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Siri Helle

THE HAND MADE TALE CHAINSAW MINDFULNESS We humans have always used our hands to create the world around us. Until now. Today we have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What happens to us when we no longer use our hands? What happens to society? This is the story of building a small, but absolutely necessary house on your own and feeling an intense joy of doing it by yourself. Siri Helle inherited a cabin of 25 square meters, without electricity and without inlet water, and without an outhouse. She decided to build the outhouse herself, a bit like a protest, but mostly to find out if she was able to do it. The outhouse is being built with material found at sight, different from any other outhouse since it is built by an amateur, and Siri learns a lot. She manages to make the planks from the large threes, she builds the turf, she braids walls of juniper twigs, uses her knife to make shavings – and her sense of achievement grows. A feeling stronger and warmer than many other in this world. Original title: Med berre nevane Eit forsvar for praktisk arbeid Publisher: Samlaget, 2020 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 143 pages

And together with these feelings she feels a growing connection to her own roots. She never met the grandfather who built the cabin. But the feeling of belonging, and the feeling of contributing to his work with her bare hands is strong. To create, to build something with your own hands, create something useful – is something everyone should try, she thinks. Not at least, those who think they can’t.

Siri Helle Siri Helle (b. 1982) is an agronomist in organic farming. She occasionally works as a writer and journalist, carpenter assistant and goat herder.

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Line Nagell Ylvisåker

MY WORLD IS MELTING TO LIVE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE ON SVALBARD In 2006 Line Nagell Ylvisåker started as a journalist at Svalbardposten. In Desember it was clear that it would be the warmest year in Svalbard since the temperature measurements started. A climate scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute warned the archipelago would get several degrees warmer in the decades to come. Nagell Ylvisåker did not pay much notice. She drove around on scooters, became acquainted with the mountains, the midnight sun and the northern lights and gained peace and freedom through her own bear rifle. In 2015 a snow avalanche thundered down from the mountain Sukkertoppen and hit 11 houses in the town of Longyearbyen. A two-year-old girl and a family father died. There were landslides, and houses were evacuated when the earth burst up after heavy rain. Line Nagell Ylvisåker has built a house in Longyearbyen, got two kids, calls the place for home, but suddenly she became uneasy when there was bad weather on the horizon. What was happening with her dear town? Original title: Verda mi smeltar Å leve med klimaendring på Svalbard Publisher: Samlaget, 2020 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 160 pages

She needs some answers, and begins to investigate her own surroundings. She talks to the meteorologist who herself was buried in the snow masses in 2015. She seeks climate scientists and a trapper with 40 wintering behind him. She is shown how the deep sea is systematically warmed up, meets three polar bears on a hike with her kids, hunt for fossils of the old Svalbard-woods and follows the relocation of houses in Longyearbyen. It is evident that the times are changing. This is a story about a rising unrest and about living in the midst of the hot spot of climate change. To be published in Norway 15.4. 2020

Line Nagell Ylvisåker Line Nagell Ylvisåker (b. 1982) is a trained journalist and worked from 2006 to 2018 at the newspaper Svalbardposten. She has received several awards for her writing from Svalbard.

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Erik Martiniussen

THE WAR AGAINST BACTERIA A HEALTH DISASTER AND HOW TO FIGHT IT Antibiotic resistance is an insidious, worldwide epidemic that threatens to destroy the global health system from within. Today, more than 700,000 patients die of antibiotic-resistant bacteria worldwide every year. The World Health Organization warns: Without antibiotics, medical science is going to be set back 100 years in time. Not only will we be powerless against treating infections, without antibiotics, even simple surgery becomes impossible. Diseases such as pneumonia, whooping cough, scarlet fever and measles will again be very deadly - yes even cholera and plague can return as global pandemics. By year 2050, 10 million people will be at risk every year. The biggest health disaster the world has seen is right at your doorstep. Yet we hardly ever talk about the threat that surrounds us.

Original title: Bakteriekrigen Om helsekatastrofen som møter oss og hvordan vi kan bekjempe den Publisher: Forlaget Press, 2020 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 300 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Sweden, Modernista Group

Huge amounts of antibiotics are used in the agricultural industry to secure cheaper meat for consumers - while research shows how resistant bacteria easily spread from animals to humans, through water, food and soil. But The War against Bacteria is also a fascinating exploration of the opportunities we have for solving the crisis. Erik Martiniussen talks to health care workers in Tromsø, Georgia, Poland about how antibiotic use can be drastically reduced. He visits farmers and agricultural leaders in the UK, Belgium and Norway to learn more about animal husbandry without antibiotics. He chases new, undiscovered bactericides at tube stations in London or in the river mud along the Thames. And he explores the forgotten cures and the new knowledge about the nature of the bacteria that makes it possible to imagine a medicine much less dependent on antibiotics. Maybe the war on bacteria can first be won if we stop looking at it as a war?

Erik Martiniussen Erik Martiniussen is a Norwegian journalist and writer. He has previously written the book Greenhouse Effect (2013) - in which he argues that there are major mistakes in Norwegian climate quota purchases.

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Nazneen Khan-Østrem

LONDON AMONG GANGSTERS, RABBIS, OLIGARCHS, REBELS AND OTHER CHILDREN OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Who were the people who built this glamorous, dirty, infinite metropolis, and what is it about their descendants that makes London such an exhilarating experience today? The author goes on a quest in London to meet the people who have shaped the most cosmopolitan city in the world – but also to understand more about her own identity. With Britain being more divided than it has been in a generation, and with many calling for an end to ’the experiment of immigration’, London has held firm. No other book has ever captured the diversity of London in such a rich and remarkable manner. Where would London be without the hard work of the Irish, the sweetness of the Italians, the music of the Caribbean, the Indian food or the wealth of the Russians – to mention some of the communities that feature in this book. It offers both a historical backdrop and insight about the British Empire and the immigration that has created London’s unique fabric. There is no doubt: every impression you have had about this city will change as you read this book. Original title: London Blant gangstere, rabbiner, oligarker, rebeller og andre ektefødte barn av det britiske imperiet Publisher: Kagge Forlag, 2019 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 511 pages

Nazneen Khan-Østrem has written the ultimate book about Great Britain's capitol. Dagbladet

One of the best books of the year! London is a book that got me to dread going to sleep and look forward to waking up to continue reading. When the last page is read, it feels like I have read a book that is not just about London, but about the nature of the city itself. This is a book about what a city is and can be: a kind of organism consisting of many conflicting interests and religions, of food and music, dance and prayer. Aftenposten

Nazneen Khan-Østrem Born in Nairobi, Kenya of Pashtun-origin, raised in the UK and Norway, Nazneen Khan-Østrem (b.1968) is an author and a commissioning editor. She published her first book My Holy War about Islam and identity in 2005, which was highly acclaimed.

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Thomas Reinertsen Berg

TO THE END OF THE WORLD A HISTORY OF SPICES Spices were once the most expensive goods you could trade. And with good reason: You had to travel to far-off lands to find them. To the Moluccas for cloves, nutmeg and mace, to India for pepper and cardamom, to Sri Lanka for cinnamon, and a little here and there for ginger. Fantastic stories were told during the classical antiquity and the Medieval ages about the mysterious, dangerous and often divine places they came from. But that's the European perspective. This book will enhance the Asian perspective as well, looking at the first known, pre-historic use of nutmeg, the mystery of 3500 year old cloves in Syria, pepper as Indian medicine, Confucius eating ginger and the spice trade of the Indian Ocean long before Vasco da Gama entered the scene in 1497. From there, the story will take us to our own age, where you can find, packed into neat little bags and glasses on supermarket shelves, the spices that once launched a thousand ships and sent us to the end of the world. To the End of the World will be published Autumn 2020.

Original title: Til verdens ende En historie om krydder Publisher: Forlaget Press, 2020 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 250 pages

Praise for Theatre of the World: ...A tour de force with the history of the maps. He starts with the very first pictures of the world... and takes on the images of the world, systematically, well written, fun and educational. The book is exceptionally well illustrated... An exquisite and distinctive nonfiction book. The Brageprize Jury

RIGHTS SOLD TO Theatre of the World is sold to 14 countries.

Thomas Reinertsen Berg Thomas Reinertsen Berg (born 1971) is a journalist and writer. He has written for several Norwegian papers such as Morgenbladet, Klassekampen and Dagsavisen, where he has worked especially with cultural and scientific subjects. His first book: Theatre of the World, was named the Best Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2017 (Brageprisen), and is since sold to 14 countries.

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Thomas Reinertsen Berg

THEATRE OF THE WORLD THE MAPS THAT MADE HISTORY What is a map? How have people seen the world up through history? What do maps say about us? Theatre of the world. The history of maps is a unique book with the full and incredible history of maps. Thomas Reinertsen Berg takes us all the way from the mysterious symbols of the Stone Age to Google Earth in a fascinating tale on science and the view of the world, about art and technology, about power and ambitions, about practical needs and distant dreams of the unknown. Along the way, we encounter visionary geographers and heroic explorers along with the unknown heroes of the history of maps. A fantastic visual material allows us to immerse ourselves in the history of maps with our own eyes.

Original title: Verdensteater Kartenes historie Publisher: Forlaget Press, 2017 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 350 pages AWARDS The winner of the 2017 Brage Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book in Norway RIGHTS SOLD TO UK - Hodder & Stoughton US - Little, Brown Netherland - Athenaeum Norway, Forlaget Press Sweden - Lind & Co. Germany, dtv Poland, ZNAK Italy, Vallardi China, CITIC Press Denmark, Lindhardt & Ringhof Estonia, Eesti Raamat Taiwan, Fantasy Foundation Publications Japan, Seidosha Inc Russia, Ad Marginem

I will not be the least surprised if the book wins Brageprisen for Nonfiction. It will be rightly deserved, because the book is thorough, original, well written and simply beautiful. Erika Flatland, Aftenposten

The detailed book is a pleasure to read. It makes complicated things easy to understand. Fredrik Wandrup, Dagbladet.

...A tour de force with the history of the maps. He starts with the very first pictures of the world... and takes on the images of the world, systematically, well written, fun and educational. The book is exceptionally well illustrated... An exquisite and distinctive nonfiction book. From the jury's statement, Brageprisen 2017

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Anders Bortne

SLEEPLESS A THOUSAND WAKEFUL NIGHTS, ONE SOLUTION For sixteen years, Anders Bortne has been sleepless. Several times he has tried to get help, without result. He has a family with two young kids and can no longer go on with the scant hours of sleep every night. He just can't. Therefore, nothing shall be untested - sleeping medicine, yoga, herbs, acupuncture, hypnosis. Anders is searching high and low, and the answers he receives are both gruelling, eyeopening and ridiculous. During the hunt another story appears. What do we know about the most important hours of the day? What is the history of sleep? And why do we really have to sleep? Sleepless is an exciting, fun and wise book for anyone who is awake at night and is wondering why. And for those sleeping next to them. The solution is often closer than you think. In Anders's case, it was just across the street. Original title: Søvnløs Tusen våkenetter og en løsning Publisher: Tiden Norsk Forlag, 2019 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 200 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO World English - Sandstone Press Denmark - Gads Forlag The Netherlands - Volt Germany - Mairisch Verlag

...fabulous non-fiction about a problem that more than half a million Norwegians are struggling with. ... It is high literary quality over the depictions of the many nights he walks between bed and sofa, couch and bed, and he does not lose the tension in the language when he renders research results Sven Egil Omdal, Stavanger Aftenblad

..for those who want to learn more about sleep and insomnia, Sleepless is an excellent place to start. ...Facts about sleep and insomnia are easily and effortlessly interwoven into the text, it flows like a novel. His troubled musings are almost poetic. Erika Flatland, Aftenposten

Anders Bortne Anders Bortne is a writer and musician. He has written five acclaimed books and has released eight albums (one was even nominated as album of the year in Norway).

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Andreas Liebe Delsett

SILENCE OF THE CHEFS AN OUTSIDERS STORY OF KITCHEN LIFE Andreas Liebe Delsett was offered what many food enthusiasts dream of: Would he work for a period in the restaurant kitchen, learn the profession, cook at a really high level? Few places in society are as diverse as the restaurant kitchen. The chefs have become oracles, celebrities and cultural heroes, and the professional kitchen is constantly presented as mythical and magical in magazines, TV series and popular culture. At the same time, the cooking profession is a low-status occupation, with poor pay, low recruitment, difficult working conditions and tough physical demands. In the eyes of society, the chef is at the same time an artist and craftsman, ruler and servant, oracle and idiot. What reality really awaits those who choose the Kitchen Life? Andreas envisioned a few months in an exciting world, an easy shortcut to the master chefs' recipes and insights. Instead, the time at the kitchen counter at Restaurant Stock in Oslo became an exhausting and challenging encounter with a different reality. Original title: Kjøkkenveien En bok om mat og arbeid Publisher: Forlaget Press , 2019 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 358 pages

Silence of the Chefs is a book about food, collaboration, crafts, repetitions, fellowship, mistakes, knowledge, kitchen appliances, creativity, boredom and class. In addition, the book is one of the most vivid and insightful portrait of the professional kitchen to date.

I can’t remember reading such an unaffected, thorough and immersive book about life in the kitchen. Morgenbladet

Andreas Liebe Delsett Andreas Liebe Delsett is Artistic Director at the House of Literature in Oslo. After an apprenticeship at Restaurant Stock in Oslo, Andreas has conducted an informal trade certificate examination as a chef. Silence of the Chefs is his debut as an author.

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Camara Lundestad Joof

I TALK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME I talk about it all the time is a testimony, an appeal and a self-examination. Camara Lundestad Joof was born in Norway, with a Norwegian mother and a Gambian father. The book depicts how the racism she constantly experiences, infects her days and controls her thoughts. I call one of my girlfriends. Did the man in the bar call me a coon when I didn't want to give him my number? That time we had agreed to drink beer, but we ended up drinking tequila instead? She becomes quiet. No. He called you a nigger. Thank you, I say. Thank you so much for remembering.

Original title: Eg snakkar om det heile tida Publisher: Samlaget, 2018 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 94 pages

She ransacks her memory. What if she misremembers something? How can someone believe her then? How many details does one have to remember in order to appear credible? Does she believe herself? And can anyone ever free themselves from the question of skin colour? The book is now in it's fifth print run.

I talk about it all the time speaks straight to my heart. It tears and shudders my skin and stirs my emotions. VOKS Magazine

Impressively, she brings out the complexity and nuances in her experiences. Strongest impression is probably the text about an elderly woman who hit her when she, as a child, wore a traditional national costume on Norway’s Constitution Day. Joof handles this sore memory with a steady hand and puts the limelight on the woman’s silent girlfriend. She neither intervened nor protested. Expressed and visible racism is easy to be against, instead Joof often focuses on the small comments, the neglect and the silence. It's a very strong read and an impressive debut! Dagbladet

Camara Lundestad Joof

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Camara Lundestad Joof (1988) is a Norwegian-Gambian documentary performance artist, playwright and author. She’s currently a house playwright at Dramatikkens Hus (The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting ) and in June she released her first book I talk about it all the time.

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Morten Traavik

TRAITOR'S GUIDE TO NORTH KOREA Throughout the present decade, Norwegian director Morten Traavik made more than 20 visits to and travels around North Korea, conducting a series of groundbreaking art projects in close collaboration with the notoriously secretive country’s authorities.

Original title: Forræderens guide til NordKorea Publisher: Aschehoug, 2018 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 330 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Germany / Suhrkamp Russia / Individuum

In the autumn of 2017, a geopolitical standoff, a nuclear test and a death threat made him suspend the relationship. Now the stories he has been keeping under wraps for several reasons, can finally be told. «Traitor’s Guide to North Korea» is an honest, revealing and affecting «user’s manual» to this enigmatic nation that many hold strong opinions about, but very few have experienced from the inside. Through his unexpected and evolving friendship with the civil servant and Party member «Mr Win» Traavik brings us closer to the daily lives of North Korea’s silent majority and their striving against all odds to live normal and dignified lives in the ever-looming shadow of the Kim dynasty. With human warmth, sharp-eyed insights and a wry sense of humour, Traavik opens up to the reader both the more flamboyant and the less known sides of North Korean society, from «Ground Zero» at the world’s most militarized border (DMZ) with South Korea, through the showcase capital Pyongyang and up north to the Yalu river and the bridge to big brother China.

Makes one feel like being inside the world's most closed country. A humorous and inventive travel guide... The Traitor's Guide stands out and opens up to a deeper understanding of North Korea Aftenposten

What makes this book unique is that Traavik is able to see the world through North Korean eyes, while at the same time being naturally familiar with the Western perception of the country (...) A book that makes you wiser. Friheten

Morten Traavik Morten Traavik is a Norwegian director and artist working across a wide spectrum of artistic genres and international borders. Trained as theater director in Russia and Sweden, the notion of the world as a stage and identity as role play is never far away in his works, as well as a characteristically blurred distinction between art, activism and social issues.

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Torolf Kroglund

THE LAST EEL The story of the eel (Anguilla anguilla) fascinates us. What seems to be the main source of fascination is how little we know about this slimy, snake-like and slivering fish. What we do know by now is that the eels are disappearing, European eels is said to have lost well over 90% of its numbers the last ten years. It is one of the species that may be extinct in our lifetime (like the Dodo, the Geir-bird or the Mammoth). The Norwegian author, journalist and sports fisherman Torolf Kroglund tries to find out why - starting on an remote island in the middle of Norway - and then travels through Europe, and to the Sargasso sea to find answers, in a journey that is both a personal one and a quest for big answers. He not only finds the extraordinary tale of the eel but is also able to connect this unto a bigger and broader perspective. The Last Eel will show the close connection between culture and nature, between use and protection - and also how every living creature on earth, even the more unlikely and ugly, reflects man and mankind doings and undoing’s. A book that combines personal storytelling with narrative nonfiction in a manner lastly seen in books like The Sheperd's Life, H is for Hawk and The Sixt Extinction. Original title: Den siste ålen Omvei hjem Publisher: Cappelen Damm, 2018 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 200 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Germany / Edel Books Sweden / Norstedts

It is essentially the consistent environmental perspective, combined with the close, personal writing style that makes the book an engaging experience. Fædrelandsvennen

Torolf Kroglund is the man behind one of the autumn's most exciting books in the natural genre. The Last eel is a small artwork for us with heart for nature, and perhaps then especially for fish and animals. (...) Espen Farstad, Njff.no

The Last Eel is like a perfect cocktail consisting of abundant facts (spirits), narrative (mixed water) and politics (a fresh lemon slice). Fredrik Sjöberg

Torolf Kroglund

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Torolf Edgar Kroglund is an author, journalist and a sportsfisherman. He has published several books on fishing and hunting before. He is also head of the Ibsen- and Hamsun festival taking place each year in the South of Norway.

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Espen Ytreberg

CAPE HEARTSTONE THE STORY OF NITA KAKOT AMUNDSEN, CAMILLA CARPENDALE AND ROALD AMUNDSEN In January 1921 the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen took over responsibility for a four-year-old girl from the Siberian Chukchi people. He named her Nita. Three months later he took charge of another girl from Chukotka—11-year-old Camilla Carpendale, daughter of a local trader. At this time Amundsen’s fame as the conqueror of the South Pole spanned the globe. Nita and Camilla were the closest Roald Amundsen ever came to establishing his own family. For almost three years, they lived together on journeys across the globe and in Amundsen’s home outside of Oslo. Diaries, letters and newspaper reports tell of their strong mutual affection in these years. Nita and Camilla learned Norwegian, went to school and made friends. Then in 1924 Amundsen sent them back alone to an uncertain destiny in Siberia. They never saw Norway again.

Original title: Kapp Hjertestein Historien om Nita Kakot Amundsen, Camilla Carpendale og Roald Amundsen Publisher: Forlaget Press, 2018 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 180 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Transit Verlag, Germany Paulsen, Russia

In Cape Heartstone, Espen Ytreberg tells the full story of these three intertwined lives, and the forces that shaped, them for the first time. Through an attentive and original use of historical sources—written, filmed and photographed—Ytreberg reveals a unique story and places it in a broader context. Cape Heartstone is a thoughtful, tender and often surprising book about colonialism and globalisation, modernity and migration, family and prejudice, and ultimately about the abiding and fleeting sides of love.

Literature is in many ways a revolt against nature. It insists on the meaning of the meaningless, turns towards a thinking subject in the void that is birth and death, it remembers the dead. Authors can bring forth people from the darkness, lift them up, and say "They were right here, they walked our paths, squinted at our very sun". Espen Ytreberg is that writer. Peter Froberg Idling, Klassekampen

Espen Ytreberg Espen Ytreberg is a professor at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. Ytreberg has been a visiting researcher at CNRS-Paris, Université de Paris II and the Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa. He has written several books, his latest a novel about Roald Amundsen.

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Sven G. Simonsen

RISK Liv Eriksson is a psychologist and has worked in some of the world's toughest emergencies. But when her boyfriend Olav falls to his death while they are mountain climbing in Thailand, she breaks down and isolates herself. Olav was a researcher in Norway’s central police unit for economic crime and an outstanding computer specialist. Someone has posted a clip of his death fall on the internet. Liv realizes that someone out there knows what really happened when Olav died and sets out to find them. She soon realizes that Olav had secrets that neither she nor his colleagues knew about. She makes discoveries that cause her to question: did she really know Olav? The turmoil grows into an obsession. Liv's pursuit of the truth takes her on a journey - to Munich, Cyprus, Beirut - which becomes increasingly dangerous as she approaches the truth about a finance operation of spectacular dimensions.

Original title: Risiko Publisher: Forlaget Press, 2020 Category: Crime/Thriller Pages: 394 pages

The countdown has started for what is to become an unprecedented crime.

Sven G. Simonsen Sven G. Simonsen (b. 1965) is a Norwegian author, journalist, political scientist, and aid worker – with emphasis shifting between those areas depending on urges and opportunities.

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John Kåre Raake

THE ICE The Ice is a tense international thriller that plays out at one of Earth’s most inhospitable places – the North Pole. Former Special Forces commando Anna Aune has abandoned the world and everyone in it, and is hiding out in a hovercraft at the North Pole. She’s there for the duration of the Arctic winter to document the destruction unleashed by climate change. On All Saints’ Day, the pitch-black sky is suddenly lit up by a distress flare shot up from a Chinese research station. Anna and her colleague are the only ones close enough to come to their rescue. But is the flare a cry for help, or a warning sign? At the Chinese base, a vision from a nightmare awaits them. In the laboratory, they find the researchers dead, frozen solid and covered in ice. It quickly becomes clear that they were brutally murdered. At the same moment, a furious Arctic storm blows in. A savage power struggle has provoked a full-scale international conflict – by any means necessary – for Arctic resources. And Anna Aune is caught in the middle of it all.

Original title: Isen Publisher: Gyldendal, 2019 Category: Crime/Thriller Pages: 300 pages

I love how the writer just plunges straight into the action and keeps the tension up throughout book. Stavanger Aftenblad

RIGHTS SOLD TO Germany, Goldmann Finland, Bazar France, Michel Lafon Czech republic, Dobrovsky s.r.o. Estonia, Helios Lithuania, Balto Leidybos Norway, Gyldendal Catalonia, Simbol UK and the Commonwealth (Excluding Canada): Pushkin Press Film/TV: Nordisk Film Production

The Ice is technically close to a perfect thriller. VG

The Ice is a claustrophobic thriller. Aftenposten

John Kåre Raake John Kåre Raake is one of Norway’s most successful screenwriters. He was one of two screenwriters behind the films The Wave and The Quake, which are sold to more than 120 countries, and has sold more than two million cinema tickets, in Norway alone.

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Olav Rokseth

A MATTER OF PROTECTION One late summer evening someone brutally shoots and kill a respected imam and his wife near a mosque in Oslo. The assassin leaves no trace except some lines from an Arabic poem ushering an end time and the coming of the twelfth imam. A couple of days later another imam is brutally murdered, and the same poem found at the crime scene. The victim this time is Milan, a close friend and mentor of Davood Ariani, a scholar of religion. The Norwegian Police Security Service has no clues and turns to him for help. Davood’s family were killed during the Lebanon conflict, and he reluctantly agrees to go back to try to solve the murders and prevent more killings. At the same time, he must confront his own difficult past.

Original title: Et spørsmål om beskyttelse Publisher: Gyldendal norsk forlag, 2011 Category: Crime/Thriller Pages: 379 pages

"Well-timed crime debut … This first time writer deserves numerous readers… Rokseth successfully realises his ambitions and intricate plot, and surprises the reader with unexpected twists right up until the very last page." Dagbladet

"A story about love, hatred and revenge – a promising debut well worth reading." Adresseavisen

"New writer Olav W. Rokseth is a skilled craftsman who has composed an extraordinary crime novel." VG

"A brilliant Norwegian thriller ... Rokseth transcends most of foreign literature in the same genre." Dagen

Olav Rokseth

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Olav Rokseth is a Norwegian journalist and author. He has studied political science as well as marketing and communication. Rokseth has worked for a number of newspapers and magazines, and has made several extended trips to Latin America and Asia as a freelance journalist. His three thrillers is published by Gyldendal. He lives with his wife, three children and a Barbet dog named Toby in a old English inspired neighborhood in Oslo.

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Jørgen Jæger

THE JUDAS FIX Ole Vik is back. So is his haunted past. A truck is being hijacked on a road near Fjellberghavn, and the driver is murdered. At the same time a desperate father turns to the police to get help with his drug addicted daughter. The murder investigation reveals that the hijacking is connected to drug dealing, and that several deaths by overdose in Fjellberghavn in fact has been deliberate killings. Police Chief Cecilie Hopen simultaneously suspects information are being leaked from the investigation. Is there a Judas in their own ranks? Jittering excitement, personal warmth and human relationships are Jørgen Jæger's trademark.

Original title: Judasskuddet Publisher: Capitana, 2019 Category: Crime/Thriller Pages: 394 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Monster, The Concealment and The Almighty is sold to Sweden (Lind & co.)

Since his debut in 2003, Jørgen Jæger has established Cecilie Hopen and sheriff Ole Vik as some of the country’s most popular crime heroes. Leif Gjerstad, BOK365

Excitment from the first page. You may safely bring Jørgen Jæger's last on your summer vacation. Janne Bjørgan, BA

Jørgen Jæger Jørgen Jæger is one of Norway's best-selling crime authors. Last year he sold one book every forth minute, making him the third most sold Norwegian crime author. (130 000 sold books) Critically acclaimed Jæger is highly renowned among booksellers, and has been nominated to the prestigious Norwegian bookseller award four times.

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Agnes Ravatn

SEVEN DOORS Agnes Ravatn is finally back with a new novel, six years after the success of The Bird Tribunal which now has been sold to fiftheen countries. Professor in Comparative literature, Nina Winsløff is at a turning point. Her work seems decreasingly relevant, and her home, where she’s spent her entire adult life is going to be demolished. Her husband Mads, also the Vice Mayor for Health and Social Services in the city, is busy at work, and her relationship with her cynical daughter Ingeborg is not the best. Nina and her husband also own a semi-detached house, which is rented out. The tenant – violinist Mari Nilsen - suddenly goes missing the day after Nina and her daughter pays her a visit. The police have no clues, and the investigation is slowly put to a halt. But Nina can’t rest. What happened to their tenant, who left her son behind? She starts pulling a few threads to find out, not realizing that her discoveries will have grave consequences. Seven doors is a harrowing novel of dark secrets and dangerous curiosity. Original title: Dei sju dørene Publisher: Samlaget, 2019 Category: Fiction Pages: 250 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Germany - btb World English rights - Orenda Books Film/TV-rights - Truewest (NO)

This novel has it all! Agnes Ravatn's gorgeous bag of goodies of a novel has everything one could wish for in humor, intelligence and suspense. Dagsavisen

Both fun, exciting and profound. Adresseavisen

Like an electric shock - a real Greek tragedy in a modern Norwegian family becomes extremely powerful to read Fædrelandsvennen

A sophisticated crime mystery Bergens Tidende

Agnes Ravatn Agnes Ravatn is an author and columnist. In 2015 she was chosen as one of the ten most promising authors under 35 in Norway by the Norwegian Festival of Literature. This was the year after her second novel The Bird Tribunal, got fabulous reviews. It was also made into a successful play, and could be seen at the theater for nearly two years.

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Agnes Ravatn

THE BIRD TRIBUNAL Two people in exile. Two secrets. As the past tightens its grip, there may be no escape… TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge, is not the old man she expected. As they await the return of his wife from her travels, their silent, uneasy encounters develop into a chilling, obsessive relationship, and it becomes clear that atonement for past sins may not be enough… Haunting, consuming and powerful, The Bird Tribunal is a taut, exquisitely written psychological thriller that builds to a shocking, dramatic crescendo that will leave you breathless.

'The whole book is characterised by an uncomfortable and ominous tone and an exquisite writing style. It is dark, thrilling and captivating, as we slowly learn more and more about these two lonely people.' Original title: Fugletribunalet Publisher: Samlaget, 2013 Category: Fiction Pages: 208 pages

The International Dublin Literary Award nomination statement

Beautiful about to damaged souls living under the same roof. Maria Årolilja Rø, Adresseavisen

AWARDS Winner of the PEN Translate Award, the NRK P2 Listener's Prize, The Youth Critics' Prize and The Book Blogger Award, and nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018 RIGHTS SOLD TO Czech Republic, Albatros Media Denmark, Batzer France, Actes Sud Germany, btb Italy, Marsilio Lithuania, Svajoniu knygo Russia, AST Licence Limited Serbia, Agora Publishing House Turkey, Tünel UK, Orenda Books (World English Rights) Bulgaria, MATCOM Sweden, Modernista Spain, Seix Barral (World Spanish) Estonia, Eesti Raamat Hungary, Terikum

The novel remains with you as an electrical charge under your skin. Thea Urdal, Dagsavisen

It quivers of excitement and surplus (…) about two people, who only wants to be found and loved. Linda Klakken, Natt og Dag

'The ending literally pounces on you.' Cathrine Krøger, Dagbladet

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Sigurd Hartkorn Plaetner

SOMETHING ABOUT VITUS Something about Vitus is a critically acclaimed Danish debut novel about young love, devastating secrets and taking responsibility for ones own life. When Vitus’ girlfriend gets pregnant and insists on keeping the child, he somehow connects it to his mother’s suicide that happened eight years earlier, when he was just a child. He makes the drastic decision to leave his girlfriend and shortly after he falls in love with Emma who is also hiding something and running from reality. Together they embark on a journey that enables Vitus to finally open up and manage his demons. Just when things are falling into place for him, Emma takes him into the night and tells him something that tears his world apart and becomes crucial to both his past and future. This book is also made into a very succesful podcast-based reconstruction called Noget om Emma (Something about Emma). The rights for this is also available.

One of the most important books of the year. Original title: Noget om Vitus Publisher: Gyldendal, Danmark, 2015 Category: Fiction Pages: 214 pages AWARDS Apple iBook Award: Best debut 2015 Carl Møller Memorial Foundation: Book of the year

Carsten Jensen (author of We, the drowned)

If you want to read this year's most beautiful book about young Danish love, then hurry up and buy this book. It is touching, beautiful, funny and tragic. And brilliantly written. Ugebladet Søndag

In his debut novel, Sigurd Hartkorn Plaetner reveals himself as an eminent storyteller (…) Nothing in the novel's rather complicated plot seems strained; on the contrary, the story emanates a surplus of energy and an infectious appetite for life (…) I can not remember having read such a gripping story about life's fragility. Kristeligt Dagblad

Sigurd Hartkorn Plaetner Sigurd Hartkorn Plaetner, b. 1989, is a versatile storyteller in both fiction and nonfiction, in writing, through audio or as film.

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Jens M. Johansson

MIDDLE CLASS HERO Adam Bergs career is fading. Where is the promising author who was going to make a difference with his writing? The political, edgy and witty dude who married DJ Iris? Now, mid-life he is nothing but a sofa critic, cheated by his wife, left behind by his colleagues who flaunts their success (and therefore, his shame) for everyone to see in social media. But there's a new era approaching. The world is out of joint, and Adam Berg deicides to put it back in its socket. He is going to write a masterpiece. In his own words: " I am fourty six, and I am damned mad!" He wins a big literary grant and sets out to find and portray the working class, to find a way in to ordinary people. Middle Class Hero is a true, angry and vulnerable novel about a desire to contribute to society, and also not quite handling it. Rivalry, daddy issues, management issues, selfesteem issues, diesel vs gas issues... Adam Berg is here for them all, and it just might be the funniest book you'll read this year. Original title: Lavterskeltilbud Publisher: Tiden Norsk Forlag, 2019 Category: Fiction Pages: 340 pages

It is not often that one reads such an entertaining and revealing novel about class differences, literature and the literary environment. ... In its striking, laughout-loud way, Middle Class Hero broadens the understanding of both the literature field and class differences in today's Norway. Anne Merethe K. Prinos, Aftenposten

Funny, vulnerable and a very good novel about the great emptiness that can haunt our lives. Ørjan Greiff Johnsen, Adresseavisen

Jens M. Johansson has written an extremely humorous novel that addresses several key issues and links them together in a highly original way. ... There are many ways to the political novel. But few are as entertaining as in Middle Class Hero. Marta Norheim, NRK

Jens M. Johansson Jens M. Johansson was born in Stockholm (1971) but grew up in Oslo where he went on to study journalism, literature and history of ideas. He has written several critically acclaimed books and is translated into several languages.

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Sverre Henmo

GOING HOME Thale and Magnus have been a couple for more than ten years, and their relationship is getting a bit worn at the edges. Magnus wants them to have a child together, a longing not shared by Thale, who has a 16-year-old son from before. A weekend at the cabin in the mountains is abruptley interrupted when they receive a phone call. Thales son has fallen ill in training and is sent to the hospital. The son's condition is becoming increasingly critical, and the journey home becomes a race for time. While the panic rises inside the car, it turns out that Thale and Magnus have much more to talk about than they were aware of. Parallel to their ride to the hospital, we follow their history back in time until they first met. It is not always easy to see and appreciate what you have, to love the one who is there. Going home questions how well we really know each other, what it means to be a father, and what happens if the price of loving someone begins to feel too high? Original title: På vei hjem Publisher: Gyldendal, 2019 Category: Fiction Pages: 250 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Denmark/Turbine

"...it is difficult to conclude with other than this turned out to be a very good book." Klassekampen

"... an elegant, fast-paced and accelerated, a story of a life in reverse. Despair and puzzlement speak through the first-person narrator, who give us an effective open ending. ” Jan Askelund, Stavanger Aftenblad

Sverre Henmo Sverre Henmo was born in Oslo in 1968. He is a sociologist from the University of Oslo. He is now Publisher of YA and Childrens Literature at Aschehoug. He has written 12 books, several for kids and young adults, and two novels for adults. He's been awarded the Ministry of Culture's literature prize.

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Tore Kvæven

WHEN THE LAND DARKENS The year is 1293. Arnar Vilhjálmsson, a young boy, is rowing out on his first walrus hunt. After the hunt, a girl stands before him. She looks down at the beast he has slain, her eyes full of defiance, and her words full of scorn. Then she turns and runs away from him, without looking back. Her name is Eir. In the Norsemen’s Western Settlement, on Greenland, a sense of unease has been creeping in. The walrus that gave the settlers their wealth have been retreating. The ships that used to sail from Norway and Iceland to trade have become few. The Greenlanders’ own vessels are rotting. The people are wondering: is this the end? Arnar dreams of one day building his own ship and sail towards the lands further west, seeking timber, iron and hope for the future. Eir is part of that dream. In this quest for a future, Arnar is even willing to defy his own chieftain, gods, and the laws of men. When the Land Darkens is a dramatic story of destiny, with highly convincing portrayals of people and nature delivered through colourful and powerful language, transporting readers back to Greenland at a fascinating time. Original title: Når landet mørknar Publisher: Samlaget, 2018 Category: Fiction Pages: 450 pages AWARDS Brageprisen 2018: Best novel, When the land darkens Sørlandets litteraturpris 2018 (South of Norways award for literature): Best novel RIGHTS SOLD TO Turbine, Denmark

An absolutely incredible novel! […] When the Land Darkens is great storytelling in every way. It is still early spring at the time of writing this, but it is no bold prediction to say that this book will survive the competition from this autumn’s literary output. Fartein Horgar, Adresseavisen

A superb Norwegian novel! Tore Kvæven’s new historical novel set in the Middle Ages is so exceptional, and superbly well written, that VG’s reviewer went back to re-read some chapters several times. Tom Egeland, VG

[…] a great author in a genre that is relatively overlooked at present. […] The subject matter, plot and language enthralled me. Emil Otto Syvertsen, Fædrelandsvennen

Tore Kvæven Tore Kvæven (b. 1969) made his debut in 2011 with Hard Is the Law of My Land. He works as a school teacher, and as a sheep farmer.

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Therese Tungen

LOVE, OR SOMETHING LIKE IT About love and what it does to us. For the persons we meet in this short story collection, the desire to be close to others is both a beautiful and a destructive force. Magni can't forget the older lover she had as a young student. Erik recognizes his exgirlfriend down the street and wonder if he should say hello or hide. When Astrid's cohabitant leaves for America to study, she finds comfort in a bear costume. Sometimes people meet at the wrong time, other times two people discover that they interpret love in different ways. In Love, or something like it, Therese Tungen explores ancient themes such as reason and feelings, time and destiny. At the same time, the stories appear highly relevant in an era where the premise of courtesy and living together is changing. How much of love is governed by our own choices, and how much is random or circumstance? A new strong short story collection by critically acclaimed Therese Tungen. Original title: Kjærleik og det som liknar Publisher: Aschehoug, 2019 Category: Fiction Pages: 300 pages AWARDS Therese Tungen was awarded Aschehoug's debut scholarship for 2017, and in 2018 she received the Bjørnson scholarship.

There is a finely tuned presence and a moving seriousness in Tungen's short stories. They are close, but not clammy, and stylish without being slick. ... Therese Tungen must have been influenced by Alice Munro. Klassekampen

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR This book explores people's relationships with each other through densely but low-key short stories, where the author lets the reader recognize her/his own life. Vårt Land

Therese Tungen has again delivered a very good short story collection that engages and touches. Stavanger Aftenblad

Therese Tungen Therese Tungen has worked as an editor for ten years, starting at the publishing house Oktober, where she among other things co-edited Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle. She is now an editor for non-fiction at Det Norske Samlaget.

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Linn Skåber

BEING YOUNG Being Young was the best selling YA book in Norway 2018. It received fantastic reviews (6 of 6 stars), as well as several awards. With more than 100 000 copies sold, the book has definitely reached a large YA audience.

Original title: Til ungdommen Publisher: Pitch forlag, 2018 Category: Young Adult Pages: 256 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Giunti, Italy Rowohlt, Germany Scolar, Hungary Sobobnost, Slovenia, Urban Reads, Serbia

Linn Skåber has interviewed young people and asked them about their lives – about everything from acne to peace and loss. What’s the best thing about being a young person? What’s the worst? What would you change about it? Why are adults so lame? What are you afraid of? Skåber has used this material to compose fictional monologues about this both wonderful and hopeless time – the transition from child to adult – as seen from a young person’s perspective.The hallmark of all these short monologues is that readers will recognise themselves in them – whether as a young person currently navigating adolescence or as someone looking back on this time from adulthood. The texts have been written with a light, humorous touch, but in true Skåber-style an underlying sincerity always shines through. The book is beautifully illustrated by Lisa Aisato.

What a debut! Skåber and Aisato both have a rare mix of sweetness, poetic depth and twisted humour. It's a cheeky move to steal the title of Nordahl Grieg's famous war poem when debuting a YA novel. But Skåber is not just any debutant, she can clearly write inbetween all her other talents. The fact that the outstanding Lisa Aisato illustrated the text, makes this a rarely successfull youth novel. Cathrine Krøger, Dagbladet

This year it was easy to choose the prize winner. The choice became clear and easy as soon as we became aware of Being Young. It is an exceptionally successful book, and it is a pleasure for us to give Rikmålsforbundet's children's and youth book prize to Linn Skåber. Congratulations! Riksmålsforbundet (The Riksmaalsociety)

Linn Skåber

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Linn Skåber is an actor, comedian and writer, and has participated in a number of revues, theatre productions and films. She has written for both theatre and TV, and edited an anthology of erotic poetry. Being Young is her first book.

Anders Røyneberg

GREEN JOY LIVING AND DECORATING WITH PLANTS Anders Røyneberg, aka. @articgardener, has over 100 green plants in his apartment in Oslo. In Green Joy he gives you his best advice on which plants are right for you as well as what they need to thrive. The book will learn you how to take care of seedlings and cuttings and also what to prepare for when traveling away so your plants are just as healthy when you return home. Further it will show you how you may decorate and style your home with plants, with examples of grouping plants as well as using them as room dividers. Which plants would be beautiful in the living room or comfortable in the bathroom? Which ones clean the air in the office and which ones are robust enough to withstand an open bedroom window? You'll get all the answers to your plant needs for each room in your home.

Original title: Plantelykke Stell og innred med grønne planter Publisher: Cappelen Damm, 2019 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 152 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Quadrille, UK (World English Rights) Mann Ivanov Ferber, Russia Uhinehud, Estonia

The book was published late August in Norway and went straight into the bestseller list. It is now in it's third print run.

Anders Røyneberg Anders Røyneberg has gained over 55,000 followers on Instagram as @arcticgardener. He has received a lot of national and international attention in a short time and has been featured on NRK, TV2, Dagbladet, VG and Vanity Fair. He works daily as a therapist, writer and lecturer.

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Linka Neumann

WILDERNESS SWEATERS WARM SWEATERS FOR OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS AND ADVENTURERS Outdoor life and dogs have always been a big part of knitting designer Linka Neuman's life, and she is dedicated to knit sweaters that not only look tough, but also withstand rough weather. Linka is inspired by people who live a little differently and dare to invest in what they believe in. Her wilderness sweaters have joined adventurers and outdoor enthusiasts on strenuous trips in both forests and mountains - and on expeditions to Canada and Mount Everest. In this book she shares recipes for sweaters with the right wilderness look. Linka's goal is to design garments that will keep you warm and dry on short and long adventures, regardless of the weather. Original title: Villmarksgensere Varme gensere til friluftsfolk og eventyrere Publisher: Aschehoug, 2019 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 144 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Südwest, Germany WSOY, Finland Lind & Co, Sweden Bombora, Russia

Wilderness sweaters went straight to the top of the bestseller list when it was published, and has stayed there since!.

Linka Neumann Linka Neuman (b. 1990) knits and designs under the name @valleyknits. She has more than 50 000 followers on Instagram spread around the world. Wilderness sweaters is her first book.

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Ingunn Myklebust

URBAN KNITTING FOR ALL After selling more than 90 000 books in Norway over the past three years, Ingunn Myklebust is still making us “yarn” for more. Luckily, the newest book in Myklebust's bestselling knitting series is finally here. Ingunn Myklebust is one of Norway’s most popular knit designers. She stands out with her beautiful patterns and colour combinations, and her unique and versatile designs has gained her a huge fan base internationally as well as back home. The fourth book in the Urban Knitting series gives us 40 new recipes for grown ups and small ones alike. She has incorporated more of her new Knitting Inna Colours, and timeless designs that never goes out of style. No matter whether you’re picking up your needles for the first time or are a seasoned knitter, the book is so easy to follow that anyone can do it. Original title: #Bystrikk for alle Publisher: Pitch Forlag, 2019 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 190 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO Bystrikk (The first book in this series) is sold to The Netherlands/Belgium (Manteau) and to Turbine (Denmark).

Ingunn Myklebust Ingunn Myklebust is one of Norway’s bestselling knitting authors. From a small start on Instagram three years ago the interest has been growing rapidly, both in Norway and internationally. Since then Ingunn has published two books, both of them went straight to the top of the bestselling lists, she has started the successful web shop knitting_Inna, and developed her own yarn collection in collaboration with the largest Norwegian yarn company - House of Yarn.

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