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Cappelen Damm Agency

FICTION

Spring 2025

Representing some of Norway’s leading contemporary authors.

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CAPPELEN DAMM AGENCY

Cappelen Damm Agency is the in-house agency of Norway's largest publishing house. Cappelen Damm publishes approximately 1000 titles a year within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, educational books and children's books. Cappelen Damm is owned by Egmont.

Cappelen Damm Agency represents the rights of all of the authors in this catalogue, in addition to a rich backlist. This includes titles from Flamme forlag, an imprint of Cappelen Damm.

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 our authors and the sales of foreign rights.

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen

MEN FALLING

Journalist Selna Bru wakes up on her fortieth birthday to surprising news: the renowned author RT Remi is dead. He collapsed on the street and died instantly. To Selna, this is an unexpected –and satisfying – birthday present.

It is because of Remi that Selna hasn’t left her shitty flat in months, after having been accused of plagiarism in an article that was supposed to be her big break. She’s at rock bottom, without a job, without a boyfriend, without a future. All she has is her cat, Boris.

For many years, RT Remi ran an exclusive literary club in Oslo known as The Cave. There, in a back room, he allegedly drugged and raped five women. Despite protesting his innocence, Remi was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to prison – before he appealed and was acquitted of all charges.

And now, he’s dead.

Selna is contacted by the legendary editor Beatrice James with an offer: to write a true crime about Remi’s life and death, and about the side of the culture industry that Remi belonged to – that allowed these crimes to happen, and which we, according to Beatrice, are still living in post-MeToo. But there is a tight deadline: according to Beatrice, Remi’s unfinished memoir about the accusations, Victim, will be published posthumously by a competing publisher.

This is Selna’s second chance, and her opportunity to have her revenge on Remi. But she will soon discover that RT Remi wasn’t who he purported to be. And perhaps Selna herself isn’t so innocent, either.

Menn som faller 130 x 205 mm

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen (b. 1985) is a journalist and a literary critic, and has also worked in the publishing industry. She has written a non-fiction book and a children’s book, and made her fiction debut in 2025 with Men Falling.

I Pantalones Hus 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages

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Hilde Rød-Larsen

IN THE HOUSE OF PANTALOON

In The House of Pantaloon is a novel about the destructive power of shame and how the silence that follows in its wake can ripple through generations.

The novel is set in Oslo, over the course of a few months. We follow Eva and Cornelia in alternate chapters, as Eva is dealing with widowhood, and Cornelia with a broken relationship and single parenthood. Through chance, Eva and Cornelia’s paths keep crossing. A tender and unexpected affinity develops between the two women, who at first seem to have little in common, and who find themselves in vastly different circumstances.

The story has a plot-driven narrative, with an existential nerve, slight satirical elements, and much warmth. By the end, the reader will realize how these two women‘s lives are intertwined through secrets of the past and “the sins of the fathers”, with Henrik Ibsen‘s Ghosts as a hinted-at backdrop.

«The novel's themes, such as longing and devotion, desire and hunger, across time and generations make it to that extent a novel from and by our time, and the sensitive depiction of ageing, women's skepticism and agency, as well as the considerate descriptions of the searching man resonates perfectly well with this reader.»

SUSANNE BENT-ANDERSEN, ACQUIRING EDITOR GUTKIND (DENMARK)

«The community, the warmth and the compassion make Hilde Rød-Larsen’s novel a terrific example of a feminine shift in a traditionally male-dominated world.»

KLASSEKAMPEN

«A character-driven drama which engages and entertains. […] Rød-Larsen has a good grip on the text with dialogue that flows well.»

ADRESSEAVISA 

Rights sold to: Denmark (Gutkind), Poland (Czarna Owca)

Hilde Rød-Larsen (b. 1974) made her literary debut in 2019 with the novel Summer Time, and in 2022

Diamond Nights came out to critical acclaim in Norway, Denmark and Germany. In 2023 she was awarded the Bookseller's Author Stipend for her authorship. Hilde Rød-Larsen is also known as the Norwegian translator of authors such as Thomas Korsgaard, Elizabeth Strout and Sally Rooney. In the House of Pantaloon, the first book in a planned trilogy, came out in 2024. She has a Bachelor and a Master's Degree from The London School of Economics and lives in Oslo.

Photo: Oda Berby

Gjentakelsen 130 x 205 mm / 144 pages

Vigdis Hjorth

REPETITION

Repetition is a potent distillate of Vigdis Hjorth’s authorship.

She is a grown woman going for a walk in the dark woods, with her dog. She’s also a sixteen-year-old. The view the grown woman offers her younger self is tender and beautiful. It’s about being kissed for the first time, the incredibly clumsy, funny, and painful act of doing it for the first time, it’s about feeling the intoxication spread throughout your body at a party with some boys in a terraced house, about running through the woods to prepare for a marathon, about feeling a huge hunger and thirst in your young life. Her mother watches over her like a hawk, and excerts a control over her daughter that is normally unheard of, and all the while her father keeps his distance. As the first pages of the novel reveals, there is a large and dangerous secret in their house.

Anything you want to forget will come back to you, it will haunt you so vividly that it feels as if you are going through it all over again, often causing you the same overwhelming and unmanageable feelings as the first time; you fear you might die from the intensity and so you fight its return, you resist, but you are not able to prevent or shield yourself from the pain which follows and so you are forced to relive it. However, when it has been re-experienced and relived yet again, when the paralysing pain subsides, you will often find that you have gained a fresh insight into the significance of that particular memory; it was the reason it came back, in order to tell you something.

Why do I write you when I mean me?

NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2023 NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLER AWARD 2023

«Ah. How she writes, Vigdis Hjorth. … Who can as Vigdis Hjorth write a novel in 143 pages, so hauntingly vivid about a 16-year-old girlabout her demanding life in a divided family.»

Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Finland (Schildts & Söderströms), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), Italy (Fazi Editore), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Croatia (Naklada Ljevak), Germany (S. Fischer), United Kingdon (Verso Books - WEL)

Vigdis Hjorth (b. 1959) has over several decades been one of Norway’s most important authors. She published her debut in 1983 in form of the children’s book Pelle-Ragnar and the Yellow Building, for which she received the Norwegian Cultural Council’s Debut Prize. Since then, she has had a prolific and award-winning authorship, writing for both children and adults. She has won several awards in Norway, was longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize for Is Mother Dead, and has been nominated twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize so far, for Will and Testament (2016) and Is Mother Dead (2020).

Hjorth writes existential books about human conditions and life choices, and throws a sharp gaze at current topics in the contemporary time. With novels such as Long Live the Post Horn! (2012) she has made her mark as a fearless political author. Her big breakthrough came in 2016 with Will and Testament, which became an instant favourite among literature critics as well as a huge sales success. In this novel Hjorth writes about complicated family relationships, about violation and liberation in close relationships, and the right to own one’s own story.

Will and Testament was nominated for the National Book Award and Millions Best Translated Book Award when it was published in the US and the UK in 2019. Hjorth’s novels have been translated into 30 languages.

Photo: Agnete Brun

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IF ONLY

Can passion be mistaken for love? When Ida meets Arnold, also married, at a conference, she impulsively invites him to share her bed. She returns home, already half-obsessed, and the dissolution of her marriage and break-up of her family pass almost without her noticing. Arnold has a more relaxed attitude toward the affair. But neither his coolness nor the alarming talk she hears about him can dampen her desire. When she finally has Arnold for herself, all the surface niceties and indulgences they enjoy – travel, sex, beers for breakfast and cocktails for dinner – can’t sustain the sweetness of the fantasy. Their mounting jealousies and insecurities metastasize, resulting in violence and addiction.

«Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers. »

SHEILA HETTI

Rights sold to: Bulgaria (Aviana), Denmark (Turbine), Spain (Ediciones Trabe - Asturian), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), UK (Verso Books - WEL)

Vigdis

Hjorth

FIFTEEN YEARS

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NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2022

There is a rhythm in Paula’s life –the meals at the table at home, the summers at the cabin in Østfold, the visits to grandma on the West Coast – a rhythm which offers her safety and clarity throughout her childhood. Mother, father, sister, and brother in their little house are the most important people in her life. And then there is Karen, her best friend. The calm is shattered the summer that Paula discovers the pile of letters her mother has written to grandma. The life her mother describes in the letters is unrecognisable, they are full of lies. Her mother’s pretense is a shock to Paula. How can she bear knowing what she knows? Paula is on the edge of becoming a teenager, and the world is opening up before her as both a terrible and wonderful place. She doesn’t want to start lying about her life.

«Fifteen years is [her] most well-written novel yet. »

MORGENBLADET

Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), Italy (Fazi editore), Spain (Nórdica Libros)

Femten år. Den revolusjonære våren

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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.

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023

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.

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Hjorth

WILL AND TESTAMENT

A classic story of inheritance, centred on two summer cabins on Hvaler.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019

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.

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), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), Italy (Fazi Editore), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Norway (Den Nationale Scene), Poland (Glowbook), Russia (EKSMO), Spain (Nórdica Libros), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Turkey (Siren Yayinlari), United Kingdom (Verso Books), United States (Verso Books), Brazil (Harper Collins), Egypt (Al-Karma), Greece (Habibbutz Publishers), Portugal (Porto Editora), Romania (Grupul Editorial Art), Serbia (STRIK Publishing House), South Korea (GU-FIC), Germany (S. Fischer Verlag), Greece (Potamos Publishers), Sweden (Yellowbird Entertainment), Iceland (Forlagi∂), Georgia (Sulakauri Publishing), Czech Republic (Argo), Albania (Muza Botime), Latvia (Satori)

Er mor død

x 205 mm / 368 pages Arv og miljø

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Vestersand 130 x 205 mm / 528 pages

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Ingeborg Arvola

THE KNIFE IN THE FIRE

The Knife in the Fire is a riveting historical novel about work and love, strong communities, carefree erotica, the individual and the community.

The year is 1859. Brita Caisa Seipajærvi straps on her skis and takes the long road from Finland to Norway with her two children. Brita Caisa has been disciplined by the church for having an affair with a married man. She can heal animals and humans. The destination for their journey is Bugøynes, where the sea is said to be brimming with cod.

NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLERS AWARD 2022 NOMINATED TO THE CRITIC’S AWARD 2022 WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE 2022 NOMINATED TO THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE AWARD 2023

42.200 IN PRINT

Ingeborg Arvola

«Oh my, The Knife in the Fire is a good book ... All in all, Arvola writes really, really well. Insanely well, in fact. Like a dream you didn't know you were walking around with.»

BERLINGSKE (DENMARK)

VESTERSAND

What use is shame when he’s in it with me?

The year is 1862. Brita Caisa is released from prison in Pykeijä. Heavily pregnant, she trudges through the driving snow, unsure of where to go. Mikko is still serving time for their scandalous cohabitation. He still doesn’t know that Brita Caisa is carrying their child. She dreams of a tømmerpirtti, a log cabin, where they can live as a family, but there will be many obstacles on the road to making this home a reality.

Vestersand takes us to Neiden and Pykeijä, to whaling and log-cabin building, to snow and saunas, to fatal jealousy and deep love. It is an epic and dramatic tale from a unique environment that is rarely described in other literature – the surprisingly diverse Northern Norway of the nineteenth century, where Sámi, Kvens and Norwegians lived side by side with their languages and customs.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Gutkind), Sweden (Albert Bonnier), Germany (btb Luchterhand), Romania (Editura Univers), The Netherlands (Bezige Bij), The Faroe Islands (Sprotin), France (Paulsen), Finland (Gummerus), Egypt (Al Arabi Publishing & Distribution), Croatia (Naklada Iris Illyrica), Estonia (Eesti Raamat)

Kniven i ilden – Sanger fra Ishavet 130 x 205 mm / 448 pages

Ingeborg Arvola (b. 1974) grew up in Pasvikdalen and Tromsø in the far north of Norway. She made her debut with the novel The Korell House, published in 1999. She has since written a number of novels for children and adults. She has received the Cappelen Prize in 2004 and Havmannprisen in 2008. In 2019 she was awarded The Ministry of Culture Prize for Children´s Books for her novel Buffy By is Talented, a book she was also nominated to the Brage Prize for.

After being a critic's favourite for decades, Arvola's big breakthrough came in 2022 with The Knife in the Fire, the first book in her trilogy Songs from the Arctic Ocean. The novel was published to great acclaim and it reigned on the bestseller list for months. It won Best Fiction Novel at the Brage Prize, and was nominated for several more prizes: The Critic's Award, The Youth Critic's Award, The Booksellers Award and the Nordic Council Literature Award 2023. Language rights have sold to eleven countries.

Photo: Fartein Rudjord/NORLA

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Lotta Elstad

XIANIA: KLARA

NOMINATED TO THE LO PRIZE 2023

The year is 1922. Klara takes the train from a country village to the capital Kristiania (Xiania) to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. She's 19 years old, and in her pocket she has a not with a name and an address: Madam Zavarella, Elvegata 2.

«A fantastic book.» – THOMAS KORSGAARD

After the abortion, which almost costs Klara her life, she becomes a part of Madam Zavarella's sphere in the slum in Vaterland. It's a smelly, poor, pulsing underworld, but at Madam Zavarella's stacks of money are hidden in cracks in the walls and under mattresses, there's a motor car in the backyard, connections to the rich villas on Bygdøy peninsula, and even though it's prohibition times, the alcohol is in free flow.

Xiania: Klara is a portrait of the jazztime in Norway. It's the burlesque, snappy and vividly feminist first novel in a planned trilogy.

Lotta Elstad

XIANIA: ADA

Ada is born around 1880. There is no birth certificate. At fifteen, Ada's mother bleeds to death giving birth to her younger brother. Shortly thereafter, their gambling father loses Ada’s hand in a card game. During her honeymoon, Ada runs away and flees to Xiania. She finds lodging and works as a cleaning lady at an “establishment”, fronted by a delicatessen, and run by a certain Madame Josefine. To earn some extra money, Ada kicks prostitutes in the stomach as an abortion method. Her services are high in demand.

This is the start of a journey that ends with Ada inheriting the delicatessen, cleaning out the anchovy smell and taking the alias Madam Zavarella. She opens a hat shop on the ground floor – and an abortion clinic in the basement. The story ends in 1923, when a young girl, Klara, knocks on her door.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Hungary (Polar Egyesület)

Xiania 2 - Ada

x 205 mm / 352 pages

Xiania 1 - Klara

130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

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. Xiania: Klara was nominated to the LO Literature Prize 2022/2023.

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Marie Kinge YOU CAN'T FOOL ME

The first time I found him dead, it was an ordinary Wednesday.

Being a veterinarian means deciding between life and death, knowing all about numbing pain and ending lives on a daily basis. To be a veterinarian’s daughter means assisting in surgeries and going on home-visits to the animal owners. It means diving for crabs in the summertime, insistently noticing all the nature and life that surrounds you. It means checking each day how big Dad’s pupils are, frightened that he’s done it for real this time, that he’s really dead. It means growing and learning to look at yourself through the eyes of others, while dad’s world is slowly shrinking.

Marie Kinge’s debut novel is a coming-ofage story from a childhood unlike most others. You can’t fool me is the story of a father and daughter, of how far or close the apple falls from the tree, about ending lives, about what you keep from your childhood, and what you leave behind.

Kinge’s writing is reminiscent of Tove Jansson in how she evokes the lightness of summer days and childhood curiosity, while her descriptions of the everyday life, marked by work, drugs, despair and suicide have more in common with Tove Ditlevsen.

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«Marie Kinge's debut novel has both sharp edges and a big, beating heart.»

KLASSEKAMPEN

«Solid and unique among the many books about broken families and grief. [...] shows a solid ability to create moods and fill simple formulations with fatality. And it has a zing, which I like.»

NRK

Marie Kinge (b. 1991) is from Oslo. She has worked as a TV host, and as a journalist and producer. You Can't Fool Me is her debut novel.

Du lurer ikke meg 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages

Ida

Fjeldbraaten

THE LIVES

OF OTHERS

The Lives of Other is a merciless description of a society where everyone wants to be seen and heard, and where people will do anything to stand out from the crowd.

A young woman previously worked on a reality show that ended up never airing. She isolates herself at home while scrolling endlessly thought the antisocial corners of the web. While the bills pile up and social security makes their demands, the protagonist escapes into other people’s lives. But what is real, and what is staged? What was it that went so terribly wrong during the recording of the reality show, set in an old asylum, that filmed five contestants left to their own devices?

The Lives of Others is a poignant satire about the total domination of the reality genre, about loneliness, and about who will remain in the audience as everyone is clamoring to stand on stage. The novel ruthlessly depicts our contemporary times, where the need to be seen leads people into bottomless decay and total humiliation.

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De andres liv 130 x 205 mm / 160 pages

«… a raw illustration of reality-TV’s dark side. … Reading this book was like therapy for us internet addicts. I want to throw my phone in the sea and take a long shower.»

FRAMTIDA 

«Ida Fjeldbraaten manages to let the reality characters both amuse us and make us wiser. That's a tried-and-true recipe for a good book.»

MORGENBLADET

«The novel is too credible to be pure satire and stretched too far to be pure realism. It is elegantly balanced …»

DAG OG TID

Ida Fjeldbraaten (b. 1984) works as a copywriter in the advertising industry and runs the small press publishing house Teori & Praksis. Her literary debut Wolverine came in 2020 to critical acclaim, and was nominated to the P2 Listener's Prize. Ida Fjeldbraaten received The Bookseller Stipend in 2021.

Birger Emanuelsen BLOOD CRIES OUT FROM THE GROUND

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WINNER OF THE YOUTH CRITICS' PRIZE WINNER OF SØRLANDETS LITTERATURPRIS

Tallak Nybuen wounds a reindeer buck, and in pursuit of the animal, he collapses. To survive the night, he seeks refuge in the lodge his father has rented out to a hunter from the coast.

The next day, the two men head into the mountains to find the buck together. The hike brings back memories from Tallak’s upbringing, his mother's unexplained absence, him and his father alone on the farm, the feeling of being trapped in the narrow valley, the never ending labour. As the night falls it becomes clear that there is more than the wounded animal bringing them together.

Emanuelsen has written an abundant novel about family and inheritance, truth and lies, about the stories that shape our lives, and how everything could have been different.

«Remember this name, Birger Emanuelsen.»

AFTENPOSTEN

Birger Emanuelsen LOVE AND ANNA

Anna Bergseng works as a midwife and she has never had a day off sick in her life. She is the confident, the experienced one, the one that younger colleagues look up to. One evening, Anna goes to work with a fever. Outside the maternity ward, she meets somebody she once knew, and the memories set her reeling.

Love and Anna is a story about hope and change. About a life that once was and about how life could have been. Is it ever too late to forgive oneself?

«A literary tour de force, so elegant and gripping, a sheer performance of dramaturgy and prose... a warm embrace of a novel, about making the small great.»

ADRESSEAVISA,

« Love and Anna as a female portrayal will prevail in years to come.»

TARA

Anna og kjærligheten 130 x 205 mm / 204 pages

Fra jorden roper blodet 130 x 205 mm / 221 pages

Rights sold to: Hungary (Polar Egyesület)

Birger Emanuelsen (b. 1982) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning author. His debut came in 2012, and since then he has written many books. He has a background as a consultant for Doctors without Border, as a journalist, fiction editor and a speech writer for the Norwegian government.

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Omagiu

130 x 205 mm / 224 pages

Lars

Saabye Christensen

THE TROPHY ROOM

Ion Pauker is the son of a master glassmaker in a small village. His journey through life coincides with the emergence of the new regime. Like his peers, Ion Pauker is drawn to what is new. He proves to be adaptable and ends up in the People's Palace, responsible for the Omagiu room - the place where all official medals and orders are kept. There are many trophies to look after, and strict guidelines for which medals to display at different occasions. But there will come a time when the medals and their supervisor cease to serve a purpose.

The Trophy Room takes place in a bizarre regime of the past. The novel also serves as a mirror being held up to our world of today, with its authoritarian tendencies and desire for strong leaders. Under such a regime, what happens to people’s humanity? What happens to citizens when their minds are controlled, and "truth" is nothing but a means to keep that control? Where does one draw the line between survival and treason?

And under these contidions, it even possible to be a good person?

«The Trophy Room is both an eerie portrait of the autoritarian's mentality, and a refreshing renewal of a long and important authorship.»

VG, 

«The book has obvious hints to Franz Kafka»

DAG OG NATT

«Lars Saabye Christensen surprises and impresses – again.»

NETTAVISEN

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. He 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.

Lars Saabye Christensen

MR. KNAPP'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Mr. Knapp had just discovered that his landline was dead. He hadn’t even been there when it happened. This was a telling example. When had he ever been present? Wasn’t he always blindsided, as they say? This was the end of an era, that much was certain. He felt depressed and significant.

Mr. Knapp is an old man. A lot of people prefer to use the phrase ‘getting up there’ when talking about old age: Mr. Knapp was getting up there. But old was never something to which Mr. Knapp had tried to get. Quite the opposite. Who rushes toward something like that? He’s still not done with his childhood. Or his youth. Or his family. Or with people. Or with love. Oh, to be in love! In Paris, the summer of 1959, visiting museums and galleries, or just walking along the streets, with his future wife, reading French poetry, especially Verlaine, “how did that poem go again, the one about rain in Paris and the heart?”

Herr Knapps uforrettede saker 130 x 205 mm / 144 pages Flamme forlag

Why can’t he remember? The rain is still falling.

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«Mr. Knapp's Unfinished Business is about becoming so old that one will soon die [...] it's a mix of quiet realism, a twinkle in the eye and absurd elements.»

ADRESSEAVISA

«Lars Saabye Christensen has written a charming novel about loneliness, old age and imminent death. [...] you'll want to laught, but will end up crying. [This is] Lars Saabye Christensen at his most engaging.»

DAGSAVISEN

«No other Norwegian author can squeeze in as much charm, sorrow, joy and ife wisdom in 143 small pages as Lars Saabye Christensen.»

DAGSAVISEN, 

Rights sold to: Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof)

Selma Lønning Aarø

FELIZ NAVIDAD

Saga wants to arrange the perfect Christmas in Spain. She doesn’t do this without desperation because her mother suffers from dementia with elements of psychosis and has a habit of running away at the worst of times. Nevertheless, Saga has made up her mind, despite many cautions from a doctor friend. Christmas will be great. Everyone will have a nice time, celebrating in the usual way and – goddammit – in the absolute best way. Granddad and Grandma are in, her crypto-millionaire son is in, everyone is in. But challenges present themselves as soon as they arrive. Her mother can’t orientate herself in her new surroundings, the children are out of control, and why does her husband keep jogging to Benidorm?

Feliz Navidad is a humorous novel, but it is also written with fear, trembling and sorrow. It is a book about being a middle-aged woman, dealing with an unfaithful husband, a mother who keeps disappearing – and about who we become when things get hard.

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«Feliz Navidad is a somewhat comical and painful novel about relationships, and about life hitting you right smack in the face in the middle of Christmas.»

DAGBLADET, 

«... a deeply relatable relationship drama that balances humor with painful emotional undertones.»

VG, 

«It's both an emotional odyssey and a love elegy at the same time.»

FREDRIKSTAD BLAD, 

«She depicts a person's mental confusion with warmth and precision. It becomes touching and terribly sad, but the complications also evoke laughter.»

NRK

Feliz Navidad 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages

Selma Lønning Aarø (b. 1972) made her debut in 1995 with The Final Story. She has been a newspaper columnist for Dagbladet and Klassekampen for a number of years. Her novel, I'm Coming, was translated into several languages. Since then she has written many critically acclaimed novels.

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Gilbert

IN THE PROFANE DAYS

In the church, Karsten is tired of being a priest. In society, he is tired of being gay.

Karsten has worked as a priest in the Church of Norway since the midnineties. Life has tested him over the years. Politics and bureaucracy overshadow more and more of what is holy with every passing year. Soon there are more PR people than priests, in a church that offers drop-in baptisms and drop-in spiritual guidance. Karsten finds that even the Pride flag has been reduced by the church to a device to encourage donations as it struggles to present itself as a relevant institution in a secular society.

In the Profane Days is a novel that gently makes fun of the church and society. Because we have to, really.

Ida

I de profane dager 130 x 205 mm Flamme forlag

Ida Marie Haugen Gilbert (b. 1981) is a philosopher, writer and communication advisor in Oslo.

Lars Dehli

ILLEGAL PRACTICE

How difficult is it really to be a psychologist? Isn’t it just a matter of presenting your most empathetic side, being an uncommonly good listener, and rattling off the first and best solutions you can think of?

Lars Dehli’s debut novel tells the story of a young man who happens to start an illegal psychology practice. He does a lot of things wrong, including falling for one of his patients. But along the way, he also acquires all sorts of knowledge, such as how to curb compulsive behaviour and how metacognitive therapy is superior to psychoanalysis.

Lars Dehli (b. 1975) is a clinical psychologist M.N.P.F. and senior lecturer in psychology at Kristiania University. He is regularly involved in popular Norwegian podcasts, and has been the vocalist in the punk rock band The Good, The Bad and The Zugly.

Illegal praksis 130 x 205 mm / 216 pages Flamme forlag

Torkil Damhaug

THE TRAITOR

At the death of his mother, the narrator of The Traitor is compelled to return to the notebooks of his youth that he always used to carry with him.

From the notebooks, a narrative springs forth, taking the reader to the dissection hall at the anatomical institute in Bergen, and to the not always working at the local brewery. To the life in the anarchist house share where everything is to be tried in the name of freedom, and to the island where something macabre seems to have disappeared down a hole in the memory of a friend. To wandering between the dead and the living in the mountains of Hardangervidda national park, and to the attempt of seizing control of a Danish Airbase. And, to the love that you fall into when you are completely unprepared for it.

The Traitor is a psychological novel that draws on several genres, including the absurd comedy. It circles around questions of power and freedom, and the secrets we carry with us. About the battle for our memories, and that which you cannot leave behind – even if you try.

The Traitor is the first novel in a planned series.

«... there is an intensity and seriousness to this story.»

NRK

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Forræderen 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages

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. He has been awarded the Riverton Prize for the novel Fireraiser in 2011, A Fifth Season in 2016 and Dog without a Grave in 2022, making him the only author to receive the prize thrice.

Photo: Lina Hindrum

Kjersti Halvorsen

SUPERUSER

Unn Eide is in her thirties and leads a solitary existence. She recently returned to work after a string of scandals at the hospital’s outpatient clinic where she worked as a psychologist. Given another chance, Unn has been asked to be the superuser for the AI therapist Gro, who offers digital counselling sessions. Cutting edge technology, with the purpose of streamlining services for ailing patients.

During superuser training, Unn meets Torjus, a doctor who, like Unn, has been reassigned after a video went viral of him fighting in a wrestling ring in a full doctor’s costume. His alter ego is Dr. Dropdead. Both Unn and Torjus are captivated by the new technology, and, most importantly, by each other. But Torjus is already in a relationship.

Lacking connection with real people, Unn turns to Gro, who provides her with questionable advice. Is she starting to lose herself again? Where can she turn for support when the ground beneath her is shifting? And what happens when Unn becomes too attached to the artificial therapist?

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«Dark and funny analysis of society at present. ... With this year's novel, she cements her position as one of Norway's most interesting young literary voices.»

D2

«Credible portrait of a person living on their knees – who, whatever it takes, works hard to get back on her feet. … There are no frills here, no attempts at poeticizing or covering anything up. Kjersti Halvorsen has written a proper good novel.»

VINDUET

Superbruker 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages

(Straarup & co), Egypt (El Maraya)

Kjersti Halvorsen (b. 1993) grew up in Lier. She has attended author-studies at the college in Bø and studied psychology at the University of 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. She is a prominent voice of her generation.

Photo: Fartein

Heidi Sævareid

XR UK

It’s been a year since Line moved to Bristol, UK, together with her mum who’s working as an editor at BBC Nature, and is active member of Extinction Rebellion (XR). The activist group’s methods for global fight for climate change are non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience; the members lie down, chain up, and refuse to move, to demonstrate that they are willing to die for the climate justice. When XR Bristol is planning to shut down the city centre and to block a bank, Line worries that her mum will get arrested for breaking the law. Line hangs out with Polly and Lexi, a friendship that’s not easy to handle when Polly gets jealous, and when Lexi prefers the one over the other.

A story about social justice, climate activism and immigration rights, but first and foremost, it’s a story about a fractious friendship between three young girls.

Heidi Sævareid LONGYEARBYEN

Set in the late 1950’s in Longyearbyen, the mining town on the Svalbard Archipelago, this novel is a dense and brilliant story of a troubled marriage. It is also the story of a completely isolated, small community under constant threat by the forces of nature and gradually also by one of its inhabitants’ mental illness.

Eivor arrives from Oslo with her husband Finn and their two small children. He will serve as one of the two doctors in town. Finn works long hours and Eivor feels as if the walls of the way too hot apartment are closing in on her. All alone, always armed with a rifle in case a polar bear should come too close, she skis further and further from the town, up the snowclad mountains to where she might see some daylight and find some solace.

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Longyearbyen

130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

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XR UK

130 x 205 mm / 184 pages Flamme forlag

Heidi Sævareid POSES

Sunniva travels from Norway to the US to reunite with Michael and Kelly, two friends from her time spent in a yoga community during the 2010s. One decade later, much has changed. Both in society and in their three lives.

A road trip from San Francisco to Portland outlines the story of their shared friendship: a journey backwards in time, to the how and when of their first meeting, to what later happened between them, and the things they either confronted or left unsaid in the past. Their years spent at a yoga school, as students of the charismatic and boundless teacher Jasper, has left them all affected and changed. Yet each of them remembers the experience very differently.

Poses delves into questions surrounding the trauma and lasting effects of physical and psychological violations. It draws inspiration from recent revelations about well-known yoga gurus and the communities surrounding them, such as Bikram and Ashtanga. Importantly, the novel also explores the group dynamics that arise in spiritual communities with strong, charismatic leaders - and within friendships that are not quite what they once were.

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Positurene

130 x 205 mm / 256 pages Flamme forlag

«... Poses brings something new to the last years’ elegant and intelligent firstperson narratives on trauma.»

MORGENBLADET

«Poses by Heidi Sævareid sees right through the social masks [we wear] in an almost provocatively realistic manner. … Sævareid effectively describes how and why yoga communities are particularly susceptible to systematic sexual abuse …»

AFTENPOSTEN

Heidi Sævareid (b. 1984) is a highly acclaimed and award-winning author, translator and literary critic. She was awarded The Ministry of Culture’s First Book Prize 2013 and three times nominated for Brage Literary Prize for Children and YA. Heidi Sævareid has a degree in Nordic Literature from University of Oslo. She lives in Bristol, England.

Roy Jacobsen

THE UNWORTHY

In Roy Jacobsen’s latest novel, The Unworthy, we follow a gang of boys and girls from an apartment building on the east side of Oslo during the WWII German occupation. They live in poverty, but they manage by creatively swindling, stealing like magpies, falsifying documents and committing extensive burglaries. They don’t shy away from exploiting the Enemy, either.

With this pack of children, a lauded writer has rendered a brutally frank and warm portrait of a time, a place and an everyday life that thus far have been absent from the stories told of WWII.

The Unworthy is wise, raw and entertaining. A gem of a story, written by an author in his right element.

This is a Roy Jacobsen novel of the best mark.

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«Dramatic, interesting and exciting ... a fantastic picture of an environment and a time that not everyone knows today.»

NETTAVISEN, 

«The Unworthy has to be one of Roy Jacobsen's best novels.»

KLASSEKAMPEN

«Roy Jacobsen impresses again, both as astoryteller and a portrayer of people … an organic and unpredictable literary universe, as asymmetric and restless as life itself.»

DN

NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLERS AWARD 2022

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De uverdige 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages

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, The Eyes of Rigel in 2017 and Just a Mother in 2020. The Barrøy quartet 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.

Photo: Agnete Brun (Aller)

Nora Kristina Eide

GOOD MOTHER

Your child comes into the world, you have carried him, and as you look down at him, nothing happens. Life is not infinitely good and meaningful. Love is not absolute. It sounds terrible, but depressive symptoms in connection with childbirth and pregnancy are extremely common, experienced by around 1 in every 10 women. Resistance, coldness, rejection. Negative emotions that in turn create new negative emotions: shame, self-loathing and anger.

Good Mother is a strong and dark, but at times also surprisingly comical story about postpartum depression, about the newborn and the newlywed and about the world around them.

God mor 130 x 205 mm / 160 pages Flamme forlag

Nora K. Eide (b.1987) was born in Trondheim and now lives in Oslo. She made her debut in 2017 with the short story collection Your Family. Since then she's written several novels.

Emely Benedicte Kahrs WHO BY

FRIDAY?

Who by Friday? is a novel about wanting and not wanting, love between friends, a stupid mistake, a mother’s troubled heart, painful loss and intense longing.

Nelly takes a day off one Friday in April. Her friends Gry, Unni, Mari and Ellinor are coming for dinner. Nelly wants to spend the day choosing flowers, wine and food, going to yoga and calling the man she sometimes sleeps with. But she is uneasy. It’s a changeover day, Linda is supposed to be going to her father’s, and apparently Grandma has had a bad fall. In addition, Nelly has forgotten something she should have remembered. How firm is the ground beneath her feet at this point in her life? Is she losing Linda? Will she die alone?

The spring evening is surprisingly warm. Her friends arrive, clink glasses of bubbly and smoke on the terrace. The evening is hotting up.

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Emely Benedicte Kahrs (b. 1975) was born in Bergen and lives in Oslo. She's an architect and author. Her debut, Gallop for the Black Horse, came in 2017, and since then she's published several novels and a poetry collection.

Hvem på en fredag 130 x 205 mm / 208 pages

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 too 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. Because maybe Philip might want to 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.

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«The story is elegantly composed, at times cinematic. Strømsborg has written rare and energized prose about a timely and somewhat taboo topic.»

«Luckily the novel does not end up being an apology for the voluntarily childless. It is rather existential. And it is good literature.» FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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Aldri, aldri, aldri 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages Flamme forlag

Linn Strømsborg DAMN, DAMN, DAMN

Britt is forty-three years old, married, and mother to a young daughter. All her life, Britt has done the right things. She has followed the rules, made everyone else happy. She been responsible, cleaned up after herself and others. But on this one day, on holiday in a summer house in Norway, she loses her temper and tells off her whole family and friends. And the only thing she regrets, is that she didn't do it a long, long time ago.

Together with Niko, the gorgeous freespirited woman in her husband's group of friends, Britt sets off. Just to get away, spend a night on the beach, to feel the freedom she never allowed herself. But at some point, the night is over, and Britt has to ask herself who she wants to be. As a woman, as a partner, as a mother. Damn, damn, damn is a novel about anger and defiance, about desiring a different life - and a different world. But it is also a novel about surprising yourself, about falling apart and picking yourself up again, and about everything that can happen when you dare to listen to yourself.

Faen, Faen 130 x 205 mm / 208 pages Flamme forlag

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Damn good

«Great content. Well-written. Funny. Relatable. Spot on about contemporary issues. Oh yes, Linn Strømsborg delivers.»

ADRESSEAVISEN 

«When there's a new book out by Linn Strømsborg, I have to have it right away. I don't care how empty my wallet is, I have to have it. And Damn, damn, damn did not disappoint.»

STUDVEST (GERMANY)

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.

Rights sold to: Poland (ArtRage Sp.), Germany (DuMont), Hungary (Libertine Books)

Faen,

Technotika

210 x 210 mm / 120 pages

Flamme forlag

NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE AWARD 2024

Heidi Furre

TECHNOTIKA

A grieving person looks for dead things in nature. She listens to the whisperings of the pine tree tops, looks up in vain at an unusually bright star. She collects stones and seashells to the gravesite, she plants things, she picks away leaves, and won’t leave the headstone to rest under the snow. Despite all this searching, nature appears just as mute. The stone remains a stone.

A young student grieves for her brother, taken by cancer, while the ecosystem collapses around her. The unthinkable happens when she loses her brother, and the sense that nothing is normal anymore is confirmed when eagles lose their habitats and start attacking humans, animals escape zoos in droves, and strange new weather phenomena arise. Furre writes thoughtfully, humorously, sorrowfully, and with great emotional and intellectual depth about what it means to lose a sibling and how grief manifests when it is given free rein.

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«Furre writes very convincingly about pitch-dark grief (...) Technotika made me cry. That is far from being an objective criterion of quality, but it says something about how masterfully Furre conveys the intense life experience the first-person narrator goes through.» VG,

«Furre writes about people in life-changing phases, moving away from home, becoming a mother or losing a sibling, and she is at her very best when she writes about the loneliness of these experiences. Although these events are a natural part of all lives, they are transformative for those who are affected by them, and Furre's close and concrete depiction of this is her strength as a writer.»

MORGENBLADET

Heidi Furre (b. 1986) made her debut 2013 with the novel Parissyndromet, to critical acclaim. She has since written several novels. In addition to her writing, Heidi spends the majority of her time working as a photographer.

Victoria Durnak COMET

GIRL

Thirteen-year-old Sol discovers that her parents have been sharing pictures of her on social media since she was born, without asking for her consent.

As a revenge of sorts, or perhaps an attempt to regain control, she decides to stop talking.

Soon afterwards, a voice addresses her. This gives Sol access to an inner, free world that soon interweaves with – and affects – her physical reality.

Praise for Victoria Durnak:

«Victoria Durnak’s texts are unusually supple, charming and full of talent. … Durnak appears unafraid of broaching any subject whatsoever.»

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Kometjenta

130 x 205 mm / 208 pages Flamme forlag

«What initially struck me, was how much fun I had reading the book – often an underestimated quality of literature. (…) Where many novels with young, aimless main characters themselves grow apathetic and inept, Durnak takes charge and pulls the reader into the game.»

KLASSEKAMPEN

«Durnak is reminiscent of the American multidisciplinary artist Miranda July, both in form and content. It’s playful, at times silly, and still gravely serious –which works … in addition to being a great humourist, Durnak is also inventive, straightforward and effortless in her wielding of language.»

AFTENPOSTEN

Victoria Durnak (b. 1989) debuted in 2010 with the poetry collection Stockholm Says (Stockholm sier). She has since released several poetry collections and novels. In 2023 she received the Bonnier Norsk Forlag literature prize for her authorship.

Kristin Buvik Sivertsen

BØ!

Marie is an artist whose career hasn’t taken off, and when her boyfriend breaks up with her, she decides to get her life together.

In Bø in Vesterålen, they have abolished wealth tax to attract the “fat cats” and create jobs. In the wake of welcoming Bjørn Dæhli, businessman and former cross-country skier, they have also decided that they need art and culture. On private initiative, they decide to establish a biennale – or Bøennial, as it will come to be known. Marie takes the job of managing the project. Sure, maybe she initially thought it was Bø in Telemark she was applying for a job in, but she looks on the bright side and takes the job regardless.

Bø! is a humorous and precise novel about regional Norway, Northern Norway and wealth tax.

Kristin Buvik Sivertsen (b. 1986) lives in Oslo. She holds a Master's Degree in comparative literature from the University of Copenhagen. Her debut novel, Omsorg (care), received the Saabye Scholarship.

Mats Michael Sandstad

PAGE MONKEY

In Page Monkey, we meet a young man breaking free from his usual existence. He would generally refer to himself as a pianist, but today, as on so many other days, he is just asked to turn the pages for someone giving a concert. Unfortunately, he messes up. He turns a page too quickly, fumbles and struggles as the sheet music becomes increasingly crumpled, and following this he is forced to look for work outside of the institutions. Ugh. That’s how he ends up in the archipelago, working as a piano teacher for a family of four. Sure, the cabin has a jetty, boat and solar panels, but strangely enough, it has no piano. And so he finds himself waiting for both a piano and restitution – until an unexpected guest stops by for dinner.

Mats Michael Sandstad (b. 1989) is a movie director and has studied Literature. His debut novel, The Gallerist, came out in 2023.

Bladlus

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Bø!

130 x 205 mm / 240 pages

Caroline Kaspara Palonen

I DON’T HAVE IT IN ME TO BE A PARENT REPRESENTATIVE

Maria is afflicted by a mental illness, and her entire family life is thrown out of balance. As Maria withdraws, Audhild, a brand new acquaintance, takes over more and more of Maria’s caregiving tasks and eventually becomes important source of support for Erik. This new addition to their everyday life isn’t without its problems. The novel switches between Maria’s dissociative state and Erik’s situation as caregiver and next of kin. Will Maria ever come back to them? Does her role as a mother have anything to do with her desire to come back? And what happens to the children as their mother withdraws? Will Erik be able to deal with the crisis the family finds itself in?

I Don’t Have It in Me To Be a Parent Representative is a dark, funny, topical and claustrophobic novel from a seemingly completely normal Norwegian life with small children.

Jeg har det ikke i meg å bli klassekontakt 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages

Caroline Kaspara Palonen (b. 1984) has a degree from the College of Art in Bergen, where she specialised in photography. She has also studied at the School of Creative Writing in Tromsø. She debuted in 2011 with the critically acclaimed novel Xerox Days

Gudmund

Skjeldal THE STRINGER

The Stringer opens with a murder… or does it?

We follow Paul and his coach, Edgar, through both highs and lows in the professional tennis circuit, to an intense and unexpected climax in Marbella. Along the way, the footsteps of the two Norwegians are dogged by stringers, or perhaps we might call them spiders that want to trap tennis stars in their webs.

On one level, The Stringer is a novel about the rise and painful fall of a young person. Deeper down, it is a story about a friendship spanning two generations. Even deeper, it is a gripping novel about how we try to absolve ourselves. What do you do when you’ve painted yourself into a corner – and when you also know that you need to fumble a match against an opponent who is much worse than you? Is there a way out?

Gudmund Skjeldal (b. 1970) has a degree in History of Ideas and the author of several critically acclaimed books. He was a member of the Norwegian cross-country team in the 1990s and headed the campaign for climate concerns “White Winter” in 2007 and 2008.

Landskapet og kosmos

130 x 205 mm / 240 pages

Rune Salvesen

THE LANDSCAPE AND THE COSMOS

It starts with the mountain, where Filip wanders alone. He has been unfaithful but doesn’t regret it. The family was already broken; it shattered one cold autumn evening a year ago when they lost what was most important to them. An all-consuming silence is all that remains. Not unlike the silence on the mountain. Nevertheless, a storm rages in Filip – his mind races, from serious contemplation to minor observations, from the infinity of space to the aquatic skills of the frog, but also back to that first look, that first touch, the medical restraints, the village pub one Saturday evening, the text messages and the lies, the people at home, but also the people who are not at home, who are now a memory, in the bog on the mountain one cold autumn evening a year ago.

Rune Salvesen (b. 1978) made his debut in the anthology Signaler in 1997, when he was only 17. He studied journalism in London and has published many poems in various magazines and publications with Irish and American authors, photographers and designers. He has worked as a journalist and written lyrics for several bands. His first novel, Pure Morning, was published in 2005. He has since written several novels.

Strengaren 130 x 205 mm

Gine Cornelia Pedersen

I'LL COME GET YOU

I’ll Come Get You is a love story, as heavenly as it might be impossible, with a pulse that leaves you gasping.

I’ve found love, what now. She’s about to start drama school, lives in a shared house and has big dreams. Harald is a musician, a free spirit without a fixed address, a drugged-up romantic, a suspect known to the police.

He disappears after a party, and no one has heard from him for five days. She searches desperately amongst friends and acquaintances, hasn’t slept in fifty, seventy hours, more than that now. We follow her for a frantic twenty-four hours, all over Oslo.

«The last part of the book is one of the most exciting things I've read. […] I’LL COME GET YOU goes into something absolutely essential in the meeting between humans: the individual limits of what is acceptable, the potential disgust and contempt.» NRK,

Gine Cornelia Pedersen

I'LL FOLLOW LATER

I'll Follow Later is an intense and moving novel that examines life at a young age – where the pendulum can quickly swing between glitter and shit, life and death, love and sorrow.

How do you break up with the one you love? Regine’s boyfriend was injured in a fall, has metal in his face, and is now in rehab. He is the most sensitive person she knows, with sides that can lead to both celebration and crisis. Regine mustn’t slip, lose focus, drink and party too much, or lose the place at school that she’s dreamt of. Throughout her life, Regine has learnt to bury things. Should she to bury the grief of her impossible love for Harald and take another path? Is it even possible to bury grief? And who is she if she has no one to love?

Gine Cornelia Pedersen (b. 1986) received the Tarjei Vesaas's Debut Prize for her debut novel Zero in 2013. She has written several critically acclaimed novels. She is also a renowned actor, nominated to Gullruten in 2016 for her role as Nenne in the TV-series Young and Promising.

Jeg kommer etter 130 x 205 mm

Jeg skal hente deg 130 x 205 mm / 256 pages

Petter Brevik BE DEAD

Leonora Bugge is only twenty-two when she is committed to Gaustad, a psychiatric unit, with suspected psychosis. Leonora’s past is gradually revealed, including her childhood in Bamble and the connection she has to a religious sect she thinks is pursuing her. During her stay, she meets Karsten, one of the staff psychologists. Karsten is struggling to adjust to his new roles as a psychologist and first-time father. Be Dead is a kind of collective novel where themes such as loneliness, faith and reality are in focus – not to mention the end of the world.

Petter Brevik (b. 1994) born in Lillehammer, is now living in Oslo. He made his fiction debut with a contribution in the debutant's anthology Signaler in 2017, and has written several novels.

Eivind Buene RETURN TO THE EARTH

Return to the Earth is an extraordinary novel where the ultra-modern life crash against old values, and challenges must be met together as a community. It is a book about losing control of one's own history - and about finding a family where you least expect it.

In 2043, New Norway is established on the Arabian Peninsula. As a result of climate change, the country of Norway has frozen over, and with the exception of a few loners and hardy people, the entire Norwegian population has left. Among them, Lydia. One day, a young woman appears, says her name is Tale, and that she works in the old country. She says she is Lydia's half-sister, and shortly afterwards they travel back to a frozen Oslo, where Lydia has not set foot in 20 years.

Eivind Buene (b. 1973) studied composition and pedagogy at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has been a permanent composer at the Oslo Sinfonietta and Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, and is a renowned Modern Composer. One Man Band, published in 2010 was his first novel. He has since published several novels, all of them acclaimed by the Norwegian Critics.

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Ebba Eiring

HELPLESSLY UP NORTH

Helplessly Up North is about leaving before one can be abandoned, about travelling north and returning home, and facing an unexpected future even after having closed to door to it a long time ago.

Frida flies to Bodø to celebrate her brother's birthday. Their childhood home stands empty, full of memories, and Mads thinks they should clear it out. Their father is in a dementia care home, and their mother is visiting several years after splitting up the family and finding a new husband in Tromsø. Frida has a night out and meets Stian, who offers her beer and an invitation of sorts. Back in Oslo, her partner Jostein seethes. He and Frida have been trying to have a child, but Frida never stopped taking the pill. Will Jostein come to Bodø regardless? How will it go if he comes, and what will happen if he stays in Oslo?

Ebba Eiring (b. 1994) grew up in Bodø and Stavanger. She is a trained copywriter, and in 2021 she debuted with the YA novel, Everything is OK

Hjelpeløst nordaførr 130 x 205 mm

Stig Aasvik

SANDEFJORD GIRLS' CHOIR

The narrator – or is it the author Stig Aasvik? – is in a desperate situation: He has been asked at short notice to step in as a substitute teacher at the writing academy in Bø. There, our bewildered protagonist immediately enters into a scandalous relationship with a young student. All hell breaks loose, with everything being jeopardised at once.

Sandefjord Girls’ Choir is the seventh novel in a series where we encounter various iterations or versions of the author himself. We travel seamlessly through time, and with text written like a stream of consciousness, the series has evolved into a kind of magical realism.

Stig Aasvik (b. 1970) is a critically acclaimed author living in Oslo. He made his debut in 2002 with The Electrical Elephant. For his novel Internal Affairs (2012) Aasvik was awarded The Booksellers Scholarship for Authors, and it was nominated for Book of the Year in the publication Natt & Dag.

Sandefjord jentekor 130 x 205 mm

Kaia Dahle Nyhus

ONE DIVIDED BY TWO

Oda lives with her mother. Then she moves out and lives by herself. Then Oda meets Espen. Then Oda and Espen move in together. Then the baby comes.

Kaia Dahle Nyhus writes intimately and subtly about young people's everyday lives, in a charming, tilted realism.

Kaia Linnea Dahle Nyhus (b. 1990) studied visual communication at The National Academy of Arts in Oslo, and illustration at the Luzern College in Switzerland. She is a critically acclaimed writer of adult and children's books, and an award-winning illustrator. She has illustrated several of Gro Dahle's books, and was awarded the Ministry of Cultures Illustration Prize in 2011 for the book Hope, said Goose. The War (2013) was nominated to the Norwegian Critics Prize and The Nordic Councils Children’s literature prize. For her author debut, Do you want to hear a secret (2014), she received the NBU Debutant Prize.

Cornelius C. Steinkjer AKELDAMA

After an inevitable breakup, young playwright Matheus Jacobsen retires. He lives on Negroni and Calvados as he tries to gather sufficient courage to take his own life. Although based in Ullevål Hageby, he flits between Oslo, Budapest and the Norwegian south coast. Matheus is convinced that a meaningful existence entails far too much pain, but even though he desperately wants to die, he keeps extending his life’s expiration date.

Akeldama is a novel about what drives people to suicide. It is also a sure-footed, desperate and humorous tale of intoxication, debt, friendship and family.

Cornelius C. Steinkjer (b. 1998) is born and raised in Oslo. He is a journalist, and made his author debut in 2023 with the novel Murmur

En delt på to 130 x 205 mm / 208 pages Flamme forlag

Hakeldama

130 x 205 mm / 176 pages

Jorid Mathiassen

WHERE WHITE LILIES GROW

After a devastating break-up, Linnea is aching to get out of Oslo and start over someplace else. When Linnea’s best friend offers to let her stay in an old house in Northern Norway, set on a small island, Linnea finds herself packing her bags. The big house with a beautiful garden belonged to her friend’s great-aunt Marie, who lived there in solitude until her recent death.

Linnea has no idea what awaits her when she arrives on the windy little island in the pitch-black of a stormy winter evening. But one day, she stumbles upon a small clock that leads her to discover a dramatic story. It has to do with Marie’s past, and why she lived all by herself for so many years.

The storyline plays out across two periods of time, but as Linnea discovers more about Marie's dramatic past, her own life will also take a new turn.

Where White Lilies Grow is a beautiful, breathtaking story about the brutality of war and the power of lifelong love.

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sold to: Denmark (Alpha forlag), Germany (Suhrkamp)

Der hvite liljer vokser 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages

Jorid Mathiassen

ANEMONE BLUE

On a warm day at the end of August the TV-photographer Birthe Johannessen is on her way to Hjartøy, looking for a grandma she until recently didn’t know existed. To Erle Christensen, Birthe’s visit means that events she’s spent a whole life keeping secret come to light. At the same time, she’s challenged to try to find out what happened before she came as a child refugee from Latvia right after the Second World War. Does she still have relatives in her hometown of Riga?

Anemone Blue is a standalone followup to Jorid Mathiassen's Where White Lilies Grow, but is set to the same Northern Norwegian island Hjartøy and readers will get a reunion with characters from the first book.

Jorid Mathiassen (b. 1965) grew up on the coast in Northern Norway, and now lives in Oslo. She has a major in Nordic language and literature from the University of Oslo, and is a senior acquiring editor at Bonnier Norsk Forlag. She made her author debut in 2022 with Where White Lilies Grow.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Alpha forlag)

Blå som anemonen 130 x 205 mm

Herland Johnsen

CHRISTMAS AT GLITTER PEAK LODGE

An old mystery. A tragic accident. Secrets. Confessions. A new beginning.

After a traumatic climbing accident, well-known Alpinist Ingrid Berg has returned to the small Norwegian village that her family has called home for generations to take over the management of the Glitter Peak Lodge from her aging grandmother, who's no longer up to the task. With Christmas rapidly approaching, the Glitter Peak Lodge staff are busy baking kransekakeand saffron buns, decorating an enormous tree with tinsel, and enlisting guests to participate in their Santa Lucia celebration.

But within short order of Ingrid’s return, complications arise that seem out of the ordinary. Unexpected cancellations. An outspoken American guest who seems to unsettle Ingrid’s beloved grandmother. Leaking pipes that may imply sabotage. And then one day, Ingrid discovers a yellowed, decades-old newspaper clipping about an unsolved local mystery…

Will Ingrid be able to figure out what’s going on in time to save the inn—and her family’s legacy—from ruin?

«A breath of lovely mountain air of a book: so delightful and charming!»

JENNY COLGAN, AUTHOR OF MEET ME AT THE CUPCAKE CAFÉ AND LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY

«Johnsen’s novel provides plenty of character development along with details of fresh spruce branches, fireplaces filled with birch logs, and hearty meals featuring local sausage and saffron buns.»

OPERA DAILY

Rights sold to: United States (HarperVia), Denmark

Kjersti

Jul på Himmelfjell hotell 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

(Turbine), Germany (Hoffmann und Campe)

SUMMER AT GLITTER PEAK LODGE

In Summer at Glitter Peak Lodge we are reunited with Ingrid, a mountain climber who has taken over management of the family-run hotel. She has got together with her boyfriend Tor, a handsome sheep farmer, and finally rediscovered her passion for mountain climbing. Now she plans to run climbing courses at the hotel.

This summer also brings a special wedding celebration, as Vegard, her best friend, is marrying his beloved David. The Oslo couple, both friends of Ingrid, have decided on Glitter Peak Lodge as the setting for their grand wedding festivities. No wedding is without complications, however, and some uninvited guests will make an appearance…

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Kjersti Herland Johnsen has a degree in History from the University of Bergen and has worked in the Norwegian publishing industry since 1998. She lives in Oslo with her family.

Rights sold to: Germany (Hoffmann und Campe)

Kjersti Herland Johnsen

Sommer på Himmelfjell Hotell 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

Adventskalenderen

130 x 205 mm / 352 pages

Siri Østli THE CHRISTMAS CALENDAR

During breakfast on a totally ordinary Tuesday, Fie's husband abruptly tells her that he wants a divorce and asks her to move out. He is a dentist, and for years Fie has, as well as being his wife, been his faithful assistant - without pay. Now she is banished to an impractical and uncharming attic apartment on the other side of the city. Dazed and in despair that her life has been turned up-side down, Fie tries to soften the blow with sedatives. Her grown-up son is embarrassed about his mother break's down and does not answer his phone.

Fie's sister Sara is the one who takes charge in the situation and demand that Fie get a grip. To speed things up, she gives Fie a challenging Christmas Calendar with new tasks every day leading up to Christmas. And with this, despair turns into an adventurous, at times overwhelming, but in the end pretty nice advent after all!

The Christmas Calendar is a charming and touching Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!

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Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Italy (Garzanti, Srl.), Germany (Bastei Lübbe), Finland (Bazar), Spain (Duomo)

Siri Østli

LAST CHRISTMAS

Finally a new Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!

Christmas is drawing near, but the idyll and calm Kirsti longs for during the holiday season seems completely out of reach this year. She is single mother for her teenage daughter Iben, a challenge in itself, but this autumn the complications in Kirsti’s life is piling higher than gifts under the tree. She has always had a complicated relationship with her sister, Elisabeth, and her mother, but as they start to plan for Christmas their relationship sours more than usual. Kirsti’s romantic relationship with Tobias is also rocky, and still on thin ice due to it being so new. Then it’s Mathilde, Kirsti’s friend and business partner. Together they run a little store in Sagene neighbourhood in Oslo, but after a huge fight Mathilde disappears without a word. Then Kirsti discovers a lump in her breast.

Et lys i desember 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

With the breast cancer diagnosis, Kirsti must face the possibility of Iben having to grow up without her. Which means she also has the face the fact that Iben has a father. Iben was conceived during a one night stand, and no one but Kirsti knows who the father is. Or that also lives in Oslo…

Siri Østli’s new Christmas novel is about coming together during hard times, and longing for a Christmas miracle.

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Siri Østli is married with five daughters and a university degree in French, Russian and Psychology. She debuted with Across Grønland in High Heels in 2009, and has since then received excellent reviews on a number of feelgood novels. She has been translated into five languages.

Rights sold to: Finland (Bazar), Denmark (Turbine)

Ann-Christin Gjersøe THE GIRL IN THE SNOW

Sommersholm is a feel good series set to the Norwegian estates in the 1860s, perfect for fans of Bridgerton!

Sommersholm is a venerable manor that has belonged to the Adler family for generations. Two young women with very different lives live there: the landowner's daughter, Rose, and Alise, a maid. The family history also houses a dark secret. As the story begins, the heir to Sommersholm, Birkthorn, has returned home. Alise was young when he left, but she has not forgotten how he saved her life on a freezing cold winter night many years ago.

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Ann-Christin Gjersøe THE KAMELIA BOX

Rose causes a scandal and infuriates her father at the Christmas ball, after inviting the horse groom Torkel. Meanwhile, Alise despairs over the engagement between Birk and Miss Aurelia Collett – the beautiful but unscrupulous merchant's daughter. She also stumbles upon a hidden story, left by her grandmother in Alise's kamelia box. It holds a testimony of her grandmother's life as a chambermaid at Sommerholm, decades ago. And the secret she discovered.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe BEFORE THE MAGNOLIA BLOOMS

Rose's parents hope that an educational stay in Denmark will help her forget the enchanting groom Torkel. Miss Aurelia Collett comes to live at Sommersholm, and with her comes Margrete, her mute chamber maid. Working with Miss Aurelia is not easy, but then Margrete meets Axel Adler. For her it is love at first sight, but could he ever love her back? Alise and Birk's relationship is still meeting resistance from all sides. Alise's father sticks to the promise he gave his dying mother: That no one in his family would be romantically involved with an Adler.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe (b. 1975) runs a 350-year-old farm in with her husband. She has written books for decades, and Sommersholm is her latest series.

Piken i Snøen 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages

Kameliaskrinet 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages

Før magnoliaen blomstrer 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

WHERE THE LARKS SING

Rose is leaving for Denmark, filled with joy now that she knows Torkel will follow her. Well hidden in her luggage is a fateful letter and a forgotten diary, holding a secret that could ruin the Adler family. Birk leaves for Germany. Will his and Alise's love be able to survive the distance? At the same time, the conflict between Alise's father, and the land agent Captain Crossby will have fatal consequences. Miss Aurelia's boundless cunning and web of lies become a trial for the chamber maid Margrete, as she discovers that Aurealia has stolen one of Alise's letters from Birk.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

THE LILY IN THE FIELD

The maid’s room in the manor has suddenly become Alise's new home. She mourns her father, and longs for any sign of life from Birk. Why isn't he writing? On top of this heartbreak and her pregnancy, Aurelia seems determined to complicate Alise’s life even further. In Denmark, the upcoming costume ball is the talk of the town. Only Rose's thoughts are elsewhere. She fears that Hugo will discover and expose Torkel. Hugo has shown there is no limit to how far he will go. Can he be stopped? Axel attempts to kiss Margrete, but she believes he is enganged to someone else and accuses him of taking advantage. He leaves, promising to leave her alone.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

THE TIME OF THE ROSES

Alise leaves Sommersholm in dishonour, after being accused of theft. But where can she go? Soon the pregnancy will begin to show, and she won't be able to hide it any longer. Margrete is finally with Axel, but she is still struggling to be accepted by the rest of his family. She stumbles upon a key, which unlocks an old mystery. But perhaps it's for the better that the mystery stays unsolved? Rose, still in Denmark, is trying to find a way for the charges against Torkel to be dropped. She fears that if he's convicted, he will be hanged.

Der lerkene synger 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages

Liljen på marken 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

Rosenes tid 130 x 205 mm / 352 pages

Elisabeth Hammer

THE FAMILY SECRET

A brand new series from Norway's answer to Tracy Rees!

The Family Secret is the first book in the gripping drama series Promises in Sand. The setting is the idyllic southern Norway in 1806, a historic turning point – with elegant dresses and romantic promises – where ships sailed the Seven Seas, and the consequences of the Napoleon wars were felt by rich and poor alike.

Amalie grows up poor, but she appreciates what little she has. In secret, she takes of her family’s limited stock of food to feed children who starve. She works at a posh hat shop, and one day gets into a conflict when a lady steals a cob. A Mr. Wickfall interferes to defend the woman, and he and Amalie get into a hefty fight. Amalie cannot risk losing her small, but essential, income, he has nothing to lose. As their roads continue to cross, Amalie quickly understands that he has the power to ruin her future.

All the while, a secret about Amalie's true identity is lurking too close to the surface.

130 x 205 mm / 352 pages

Elisabeth Hammer

WHEN THE WIND RISES

In 1807, a storm is brewing in the Danish-Norwegian kingdom. But far from the centre of action, in the charming coastal town of Christiansand, life goes on as normal. One evening a stately carriage rolls through the town. Inside sits a distraught Amalie Gren, on her way to meet her new guardian, a powerful Mr. Gyllenmark. Her whole life is based on a lie. Mr. Gyllenmark refuses to reveal anything of her past, but demands her absolute obedience when he marries her off.

Among the town's eligible bachelors, Amalie again meets the handsome, but condescending, Mr. Wickfall. The better option, surely, is the charismatic Captain Sjaaland, who likes her for who she is? But how well does she really know either them? It soon turns out that several of Amalie's new acquaintances have a hidden agenda – and that cynical power plays take place behind closed doors.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Straarup & co)

Vindkast

Familiehemmeligheten

130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

Elisabeth

Hammer

WINTER HEARTS

Christmas is approaching, and snow blankets the little coastal town of Christiansand. The holiday calm spreads through the streets, but not to the young Miss Amalie Gren. She was completely caught off guard by the proposal from Captain Sjaaland, but before she was able to give him her answer, the powerful Mrs. Gyllenmaark told him yes on her behalf! The Captain is certainly handsome and charming, but Amalie wants to follow her heart – and she is full of doubt.

In the serving girl Marte’s heart, however, there is no doubt. She knows who she loves, but she cannot have him. Jacob is the son of the Lord she works for, and far above her station. If the two were caught together, Marte could lose her job. And if that happened, her family would starve.

Elisabeth

Hammer

CONCEALMENT

The harsh grip of winter is slowly giving way in Christiansand, and spring thaws the town. Amalie is finally returning to her childhood home. The longawaited reunion with her mother is shattered by a shocking revelation from Mrs. Gyllenmark. Her mother has been carrying a secret so heartbreaking and scandalous that Amalie cannot comprehend that it is true.

Back in Villa Gyllenmark, the atmosphere is tense. Even worse is the truth about Captain Sjaaland. At the same time, Amalie realises that she has been deeply mistaken about Mr. Wickfall. As her emotions rage inside her, time is running out. Soon the big spring masquerade ball is approaching, where Lady Gyllenmark will expose Amalie and her mother's great shame to the whole town.

Elisabeth Hammer (b. 1970) wrote her way into the hearts of many a reader with the series Maria av Svaneberg in 2011. Hammer is an extremely prolific author, and has written multiple romance series and has sold hundreds of thousands of books.

Vinterhjerter 130 x 205 mm / 352 pages

Fortielse

130 x 205 mm / 352 pages

Merete Lien THE ORANGE TREES GARDEN

The Orange Trees Garden is the first book in a captivating feelgood trilogy set in Rome.

Spring 2015: Agnes travels from Norway to Rome to find her friend Alexandra, who's been reported missing by her suddenly ill husband. What's happened to Alexandra— has something befallen her, or has she gone into hiding? In Rome, Agnes accidentally runs into an old flame, and her feelings for him rushes back. But how accidental is it, really, that he is in Rome now?

The further into the mystery Agnes digs, the more confused she becomes. Who is Alexandra? Is her husband really ill? Soon, Agnes finds herself entangled into a cat-andmouse game revolving around an art scam. She is given lies disguised as the truth, until she no longer can tell friend from fiend.

Summer 1953: In one of the nicer areas of Rome, young, upper-class Francesca meets a man in a red sports car. The man is the famous American photographer Chris Henley, who's specialised in La Dolce Vita. Francesca falls heads over heels, but her parents are not thrilled by the match, convinced that Chris Henley is a gold digger.

The series Follow the Wind is full of heart, excitement, passion and love. It crosses multiple timelines, where hidden motives and seedy affairs create secrets that won't stay secret forever.

Merete Lien (b. 1952) is from Bergen, and is a teacher with a Master in history. Her first novel came out in 1996, and has since then had a long and prolific writing career. She is most known for the popular series The Rose Garden, which has also been published in Poland.

Appelsinparken 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

Lien WISTERIA

Because of the deal with Alexandra, Agnes can stay in Alexandra's apartment by The Orange Trees Garden for free. Springtime is perfect for wandering the many streets of Rome — and for spending time in front of the easel.

Agnes gets to know Gabriele, a handsome and kind Roman. He is quick to offer his help and gives her lots of attention, but Agnes is hesitant to let him all the way into her heart. She hasn't forgotten Stefan, and she doesn't know Gabriele's motives.

But another man frequently seeks Agnes out, and his motives she both knows and fears ...

ALEXANDRA

Rome, June 2014: During a fashion show where Alexandra is showing her own work, something happens that changes everything. An older man reaches out to her – and what he has to say shakes her to the core. If what he claims is true, Alexandra must see her entire life in a new light. And, if she chooses to trust him, he can offer her priceless help in the final settlement with her husband, Wilhelm.

Alexandra is the third and final book in Follow the Wind series.

Merete

Blåregn 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

Merete Lien

Alexandra 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

Rights sold to: Denmark (Fioranello Books), Sweden (Fioranello Books)

Gunn Helene Arsky MURDER IN THE BOOKSHOP

When Minna Gabler is found dead at the bottom of the stairs in her alternative bookshop, everyone assumes it was a tragic fall. For Angel and her sister Isa-Linn, it means they suddenly inherit the bookshop and a mysterious missing heirloom. But, was Minna's death really an accident?

Angel decides to move to the charming town of Halden to start over, with Luna, her Siamese cat. The bookshop needs more than just a little love and good marketing. Angel soon discovers that Minna has left behind an unsolved mystery that leads her into a world of secret documents, old love stories and the town’s eccentric personalities.

With help from bubbly cupcake maker Camilla, who is convinced that baking reveals the truth, and the irresistible Adam, who makes her heart pound, Angel embarks on a nerve-racking search for answers. Can she find out who killed Minna, and why? What is hiding between the pages in the old bookshop?

Murder in the Bookshop offers a mixture of charm, tension and village idyll – with a dose of humour and a cat that never ceases to amaze. Perfect for readers who love cosy mysteries with a twist!

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Gunn Helene Arsky (b. 1968) is a qualified nutritional physiologist and has a Master of Science from the University of Oslo. She has published several books about health and nutrition and is the nutrition expert in Bedre Helse, a Norwegian health magazine. Her literary debut came in 2025 with Murder in the Bookshop, the first book in a series of cosy crimes set in idyllic Halden – where Arsky also lives.

Mord i bokhandelen 130 x 205 mm

Excerpt, in translation by

Kathy Saranpa

I took an immediate dislike to Selma Solheim.

However, I couldn’t leave them standing in the doorway. If this had been London, in the book shops I so enjoyed visiting there, I would’ve had a lovely sofa group to settle them in. But now I didn’t. So I was forced to invite them to the little room upstairs. We squeezed through the jumbled piles of books. The two of them looked around the shop on their way to the stairs, and I could only imagine what they were thinking about the mess. At least the floor they were walking on was clean. Perched in the bookshelf, Luna suppressed a yawn. She wrapped her tail protectively around her body and closed her eyes.

“What’s this all about?” I asked when we entered the room, by no means reassured by Luna’s reserve. For no matter how much I loved her, and no matter how much I trusted her intuition, she was a cat, after all.

They sat in the love seat, and it was probably a bit more cosy than they had expected. I took a seat on the edge of the armchair by the window, uneasy about what was to come.

Because it can never be a good sign when the police arrive unannounced, can it?

Junior Officer Jonathan Steenberg spoke first. “We’ll return to what this is about. But first of all: Where were you on Friday the eighteenth of March this year? Specifically between the hours of 1 and 3 p.m.?” He pulled a notebook from his pocket and clicked his ballpoint pen into action, ready to jot down my answer. His voice was pleasant, as if he had the best of intentions and would never think ill of anyone. He appealed to me more than Selma Solheim did.

What could I say in reply? I had to consider it for a moment. The eighteenth of March was just over two weeks ago.

“Let me check my calendar,” I answered and took out my mobile. I opened up the app and scrolled back through the weeks. “Why are you asking me about this?”

Mally Marlene MY FRIEND, ALICE

Jessie and Alice have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, and shared a consuming interest in True Crime cases.

When Alice becomes obsessed with an unsolved disappearance case from the 90s – The Sleeping Baby Case – Jessie finds that her friendship with Alice becomes more and more threatening. Alice is very dominant, and Jessie finds it challenging to maintain a normal life.

Can Alice be trusted and is she the friend Jessie thinks she is?

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«In the run-of-the-mill spring of Norwegian crime fiction, Mally Marlene emerges as a breath of fresh air, infused with a mix of lewd sexuality and Freudian terror.»

NRK 

«I won’t be surprised if this novel, in a revised form, becomes the basis for a movie or a TV series.»

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

«A solid debut well worth its 5/6 stars. » VG

«Fiercely cinematic and international.»

ADRESSEAVISEN

Min venn, Alice 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

Mally Marlene (b. 1992) is a Norwegian author and filmmaker. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film from Long Island University in New York and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in screenwriting at MetFilm School in London. In 2021, she debuted with the thriller novel Dr. Stravinsky, which was acquired by the Arts Council and was a semifinalist in the Unread of the Year competition.

Hilde S. Palladino HIDDEN

UNDER SNOW

Hidden under snow is a character-driven psychological crime fiction novel. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is witness to the brutal suicide of one of her former clients – Azora. Among Azora’s possessions was a photograph of Bjørk, with the words ‘I know why you have nightmares’ written on it. Bjørk has always had terrible nightmares – nightmares she’s never mentioned to anyone else. So how could Azora have known about them, and why did she have that photo of Bjørk? Both the police and Bjørk search for the link between them. A link that connects the two and their lives more closely than Bjørk was even aware of herself.

This work of psychological crime fiction is a fascinating dive into repressed memory and how the past and one’s upbringing can shape and impact them – even if they don’t remember it.

Exciting and well-written crime debut with plenty of drive '... many surprises and people who both interests and moves us. ... Palladino writes with great energy.'

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Efficient new Norwegian crime! '… an elaborate debut. … H. S. Palladino is a Norwegian crime writer debutant with a firm grip on her tools. … The revelations towards the novel’s end, regarding Azora’s fate and Bjørk’s own past, will likely surprise even the most alert of readers.'

Den som frykter snøen 130 x 205 mm / 400 pages

Hilde S. Palladino

BURDEN OF GUILT

It is a scorching hot summer. The heatwave has lasted for weeks. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is tasked by the police with looking for a middle-aged woman who has disappeared. It turns out that the missing woman had a daughter who disappeared without a trace, eighteen years ago. Bjørk quickly discovers similarities to the double-homicide case in which she made a fatal error three years ago. Where she caused the wrong person to be charged with the brutal murder of two teenage girls. He ended up taking his own life in his cell.

Together with her former partner at the National Criminal Investigation Service, Absalon Lund, Bjørk starts investigating the case. The girl who disappeared eighteen years ago may have been the actual perpetrator’s first victim. Bjørk and Absalon are likely hunting a killer who may have been active for two decades. A perpetrator who has become Bjørk’s nemesis. As the search for the missing woman intensifies, yet another young girl disappears from the neighbourhood. Bjørk is convinced that the serial killer is active again.

Burden of Guilt is an ambitious and well-written psychological crime novel that serves as a follow-up to H.S. Palladino’s explosive debut.

Hilde Palladino (b. 1968) is a former student of Norway’s Crime Writer’s School and lives between Oslo and Bali. Selfemployed, she runs various companies’ social media channels. Her debut crime novel Hidden under snow came out in 2022, and is translated into German, Swedish and Danish.

Den som bærer skyld 130 x 205 mm / 448 pages

Terje Bjøranger THE ONE NO ONE SEES

Nazdar Gulli’s family discovers that studying law isn’t all she’s doing at university. She’s also seeing Julio. Soon after this revelation, Nazdar ends up in hospital as an obvious victim of honourbased violence. Police investigator Charlie Robertsen tries to get Nazdar to report her brothers and father for violence and attempted murder. But Nazdar drops the charges, scared of the consequences they could have for both her family and for herself. The investigation is put on ice, but Charlie can’t let the case go. He knows that Nazdar is in danger of being sent out of the country and disappearing, like so many other women who are victims of honour crimes. Can he help her in time?

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At the same time, a young man calling himself Azad hides with a Kurdish single mother and her daughter in Sweden. Mother and daughter are brutally shot and killed by a criminal gang. Azad wants to avenge them, no matter the cost. Even if it costs him his secret identity.

The One No One Sees is a realistic and captivating thriller with deep insight into a highly topical social issue. It is the fifth book about PI Charlie Robertsen.

«... an engaging and gripping story – written in icey and controlled language. Terje Bjøranger is a brilliant author, who knows the art of structuring an intrigue. [...] one of the best and most relevant Norwegian crime novels I've read in a very long time.»

«Terje Børanger has in fact written his best book thus far. And the bravest. Which is why it’s this year’s most important crime fiction. »

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Terje Bjøranger (b. 1959) works as a Police Prosecutor for The National Criminal Investigation Service in Norway. He debuted in 2010 with The Third Sister (Den tredje søsteren). Bjøranger has also worked with The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration for several years in areas such as forced marriages and honour crimes.

Den ingen ser 130 x 205 mm / 384 pages

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Gard Sveen

YOU'RE GOING TO DIE

Winter 2019: Camilla Lund goes on a girl’s trip. At least, that’s what she tells her husband. She never returns. Her husband’s suspicion that his wife isn't who she says she is grows stronger – seemingly, Camilla had no past.

Agnete Ness, the leader of Kripos (NCIS), is ordered by the Attorney General to start a secret investigation of Camilla Lund’s disappearance. After strict orders to not reveal its content to anyone except her best detective, Ulf Sommer, Agnete is given a folder of secret documents. In the folder is a photograph of a young girl. Twenty years ago, everyone in Norway knew her face. Three neo-Nazis, including a fifteen-year-old girl, were sentenced for the murder of two immigrant boys in Oslo.

Camilla Lund’s disappearance is the start of Agnete’s biggest nightmare. Only Ulf Sommer can save her from her own past.

Messe for en morder 130 x 205 mm / 400 pages

Gard Sveen

MASS FOR A MURDERER

A hot Tuesday morning in August, Tom Schrøder escapes from prison. During a three hours accompanied leave, he kills one of the prison officers and leaves town with the other. The most dangerous man in the country is on the lam.

Tom Schrøder was convicted of a brutal double homicide twelve years ago. Recently he has been a model prisoner, an in two years he would have been a free man. He is fifty-two years old. If he’s caught now, he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars. Why run now?

Schrøder’s lawyer is on holiday when he receives news of the escape. By then, several hours have passed – Tom Schrøder could be anywhere. The lawyer’s greatest fear is that someone in the prison may have told Tom his big secret.

En dag skal du dø 130 x 205 mm / 368 pages

Gard Sveen (b. 1969) made his debut in 2013 with the book The Last Pilgrim. For the debut he won the Riverton Prize, the Glass Key, The Maurits Hansen Best Crime Debut Prize, and the Danish Palle Rosenkranz Prize in 2015. Since then he has written several books.The Bear (2018) was also nominated for the Riverton Prize.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Klim forlag)

Andrine Bruland BEHAVIOUR

LETTER

Elementary school student Jonas just wants to play football with his friends, but his teacher, Hufsa, is always on his case. His mother is patient and does everything she can to steer him through everyday life with love, despite all the behaviour letters from the school, about disruption, vandalism and violence. Then, one day, Hufsa is found dead at the bottom of some stairs at the school.

Six months earlier, psychologist Luna wakes up at home with her partner and their one-year-old son. Luna struggles with an intense need to control everything from her wardrobe and unsolved murders to her partner’s comings and goings. One morning, she is due to have a meeting with Alexander Cohen – the city’s hottest youth worker and lecturer. He has invited her to discuss a collaboration but doesn’t turn up. The following day, news breaks that Alexander has been found brutally murdered. Police officer Katja is Luna’s best friend and anchor in life, and she becomes even more crucial now she is to investigate Alexander’s death.

Behaviour Letter is a well-written, solid and exciting crime novel about our search for acceptance, and the dramatic consequences of a school system that doesn’t accommodate everyone.

Andrine Bruland (b. 1986) lives in Bergen. She is a psychologist specialising in family therapy, and runs her own psychology office. She is also a regular guest commentator in the newspaper Bergens Tidende. Her debut as an author came in 2025 with Behaviour Letter

Avviksmelding 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages

Sigbjørn Mostue

THE HEAVENS WILL WEEP BLOOD

The heavens will weep blood is a one-of-a-kind thriller journey.

Even Stubberud is a soldier in the Special Forces. But now he has fallen sick with cancer. Before he leaves the force he takes on one last mission: A simple escort of a terrorist to Somalia. The plane from Oslo is hijacked, and the terrorist is set free. The only one who can save the 245 passengers from certain death is an unarmed man, sick with cancer, with no knowledge about planes.

«In this thriller he effectively make a spin on that tiny bit of discomfort that we all feel when we fasten the seat belt and get ready for take off.»

AFTENPOSTEN

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Sigbjørn Mostue THE SILENT SAVANNAH

The Silent Savannah is the sequel to Sigbjørn Mostue’s nail-biting, Riverton Prize-nominated thriller The heavens will weep blood in which we met the series hero: Even Stubberud, leader of a top-secret, counter-terrorism unit.

The retired elite soldier is looking to start a new life in Kenya, where he plans on helping train the Savannah gamekeepers and bring about an end to the ruthless slaughter of elephants and other wildlife. However, strong forces lie behind the poaching activities – forces connected to some of the world’s most powerful nations.

With an evocative imperial backdrop, The Silent Savannah is an intense and exciting thriller that highlights one of the greatest disasters of our time: Nature’s extinction.

Himmelen skal gråte blod 130 x 205 mm / 240 pages

Taus savanne 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages

Rights sold to: Sweden (Modernista)

Rights sold to: Sweden (Modernista)

Sigbjørn Mostue THE SHADOW PEOPLE

Even Stubberud is on his way into the deep Amazonas rainforest, seeking The Shadow People. A mystical tribe that avoids contact with the rest of the world. With them a dead geologist has hidden maps showing huge riches hidden in the rainforest – information that Russia, the USA, the Venezuelan government and cartels wants their hands on. Even’s task is to find the maps first, and destroy them.

Simultaneously, Norway is trying to negotiate a peace treaty between the Venezuelan government and Andrés Palmero, the leader of the opposition. Russia launches a cyber attack on Norway, and the message is clear: Keep out of it. Russia wants Palmero dead. The consequences could be a full-scale war between the superpowers.

«There is no doubt that the author has the ability to keep the reader glued to the pages until the very last one is turned.» HVERDAGSNETT

Sigbjørn Mostue (b. 1969) has a degree in the History of Ideas and has worked as an editor. He is now a full time writer, having authored a number of bestselling books for young readers, including the trilogies The Elf Sign and The Last Magician. He also writes crime novels for adults together with Johnny Brenna. He has been both nominated for and won the UPRISEN award, won the ARK-Children's book prize, and been nominated for the Brage Prize and the Riverton Prize.

Skyggefolket 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

Hans Olav Lahlum

THE MIST MURDER

The Mist Murder has, in the Sherlockian spirit of Hans Olav Lahlum, a subtle plot in a fashionable seventies colour palette with links to a long-unsolved murder.

“Firstly, I owe it to you to let you know that I was a national socialist during the war,” said the man sitting in the guest chair in my office.

The date is 16 November 1973. In his office in Oslo, private investigator K2 is sought out by a farmer who has travelled all the way from Telemark. The client says that for important personal reasons he needs to clear up the circumstances surrounding his brother’s dramatic death in the late autumn of 1943. The private investigator allows himself to be tempted by this lucrative challenge and travels to Telemark the same evening. There, he stays in the house where his client’s older brother, a front fighter recently returned home, was found shot one misty autumn day thirty years previously.

The house, the client and his family history make a fascinating and sometimes unsettling impression. In the strange local community, K2 discovers that events from the war years still cast long shadows over the lives of both young and older people. Patricia is far away at home in Oslo, but K2 soon realises that he will need her help to clear up an old murder mystery that he is finding increasingly confusing and disturbing…

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 novel are bestsellers in Norway.

Tåkemordet 130 x 205 mm / 368 pages

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I begynnelsen var mørket 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages

Karin Fossum

FIRST THERE WAS DARKNESS

All that's heard in the silence, is the knife when it's dragged over the steel in long motions.

First there was darkness is the fourth book about police detective Eddie Feber.

It's early August, and a dry wind is blowing. Ruben Kornell spends the night in an old community centre, hidden behind some chairs. He awakes to the sounds of voices, and overhears a conversation between two men. Ruben has a burning passion for true crime, and he's convinced the men are planning to commit a crime. He eyes the opportunity to become an important witness in a criminal case. If he can convince the police to take him seriously.

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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 (2000). In 2017 The Riverton Club named her Best Norwegian Crime Writer through the times. Karin Fossum's books are translated into 34 languages.

Praise for Farewell, Farah Diba:

«… at her best she writes psychological thrillers of world class. As this one is.»

DAGBLADET

«Elegant and intelligent crime […] fairy-tale like, gripping and almost surreal.»

BOK365

«Karin Fossum is close to her very best. And crime literature doesn’t get much better than that.»

ADRESSEAVISEN

«To deliver so strongly only a year after her previous publication, is an achievement few Norwegian crime authors will do after her.»

«Farewell, Farah Diba stands out as Karin Fossum at her most superb. It offers excitement, entertainment and wise reflections in a wonderful mix. [...] Karin Fossum proves once again that she belongs to the very top echelon of Norwegian crime.»

DAGSAVISEN

Rights sold to: Germany (Saga), Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof)

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