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CONTENTS
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Tomas Espedal, Gaute Heivoll,
Levi Henriksen, Helene Uri
Jørgen Brekke, Thomas Enger,
Jørn Lier Horst
thrillers
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Anita Berglund, Knut Faldbakken,
Kurt Hanssen, Olav William Rokseth,
Kjetil Try
b ac k l is t, f ic t ion
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Kjartan Fløgstad, Johan Harstad,
Hans Herbjørnsrud, Trude Marstein,
Lars Mytting, Gunnar Staalesen,
Tarjei Vesaas, Knut Hamsun
nov e l s , shor t s t or i e s ,
p oe t ry
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Cecilie Enger, Marianne Fastvold,
Nikolaj Frobenius, Jan Grue,
Gunnar Bjørnå Høgstmyr, Øivind Hånes,
Heidi Linde, Annette Mattsson,
Pål Gerhard Olsen, Edy Poppy,
Ingvild Hedemann Rishøi,
Thea Selliaas Thorsen,
Øyvind Rimbereid, Jan Erik Vold
b ac k l is t, non-f ic t ion
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Laila Bokhari, Regine Stokke, Thor Gotaas
kol on
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Ari Behn, Olav R. Øyehaug,
Gunnhild Øyehaug,
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez,
Tina Åmodt , Jonny Halberg
kolon
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c r i m e f ic t ion a n d
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tomas espedal
Against Nature
“Tomas Espedal has a personally
centred literary project that he
pursues and expands with fascinating force and consistency”.
Stavanger Aftenblad
“Espedal’s writig sparkles, ...”
Aftenposten
In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal’s
work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author’s
personal experiences. Tramp (2006) introduced us to
the wanderer Tomas. Against Art (2009) is a novel that
focuses on the author; on how a boy approaches art and
eventually becomes a writer. It is about the profession of
writing, about routines, responsibility and obstacles.
Against Nature is an examination of manual labour,
love’s labour, the labour of writing. Labour in order to
live in compliance with society and nature. But what
is natural, and why is the narrator drawn towards the
impossible, towards impossible love, books, myths, taboos? He reads the story of Abélard and Héloïse, about
young Marguerite Duras and her Chinese lover, and realizes that he, too, is turning into one of those who live
against nature.
(born 1961)
made his debut in 1988. A
graduate of the University of
Bergen, he has published both
novels and short prose collections. In 1991 he won an award
from the joint Radio P2/Book
Club Novelists´ competition
for She and I. Founder of the
Bergen International Poetry
Festival, Espedal’s later works
explore the relationship
between the novel and other
to m a s e s p e d a l
genres such as essays, letters,
diaries, autobiographies and
travelogue. Espedal’s Tramp
(Or the art of living a wild and
poetic life) (2006) and Against
Art (2009) have been nominated for the Nordic Council
Literature Prize. The author
was awarded the Literary
Critics’ Prize in 2009.
novel | imot naturen | 164 pages | publication date: september 2011
Excerpt :
I’m beginning to grow old; I don’t recognise myself. It has always fascinated me, this
image of age: the old man and the young girl. I don’t know what it reminds me of, a crime,
perhaps, or nature, the brutality and violence of nature, its innocence. You can’t tell who
the guilty party is, the man sitting in the chair, or the woman sitting above him, on his lap,
in her low-cut, black party frock.
The white skin and the old face, coarse and creased, resting against the naked young
breast.
The firm, pale breasts lifted by a taut bra. A perfect curve. The white curve of the throat
and breasts; how good the old face looks against the smooth skin. He rests. He is content.
He’s sitting in a chair. She’s sitting on his lap; he rests his head on her white breast.
Translator:
foreign s a le s in previous work :
Denmark: Batzer & Co.
Czech Rep.: Havran
France: Actes Sud
UK, USA, India: Seagull
Spain: Lengua de Trapo, Siruela
Germany: Matthes & Seitz
Italy: Ponte alle Grazie /Mauri Spagnol
Georgia: Ustari Publishing
james s. anderson
004 /// tiden norsk forlag
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tiden norsk forlag /// 005
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gaute heivoll
The King’s Heart
A new novel by the author of Before I Burn, last year’s
literary success with sales of translation rights to eighteen
countries
Praise for Before I Burn:
“The sensation of the autumn? ...
this one is unbeatable.”
Dagbladet
“A relentlessly exciting and wonderfully told story...» Dagsavisen
«A bold visual narrator ...”
Aftenposten
A father and daughter are transported on a sailing boat.
The girl is stricken with fever, and has sores around
her neck and lower abdomen. With them are ten other
sufferers. The year is 1775, and they are going to Copenhagen, to King Frederik’s Hospital, to be cured of the epidemic that has taken so many lives. But the crossing is
not without danger, and the longer the voyage takes, the
more the insanity increases among the patients. Meanwhile the father is witness to his daughter being slowly
but surely consumed by the illness from inside. He has
lost his wife and another child previously. He has only
her left. Will she survive?
The King’s Heart is a compact, intense human drama.
(born 1978)
is a prolific and varied author. He has written novels,
short stories, poems and
children’s books. In 2010 he
broke through with Før jeg
brenner ned [Before I Burn],
which won the Brage Prize
the same year and was sold
to eighteen countries. The
King’s Heart is Heivoll’s fifth
novel.
g a u te h e i v o l l
Awarded the Hunger Prize 2011
novel | kongens hjerte | 229 pages | publication date: september 2011
Excerpt:
They arrived late at night. The doors were thrust open, the lamps inside swung wildly, and
the father, who had carried the girl in his arms the whole way, sank to his knees and placed
her on the palliasse in the dark room. The lensmann, who had fetched them, shook his hat,
scattering water everywhere, whereafter he vanished in the darkness with his officers, all
with their lanterns raised like ancient weapons.
The father said her name, how old she was, where they came from and everything was
duly noted in the record book as water dripped from his hair and beard. He glanced over
at the German doctor, who was still standing in the murk next to the door, the rain glinting off him, then he looked at the girl who was lying limply on the straw mattress, and
he rubbed his frozen hands together, pressed them against his stomach beneath his wet
clothes, as movement and warmth gradually returned. He leaned over her, moved the hair
from her forehead, and loosened the plaited belt around her waist, then he pulled her left
arm through the sleeve of the dress, then her right, and both arms flopped to the ground.
He took no notice of Deegen, or any of the others standing around him with flickering
lanterns. He knelt into a grotto of light and concentrated on her hands, on her fingers. He
crouched behind her back, mumbling short, indistinct utterances. She did not answer, but
he knew she could hear him. He managed to sit her up with her head supported by his
shoulder, and in this way was able to pull the dress over her stomach and chest and finally
tug it over her head.
Translator: d o n b a rt l e t t
foreign s a le s for B ef o re I B urn
Brasil: L&PM Editores
Czech Republic: Motto
Denmark: Rosinante & Co.
Finland: WSOY
France: Lattés – Hachette
Germany: Schöffling & Co.
Iceland: Mál & Menning
Israel: Modan
Italy: Marsilio
The Netherlands: Mouria
Poland: Swiat
Russia: Corpus
Spain: Salamandra (Spanish rights)
Spain: Edicions Proal-Grup 62 (Catalan rights)
Sweden: Norstedts
Turkey: Can Yaymlari
UK: Atlantic Press (World English rights)
USA: Graywolf Press
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levi henriksen
Riding the Blue Wind
Award-winning author of short stories and novels, with a
wide and loyal readership
Mikael Hildonen has tried without success. He sits at his
old kitchen table, sipping coffee and studying the clouds
over Austberget. Mikael knows one thing for a fact: Ine is
dead, and he will never get her back. And the same goes
for the child she was carrying.
And then life’s wheel starts to grind: Mikael is forced
to take care of thirteen year old Daniela, his brother’s
unwanted daughter. But first he has to shake off a few
debt collectors riding heavy motorbikes. They want all
the money he doesn’t have … and they know where Daniela lives.
Levi Henriksen has written a new Skogli novel about
family secrets, rivalry between brothers and about opting to give love a second chance.
l ev i h e n r i k se n
When his first short story collection Fever was published in
2002, Henriksen immediately
captured the public’s imagination with his unique and
charismatic voice. This was
followed in 2003 by Down,
Down, Down, a further selection of short stories. His breakthrough came in 2004 with
his novel Snow Will Fall on
Fallen Snow. This soon became
a bestseller and was awarded
The Booksellers’ Prize.
Henriksen’s trademark is a capacity for combining a strong,
at times aggressive, mascu
line voice with vulnerability.
In 2009 followed the novel
East of the Rain. In 2010, the
prize-winning director, Bent
Hamer, released a feature film,
Home for Christmas, based on
Henriksen’s short stories, to
critical acclaim and full houses.
novel | dagen skal komme med blå vind | 334 pages | publication date: september 2011
Excerpt from the first page:
The slam of the front door caused the old family clock to stop striking between the fifth
and sixth stroke. Mikael Hildonen felt his father’s heavy hand come down on his shoulder,
and the intrusion jolted him into an impulse to shake himself free.
“Wait Mikael, not now, don’t make things even worse,” said his father.
Down in the courtyard Daniela tried to tear herself loose from the woman holding her,
and turned to face the living room window with a movement showing more defiance than
helplessness. For a moment Mikael thought his niece might manage to run back into the
house, but then the driver came over, and together they managed to force the girl into the
backseat of the car.
Mikael took a step back from the window, and his father’s hand squeezed his shoulder
hard. A smell of mothballs flew up from the tweed of his best jacket.
The car door slammed shut, and a flap of the driver’s jacket was left hanging on the outside
like a broken bird’s wing. As the Volvo spun away over the gravel, Mikael hoped that the
material would get caught on something, so that the driver’s head would be thrown against
the windscreen with the same noise as when a rock hits the first ice of autumn.
But the car just continued straight ahead, past his mother’s freshly turned vegetable
garden, past the old dog kennel and out through the gate. Mikael couldn’t bear to look directly at the car; he couldn’t cope with the sight of Daniela’s shoulders and head framed in
the back window. Instead, he found a patch of the evening sky, reddening over the birches
in the driveway. The branches were almost naked of leaves and the trees had something
strangely shipwrecked about them. Mikael closed his eyes and stood motionless until the
sound of the engine died away somewhere on the slopes down towards the village.
Translator: d e b o r a h
( of previous work )
Sweden: Kabusa
Finland: Johnny Kinga-WSOY
Germany: BTB- RH
France: Place des Editeurs/France Loisirs
USA: a number of short stories represented on WordsWithout Borders
foreign s a le s
daw k i n
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helene uri
Bitches
The celebrated and bestselling Helene Uri has written a
new novel
“High scores for a wonderfully
entertaining book”
Dagsavisen
“A devil-may-care and
light story about women
who take revenge...”
Dagbladet
Men. What do you do when your boss takes all the
credit for your work? When your university colleague
obviously is trying to bully you out of his career path?
Or when your teenage daughter is seduced by a CEO?
Frøydis, Celeste, Ella and Jenna meet each other at an
evening course in Latin and discover that they have more
in common than a desire to learn a dead language. To put
it simply, they are fed up. It’s time to act. Through subtle
humiliations and comic acts of revenge the ladies deal
precise blows to men in power.
Helene Uri has written a devilish, wise and witty book
about taking action and doing something about the kind
of men who use women as foot stools. In short, the four
women decide to become … bitches.
helene uri’s
great breakthrough came with the novel
The Best Among Us, and she
has published a number of
books, both fiction and academic. Her books have been
translated into 16 languages,
amongst others English,
German Italian, French and
Spanish.
bibliography :
The Righteous (2009), The
Best Among Us (2006), Nylon
Angel (2003), Honey Tongues
(2002), Deep Red 315 (2001), in
addition to a number of books
on linguistics for children,
juveniles and adults.
novel | kjerringer | 460 pages | publication date: spring 2011
Excerpt:
Lectio I – In médias res
Celeste Ringstad was crouched astride a man who, in turn, was lying on a dining-table.
As soon as the act was over Celeste straightened her slender body, stretched her arms out
behind her, sighed as if after a job well done and proceeded to talk about what she was
going to be doing later that evening.
“Are you chucking me out now?” her lover asked. Celeste was currently seeing a svelte
dentist.
“Yes,” came the reply as Celeste climbed off him and hopped down from the table. She
remained standing beside it, absent-mindedly toying with the dentist’s semi-erect penis
and smiling to herself. “Might a man have an ever-so-small drink before being kicked
out into the autumn night?» the dentist asked, sitting up and looking at Celeste. If you
disregarded her hips – something he found hard to do since they were exceptionally wellformed hips – what he found most fascinating about Celeste was probably her skin. She
was smooth and very white, with no moles or other imperfections to speak of. Her right
hand still rested between his thighs. “Sorry, love, there’ll be no more from that quarter
today.“ Celeste smiled, took her hand away and crossed to a collection of bottles and carafes on a silver tray. She was wearing a bra and nothing else, a very fancy, very lacy bra. The
first time they had made love the dentist had tried to undo it, but she had gently brushed
his hand away. “You don’t unwrap all your Christmas presents at one time, do you?” she
had asked. “Show a little patience!” Today he had fingered a bra-strap, and she had smiled
and promised that next time, maybe …
Translator: b a r b a r a
foreign s a le s previous work :
Denmark: Klim
Sweden: Norstedts
Netherlands: De Geus
France: Lattes
Italy: Marsilio
Spain: Maeva
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jørgen brekke
Realm of Grace
A new crime writer with immediate success and sales of
translation rights to ten countries
“A glorious feast for the reader [...]
Jørgen Brekke quickly establishes
his own style and narrative voice.
He will have a huge following.”
Adresseavisen
“The story and the plot work superbly, it’s impossible to put down
this book [...] Get your copy now!”
Kulturspeilet
In 1528, a young Franciscan monk pays a visit to Bergen.
He leaves the town with an extensive collection of knives and untreated hides. Almost five hundred years later,
a flayed body is found at a museum in Richmond, Virginia, and another body in a book vault in Trondheim,
Norway. Both cases appear to be linked to The Book of
John, an old and cryptic text written on parchment.
This first novel about the American homicide detective, Felicia Stone, and the Norwegian police inspector,
Odd Singsaker who is recovering from cancer is a story
of dissection, ancient books, gruesome murders and
wounds that only time can heal.
j ø r gen br ek k e (born 1968)
has a background as a literary
critic and has worked as a
freelance journalist for some
years. Realm of Grace is his
first crime novel and he plans
to write more books whose
premise is that answers to a
present day murder can be
found in the past. He is currently working on several
possible scenarios and a new
novel is due for publication in
early 2012.
“An original combination of
several factors: the Nordic
crime tradition, Nordic humour and understatement,
unusual and innovative main
characters and an exciting
setting. The novel is rooted
in the past and the present, in
Scandinavia and the US and
appeals to a large group of readers across the world. “
ka trine riisager ,
editor, Politiken Publishing
novel | nådens omkrets | 377 pages | publication date: september 2011
Extract:
Prologue
There are no monsters under the bed.
He tries to breathe normally, to be as quiet as a mouse. He mustn’t make a sound. If he
can do that, the angry creature might not find him, it might turn around and go away. But
is that what he wants? If it leaves now, it will take his Mum away with it.
All the boy saw was an arm. It was wearing coarse fabric like Dad’s boiler suit which he
puts on whenever he tinkers with his mountain bike or does odd jobs around the house.
The spaceship it took him almost a whole week to build is broken and the bricks lie
strewn across the floor. Some of them have rolled under the bed where he is hiding. As he
ran into his bedroom, he knocked the spaceship down from the green plastic table which
Dad and he bought in IKEA. He is scared that the fiend downstairs heard the racket as the
Lego bricks scattered. A Luke Skywalker figure he had wanted for so long and finally got
for his birthday from Mum and Dad is lying right in front of his nose and staring at him
with dark empty eyes.
Translator: c h a r lot t e b a r s l u n d
foreign s a le s
Denmark: Politiken
Sweden: Forum
Finland: Johnny Kniga/WSOY
Russia: AST
Netherlands: De Fonteine
Brazil. Suma de Lettras
Italy: Nord MauriSpagnol
Germany: Heyne RH
France: JCGawsewitch/Balland
Korea: Woongjin Thinkbig
“Jørgen Brekke writes with
infectious involvement and passion
and paints a colourful and exciting
backdrop for an enjoyable and
vigorous crime novel.”
VG
thomas enger
Phantom Pain
A sequel to Burned (2010), an international success with
foreign sales to 17 countries. Phantom Pain is contracted
in 10 countries so far.
Angus Cargill/Faber & Faber/UK:.
“Burned is a significant acquisition
for Faber’s growing crime list. It is
a novel that combines the thrill of
the best page-turner, with a deep
psychological portrait of this wonderful character Henning Juul.”
If you find out who set me up, I’ll tell you what happened
the day your son died. That is the message crime reporter Henning Juul receives from the incarcerated former
extortionist Tore Pulli. He is convicted for a murder he
claims he did not commit and he wants Henning to find
the real killer.
Truth has never meant more for Henning Juul. And
in order to find the truth he has to dive deep into an impenetrable world surrounded by a haze of myth. Uncovering more questions than answers, Henning wonders
whether Pulli is to be trusted. Soon he realizes that he
has to find not one but several killers, killers who have
never been more dangerous than they are now.
(b. 1973)
published his first crime novel
Burned in early 2010.
It was introduced to international publishers ahead of
publication and immediately
captured the interest of Nordic, European, US and Asian
publishers; today the foreign
sales of translation rights
count 17 countries. Burned
is the first of six books in a
character-driven series of
crime novels mirroring the
th o m a s e n g e r
crime reporter Henning Juul’s
life drama and a very contemporary Oslo scenario. It
plumets the depths of Oslo’s
underbelly, skewers the corridors of dirty politics and
nails the fast-moving world
of 24-hour news. All this plus
a string of extremely brutal
murders.
novel | fantomsmerte | 397 pages | publication date: spring 2011
Extract:
It’s always the same scream.
Henning Juul blinks and fumbles for the light switch. The sheet under him is wet and
the air quivers with heat. He runs clammy fingers over the scars on his neck and his face.
A bass rhythm pouring out from an open window in Steenstrupsgate is pounding his
head. In the distance a motorbike roars as it sets off, then there is silence. Like a crescendo
before a sudden death.
Henning takes a deep breath and tries to strangle the dream still living in him like a vivid
movie, but it refuses to be erased.
It had started off as a good dream. They had gone outside to play that day, Jonas and him.
A thick layer of snow had covered the ground overnight. At the junction by Birkelunden
the tramlines were reduced to ruler straight silver lines on the ground. The dense snowflakes were still dancing in the air and they melted the moment they landed on Henning’s
cheek.
He was pulling Jonas on the sledge down Toftesgate and into Sofienberg Park, where
the children looked like black dots on the small hill sloping down from the church. Jonas
threw himself energetically from side to side. Henning was gasping for air when they finally reached the top of the hill. He was about sit down at the rear of the sledge when
Jonas stopped him.
‘Not you, Daddy! Only me!’
Translator: c h a r lot t e b a r s l u n d
foreign s a le s
Denmark: Modtryk
Sweden: Forum
Finland: Otava
Iceland: Uppheimar
Russia: Corpus
Germany: Blanvalet RH
Italy: Iperborea
Spain: JPLibros
Netherlands: Q-Querido
France: Serpent a Plumes
UK: Faber & Faber
USA: AtriaSimon & Schuster
Poland: Czarne
Hungary: Animus
Romania: Ed. Litera
Turkey: Pegasus
Korea: Sapiens 21
UK critics on Burned:
“New Stars of Nordic Noir”
piece in the Independent
“[Enger is] one of the most unusual
and intense talents in the field.”
Independent
“This debut from Norwegian
journalist and composer Thomas
Enger has real strengths: the careful language, preserved in the
fine translation; and its haunted
journalist hero ... This could be an
intriguing series.”
john o ’ con n ell , Guardian
jørn lier horst
Closed for Winter
The experienced police investigator Horst publishes a
seventh sequel in the William Wisting series
“Horst belongs among the
top names of Norwegian
crime writers.”
terje stemland , Aftenposten
Autumn fog covers the coastal landscape like a blanket
and the cabins gaze with blind windows towards the
leaden sea. Ove Bakkerud intends to spend a last, quiet
weekend at his summer house before closing the place
up for winter. But when he arrives he finds the place a
shambles, rummaged by burglars. And in the neighbouring cottage: A man who has been mangled to death.
Detective chief inspector William Wisting has seen
grotesque killings before. But the desperation he witnesses in Stavern this autumn is new to him. As if someone
has everything to win and hardly anything to lose. Therefore he is not very pleased when his daughter Line, a
crime reporter, settles down in a cabin out at the mouth
of the fjord.
(b. 1970)
has worked as a policeman
in Larvik since 1995 and now
holds a position as the head
of investigations at the local
police office.
He made his literary debut
as a crime writer in 2004 and
has now published seven
books in his crime series set
in southern Norway, the saga
of Police Inspector William
Wisting, his journalist daughter Line, and the team of cri-
jørn lier horst
minal investigators at Larvik
police station.
The author, who has himself several years’ experience
as a Norwegian policeman,
brings his knowledge to bear
on the descriptions of police
procedures and methodical
detection work.
novel | vinterstengt | 328 pages | publication date: september 2011
Extract:
The fog drifted in from the sea in swirling sheets, lying like vapour over the wet asphalt
and shaping little haloes around the streetlights.
Ove Bakkerud was driving with one hand on the wheel, with the darkness packing the
landscape around him.
He liked this time of the year, just before the autumn leaves fell. This would be his last
trip down to the summer house at Stavern, to nail closed the shutters on the windows,
pull the boat onto land and shut the place up for winter. He looked forward to it all summer; it was his holiday. The actual work took no more than a couple of hours on Sunday
afternoon, and the remainder of the time was his own.
He slowed down, swinging off the main road and driving onto the crunching gravel.
The car headlights slid over the briar hedge along the road to the parking area. The clock
on the dashboard showed 21.37 before he switched off the ignition, emerging from the car
and breathing in the fresh tang of salt sea air. The waves sounded like distant thunder as
they crashed against the shore.
( in previous
Denmark: Punktum Forlag
UK: Sandstone Press
Germany: Rowohlt Verlag
Netherlands: Q-Querido
foreign s a le s
work ):
norwegian novels and short stories
Praise for Storming Heaven:
“Enger’s novel is at times almost
excessively gripping, not least in
its descriptions of sickness and
sudden death... The author wholly
embeds herself under the skin of
her subject whilst her account of
the general misery holds her
readers in thrall.”
DN
cecilie enger
The Chamber Maid
marianne fastvold
Women Before Christmas
Appleton House, England, 1920: 21 year old Hilda Cooper has just received employment as a chamber maid. She
takes great pride in removing stains from the Queen’s
table cloth.
HMS Blenheim, Oslo harbour, 1926: Hilda Cooper
looks out at the Oslo Fjord and Ekebergåsen. It is an unfamiliar landscape. She has been employed as the Norwegian Queen Maud’s dressing assistant.
The Red Cross Hospital, Oslo, 1992: Hilda Cooper quietly passes away, 93 years old. A long life in the service
of the Royal family is over. She never got to live with a
man, she never had her own family. But she lived for the
dresses, for her memories of the Queen, for her duty.
Can angels, scented candles and Christmas cleaning
expel jealousy, or are more drastic measures required,
such as murder? Ingrid has her hands full preparing for
Christmas. But shopping lists and plans seem to have
less effect this year. She is jealous. Her husband has been
touring with his band and receives calls from Olivia, the
singer in the band. Dark-haired, dewy-eyed Olivia, who
approaches Ingrid and turns her Christmas angels into
demons.
c ecil ie e n g e r :
se lected b iography :
(born 1963) has studied history, Norwegian and journalism. She works as a feature
journalist and her first novel
Necessity was published in
1994 and was greeted warmly
by the critics. In her two
latest novels she has been
inspired by historical events
and persons.
Storming Heaven (2007),
Look in Mercy (2003), The
Henriksen Brothers (2000),
Extremity (1996: published
by Kabel Verlag /Piper tb) ,
Necessity (1994)
novel | kammerpiken | 144 pages | publication date: september 2011
“... filled to the brim with humour,
warmth and a never ending faith
in love – in these times of serial
monogamy ... ”
Bergens Tidende on her
previous novel
foreign s a le s
Denmark: Centrum
Latvia: Atena
Germany: Kabel /Piper BTB, Orlanda
selected b iography :
Love for Experienced Learners
(2008),
Swept and in Order (2003),
Tristan is Coming (1998),
Dead as a Dodo (1994),
Women in Flight (1991)
marianne fastvold
(born in 1951) debuted with
the short story collection
Women in Flight (1991) and
her trademark is irony and a
wonderful sense of humour.
She has since published four
novels. She is also the author
of specialized books on law.
novel | kvinner før jul | 170 pages | publication date: november 2011
nikolaj frobenius
You Were so Deeply Loved
sele c t e d bibl io g r a ph y :
I Will Show You Fear (2008),
Magnificent Defeats (essays
2007), Theory and Practice
(2004), The Very Least (20039,
Other Places (2001), The Shy
Pornographer (1999), De Sade’s
Valet (2004).
For years, Dr. Victor Ulvdal served as a respected and loved
general practitioner in Oslo. He has also been a supportive, caring father for his son Emil since the boy’s mother
disappeared on a mission for the Norwegian Agency for
Development Aid when Emil was seven years old. At
85 Viktor is still in good shape, an independent elderly
gentleman. Until the day he suffers from a stroke. He is
hospitalized, and then released. A new stroke, new hospitalization, release, rehabilitation, released again, a heart
attack, hospital, temporary residence in a care centre, new
release. Viktor grows weaker and weaker, more and more
dependent on help, but still they keep returning him to an
empty home. And the illness changes his personality. The
once amiable gentleman becomes unpredictable and furious – and Emil has to weather it all, has to suffer the pain
of seeing his father decay, the despair and powerlessness
of being next of kin to a man who refuses to die.
nikolaj frobenius
f o reign s a le s previous
(born in 1965) debuted in 1986
with a collection of prose
texts. His third novel Latour’s
Catalogue/De Sade’s Valet
(1996) became an international success and his books have
been translated into 14 languages. Frobenius’ trademark
is a linguistic skill beyond the
norm. In his writing he switches between real, fictitious
and historical scenarios with
supreme confidence.
w ork :
Denmark: Tiderne Skifter
Finland: Gummerus
France: Actes Sud
Italy: Ponte Alle GrazieMauriSpagnol
Spain: Rocca Editorial
Korea: Munhakdogne
novel | for så høyt var du elsket | 242 pages | publication date: october 2011
jan grue
Indefinite Time
Sometimes we need complicated machines in order to
travel in time, other times it doesn’t take more than a
thought. Now you are standing at Eidsvoll with the Constitutional Fathers in 1814, regretting that you didn’t put
on some warmer clothes.
The twelve short stories in Indefinite Time deal with
the unforeseeability of events the changeability of history. They explain why we happen to live in the best of
all conceivable worlds and who will turn out the light
and shut the door upon leaving, when Norway (in the
rather near future) has been shut down, dismantled and
shipped off to foreign owners.
“ ... sharp, playful and enjoyable
stories with time at the central
theme, at times frightfully beautifully told .. ”
Stavanger Aftenblad
“A mastership in short story telling.”
Dagbladet
ja n grue , born 1981, has studied film and linguistics and is
currently working on a PhD in
linguistics at the University of
Oslo. He has been a columnist
for Klassekampen and has
published articles i various
newspapers and periodicals.
He made his literary debut
in 2010 with the short story
collection Everything Under
Control.
short stories | ubestemt tid | 123 pages | publication date: spring 2011
gunnar bjørnå høgstmyr
Give me a Sword
“A style of writing characterized
by less-is-more, a fundamentally
inquisitive attitude and fertile
shifts of perspective are the most
important guarantees that we will
hear more from this new writer.”
Bergens Tidende
2011: Thomas and Frank lead normal students’ lives with
beer, reading halls and long, theoretical discussions.
They want something else. One year later, a number of
prominent, Norwegian public figures are executed by
an unknown terrorist organization. Eighteen year old
Anette has fled to The Netherlands, where someone
cuts off one of her ears in a dark apartment. In a confined psychiatric ward one of the patients is encouraged
by her psychiatrist to break out. Somewhere else a young
woman is comatized, her shoulder is tattooed with a
quote from a Persian missionary.
Give Me a Sword is a contemporary dystopia set in
Norway, a fragmented tale of brainwashing, brutality
and alienation – and about the feeling of having been
conned all your life.
g u n n a r bj ø r n å h ø g stm y r
was born in 1987 and has
studied English and History.
Give Me a Sword is his first
literary work.
new
wr
iter
novel | gi meg et sverd | 128 pages | publication date: spring 2011s | new writer
øivind hånes
An der schönen blauen Donau
Hånes has a particular talent for building the singular odd
character and writes with elegance and linguistic skill
It all boiled down to a question of margarine. Claus Peter
Mahler owns a margarine factory in the small German
town Langenberg. The factory has made him wealthy,
but it is also a double-edged sword. Whenever he happens to have a conversation with strangers he can’t help
noticing their reactions when they hear what he does
for a living. People don’t take him seriously, and they
don’t include him in their social circles. When he turns
50, he decides that he needs a change of course. To give
himself a chance to think things through, he goes on a 12
day cruise on the Danube and through ten countries to
where the river spills out into the Black Sea. On the boat
he meets a former actress Katarina, a woman who will
bring about great changes in his life.
foreign s a le s previous
work :
Germany: Kiepenheuer &
Witsch
Russia: Impeto
Lithuania : Vaga
Spain, Netherlands
selected b ib liography :
Antagon (2008), The Golden
Orioles in Benidorm (2006),
Petroleum (2004),
A Day for Paprika (2002),
Permafrost (1998).
(born in 1960)
is an author, musician, and
composer. He debuted as a
fiction writer in 1991 and, in
addition to writing novels
and short stories, has written
about food, wine, and spirits.
For the novel The Golden
Orioles in Benidorm, he was
nominated for the Nordic
Council’s literature prize.
øivind hånes
novel | ian der schönen blauen donau | 181 pages | publication date: october 2011
“Heidi Linde resembles Jonathan
Franzen and Nick Hornby.
She will sell in buckets.”
DN
«This is a great novel about
small town life. Yes We Can!
has everything it takes
to become a bestseller»
Aftenposten
heidi linde
Yes, We Can!
annette mattsson
Sharing a Flame
Obama’s slogan ”change we can believe in” reverberated
far outside the borders of the US. Even in a small town
in Eastern Norway, Terese figured that it was high time
for some change. But now, as she waddles about in the
final stages of pregnancy, she is unsure whether this is
the change she needed.
We encounter Kevin, who has suffered from a broken
heart for twelve years, Lydia and her imaginary friend,
the Norwegian Queen Sonja, and Jessica, who is coming
home to attend her own wedding … to a man she no
longer knows if she ought to marry.
Yes, We Can! is a novel about baking, Metallica, morning sickness and the Soccer World Cup – but primarily
about people it is impossible not to like.
We meet, we fall in love. We start to share a flame – but
are we able to keep it alive? The couples in these short
stories have all lived together for a long time and are very
attached to one another. All the same, they challenge
themselves and their partners. They seek to destroy and
they attempt to repair. They seek revenge and they experience love. They are afraid to lose, but they are also
afraid and tired of being held too tightly.
The stories are about arguing while on holiday in Italy,
about being thrown out of the car in a foreign environment. They are about people who can’t live together but
can’t live alone. They are about a man who finds that the
criteria for happiness change as he ages. They are about
phone conversations in the night and about lovers who
never, ever forget.
(born 1973) has
been a rising star since her
debut novel Under the Table
(2002) made it to the main
selection in Norway’s major
book club, but has since devoted a lot of her time to writing
for film and radio dramas.
She is now blooming, and
Yes, We Can! enchanted the
critics. She is also one of few
plot driven women writers to
traverse the gender gap; the
h e i d i l in d e
reviewers obviously see her
as a writer for both men and
women.
foreign sales:
Denmark: Rosinante
Sweden: Norstedts
Finland: WSOY
novel | nu, jävlar! | approx 300 pages | publication date: spring 2011s
annette mattson
(born 1959) published her first
collection of short stories in
1997. She was awarded The
Norwegian Booksellers´ New
Writer´s stipend, the
Bjørnsonstipend and
Tanum´sstipend for
female writers.
short stories | å dele en flamme | 85 pages | publication date: october 2011
pål gerhard olsen
The Ski King
edy poppy
Coming.Apart
The Pyrenees, winter 1910: A runaway ski stabs a
mountain guide in the eye and rocks the rational world
view of general staff officer and ski enthusiast Hjalmar
Wist. In the aftermath of Norway’s Independence
(1905) and the wave of national enthusiasm and selfconfidence he sees it as his mission to combine crosscountry skiing and military defence. In order to realize
his vision he starts producing skis on his family farm in
Ringerike, but an irresistible attraction to the enigmatic Russian woman Vera Heffermehl puts a crack in his
rigid and business-like bachelor life. Under the gloomy
shadow of an approaching world war she runs an illicit
operation amongst the emerging exile community in
Kristiania, the result of which will soon prove to have
fatal consequences for both of them.
Coming.Apart is a collection of short stories about the
confusion of being two and the insufficiency of being
one. Edy Poppy writes about people who are living on
the edge, about intense relationships and passion gone
sour. Edy Poppy’s sensitive, observant prose conjures up
the desperation of falling in love and the fear of being left
alone – in the sticks, by the sea, on the rubbish heap or in
the metropolis Berlin. She has an original and vivacious
take on the widespread use of reality in fiction and poses
new questions about the best way of capturing Truth.
Coming.Apart is a collection of short stories full of paradox, narcissism and self-loathing, of independence and
dependence, of truth and lies.
p å l g er h a r d o l s e n :
(born in 1959) made his literary debut in 1985 and is a
prolific writer who has published novels, plays and crime
fiction. Two of his crime novels have been published by
Rowohlt Verlag.
se lected b ib liography :
In the Light of the Red Sun
(novel, 2007), Night Music
(crime novel, 2005),
Whitsun (novel, 2003),
The Millennium
(crime novel, 2002),
Peacetime (novel, 2000),
The Oslo Girl (crime novel,
1998).
novel | skikongen | 375 pages | publication date: october 2011
foreign s a le s
a na tomy . m o n o to n y :
Finland: Otava
Germany: Goldmann
Poland: WAB
Italy: Bompiani
“There is a riveting, devil-may-care
impulse in Poppy’s use of language
and in her perspective. She explores mood nuances and emotional
variations in the magnetic field
between euphoric highs and
pathetic lows.”
Morgenbladet
e dy poppy (f. 1975) grew up
on a farm in Telemark, but has
spent several years in Montpellier, London and Berlin.
She has a varied professional
background encompassing
theatre, film and art and has
published a number of texts
in anthologies and periodicals. She made her literary
debut in 2005 with the novel
Anatomy.Monotony which
won a novel contest for the
best love story.
short stories | sammen.brudd. | 160 pages | publication date: spring 2011
ingvild hedemann rishøi
The Tale of Mrs. Berg
thea selliaas thorsen
Do Not Come Without Desire
The Tale of Mrs. Berg contains five new short stories by
Ingvild H. Rishøi. With great empathy and a unique
literary force she describes the fragility of human relations; the enigmatic, the frightening and the beautiful.
The stories are about meeting one’s first mistress, about
being clairvoyant and seeing signs, and about discovering that you are completely similar to Janis Joplin. They
are about believing in fate, fireflies and card games. And
about loving a hamster named Mrs Berg.
Fifty short essays about more than fifty authors and
about literature from a period of almost five thousand
years. The range is unique, from Babylonian literary
wisdom through the ancient classics to European masterpieces, nursery rhymes and Norwegian contemporary
literature.
Thea Selliaas Thorsen is known, among other things,
for her column in Morgenbladet and for her translations
of ancient love poetry. In this book she gives a personal
and passionate testimony about literature she loves.
Come Not Without Desire is an invitation to partake
in what’s good about literature, it’s surprises, because
it tells you that you are alive, because it is alive – even
though it should by all appearences be dead as clay, papyrus and parchment, as ink, paper and electronic reader
screens.
”An important literary
oeuvre is taking shape.”
Morgenbladet
”Moving, shocking and exhilerating
[…] merely 33 years old, Rishøi
exhibits a talent reminiscent of
Vesaas. Impressive.”
bjarne tve i te n , Fædrelandsvennen
ingv il d h . r ish ø i (born
1978) made her literary debut
in 2007 with Do Not Erase, a
short story collection which
was selected Book of the
Month in the BNB Book Club
and received brilliant reviews.
f oreign s a le s :
Denmark - Batzer & Co.
short stories | historien om fru berg | 119 pages | publication date: spring 2011
”An excellent entrance for any
reader who would like to access
the classics.”
Bergens Tidende
thea selliaas thorsen
(b. 1974) presently resides in
Oxford. She holds a dr.art.
in Latin and is editor of The
Cambridge Companion to
Latin Love Elegy (2011).
She has translated several of
Ovid’s works into Norwegian
and made her own
literary debut in 2004 with
the novel Pia Fraus.
essay | kom ikke uten begjær | ??? pages | publication date: january 2011
poetry
”Rimbereid holds a position in the
literary canon as one our the best
contemporary writers, and he has
been awarded several prizes. Not
only is he an excellent poet, his
voice is also important.”
Klassekampen
poetry
øyvind rimbereid
Jimmen
jan erik vold
Great White Book to See
Jimmen is a narrative long poem about the fjording
horse Jimmen and his coachman. Their job is to collect
kitchen refuse in Stavanger in the late 1970’s. They meander through a city that is undergoing changes. A new
Norway is taking shape around them. While the coachman speaks in the Stavanger dialect, Jimmen has a bristling, unfinished language based on old Norwegian word
forms, a helpless grammar and rhythmic speech patterns
reminiscent of ballad stanzas. The two of them exist in
a limbo between historic fact and myth. The coachman
has a hole in his heart and a knitting sister who tends
to think of him as “Wee Jeremiah”. Jimmen’s harness is
uncomfortable, and his legs would rather gallop along
paths of their own choosing.
Norway’s favourite poet
ø yv in d r i m b er ei d
(born in 1966) debuted in
1993. He has published prose,
poetry and essays, and has
won several awards, including the "Hunger" Prize and
the Literary Critics’ Award for
the poetry collection Solaris
Corrected. Herbarium (2008)
was awarded the prestigeous
Brage Prize, and he was nominated to the Nordic Literary
Price. His poems have been
poems | jimmen | 54 pages | publication date: october 2011
published in France, Germany
and the UK, and he has also
been translated into Bengali
and Slovakian.
Great White Book to See is a further development of the
leaping, intuitive global poetry Vold began with Twelve
Meditations and The Dreammaker Said. Within a frame
of snow poems the book contains texts on childhood,
falling in love, marriage, old age. On the poet’s parents
and Arctic polar bears. On the Dead Sea scrolls and the rising ocean. On the difference between Jesus and Buddha.
On resigning to the Great Whiteness that awaits us. The
collection covers a historical period that spans from the
battle of Thermopylae to the cross-country race Skarverennet.
is a popular
essayist, translator, public
debater and recording artist.
His poems and newspaper articles have initiated numerous
discussions on literature and
politics, and he was one of the
founders of ”The Poetry Year
2000”. In September 2000 he
received an honorary doctorate from The University of
Oslo. In the 1960’s he studied
language and literature at the
ja n e rik vold
universities of Oslo, Uppsala
and Santa Barbara, California.
His first book of poetry, Between Mirror and Mirror, was
published in 1965, and since
then he has had an extensive
production. Jan Erik Vold was
born in 1939. He is currently
living in Stockholm.
poems | store hvite bok å se | 174 pages | publication date: august 2011
norwegian crime fiction
Critic’s quote Free Falling:
“The foremost quality is the plot,
the dramatic complication which
forms the basis in this suspenseful,
multi-faceted first novel.”
LIV (Literature in Vestfold)
anita berglund
Winter Darkness
knut faldbakken
The Night Garden
A pregnant woman, Rebekka Tangen, is assaulted and
beaten unconscious with a spanner in her own home in
Svelvik. She and her unborn infant are hovering between
life and death. At almost the same time, the small town
is shaken by a murder in broad daylight. Evidence found
on the crime scene links the two incidents to each other,
and the police direct their attention towards an Eastern
European league of burglars. Didrik Claussen, a police
profiler who mainly works in the States, believes the
explanation lies elsewhere. The brutality of Rebekka’s
assault implies a personal motive. It also turns out that
her husband has disappeared – apparently he has run off
to Brazil. And now someone attempts to kill Rebekka’s
brother-in-law. The Tangen family is surrounded by
threatening shadows.
He is an outsider, a stranger with a past that has plenty
to hide. Time spent in prison has cut all ties to his native town. He wishes to make his stay brief, he has to tie
up some loose ends after his mother’s demise before he
leaves town. But something forces him to stay on, the
shadows of the past take a grip on him and hold him
back. Forgotten passions are revived. At the same time
he dreads the moment when someone will recognize
him and remember the agonizing incident of his crime,
conviction and sentence. And when a young girl is found
murdered, he becomes a suspect. But is he guilty? And
was he guilty back then, years ago?
Knut Faldbakken researches the darkest sides of mankind. He does so with great insight and an uncanny
boldness. The Night Garden is a sinister and captivating
psychological crime tale.
a n i ta b e r g l u n d (b. 1963)
has a Master of Science in
Financial Economics and has
worked as a financial analyst,
co-accountant and translator,
among other things. She
made her debut as a writer of
crime fiction in 2009 with the
novel Free Falling, which also
featured Didrik Claussen as its
main protagonist.
foreign s a le s :
crime novel | midtvintermørke | 260 pages | publication date: september 2011
”Devilishly cunning. A convincing
and highly complex
phsychological thriller.”
Dagbladet
(born
1941) debuted in 1967 with the
novel The Grey Rainbow. His
books have been translated
into 20 languages and two
million copies have been sold
in Norway and abroad. He
lives in small town Hamar,
the setting of the novels in the
Valmann series.
knut faldbakken
Sweden: Damm
Russia: Text
France: Seuil
Itlay: Giunti
the va lma nn - series :
Totem (2009), Late Damage
(2008), The Thieves (2007),
Night Frost (2006), The Border
(2005), The Gymnast (2004).
crime novel | natthagen | 240 pages | publication date: october 2011
kurt hanssen
Forget-Me-Not
olav william rokseth
A Matter of Protection
A charming «local» crime story with music as an essential
element in a multi-layered plot
He had experienced this before. He had seen it once too
often.
One late summer evening someone shoots an imam
in Tøyengata, Oslo. The gunman has left a few lines from
an Arabic poem that foretells the coming of the Twelfth
Imam and an era drenched in blood. The security police contact scholar of religion Davood Ariani believes
that the gunman will commit more murders. A couple
of days later another imam has his throat slashed. The
victim is Milan, a close friend and mentor of Davood’s.
Again they find a few lines from the same poem, written in blood. And the terrorist still hasn’t completed his
mission.
Davood’s family were killed during the Lebanon conflict. Reluctantly he goes back on the request of the security police … and to confront his past.
One early evening just after Easter, 23 year old Kamilla
Kaspersen cycles the last metres up the hill to the local
church in small town Bærum, where she takes organ lessons. She is looking forward to her next lesson. As she
locks her bike, she hears organ music wafting through
the open church door, a sad tune she has never heard
before. Abruptly, the music stops, and the following
silence is broken by a sharp, longdrawn dissonance.
Frightened by the sound, Kamilla rushes up the stairs to
the gallery and finds her organ teacher lying across the
keyboard, blood dripping down on the pedals. Rasmus
Berg has been murdered.
k u r t h a n ssen (b. 1959) lives
in small town Bærum. He has
reviewed crime fiction for
Dagbladet for many years, and
he has studied the organ at
Tromsø Conservatory. ForgetMe-Not is his literary debut.
new
wr
iter
crime novel | forglemmegei | approx 300 pages | publication date: spring 2011
”Although this is a first novel,
Olav Rokseth has an experienced
writer’s hand and he has delivered
a first-class crime novel.”
VG
olav w . rokseth
(b. 1955)
is a journalist. He lives and
works in Oslo.
new
wr
iter
crime novel | et spørsmål om beskyttelse | 379 pages | publication date: spring 2011
”A blood-curdling crime novel
which keeps up the tension all
the way,”
Dagbladet
backlist
kjetil try
Deliver us from Evil
kjartan fløgstad
Crossing the River Jacob
Who lurks behind all those profiles on the Internet’s dating pages? How can a woman seeking love know that a
seemingly sensible man actually is who he pretends to be?
Book II in the Lykke & Sadegh Series:
Awarded the Nordic Literary Prize in 1977
When Irina Palkova’s eleven year old daughter returns
home to collect a forgotten maths book, she finds her
mother lying murdered on the floor. A long incision
runs from her upper lip to her pelvis, and her body has
been filled with detergent. The only thing missing from
the apartment is the dead woman’s computer. Police
detectives Rolf Lykke and Parisa Sadegh are faced with
tens of thousand of potential suspects, a jungle of possible motives and a perpetrator who won’t hesitate to
strike again.
The wanderer and his shadow, the man of action and
the opportunist. In the early 1930´s two well-educated
young Germans make a decision that leads them to
Oslo´s infamous Gestapo headquarters at Victoria terrasse, to the River Jacob, and further, across the border.
And later across all borders, into a state where they become champions over life and death.
World War II finishes and evolves into the Cold War.
Even in the blur of war there always exists a demarcation between good and bad. Does that demarcation still
follow the same lines today? Horrified by the atrocities
committed by the preceding generation, a young Norwegian tries to do the right thing by abiding by laws and
rules. Will he still end up committing an injustice?
“… the most powerful contribution to this year´s literary output.
Crossing the River Jacob is some
thing as rare as a modern novel
of ideas, … The author has a
high-octane narrative strength and
writes with immense authority”.
VG
Excerpts in English available
k j etil tr y was born in 1959
and made his literary debut
in 1997 with the crime novel
Steady Course. Deliver Us
From Evil (2008) is the second novel featuring the team
Lykke & Sadegh; with this
book Try confirms his ability
to build suspense and a strong
plot. Kjetil Try is also known
for his work in advertizing
and as the owner of the
Try PR Company.
f oreign s a le s :
Denmark:
Art People, book 1 and 2
Germany:
Rowohlt, book 1 and 2
Czech R.: Motto, book 1 and 2
Turkey: Pegasus, book 1 and 2
France: Serie Noire/
Gallimard, book 1 ,
Netherlands: Q-Querido,
book 1
crime novel | frels oss fra det onde | 300 pages | publication date: mach 2011
foreign s a le s :
His work has been translated
into Danish, Swedish,
English, French/Ed.
Stock, Spanish/Lengua de
Trapo, German, Russian
Grand Manila (2006), Paradise
on Earth (2002), Sudamericana, Latin American Journeys
(2000), Heads or Tails (1998),
Fimbul (1994), With a Knife at
your Throat (1991)
kjartan fløgstad
(1944) is widely regarded as
one of the most important
and influential Norwegian
writers today. He has written
twelve novels and a number of essay collections and
poems as well as plays and
biographies. His writing is
highly praised by the critics,
and he has received some 13
literary prizes, including the
Nordic Literary Council Prize
in 1977.
novel | grense jakobselv | 426 pages
backlist
backlist
johan harstad
“Buzz Aldrin is an enchanting
adventure with a terrifically good
narrator.”
Het Patrool, Amsterdam.
fo r e ign s al e s :
Sweden: Wahlström &
Widstrand
Finland: Gummerus
Faroe Islands: Kim Simonsen
Russia: «Fluid»
Netherlands: Podium
Germany: Piper
France: Gaïa
Italy: Iperborea
USA: Seven Stories Press
Korea: Munhakdongne
Johan Harstad offers a wholly original voice and is one
of the most obvious talents published by Gyldendal for
many years.
He sees human fates in modern reality in a way that
is both urgent and refined, offering a complete involvement and a particular sense of absurd humor. His characters often stand slightly to one side, at a distance to
the major pulse of society. They are vulnerable, lonely,
different.
In his first novel Buzz Aldrin, what happened to you
in all the confusion? (2005), Harstad completes a fascinating project. The novel tackles the big question: What
does it mean to be a human today? What is important in
our lives? The narrative voice is convincing, and Mattias,
the protagonist, strives to be the invisible second man,
the cog, the one nobody notices. A grand scale novel
about life, sea, death and love, it references popular culture, lyrics, songs and bands.
Hässelby (2007): It’s about growing up in a suburb and
knowing you’ll never escape. It’s about the collection
value of Star Wars action figures, about the rock group
The Police, about acausal causalities and everyday synchronicity. It’s a novel that takes the reader from Hässelby to Hong Kong to Normandy by way of resistance
struggle, capitulation, and nights of terror, through
overfilled ironmonger storerooms and into deserted
streets onto which rubbish is emptied in the first light of
dawn. Hässelby is a novel about those all too numerous
demons that come, perhaps, at the very worst time, but
that nonetheless must come – sooner or later.
In 2008 Johan Harstad published his first YA novel,
Darlah, 172 hours on the Moon, awarded the Brage Prize
the same year.
In 2009 Johan Harstad was employed as the
Nationaltheatret’s first house play write. Etc. is the play
that grew out of that engagement, partially in collaboration with the theatre’s actors. It is an extensive work,
brutally merciless, almost exhausting, but also beautiful
and funny. According to the author it is “simply the
most aggressive thing I have ever written.”
Johan Harstad made his debut 21 years old, with a
contribution to Postboks 6860 in 2000, releasing his
first collection of prose works, From here on you just
get older, in 2001. This was followed by a collection of
short stories, Ambulance, in 2002 received with critical
acclaim, translated into French and Finnish. Harstad has
also written four pieces for the theatre, Degrees of White,
Washingtin, Krasnoyarsk, The Breadman’s Memoirs collected in BSIDES published in 2008. Harstad’s last publication is the play Etc. 2010.
Buzz Aldrin, what happened to you in all the confusion? was launched in the US to critical acclaim in June
2011 by Seven Stories Press.
“There’s so much music, exuberance, bewilderment and sweet
melancholy in Johan Harstad’s
Buzz Aldrin. It’s rock ’n’ roll, then
heartbreaking, then rock ’n’ roll
again. I devoured every line.”
paolo giordano , author of
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
“Harstad published his first
collection of stories when he was
21. Several books later, he has
established himself as one of the
most important writers
of his generation.”
silje b ek en g of N1BR/
literary magazine/New York
“I’d follow this voice anywhere”
– from a high-ranking sales rep at
Random House Publisher Services
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“Yet again, Herbjørnsrud proves
that he is the Master of short
story writting.”
Dagsavisen
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hans herbjørnsrud
The Wells
trude marstein
Nothing to Regret
Awarded the Norwegian LIterary Critics’ Award in 1997
It is a warm June night and summer vacation is on the
steps. Vegard drives his three daughters to the family´s
summer cottage, his wife has arranged to take the train
out the following day. She has a half year account to finish before she leaves. But it isn´t work that is keeping
Heidi in town. In reality she is going to spend a night
with her lover. Through two days and two nights we follow Heidi and Vegard in their separate activities, in two
separate worlds.
Nothing to Regret is a story about hotel rooms and
cottage kitchens, about overpowering desire and fishing
trips with the children. With a keen sense of human observation Trude Marstein writes a novel about infatuation and betrayal, about dreams and passions.
“When in the winter of 1976, I left college in Sagaheim
to take over the family farm here in Heddal, I had in
my possession a skeleton and an anatomy book.” Thus
opens the longest of the stories in The Wells. Just before
he leaves college, our narrator is told of an unpublished
poem, “Cain and Abel”, by the great 19th century Norwegian author Wergeland; a poem with a prophetic ending which looks far into the millennia, a poem that has
understood too much. The powerful hold this poem has
over his imagination forces him to search for the truth
of its creation and its ending. But the challenges do not
only lie within the poem; but within reality itself, where
conflicts between brothers and between farmer and poet
take disturbing new turns. “The Skeleton and the Anatomy Book”, a major short story in the collection.
h a n s h er b j ø r n sr u d was
born in Telemark in 1938, and
made his debut in 1979 with
Witnesses and is today a celebrated author of short stories.
Herbjørnsrud has been nominated twice for the Nordic
Council Prize for Literature,
and has been awarded the
Dobloug Prize, the
Aschehoug Prize and
the Critics’ Prize.
short stories | brønnene | 272 pages
f oreign s a le s :
His work has been published
in France (Editions Circé) and
Germany (Luchterhand)
and his short stories have
been represented in anthologies in the UK, Russia,
Hungary, the Czech R. ,
Slovenia, Croatia.
foreign s a le s :
TiderneSkifter/DK, Kabusa/
SWE
«Doing Good»:
Stock/FR, Houtekiet/BLE,
Kabusa/SWE, TS/DK
b ib liography :
Doing Good (novel 2006),
Construction and Sincerety
(essays 2004), Elin and Hans
(novel 2002), Suddenly Hearing Someone Opening a Door
(novel 2002), Strong Hunger,
Sudden Nausea (novel 1998)
“A skilfully crafted novel that
reveals intriguing mechanisms
of consciousness.”
Aftenposten
trude m arstein
(b. 1973) was awarded the
Critics´ Prize as well as the PO
Enquist Prize for her previous
novel, Doing Good (2006),
which confirmed her prominent position among younger
Norwegian authors. She
received the Debutant Prize
in 1998 and later won the Sult
Prize and the Doubloug Prize.
novel | ingenting å angre på | 368 pages
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“... tension at slow pace, with a
language and a sensitivity making
most other Norwegian novels
seem soft. “
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lars mytting
Spring Sacrifice
gunnar staalesen
We Shall Inherit the Wind
It is late March and a mild zero degrees as Lieutenant
Aksel Størmer arrives in Messingdalen, the village
which in heathen times sacrificed a human being to
make spring appear.
Aksel is there to wind up the area’s old military camp,
but his friendship with a neglected child gets him entangled with a repressed family drama.
Why does the room fall silent when he turns up in
Chow Chow Inn? Why will no one talk about what has
happened to Iver Tallaksen?
Gradually, the dark woodland village lets go of its
mysteries. Soon people start pulling him into their lives,
demanding a tougher, more heroic courage of Aksel than
the war he was on his way to.
Staalesen delivers classy, vintage crime novels, and has more
than one million readers in Norway. The new novel is the
fifteenth in his famous series featuring the PI Varg Veum.
Varg Veum’s girlfriend Karin Bjørge is in hospital with
life-threatening injuries, and Veum has to admit it: the
blame is his. Everything began with a seemingly innocent
case of a disappearance. The husband of one of Karin’s
friends had vanished without a trace a few days before he
was to take part in an inspection of the site of a planned
wind farm. The investigation leads the Bergen detective
into a case saturated with conflicts, where environmental
terrorism, religious fanaticism, dubious business ethics
and an unsolved disappearance mystery from the past are
important ingredients. Then the first body appears – tied to
“Staalesen is a Norwegian
Raymond Chandler – with fewer
wisecracks, perhaps, but capable
of generating a dark intensity that
few crime writers can rival.”
an drew taylor /Sherlock
a cross, facing the mouth of the fjord and an unsolved disappearance mystery from the past are important ingredients.
l a r s m ytting (b. 1968) had
his debut with the novel
Horsepower in 2006, which,
with translations to German,
Danish, Swedish and Finnish became a bestselling first
novel. He has earlier worked
as a feature journalist and
publishing editor (as well as
casual work on a mink farm,
as a farmhand, and in a car
stereo shop). The starting
point of his novels is the mo-
novel | vårofferet | 350 pages
dern Norwegian village, with
a particular passion for car
repair shops, military camps
and other masculine environments rarely portrayed in
Norwegian literature.
(2006):
Samleren/Dk, Forum/Swe,
Like/Fin, Piper/Ger
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h o r s epo w er
foreign s a le s :
The Varg Veum series has
been published in 15 languages – and is today represented
by Arcadia/UK ,VindroseBorgen/DK, Gaïa-Gallimard
Folier Policier/FR, Iperborea/
IT, Alba/ESP, Inostranka/
RUS , Polis/GR, Slowo/POL ,
Nyitott/UNG
gunna r s ta a le s e n was
born in 1947 and published
his first novel in 1969. He enjoys an enormous popularity
in Norway and has been awarded the Riverton Prize (=The
Golden Pistol) twice, for Fallen Angels 1989, also awarded
the Booksellers’ Prize, and for
As in a Mirror 2002. His VV
series now counts 15 volumes.
Six of the VV novels have
been dramatized for film and
DVDs and another six are on
their way.
crime novel | vi skal arve vinden | 250 pages
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knut hamsun
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920
Pan
A selection of Knut Hamsun’s major novels:
Knut Hamsun’s Pan is former lieutenant Thomas
Glahn’s retrospective narrative of his life and adventures
in the Norwegian woods. A man of fascinating complexity, Glahn is in some respects a modern successor to a
long line of «superfluous» men in western literature, an
heir to Goethe’s Werther and the protagonists of Turgenev and Dostoyevsky. But this portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian
embrace of Nature and Eros explores the veiled mysteries of the unconscious by means of thoroughly modern
techniques.
Hunger
(1890)
A true classic of modern literature - and a forerunner
of the psychologically driven fiction of Kafka, Camus
and Sarramago – Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets of Christiania (now Oslo),
struggling on the brink of starvation while trying to sell
his articles to the local newspaper. As hunger overtakes
his body and his mind the writer slides inexorably into
paranoia and despair.
(1894)
“The whole modern school of
fiction in the twentieth century
stems from Hamsun.”
isaac b ashevis sin ger
“The most outstanding Norwegian
writer since Ibsen.”
tls
Mysteries (1892)
is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal
novels of the twentieth century. It is the story of Johan
Nagel, a strange young man who arrives in a small Norwegian coastal town n order to spend the summer. His
presence acts as a catalyst, releasing the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the local
people.
knut ham sun
winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1920, is the most
prominent literary figure
in Norway since Ibsen. From
his experimental novels of
the 1890’s to the broader
narrative sweep of his later
works from the interwar
period, his contribution
to the development of the
modern European novel was
uniquely important.
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tarjei vesaas
The Ice Palace
The birds
laila bokhari
Holy Wrat
Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) was a poet and novelist. Born
in Vinje, Telemark Vesaas is widely considered to be one
of Norway’s greatest writers of the twentieth century
and perhaps its most important since World War II.
His authorship covers almost 50 years, from 1923 to
1970. Written in nynorsk, his work is characterized by
simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories are often
about simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who are described with immense psychological insight. Commonly dealing with themes such
as death, guilt and angst and other deep and intractable
human emotions, the Norwegian natural landscape is
a prevalent feature in his works. His debut was in 1923
with Children of Humans, but he had his breakthrough in
1934 with The Great Cycle . His mastery of the nynorsk
language has contributed to its acceptance as a medium
of world class literature.
The most famous of his works are The Ice Palace, a
story of two girls who build a profoundly strong relationship that ultimately ends tragically; and the Birds,
a story of an adult of a simple childish mind, which
through his tenderhearted empathy and imagination
bears the role of a seer or writer.
A prolific author, he won a number of awards, including The Nordic Council’s Literature Prize in 1963 for his
novel The Ice Palace and the Venice Prize in 1953 for The
Winds. He was mentioned as being considered for the
Nobel Prize for Literature on three separate occasions
(1943, 1964, 1968 and 1969).
In recent years Pakistan has become a symbol of violence,
extremism and terror. An expert on terrorism, Norwegian Pakistani Laila Bokhari has visited her father’s homeland many times in the past few years. In her book
Bokhari takes the reader on a tour of cities and the countryside, and visits with the poor as well as the affluent.
We meet politicians, generals and enraged Islamists.
As one of few Western experts Bokhari has spoken to
a number of people in the lawless tribal areas bordering
on Afghanistan, and combines this with descriptions
of daily life in Pakistan. Bokhari forces us to look at our
biases against political Islam and terror. She also sees
signs of hope in the country that her father once left behind. She tracks the foot-steps of mujahids in Kashmir
and the volatile border areas to Afghanistan, but also
ventures into discussions with religious and militant
leaders, young and old militants to understand the drive
behind a force that constantly shakes us all. It is also
the story of those left behind after a suicide attack, the
mothers, sisters, widows of martyrs. This is a well-informed and riveting book that provides fascinating insight
into religious extremism.
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(b. 1974) is a
researcher at the Norwegian
Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). She has a Master’s
Degree from the University of
Amsterdam and has worked at
the Defense Department’s Research Institute (FFI) and with
the United Nations’ Al-Qaida
Taliban Monitoring Team.
lai la bokhari
history | hellig vrede | 256 pages
fo r e ign s al e s :
China, Germany, Russia, Korea
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regine stokke
Face you Fear – The Book of Regine
thor gotaas
Running: A World History
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August, 2008: Regine Stokke, 17 years-old, is diagnosed
with acute leukaemia.
A couple of months later she creates the blog «Face
your fear,» which soon becomes one of the most visited
blogs in Norway. Here she writes: «Death is scary. It’s
what I fear most of all, just now. I don’t want to leave
my friends and my family. I don’t want to leave them
behind, sad. I want to live more, experience more.»
Fortunately, Regine did get to experience more, live
more. Through rock concerts, her own photo exhibition,”
the best birthday party ever» and cherished moments
with family and friends, she managed to fulfil many of her
dreams in her short life. In December 2009, Regine died.
Family and friends lost a warm, wise, and funny girl – a girl
who also made a deep impact on strangers. Regine’s last
wish was to have her blog published as a book. Many of
her readers have shared that wish. The result has become
a warm, caring and reflected book about life and death, friendship and love, and about the way in which a young girl
faces her own fear. For many she became a role model.
This book is based on Regine’s blog. It is an unusually
strong story, clearly bearing the mark of Regine’s own narrative. The text is complemented with intense photos, most
of them taken by Regine. The texts and photos show how
talented she was. More than 30.000 people, from young
teenagers and upwards, have responded to Regine’s blog.
An original, funny, and almost improbable world history. Why do people run? Four millennia ago in Mesopotamia, King Shulgi ran from Nippur to Ur to take part
in a religious festival. In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh had
to run to prove his vitality and to hold on to power. And
then there are the little-known naked runs, whore runs,
endurance tests at bars, backward runs, monk runs, and
the Inca Empire’s got professional runners. Thor Gotaas
shows us what running, in all its remarkable diversity, is
and has been for mankind.
biography | regines bok. en ung jentes siste ord | 287 pages
b ib liography :
The Gypsies (2000), The First
in the Race: The History of
Cross-Country Skiing
in Norway (2003), and Ski
Makers: The History of
Norwegian Skis (2007).
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It’s a unique book – a world history that will come as a revelation
to everyone who reads it. The
author guides the reader with
numerous remarkable and curious
stories through the history.
The reviewers’ wrote: “... it is an
impressive marathon that Gotaas
has completed, a book that many
will enjoy reading, both runners
and anti-runners, for that matter.”
Dagbladet
(2008).
Sold to UK, Korea, Russia,
Italy, Sweden, Netherlands,
Japan, Finland, Egypt,
Germany, Ethiopia
cultural history | løping, en verdenshistorie | 460 pages
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A Talent for Happiness
olav r. øyehaug
The Essence
A Talent for Happiness puts Ari Behn back where he started his literary career. This year’s book contains a handful of stories depicting love and death, family life and
experimental relationships, assistant workers, soldiers
at war and a deeply missed father who sends a post card
from the Nile. A common denominator for all of Behn’s
stories, is their precise observations of peoples’ lives and
destinies.
Olav R. Øyehaug writes fantastic prose, and The
Essence follows in the same tracks as his wonderful first
book, The Codes from 2008. Among other topics he
writes about the sperm’s quest for eternal life, about replacing the electric chair with an electric pub, about an
orangutan’s attempt to escape from the zoo, about fatal
misunderstandings, about dressing up as one self, about
a mother who pats and strokes her son into existence
from nothing. Death is massively present in Olav R.
Øyehaug’s stories, although not always in the guise one
might expect.
Praise for The Codes:
“Entertaining and original stories
and a capacity for joying the
optimal nonsense.”
Klassekampen
“A magnificent debut.”
Aftenposten on The Codes (2008)
f o r e i g n sa l es in
previous work:
Sweden: Lindelöws Förlag
Germany: BTB-RH
France: Actes Sud
bibl io gr a p h y :
Sad as Hell (1999),
Back Yard (2002),
Passion and Rage (2006),
Vivian Seving etc. (2009)
short stories | talent for lykke | 40 pages | october 2011
a ri behn ,
(born in 1972 ) was
born in Denmark, grew up in
England and Northern Norway and now lives in Oslo.
He made his debut with the
short story collection , Sad as
Hell in 1999 which attracted
great attention and became a
bestseller. In 2002 followed
Back Yard, about a young
man’s journey to Tanger.
Behn’s first theatrical play,
Workout, was staged in
the spring of 2011.
olav r . øyehaug (born
1977) made his literary debut
with the book The Codes in
2008. He is also trying to keep
the band The Kanossa
Gang going.
short stories | essensen | 67 pages | october 2011
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gunnhild øyehaug
Wait, Blink
pedro carmona-alvarez
Rust
A perfect picture of an inner person
“Brilliant and stylish. An impressive, powerful and funny first
novel!”
Bergens Tidende
“Piece by piece, Øyehaug’s new
novel is sometimes very good,
funny, witty and tender as well
as merciless. The glue that sticks
these pieces together, is unbelievable.” Dag og Tid
Wait, Blink is a novel with several stories. We meet
Sigrid, a rather timid young literature student, and
witness her soul-consuming encounter with the author
Kåre, the movie director Linnea (who is going location
hunting in Copenhagen), the performance artist Trine
(whose breasts are bursting with milk), and, last but
not least, Viggo, also a literature student, who longs to
belong to someone or something. Elida, a fisherman´s
daughter, Robert, a film producer, and Göran, a literature
professor, also play their roles in this group of shivering
and at times desperate characters.
Gunnhild Øyehaug´s novel is both wide-ranging and
complex. She is a playful and frisky writer, and Wait,
Blink is both humorous and profound. It is a novel about
desire and dreams, women and men, love and what it
means to dare to be yourself.
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez´s long awaited and extensive
novel is about topics such as exile, revenge, nostalgia,
terror and torture – as well as love, rock, coming of age,
friendship and confusion.
The first part of Rust takes place in Norway, and is
about Thomas, Passolini and Daniel who play in a rock
band and live a privileged bohemian life until one day
the enigmatic and brilliantly talented Passolini suddenly
disappears and leaves his friends in a vacuum.
The second part of the novel takes place in Buenos
Aires and tells the life stories of a group of Latin Americans – almost all of them have lived in exile (Passolini is
one of them) – until they assassinate eight closely selected persons, military doctors, torturers and squealers.
Rust is a story about memory, exile, inheritance and
ghosts.
“It is very rare, practically unheard-of, for a literary consultant
to come across a manuscript that
is out of the ordinary. Even rarer
does one think to oneself ´Fuck,
this is great!´ while reading.
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez´s novel
Rust is one of those rare
exceptions. It marks the author´s
major breakthrough …”
karl ove knausgård
f o r e i g n sa l es :
Denmark: Gyldendal
Sweden: Forum
Germany: Suhrkamp
g u n n h i l d ø yeh a u g ,
born in 1975, lives in Bergen.
She debuted with the poetry
collection The Slave of the
Blueberry in 1998. Since
then she has also published
a short-story collection,
Knots (2004), and an essay
collection, Chair and Ecstasy
(2006). She received the
Bjørnson stipend in 2006 and
Tanum´s women´s stipend
in 2007, The New Norwegian
Literary Prize 2009, The Dobloug Prize 2009, The ”Sult”
Prize 2009.
pe dro ca rmona a lva re z was born in La
Serena, Chile in 1972. As a ten
year old he and his family fled
to Argentina, and later the family moved to Norway.
He made his debut with a
collection of poetry i 1997,
and has since then published
four well received books. He
has been awarded several
literary prizes, most notably
the Sult Prize 2005 and The
Norwegian Poetry Book Club
Prize 2005.
English sample translation
available
novel | vente, blinke. eit perfekt bilete av eit personleg indre | 272 pages | 2008
novel | rust | 741 pages | 2009
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Construction Prose
jonny halberg
A Norwegian Tragedy
Construction Prose consists of a series of prose texts and
one poem, all of which convey precise observations of
work on a building site. The texts follow the building
from the first plot surveys and till the whole construction
is finished and the work team can move on. The prose pieces are about labour, about carpentry, about formwork,
about companionship, about danger, about the workers’
lives, their yearnings and their hopes – all relayed with
great tenderness and technical insight.
The former air force captain Håkon Sundin has gone missing and his house is in flames. His disappearance triggers
a series of events among the local residents, particularly
in the case of Mattis Grini, Håkon’s neighbour and once
best friend. In due course the rural community’s history
is unfolded through the story of its three most powerful
families, various migrant workers, the odd town original and the local policeman. A wonderful concoction of
greed, neighbour rivalry, fistfights, love, adultery, deception and common humanity.
Jonny Halberg draws characters and lives with credibility and apparent ease. With A Norwegian Tragedy he
has returned as a great storyteller, psychologist and entertainer. His writing is marked by insight and an overflow of energy.
“Original and stylistically rounded
workers’ prose about building
homes for people.”
Dagbladet
“A solid debut. Tina Åmodt
turns barracks, concrete dust and
thermos coffee into
refreshing reading.”
Aftenposten
is born in 1985
and has attended a Creative
Writing course at the University of Bergen and also at the
University of Gothenburg.
Construction Prose is her first
publication.
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prose texts | anleggsprosa | 88 pages | 2010 f oreign s a le s :
Hungary
Defiance (Trass) 1996,
The Flood (Flommen) 2000,
Go to the Mountain (Gå til
fjellet) 2004.
The Flood: «It is as exciting as a
crime story and as entertaining as
a Spielberg movie, and above all it
is seductive and generous like all
good literature.» ”
Information/DK
j onny halberg born 1962,
has published two collections
of short stories, seven novels
and he has also written the
film scripts for The Messenger
and The Amateurs. In 1998
he was awarded The Hunger
Prize for his oevre, and The
Flood was awarded the Critics’
Prize and the P2 listeners’
novel prize in 2001.
novel | en norsk tragedie | 240 pages

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