artists. He has received many awards for his drawings and his work has been featured in several solo exhibitions. In 2005 he and Bjørn Rørvik were co-recipients of the Ministry for Culture and Church Affairs' Literary Award for their Fox and Piglet books. Rights sold to: Denmark (Jensen&Dalgaard)

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Per Dybvig

THE HUNTER In The Hunter, Per Dybvig describes a world where displacement of identity and absence of civilisation are obvious. The presence of nature is just as obvious. The mountains tower above people and animals, and flowers are in bloom, but the people and the animals are in a worse situation. The animals seem to have mutated, acquiring alien features of both nature and people. Where horns once protruded, tree stems can now grow. Hares walk on two legs, chain-smoking with one paw and carrying a pistol in the other. ‘This picture book by Per Dybvig takes your breath away as soon as you open it.’ VÅRT LAND

Jegeren 240x340mm/ 80 pages

Rights sold to: Denmark (Jensen&Dalgaard)

Per Dybvig

THE BLACK FALLS With The Black Falls, artist Per Dybvig continues his writing that started with the book The Hunter – a Tale From the Woods (2015), a book that was named Most beautiful book by Grafill the same year. Here, the artist alternates between different techniques of drawing, and place a diverse gallery of figures in an unmistakable Dybvigian universe. A very beautiful and humorous, but also violent book.

Svartfossen 148x195 mm/ 136 pages

Rights sold to: Denmark (Jensen&Dalgaard)