FICTION
NOVEL

Ida Hegazi Høyer

The Surgeon
Kirurgen

Tiden 2022
267 Pages
ISBN: 9788210058219 English sample translation available

The talented surgeon Henrik Wold has organized his life around his career and is now aiming for the department’s chief position. Life is quite simple for Henrik – until a young patient develops inexplicable complications after a standard procedure. For the first time in his professional life, he feels insecure, and the pressure evolves around him, both at work and at home. What happens when someone who pictures himself as invincible makes a mistake? What is revealed when the façade starts to crack? When does the surgeon’s pragmatic cynicism turn into destructiveness? And what is a human life worth?

With a brilliant take on human psychology, and a trained eye for comic interactions, Ida Hegazi Høyer takes us along on a two-week downhill journey in Henrik Wold’s life.

Nominated for the Listeners’ Novel Prize 2022

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‘A razor-sharp portrait of a young surgeon’s crushing fall.’

Dagsavisen

‘Hardly have I seen weirder, more delicious sentences on a book page this past year.’

Klassekampen

‘… teeming with phrases so precise that they shine like bright steel.’

Dag og Tid

‘A highlight this year.’

Morgenbladet

Ida Hegazi Høyer (b. 1981) made her debut in 2012 with the novel Under the World and quickly became a leading voice in contemporary Norwegian literature. In 2015 she was named one of Norway’s 10 most promising young writers by the newspaper Morgenbladet. In 2016, her novel Forgive Me won the EU Prize of Literature. She is the author of 7 novels and one collection of stories. Her books have been translated into 11 languages. The Surgeon was nominated for the Listeners’ Novel Prize 2022.

Foreign rights

Danish (Straarup & co.)

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Oslo Literary Agency
Henrik Francke
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Interview

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Kim Hjardar Auðr – Women in the Viking Age

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Kim Hjardar

Auðr – Kvinneliv i vikingtiden

Spartacus Forlag 2022
228 illustrated Pages
ISBN: 9788243012097

Audr means wealth. It was a common name for women in the Viking age, emphasising their importance in society. They were poets, skilled artisans and entrepreneurs who had their own ships. Women traded, led expeditions and played a crucial role in sharing knowledge, educating and protecting societal values. It was women who were responsible for textile manufacture and the preparation and storage of food, in addition to their important duties as healers.

In this book, we follow Aud the Deep-Minded, a rural Norwegian woman, on a 4,000 kilometre journey throughout her life, from her childhood in Norway to her adulthood in Ireland, Scotland and the Hebrides and her old age in Iceland. Kim Hjardar uses Aud’s story as a prism. How can we consider the role of women and the opportunities available to them in the Viking period?

Women in the Viking Age offers a journey of discovery through a history that has been overlooked. Through engaging writing and thought-provoking illustrations of both reconstructions and archaeological finds, the book provides a fascinating insight into the lives of Viking women.

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Kim Hjardar (b. 1966) has an MPhil in Nordic Viking and Medieval Culture studies from the University of Oslo, and works as a Lector of History at St. Hallvard College. He is a former head of Norway’s oldest and biggest association for living history re-enactments of the Viking period. Hjardar has published many books about the Vikings, among them Vikings at War (Vikinger i krig), 2011/2017, with Vegard Vike. The book was awarded the Saga Prize in 2012. This major and well-received work has been sold to Denmark, France, the UK, Spain and Sweden.
Hjardar’s works also include Vikings – Raiders from the Sea (Casemate 2017) and The Vikings’ Greatest Battles (Vikingenes største slag), 2020. Ha has also participated in several TV documentaries. Among them: Travel Channel´s Legend of the Lost with Megan Fox and National Geographic’s newest show, Vikings – The Rise and Fall.

Foreign rights

Denmark

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Jan Grue – Trying and Failing // Prøve og feile

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Jan Grue

Trying and Failing
Prøve og feile

Gyldendal 2022
368 Pages
ISBN: 9788205566170 English sample translation and synopsis available

‘Are you trying to ruin your life?’ Hannah’s friends say when she tells them she’s having children with Magne.

Trial and Error is a novel about an almost completely normal couple. Like all parents of young children, Magne and Hannah have their challenges, but with Magne in a wheelchair even a trip to the beach at Huk turns into a gruelling odyssey. In spite of his master’s degree in literary science, Magne has a poorly paid job as a hotel receptionist. But with his visible disability, he is at least a welcome expression of the hotel chain’s benevolence and its diversity policy.

Magne and Hannah had intended to show the world – show the world that they could make it, show the world that it was possible.

But a lot can go wrong, and there are many ways to mess it all up.

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‘With his novel “Trying and Failing”, Jan Grue completes an exceptional trilogy about disability and vulnerability. (…) Masterfully, Grue exposes the illusion that we all, even in Norway, have something within our reach that even comes close to resembling an equal life. (…) Grue affectingly demonstrates how complicated challenges for the disabled can really be – and how deeply problematic it is to pigeonhole people.’

VG, 5 out of 6 stars

Jan Grue (b. 1981) holds a PhD in Linguistics and is Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Oslo.

His work deals with embodiment – with what it means to be a body in an endlessly complex world.

Jan Grue is the author of a wide-ranging body of work in fiction, non- fiction, and children’s literature. He made his debut with the short story collection Everything Under Control (2010), which was received with glowing reviews. He has since published a further four short story collections, the latest of which is Vexations (2019). His first novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds, came out in 2016. Among Grue’s works for children is Oliver (2012), a fantastical story about living wheelchairs. His academic books include Body Language, on the subject of the representations of disability in a cultural and socio-analytical perspective, and Theory in Practice, a primer on critical analysis.

His book of autobiographical non-fiction, I Live a Life Like Yours, was published in 2018 to critical acclaim. The book went on to win the Literary Critics’ Award and was nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize – as the first Norwegian non-fiction book in 50 years.

Previous titles

Selection:
If I Fall, 2021
Vexations, 219 (short stories)
I Live a Life Like Yours, 2018
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2016 (novel)
Normalia, 2015
Oliver, 2012 (Children’s picture book, ill. by Eivind Gulliksen)

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Gyldendal Agency
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Interview

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Kjersti Herland Johnsen_ Jul på Himmelfjell hotell

Mette anbefaler!

Kjersti Herland Johnsen_ Jul på Himmelfjell hotell

Jeg er godt i gang med boken som forlaget omtaler som “Årets jule-feelgood” og “Den perfekte juleromanen”. Og dette er bra underholdning:
Fjellklatreren Ingrid Berg krysser sitt spor: etter en dramatisk skredulykke i Himalaya – og et samlivsbrudd – er hun er tilbake på det ærverdige høyfjellshotellet der hun vokste opp, nå som direktør for det hele. Men det er ikke bare glitter det som skimrer i vinterskaren der oppe i fjellheimen…
Hun møter en drøss av praktiske og økonomiske utfordringer, og slites mellom å bevare familietradisjonene og samtidig tilpasse seg influenceres ønske om Instagramvennlige aktiviteter.
Legg til grums fra overhodet i bygdas dominerende familie – med kallenavn Moskus – og ikke minst egne, skjulte familiehemmeligheter – og det er duket for forviklinger, både av det romantiske og juletradisjonsmessige slaget!

Cappelen Damm 2022

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Nora Dåsnes – Save Our Forest! La skogen leve!

When Bao finds out that the adults have decided to turn the forest close to the school into a parking lot, she realizes that she’s the one who must act! With her best friends Tuva and Linnea along her side, Bao organizes a protest for saving the forest. Do Abdi and the other boys in class really understand why it’s so important to save the forest? And how do you make the adults understand the seriousness of the situation when you’re 12 years old?Save Our Forest! is a stand-alone follow-up to the acclaimed and awarded Cross My Heart and Hope to Die.

A story about being big enough to be aware of how to act, but too young to be taken seriously.

Dåsnes la skogen leve! 9788203394843
Aschehoug Due: Primo October 2022
229 Pages
ISBN: 9788203394843 English sample translation available
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Fire and Ice – The History of the Climate

Reidar Müller

Fire and Ice – The History of the Climate
Ild og is. En kort innføring i klimaets historie

Aschehoug 2022
286 Pages
ISBN: 9788203393389

The Earth’s climate has never been stable. The globe has fluctuated between a greenhouse and an icebox. 55 million years ago our planet was 5°C warmer than it is today, and 20.000 years ago it was 4°C colder. The changing of the climate has even contributed to the rise and fall of civilizations.

The biggest challenge of our time is the rapidity of our climate’s change — we are speeding back into the greenhouse. Reidar Müller travels millions of years into the history of the Earth’s climate to see what it can tell us about our future.

Using both science history and new research, and peppered with surprising facts, Fire and Ice will give you the tools to understand the climate challenge.

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‘A brilliant sweep of climate change in deep time, about cold and heat – with heated recommendations.’

Dag O. Hessen, professor of biology, University of Oslo

‘Enthralling and impressive’

Professor Eystein Jansen, lead author of the UN climate reports from 2007 and 2013

Reidar Müller (b. 1971) has a doctorate in geology and is associated with University of Oslo as a researcher. He is also an educated journalist and has written regularly about Natural science in the Norwegian national newspaper, Aftenposten. His book This is What Norway Became (2014) aroused excitement among reviews and the public. The book was reprinted several times, making the author a sought after speaker. He made his international breakthrough in 2018 with the book Howling in the Woods – The History of the Forest and the Man Who Came Looking for the Grey Wolf.

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Oslo Literary Agency
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Roy Jacobsen The Unworthy – De uverdige

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In Roy Jacobsen’s latest novel, The Unworthy, we follow a gang of boys and girls from an apartment building on the eastside of Oslo during the WWII German occupation. They live in poverty, but get by creatively swindling, stealing like magpies, falsifying documents and committing extensive burglaries. They don’t shy away from exploiting the Enemy, either. With this pack of children, a lauded writer has rendered a brutally frank and warm portrait of a time, a place and an everyday life that thus far have been absent from the stories told of WWII. This is a Roy Jacobsen novel of best mark.

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

Roy Jacobsen (b. 1954) has, since his literary debut in 1982 with the short story collection Prison Life, evolved into an original, strong and analytical writer with special interest in the underlying psychology at play in human relationships and actions.

He is a storyteller with obvious political engagement. He has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for The Conquerors in 1991, and Frost in 2003. He was also short-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2009 for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. He was shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize in 2017 for The Unseen – as the first Norwegian author ever. His books have been published in 36 territories. Other important novels are The New Water, Borders and Child Wonder.

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Cappelen Damm Agency
Cappelen Damm Due: Primo October 2022
288 Pages
ISBN: 9788202774325
foreignrights@cappelendamm.no
Tel: +47 21 61 65 00
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Photo Roy Jacobsen: Therese Jægtvik

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The Silver Schooner: The story of the mutiny on the «Plattsburg»

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A dramatic, brilliantly entertaining true story − as exciting as a crime novel.

In the summer of 1816, the schooner “Plattsburg” is on its way from Baltimore to Turkey to buy opium. As many as 19 crates of silver and gold coins have been loaded on board. The captain is a slave driver, and while the ship is crossing the Atlantic, there is talk of mutiny under deck. The ship holds values that will allow the crew to live carefree for the rest of their lives. After several attempts, the crew manages to throw the captain and two other officers overboard. Now the mutineers must find a distant place to hide in. They end up in the harbour Kleven outside the small town Mandal on the south coast of Norway. Here they lead an extravagant life as big spenders, and their wild behaviour makes its mark on the small place.
The rumours eventually reach the American consul in Kristiansand, but by then the crew has already fled. The hunt for the mutineers takes place in several countries in Europe. Most are eventually arrested. The American naval ship USS “Hornet” is sent to Copenhagen in 1818 to bring the mutineers to Boston, where four of them are hanged.
Using Norwegian and international sources, the historian Dag Hundstad paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the fateful journey and the hunt for the guilty around Europe.

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Dag Hundstad (b. 1976) is a historian with a Ph.D. from the University of Bergen. Head of Department at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. He has written several books with special emphasis on coastal culture and the South of Norway.

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Vigmostad & Bjørke
ISBN: 9788241957697
elizabeth.sellevold@vigmostadbjorke.no
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Video

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I’m the One Who Can Help You. Kjersti Halvorsen

Psychologist Edvin works at the Kvervel Palace. He is engaged and soon to be a father for the first time. One day, he gets a new patient, André. Edvin knows him from his childhood but hesitates to tell his boss about their relationship. He is ashamed and unable to say more than ‘we went to school together’, which really doesn’t cover it. Edvin was bullied, and André was the bully. Now they have to deal with each other on a daily basis.

Why did André start taking drugs? Did Edvin have anything to do with what happened? Why was life so cruel to André but kind to Edvin? Or has life been kind to him?

Kjersti Halvorsen writes about complicated topics such as power, addiction, revenge and reconciliation in an entertaining way.

Halvorsen det er jeg som kan hjelpe deg 9788202742584

I’m the One Who Can Help You

Det er jeg som kan hjelpe deg

Cappelen Damm 2022
320 Pages
ISBN: 9788202742584 English sample translation available
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Thomas Reinertsen Berg: Til verdens ende.

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Kanelbarken kommer fra Sri Lanka. Nellik vokste en gang bare på de bittesmå Maluku-øyene øst for Indonesia. Muskat fantes bare på de vulkanske Banda-øyene litt lenger sør.

Likevel har disse sjeldne, fantastiske vekstene blitt de mest utbredte varene i verdenshistorien: en kilde til globalisering og imperiumbygging, kontakt og konflikt, utveksling og utnyttelse fra de aller eldste sivilisasjonene til i dag. Reinertsen Berg følger krydderstrengene tilbake til jordens eldgamle historie, og forklarer hvorfor de unike plantene vokser akkurat der de gjør og hva som er så spesielt med dem. Han tar oss med til Kina og India, Egypt og Romerriket, og viser hvordan krydderplantene kontrollerte handelsruter, kulturell utvikling og økonomier. Han illustrerer sammenhengen mellom krydder og den vestlige koloniseringen av verden fra senmiddelalderen til i dag. Og han forteller de ukjente historiene til krydder i dag, hvor plantene har blitt internasjonale landbruksvarer løsrevet fra deres unike opphav.

 

The cinnamon bark comes from Sri Lanka. Cloves once only grew on the tiny Maluku Islands east of Indonesia. Nutmeg only existed on the volcanic Banda Islands a little further south.
Nevertheless, these rare, marvelous growths have become the most widespread commodities in world history: a source of globalization and empire building, contact and conflict, exchange and exploitation from the very oldest civilizations to the present day. Reinertsen Berg follows the strands of spices back to earth’s ancient history, explaining why the unique plants grow exactly where they do and what is so special about them. He takes us to China and India, Egypt and the Roman Empire, and shows how the spice plants controlled trade routes, cultural development, and economies. He illustrates the connection between spices and the Western colonization of the world from the late Middle Ages to the present day. And he tells the unknown histories of spices today, where the plants have become international agricultural commodities detached from their unique origins.

“Tekst NORLA” – http://norla.no

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