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All news →Backwoods Fable is nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize
Sigbjørn Skåden's novel Backwoods Fable is loved by critics and was nominated for prestigious Brage Prize – now it's nominated to the most important literature prize we have in the Nordics. The novel was published simultaneously in Norwegian, and in Thorne Sami under the title Láŋtdievvá. Skåden is nominated with both versions of the novel.
Honorary Brage Prize to Anna Fiske
Yesterday the Norwegian literary community gathered for the Brage Prize award ceremony. The Brage Prize is perhaps our most prestigious literary award, and we are so proud to share the news that Anna Fiske received the most distinguished of all the prizes: The Honorary Brage Prize.
Super finalist for The Avid Reader Award
Ingvild Bjerkeland, author of the internationally acclaimed middle grade novel Beasts, is once again a super finalist to win The Avid Reader Award. This time, she is nominated with the book Dad and Other Terrorists.
Highlights this season
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Koster
Ida Fjeldbraaten
Koster is a sharp and intense novel about truth, literature, and botany—and not least, a love letter to the Bohuslän summer. Oda Bakken loses her job as an advertising copywriter and is contacted by a former client with a proposition: she is to write a biography of Lina Ebbel, a multi-millionaire and the founder of the natural cosmetics brand "Linné AS." Oda travels to the island of Koster, where the elderly woman lives. But the writing assignment proves far more difficult than first anticipated, as her subject has a highly unconventional relationship with reality. The Swedish archipelago idyll of Koster frames the story with its perfect Swedish summer. But as the holidaymakers head home, the restaurants close, and the sea turns white, an unsettling underworld of unexplained phenomena, human experimentation, and jealous husbands begins to creep in.
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Delirium
Roy Jacobsen
Posthumous novel by one of Norway's greatest contemporary writers. What really goes on in a human mind? And what remains when those around you disappear? Two men are walking on familiar paths in Oslo. They are the last remnants of a group of eight friends who grew up under a maple tree in a courtyard in Eastern Oslo. Now they are trying to clean up their own stories. But a long life has left inexorable traces. Delirium is a story about friendship and loneliness, love and loss, the forgotten and the remembered. "Candid and free on what matters most (...) Delirium is full of sentences that stand up to being read more than once (...)Moving, but also witty. Warm, wise, and sharp. And told with a certain reckless flair in a jazzy, improv style."NRK "A dark and moving tale of death and decay that warms the heart – and reminds us of the author's greatness (...) a joy to read, with subtext bubbling with reflections, philosophical musings, and, not least, subtle humor."Bok365, 6/6 stars "A great farewell address on old age, grief, and loneliness."Nettavisen, 6/6 stars "Even though the finale came too soon, Delirium will stand as a breath of fresh air in Jacobsen's solid body of work (...) Linguistically, it is sharper and tighter than the realistic novels (...) Existentially, the book probes deeply without feeling heavy-hearted."Aftenposten "Form and content work hand in hand in this novel, which borrows elements from detective fiction as well as the essay."Dagsavisen "… a brilliant book about ageing. … The different perspectives on old Norwegian wealth, immigration, and societal change weave long threads throughout the novel. The alternation between these perspectives is one of its greatest strengths, not least in the dialogues with site manager Zbigniew and café host Ibrahim. I would have loved to quote the dialogues, or the narrator’s intricate, insightful reflections (...) they are outstanding—on par with Jacobsen’s best."Klassekampen "This is a wistful and dark novel, one of Jacobsen’s darkest. Yet, the author still manages to bring forth a warmth within this universe."HK NYTT
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You Must Choose
Simon Stranger
Every single day, we have to make thousands of choices, both big and small. Many of them are simple and mundane, while others can have major, unexpected consequences. If you choose to read this book, you will be drawn into stories from all over the world, spanning thousands of years, and you must choose the path yourself. Every choice leads to new ones in a branching web of small and large events that turn out to be interconnected: You could, for example, be a submarine captain during the Cold War, or the female translator for the Spaniards in 15th-century Mexico, helping to topple the Aztec Empire. You could be a zookeeper in Libya or a con artist in Vietnam, a Senegalese musician or a young Norwegian man about to do something he will regret for the rest of his life. You Must Choose is an ambitious yet highly readable young adult novel that actively engages the reader in a captivating way. The book features black-and-white illustrations by Eivind Gulliksen. «It has been a very long time since I was as captivated by a novel as I have been with Simon Stranger’s new book, You Must Choose. It has an entirely unique structure, almost built like a classic board game where you must make a choice before moving the pieces. (…) The uniqueness of the composition is fascinating, the multitude of stories is thrilling. This is a rare treat.»Tønsberg Blad, 6/6 stars «Through carefully selected details, Stranger conjures up a wealth of diverse human destinies. (…) It is an ambitious dramaturgy Stranger has undertaken. (…) The variety of human fates is impressive. They are surprising and original.»Bok365.no
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The Fall of the Glaciers
Dag O. Hessen
In The Fall of the Glaciers, it’s the ability ice has to tell a deeper story about who we are, where we come from, and where we are going that forms the nerve of the narrative. Long before becoming one of Scandinavia’s most renowned biologists, Dag O. Hessen spent his summers navigating the crevasses of Norway’s majestic glaciers. Decades later, as climate change accelerates and ancient ice recedes, Hessen returns to these blue cathedrals to confront a profound global phenomenon: the beauty, science, and collective grief surrounding the world’s disappearing glaciers. What can more effectively convey the story of tipping points and a warmer planet than a glacier that melts more in summer than it grows in winter? With The Fall of the Glaciers, Hessen completes a trilogy destined to become a pillar of Norwegian non-fiction, building on Wolverine Tracks (2023) and Bird’s-Eye View (2025). While each book stands on its own, they are bound together by Hessen’s personal and scientific reflections on the natural world and humanity’s place within its accelerating changes. “In a level-headed and knowledgeable manner, Hessen navigates such dizzying spans of time (...) Besides inspired accounts of his own experiences with glaciers, Hessen offers both the history of science and cultural history ... he [elaborates on] how the loss of nature carries cultural and existential dimensions (...)"Morgenbladet “Thorough and frightening about what happens when glaciers around the world melt and disappear (...) The beauty of such in-depth non-fiction is the personal approach to the subject matter, something he also carried off in style in the first two books, Wolverine Tracks and Bird's-Eye View, in what has now, with this release, become a trilogy.”Adresseavisen
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Prescription: Play
Charlotte Lunde
Childhood play was a sanctuary. A space where there was only room for joy, not for worries. We all have some memories associated with play. A place, a smell or a song. In an instant, you are back in time. Today, children play less outside – and less with each other. They experience more demands and less freedom than children did a generation ago. More and more children and young people also struggle with health problems and dissatisfaction. Increased knowledge about the importance of play shows that this may be connected. For many children and youths, play has moved into a screen, and AI is now also invading childhood. These are playgrounds that are proving to be threaths to children's safety and health in a way we could never have imagined. All mammals play because play is a prerequisite for health, development and survival. Play develops empathy, curiosity and mental resilience – qualities we presently need more than anything. This means that we as a society must bring free play back into the fight – not only for the health of our children – but for the future of the earth.
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The Age of Shields: The Migration
Sigbjørn Mostue
History remembers Rome. History remembers the Vikings. But time in between was so dark and merciless that the world chose to forget it. Europe, early 5th century. The Roman Empire is crumbling under the inept Emperor Honorius. Ioannes Claudius, son of a Roman general, is sent to the edge of the empire, to a Britannia where loyalty is bought with blood and the name of the emperor no longer provides protection. Meanwhile, in what will one day become Norway, the young woman Vivja survives the massacre of her people. She carries visions of the wolf age, endless winter, and a migration that will draw entire peoples south. When their paths cross, the two are bound together by necessity and fate. Together, Vivja and Ioannes flee to Italy, unaware that furious Gothic forces are marching on Rome. Ahead of them lies a journey through the wolf age and the shield age – where one world dies and a new one is born. The Migration is the first volume in the series The Shield Age – an epic historical drama from the migration period, the 'dark centuries'. It is from this time that the heroic legends of Beowulf, King Arthur, Sigurd Fåvnesbane and King Atle arise. A climate catastrophe awaits – the Fimbul Winter – as well as a cruel pandemic, merciless ethnic cleansing and an impressive civilization that crumbles. But in the ruins of the Roman Empire the foundation for a new Europe is laid.
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No One is Looking Out for Us
Linn Strømsborg
It's New Year's Eve and Iris is celebrating with her boyfriend and old friends. The mood is good, midnight is approaching and the sky has already started to pop a little. Then she receives a message from her ex. He was once her very first boyfriend. An ex she hasn't seen in years. Iris doesn't want to open it, but she opens it. The message is only one sentence long: "Do you remember if I was ever violent towards you?" No One is Looking Out for Us is a novel about physical as well as psychological abuse in close relationships. About the absolute insecurity that women live with. Because they don't know. Because they can't know. If they're really with him, safe in their own home, safe in their own bed. Strømsborg also shows us how the responsibility for the truth is all too easily relaxed from the abuser to the victim, when he asks if she can remember what it was like, and if he really did something wrong. It's harrowing and everyday, and harrowing because it's so everyday. "No One is Looking Out for Us is an easy-to-read, airy, and engaging novel where timely questions about violence, power, sex, and consent are never far away, and where its use value is indisputable."Dagens Næringsliv
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