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Cappelen Damm Agency FICTION

Spring 2021 Here you will find some of Norway’s leading contemporary authors.

RIGHTS CATALOGUE

FICTION Cappelen Damm Agency 2021

RIGHTS CATALOGUE

FICTION Cappelen Damm Agency 2021

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

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Vigdis Hjorth

IS MOTHER DEAD The protagonist of Is Mother Dead is an acclaimed artist, Johanna, who has spent three decades in the US with her husband and child. When her husband dies, she returns to Norway, where she is invited to put on a major retrospective. What remains of the life she left behind in Norway several decades ago? What does she expect to find when she returns? How will she manage to build a bridge between past and present? We follow Johanna’s self-examination as well as her attempts to understand and come closer to her mother. N O M I N AT ED TO T H E N O R D I C CO U N C I L S L I T T ER AT U R E Er mor død 130x205 mm / 368 pages

P R IZ E 2021

In this novel, Vigdis Hjorth digs deeper into the mother-daughter issue, once again writing compellingly and profoundly about a timeless theme.

‘Vigdis Hjorth's Is Mother Dead is a brooding and searching novel that proves why she is among our very best. The book resembles a thriller; the crescendo is edge-of-your-seat literature. Hjorth is an expert in plotting and linguistic rhythm. Long sections are broken up by pages with plenty of air and low-key reflections, several of which you will return to and read again and again.’ DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘Vigdis Hjorth is back at her best, with a raw and painful book. Brave and uncompromising.’ DAGSAVISEN

Excerpt from Is Mother Dead:

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

Vigdis Hjorth (b. 1959) has made an exciting literary career and has written many popular books for both children and adults. Today she is an awardwinning author and one of Norway's most interesting, contemporary writers. She has won a number of prizes and awards, amongst them: The Gyldendal Prize in 2011, the Critics Award in 2012, The Honorary Brage Award and the Amalie Skram Award in 2014, The Aschehoug Award in 2015 and the Booksellers Prize in 2016. Rights sold to: Croatia (Naklada Ljevak), Denmark (Turbine), Finland (Schildts & Söderströms), Greece (Potamos) Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Turkey (Siren Yayinlari), United Kingdom (Verso), United States (Verso Books), Italy (Fazi Editore)

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Vigdis Hjorth

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

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

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

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

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

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Beate Grimsrud

I SUGGEST WE WAKE UP

WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE 2020

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

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

Parallel to Vilde's story about wanting to live, are all the stories about Vilde's childhood in the fabled Dovre mountains, where she stole a golden pen from grandfather. From this pen spring tales of a wistful and playful rat longing to be noticed and loved by the fox with the beautiful tail. I Suggest That We Wake Up is a new milestone in Beate Grimsrud's career, trembling with raw nerve and wild hopefulness, combined with the author's stubborn energy and distinct sense of humor.

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

Rewiews for I suggest we wake up: ‘Beate Grimsrud’s new novel I Suggest We Wake Up is one of the most poignant, strangest and entertaining Norwegian books I’ve read in a very, very long time. […] a deeply original and meaningful reading experience that you will surely remember for a long time.’ VERDENS GANG (NORWAY) •••••• ‘A bold and humorous novel full of adventure and imagination. […] I am a fan of Beate Grimsrud’s books. Of her imagination, of her thinking, of her humor, which makes the reader wonder and think in new ways. […] It leaves me mentally out of breath. But it’s worth it. […] Grimsrud puts into words Vilde’s feelings and reactions through unique images that makes it possible for the reader to live through this heartbreaking story.’ ADRESSEAVISEN (NORWAY) •••••• ‘Beate Grimsrud invites you into a linguistic roller coaster ride that makes you scream with joy and horror. Buckle up and read!’ DAGBLADET (NORWAY) •••••• ‘Beate Grimsrud’s new novel is like water for a thirsty throat.’ DAGENS NYHETER (SWEDEN) ‘Beate Grimsrud has written her best novel to date.’ SYDSVENSKA DAGBLADET (SWEDEN) ‘I Suggest We Wake Up is an anxiety-ridden, fun, and inviting read, full of airy light and dark depths.’ VÄSTERBOTTENS-KURIEN (SWEDEN) ‘Grimsrud writes more beautifully than ever.’ GÖTEBORGS-POSTEN (SWEDEN)

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Roy Jacobsen

ONLY A MOTHER Return to Barrøy! After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has finally returned to Barrøy. Life has become more stable, but the war still casts its long shadows across the country. Former collaborators face cold shoulders or obscured retaliation. Others simply wish to leave the painful years in the past.

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One day a boy arrives on the island. Shortly thereafter, his father disappears. Ingrid assumes responsibility for the boy, and adopts him. As such, Mathias becomes a central part of the Barrøy community, together with Kaja, Ingrid’s daughter by birth. Life on the island is demanding, but the letters from friends in Oslo and Trondheim tell of a Norwegian society undergoing dramatic changes. Which stories should Ingrid keep to herself, and which ones should she bring to light? What kind of future is she imagining?

Only a mother is the fourth book in a series of novels that have delighted readers in Norway and abroad. It’s a novel about being a parent, being a part of a community, and about living under conditions that require hard labour. It is also a story about parts of our near past that have stayed in the dark. And it’s about an unusual woman, who has to navigate painful experiences in a rough, weather-beaten, and diverse society on the coast of Northern Norway. ‘Roy Jacobsen has added a new chapter to his masterpiece […]’ NETTAVISEN ‘It is a pure pleasure to read Roy Jacobsen’s novel Only a Mother. […] keeps the reader captivated from the first to the last sentence.’ DAGBLADET ‘[…] a beautiful and intense novel. […] poetic, virtuoso, warm […] No one describes the coastal and cultural history of the Helgeland coast as Roy Jacobsen.’ VG Rights sold to: Czech Republic (Pistorins & Olsanská), Denmark (Gyldendal), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), France (Editions Gallimard), Germany (C.H. Beck Verlag), Poland (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie), Sweden (Norstedts) UK (MacLehose Press),

Photo: Maja Hattvang

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

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Roy Jacobsen

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

De usynlige 130x205 mm / 256 pages

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

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

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

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Lars Saabye Christensen

MY CHINESE GRANDMOTHER After the first Opium War in 1842, China ceded Hong Kong to the British Empire; after further conflicts and uprisings, the two parties entered into a contract in 1898 whereby the British would lease Hong Kong for 99 years. It is to this British enclave that Jørgen Christensen travels in 1906. He is on his way to take up a post with Svitzer’s Bjergnings Enterprise. A couple of months later, Hulda joins him. Jørgen and Hulda Christensen are Lars Saabye Christensen’s paternal grandfather and grandmother.

Min kinesiske farmor 130x205 mm / 176 pages

Who were these people he is descended from? What persuaded a young woman from Copenhagen to set out on a long and arduous sea voyage alone? How was their life among the colonials and traders?

Lar Saabye Christensen sketches a fascinating picture of a time, a family, a couple and an individual, and thereby, also, a compelling picture of our own time – and perhaps also of us and the author himself? Originally published by Grif/Denmark ‘My Chinese Grandmother is a lovely family portrait, as well as a key to the literary universe of Lars Saabye Chistensen. This book is a gem!’ VG  ‘… the work of a master.’ WEEKENDAVISEN (DK) Lars Saabye Christensen (b. 1953) has published a number of novels, poetry and short story collections since his literary debut in 1976 with The Story of Gly. His breakthrough came with Beatles (1984), one of the greatest literary sales successes in Norway that, over the years, new generations continue to hold close to their hearts. He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for The Half Brother in 2001. Saabye Christensen has also received the Riverton Prize, the Critics' Prize, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, the Dobloug Prize and the Norwegian Reader's Prize. He has been published in 36 countries. Rights sold to: Germany (BTB Luchterhand)

Lars Saabye Christensen

A RANDOM BUREAUCRAT Gordon Mo works in the Ministry of Agriculture and is the very model of a grey bureaucrat. But inside he’s seething and now and then he has to relieve the pressure: that’s when he checks into a hotel and lets off a bit of steam from the pressure cooker. This works fine until one day at work when a cake is served up in his honour: that day, unfortunately, the pressure becomes too much for Gordon Mo. To cut a long story short, by the next day he no longer works at the ministry. But unlike many 60-year-old bureaucrats who lose their jobs, Gordon Mo is not superfluous: a shy old man who’s seething inside needs something. This is the starting point for Gordon Mo’s journey, which begins at an institution outside Baltimore that is

En tilfeldig nordmann 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages

supposed to get him back on his feet again. There he encounters the night watchman, Only Me, who will turn out to play a decisive role in the novel. What’s more, there’s a certain Frans Meek in the background who’s pulling the strings and ensuring that things continue to boil over here and there. A Random bureaucrat takes the pulse of our age with stinging wit and warmth. ‘For this is a contemporary novel, darn it! And as such it is equally absurd, smart, funny, provoking and elegantly written.’ DAGBLADET –  ‘The book is full of linguistic energy, smart turns of phrase and just the right number of eccentric individuals, just like you would expect from this author. … I could just keep on quoting for a long time, as this book is full of little literary pearls. But rather, I'll just say: Read the book!’ VG 

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Lars Saabye Christensen

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

Byens spor – Skyggeboken

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

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

Rights sold to: Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin), Denmark (Grif), Germany (BTB Luchterhand), Poland (Literackie), Tunisia (Societe dar Meskeliani), UK (MacLehose Press)

ECHOES OF THE CITY – Maj This is the first part of the Echoes of the City trilogy.

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Lars Saabye Christensen

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In this book Maj – and not least her struggle to bring up her children, Signe and Jesper – is in focus. Jesper and his best friend, Jostein the butcher’s son, grow from children into young men in each their own way. FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE.

Byens spor – Maj

Lars Saabye Christensen

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

Byens Spor – Ewald og Maj

At the center are Ewald and Maj Kristoffersen, but their fates are closely interwoven with the city and the streets they live on.

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Rune Salvesen

BUNKER Bunker is a novel about fear: about the fear of failing in creative endeavours but also about not letting that fear take control. It is about the fear of exposure to terror or violence and what, in extreme cases, that fear can drive us to. In this fragmentary structured novel, we encounter three voices: the first belongs to the first-person narrator, who has just delivered a new book manuscript to his publisher. Is what he has written good enough? How far has fear marked the life he has lived? Salvesen writes about what it means to write a literary universe into being, about how and why the I-narrator does it and how artists must live with the consequences of their art.

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The second voice belongs to David, who has lost his father and his job in the oil industry. He feels alienated in the life he

lives. Now he has planted a bomb outside the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in the coastal oil town Stavanger and has gone into hiding in a bunker beneath the sea. The terrorist act was organised by others and David has escaped the consequences for his action. When the bomb went off, he was already out of range. What and who has this action turned him into? The third and final voice belongs to Snorre Sand, an author who has taken early retirement and who helped cast the concrete of the bunker where David now is during the Second World War. He looks back over his eventful past – war, imprisonment, love, a literary life – and tries to seek meaning in an existence in which he no longer writes. But his story is cunningly interwoven with the narrative above David and a kind of essay about the first-person narrator’s own writing process. Everything is connected with everything else. What motivates a terrorist? What is the essence of fear and violence? What does isolation do to us? And how are these elements connected with the premises of all artistic work? Bunker draws the reader into uncomfortable questions that affect our own age and is a latticework of questions and threads in which readers must seek answers and direction for themselves. 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. 22

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Tor Åge Bringsværd

KINTSUGI Something beautiful is broken, but you hope to repair it in such a way that it can become even more beautiful than before it shattered. This is what happens in the novel Kintsugi too. Through a series of stories, we learn of a possible reconciliation between settlers and indigenous people. Love conquers all, as they say – religion, skin colour, race. But can we love creatures that belong to a totally different species? Can beings with tails be anything other than animals?

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‘Language is what makes us human. But it also makes us capable of creating nonhumans. Bringsværd has a good grip on the paradoxes. Kintsugi is an ambitious and in terms of form complex novel, kicking hard at the moralistic apparatus.’ KLASSEKAMPEN ‘Bringsværd has an idea that things are possible. But that does not take away his ability of seeing the realities we are facing on this planet of ours, with sharp vision. Imagination is the ability to take your thoughts far and wide, but also about deep empathy. If we have the will, we can imagine almost anything. Also when it comes to the mutilation we put upon lives other than our own.’ MORGENBLADET

Tor Åge Bringsværd (b. 1939) has a considerable body of work. He has received many prizes, including the Critics' Prize, the Riverton Prize, the Aschehoug Prize, the Dobloug Prize, the Riksmål Prize and the Ibsen Prize. His works have been translated into 23 languages and his theatrical pieces have been staged in twelve countries. Bringsværd writes for all ages.

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Stig Aasvik

TØYEN PARK Tøyen Park is a park in Oslo but also part of a stream of consciousness, a novel that unfolds in the head of the protagonist, Stig Aasvik. Past and present collide and branch out into a swirling, quivering now. Tøyen Park encompasses a single consciousness but also an entire world. As a whole, it is a tapestry of existential problems, linguistic transgressions, humour and gravity, joie de vivre, anxiety and hysteria.

Tøyenparken 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages

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

Kristian Klausen

ANNE F. What happens when you move wellknown biographical figures to a new place and give them new surroundings, a different background, a different narrative arc and an alternative ending? Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen in spring 1945. Before that, she and her family, along with four other Jewish people, spent more than two years living in hiding on the upper floor of business premises in Amsterdam until they were discovered and deported. Kristian Klausen’s novel, Anne F., portrays Anne and her father Otto in Drammen and it is Otto Frank’s Drammen that is depicted for the reader. Until the outbreak of war, he runs a tobacco kiosk on Konnerudgata. Later, again, it is Otto’s perspective we see. We meet him alone in Auschwitz and at Drammen railway station after the war, as the sole survivor. It is Otto who obtains the diaries that were left behind and starts to live through them.

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A thought-provoking, gripping book from Kristian Klausen.

Kristian Klausen (b. 1971) has been a freelance writer and art instructor, and currently works as an environmental therapist with a psychiatric hospice. He made his literary début in 2008 with his critically acclaimed short story collection Måltidet i Emmaus.

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Erlend Loe

HELL

Illustrated by Kim Hiorthøy

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

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

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

Rights sold to: Denmark (Gyldendal)

Erlend Loe

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

Forhandle med virkeligheten – Ett år på ett hjul

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

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

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Ingvar Ambjørnsen

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

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‘Nobody can help me is yet another testament to the rightful position Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s authorship holds at the height of Norwegian literary history.’ NETTAVISEN

‘… the touchpoints between literature and Elling’s own experiences, or the lack thereof, create a successful experience.’ BOK365 ‘… one of Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s weirdest and wittiest books ever.’ VG ‘Yet again, Ingvar Ambjørnsen displays how unusually good he is at creating densified drama in the small challenges of everyday life.’ DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘… a declaration of love to the novel – with all of its inherent possibilities and contradictions.’ DAGSAVISEN Ingvar Ambjørnsen (b. 1956) is considered to be one of the greatest storytellers of contemporary Norwegian literature. Since his literary début in 1981, Ambjørnsen has written a number of novels as well as three collections of short stories, essay collections and books for children and young reders. He has won a number of awards, including the Riverton Prize, the Brage Award, the Booksellers’ Award and the Riksmål Prize. Several of his books have been adapted into films with great success. The movie Elling, based on Ambjørnsen’s novels The Bird Dance and Bloodbrothers, was nominated to an Oscar in 2001, and Elling the theatre play has appeared on stage in several theatres around Europe to great acclaim.

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

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

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Ida Fjeldbraaten

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

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

NOMINATED TO THE P2-LISTENERS NOVELPRIZE 2020 AWARDED THE HALVORSEN TRUST PRIZE 2020 ‘Ida Fjeldbraaten’s Wolverine is an unusually interesting debut. KLASSEKAMPEN ‘ … The author has managed the feat of portioning out the disturbing elements, so that the reader feels mostly like a microwave oven, where the terror heats up from the inside.’ DAG OG TID

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

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Kjersti Halvorsen

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

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

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

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Eirin Andresen Betten

TIME WANTS A DIFFERENT IMAGE Time Wants a Different Image is a portrait of four young people who meet at a holiday home in 2016. Brexit, the Paris Agreement and the US presidential election serve as the framework for the conversations among the four friends. But there’s a smouldering beneath the surface; things are kept hidden and the four of them hide from one another. We go back in time with Claudia, Michael, Casper and Susanne, who also have intersecting romantic relationships. The story extends over ten years and each chapter deals with a single event in the characters’ lives.

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2016: Claudia has lost her boyfriend Edward in a tragic car accident outside Paris. She has barely spoken to anyone since the accident but now she plucks up the courage to ring on the doorbell of the

woman in the flat next door. The woman asks Claudia disturbing questions about her grieving process and where she is in life. ‘Didn’t you get what you were promised?’ asks the woman. ‘I wasn’t promised anything,’ Claudia replies. 2014: Susanne is a guest at a wedding but feels like a misfit. Bourgeois conventions aren’t her thing. Too much happiness, tears, speeches. She has enough to deal with in her own life already. Like the abortion she has just had and Michael, who didn’t find out about it until it was already done. ‘What’s the point?’ she thinks, before hurling herself into the dark water for a night-time dip with the other wedding guests. 2012: Michael is working as a model for an older female photographer in London and discovers what it’s like to be captured by another person’s gaze. The photographer thinks he is a perfect representative of his own generation, well-adjusted and with every opportunity ahead of him. But Michael is indifferent to all that. Being in your twenties isn’t as brilliant as the photographer makes out. He is impatient and in love with Susanne – he always has been. So why does Casper constantly intrude on his thoughts?

Eirin Betten (b. 1988) is a literary scholar and journalist. She works as a lecturer and freelance writer. Time wants another image is her debut novel.

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Bruno Jovanović

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

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

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Linn Strømsborg

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

Linn Strømsborg (b. 1986) made her debut 2009 with the novel Roskilde, the story of a group of young people at a music festival, and followed up with the chap book The Øya Festival in the same year. She has since written two novels about the main character Eva; Furuset in 2012 and You're not gonna die in 2016. She is one of the most interesting young voices in contemporary Norwegian fiction today. Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Serbia (Cigoja Stampa), Germany (DuMont)

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

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Lotta Elstad

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

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

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Lotta Elstad

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

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

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

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Siri M. Kvamme

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

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

Excerpt from Wonderful Vera:

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

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Magne Hovden

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

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

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

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Magne Hovden

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

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

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

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Grethe Bøe

MAYDAY Sensational Action Thriller Debut! The Arctic is blowing up – and Ylva is the spark!

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Caught behind enemy lines, NATOpilots Ylva and John faces a seemingly impossible task: They have to cross the frozen Siberian tundra on foot - with the enemy at their heels – to get back to Norway and stop a catastrophe that might lead to World War III.

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The relations between Russia and NATO are at a freezing point as NATO launches their greatest ever winter exercise in the far north of Norway. The Russians are provoked and mobilize their own “snap exercise” on the Russian side of the border.

A Russian fighter plane is provoking a Norwegian carrier helicopter in the border area between Norway and Russia, and F-16-pilots John Evans and Ylva Nordahl is sent to escort the helicopter safely to shore. The NATO-plane end up in a stress-flight with the Russian plane, and the F-16 is damaged in a near crash, it is then shot down after ending up on the Russian side of the border. The episode sparks political crisis where both Russia and NATO see the event as an attack. The only thing that can stop an all-destructive conflict is the pilots Ylva Nordahl and John Evans making their way back across the border to Norway, to tell what really happened. It is a fight against time, as the Russian President, The General Secretary of NATO and private military industry are all sharpening their knives.

Grethe Bøe make her debut as an author with the action thriller Mayday. But she has for years been writing and directing internationally prize-winning films and TV-series from the Arctic areas.Her film Operasjon Arktis won the Amanda Prize in 2015 and was also featured at a number of international film festivals. She has worked as a camera assistant with Steven Spielberg. Rights sold to: Estonia (Ajakirjade Kirjastus), Finland (Bazar), Germany (Heyene Verlag), Italy (Longanesi), Sweden (Modernista). Norway (Nordisk Film)

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NORWEGIAN CRIME SENSATION: BRAVO! ‘Grethe Bøe makes a great debut with a chillingly realistic thriller where the north of Norway is in danger of becoming a new Crimea. ***** - Five stars out of six.’ DAGBLADET REFRESHING DEBUT ‘Grethe Bøe and her protagonist Ylva are fresh and welcome additions to the Norwegian Crime Book Universe. It feels refreshing to have the arrival of a female author writing in a genre otherwise dominated by men - already writing with authority and weight about anything from international politics and reindeer herding to how to fly a fighter jet. And not least in a language full of good and creative descriptions and sentences.’ VG A SERIOUSLY FRESH DEBUT The idea and potential is at top level, written with international approach, cockiness and thorough on all the detail; be it the technical parts of flying a fighter jet, military, political or geographical (…) with main characters that have extreme survival skills and technical knowledge.’ ADRESSEAVISA

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Karin Fossum

LOVELY CREATURE Konrad Sejer #15

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

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

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

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Karin Fossum

THE DARKENING Konrad Sejer #14

A married couple check into a hotel with their 15-monthold son. The next morning, the boy falls from the sixthfloor balcony and dies instantly. His parents' explanations differ substantially. Both of them have something to hide. Who has the right to have a child? How could a child die in such a way? This time, Konrad Sejer knows it is extremely important to find out the truth. The Darkening is a masterful crime novel and a dangerous marital drama. ‘Karin Fossum is a crime writer like no other. She takes more interest in the people than the crime itself. That makes her more exciting to follow than any other Norwegian crime writer. In this book Karin Fossum once more shows us how masterful she is.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD ««««««

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Karin Fossum

THE WHISPERER Konrad Sejer #13

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

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The novel takes the form of Konrad Sejer's interrogation of Ragna Riegel after the worst has happened; after it is too late. Rights sold to: Denmark (Gyldendal), Germany (Piper Verlag), Netherlands, Romania (Crime Scene), Sweden (Forum), United Kingdom (Harvill Secker)

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Terje Bjøranger

THE CALIPHATE A young man is found murdered on Bygdøy island in Oslo. He is dressed in an orange suit and is holding his own head in his hands. Suspicion immediately falls on ISIS. Could there be a link to Islamist extremists or is this a set-up? Charlie Robertson and his police colleagues must work hard and fast to prevent further murders and – not least – to avoid terrorist atrocities the police fear are being planned. The Caliphate is the third book about Detective Charlie Robertson.

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Terje Bjøranger (b. 1959) lives in Lørenskog and works as a police prosecutor for Kripos. He made his debut in 2012 with The Third Sister. In 2017, he published the critically acclaimed Barcode. Bjøranger has also worked with the Norwegian UDI for several years in areas such as forced marriages and honor crimes.

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Ellen Gustavsen Simensen

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

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

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

Rights sold to: Sweden (Modernista), France (Editions Gallmeister)

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