Stilton Literary Agency Selected titles autumn 2016 Brit Bildøen Ruth Lillegraven Jan Ove Ekeberg Christer Mjåset Jon Fosse Hanne Kristin Rohde Mads Gilbert Olav Schewe Hanne A. Hjelmås & Torunn Aage G. Sivertsen Steinsland Asle Skredderberget Odd Harald Hauge Sigrun Slapgard Erling Kagge Thorvald Steen Erik Bertrand Larssen Odd Karsten Tveit Lars Lenth All rights reserved. Copyright Stilton Literary Agency 2016. Brit Bildøen: Seven Days in August FICTION: NOVEL In the course of seven days in August, Sofie and Otto Krohg- Iversen, a married couple, experience a series of trivial mishaps. Each of these incidents in itself is not so serious, but they reveal large and small cracks both in their marriage and the community around them. Is everything falling apart? Or are these mishaps reminders of a greater catastrophe in life? The novel is set several years into the future. Eight years have passed since the terrorist attack, a cataclysm that had hit Sofie and Otto badly. At that time they had devised a plan for survival, strategies that have kept them and their relationship going until this week in August. But for how long can the grief process be a joint effort? Is sorrow something that can be shared Original title: Sju dagar i august for only a short period, and thereafter something you have to Pages: 200 live alone with? While rainstorms ravage Oslo and conflicts at Published Autumn 2014 work accumulate, it becomes clear to Sofie and Otto that their Publisher: Samlaget life strategies will have to be re-evaluated and the important questions can no longer be avoided. Full English pdf available. WINNER P2-LYTTERNES ROMANPRIS: BEST NOVEL 2014 Sold to: Seagull Books (World «A moving novel about grief and loss, beautifully shaped in English) its alternations between pure descriptions and philosophical English publication: Nov 2016 maxims. The novel discusses social conditions and key questions in our time, such as the climate crisis and immigration. Brit Bildøen succeeds in weaving together a character dimension and a social dimension. The novel offers a vision of our present times, an important message to future readers.» FROM THE JURY’S ANNOUNCEMENT Jan Ove Ekeberg: Apprentice of War FICTION: HISTORICAL “Home run from viking era” Dagbladet In the autumn of 1028, the Norwegian king is forced to flee. The Danish king, Cnut the Great, runs Olaf Haraldsson out of the country. Olaf travels east to Russia accompanied by only his most trusted men. His younger half-brother, Harald, remains at home. So does the severely injured Rane Kingsward, once the most feared of all Vikings. The old Viking teaches the stubborn young boy his weaponry skills. When the old berserker sets out on horseback from the estate, it is with Harald chained to the back of another like a slave. Thus begins a long journey for the obstinate apprentice and his unyielding master. For Harald it is a journey that has just as big an impact on his unformed mind as the Battle of Stiklestad (1030) that makes his Original title: Krigens læregutt brother Saint Olaf. After the battle it is Harald who must flee. Pages: 350 He is now heir apparent and in great danger. Published: May 2016 Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk “Apprentice of War” is the first book in a series THE LAST VIKING KING, based on Harald Hardråde’s adventurous life. Samples: 100 pages available In the second volume, “The Devil’s horseman” (2018) Harald goes to Konstantinopel, where he joins the imperial guardsmen Sold to: Cicero, Rosinante & Co as a viking warrior. According to the historic sources Harald (Dk), Heyne Verlag (Ger) fought 80 battles for the emperor before he returned to his home country to become king of Norway. “Imperial Mercenary” is Can be compared to Jan the third volume (2020). Guillou’s series about the Knight Templar Arn and Ken Follett’s “Historical novel writer from top division ...” The Pillars of the Earth. Hamar Arbeiderblad Jon Fosse: The Trilogy FICTION: PROSE Jon Fosse’s wonderful and critically acclaimed love trilogy about Asle and Alida has finally been combined into one book. Andvake (Sleepless) (2007) is a beautiful and unsettling story about folk musician Asle and his girlfriend, Alisa. Homeless and sleepless, they wander through the rain in Bergen. They kill to make a life for themselves and the child they are expecting. In Olavs draumar (Olav’s Dreams) (2012) we meet Asle on his way to get rings. Asle and Alida are to be married. In the city, Asle ends up paying for his deeds with his life. In the final part of the trilogy, Kveldsvævd (Weariness) (2014), we find out what happened to the couple who sacrificed their consciences through old Ales, Alida’s daughter. We follow Alida and her young son Sigvald back to Dylgja, the place from which Asle Original title: Trilogien and Alida once fled. Andvake, 2007 Olavs draumar, 2012 Trilogien (The Trilogy) is a masterpiece about two lovers trying Kveldsvævd, 2014 to find their place in the world. Pages: 200 Published in 2014 ‘This year’s prize winner is a rare example of how stylistic Publisher: Samlaget innovation can go hand in hand with content that has the ability to touch readers across the world and ages. A love story for the ages is told in prose with clear poetic qualities Sold to: Germany - Rowohlt and a deliberately playful attitude to the story. The author has Bonniers - Sweden managed to carve out a unique literary form in a way few others Dalkey - UK & US can. Biblical references and Christian mysticism are combined Kalligram - Hungary with tension-building elements and poetic imagery in a way Eesti Raamat - Estonia that opens up the story of two people in love to the world and Dimma -- Iceland to history.’ Modry -- Slovakia Statement from the jury, Nordic Council Literature Prize 2015 Turkey -- Monokl Sprotin -- Faroe Islands Batzer -- Denmark Circe -- France Pistorius & Olsanska -- Czech Mads Gilbert: Night in Gaza NON-FICTION: DOCUMENTARY «This book is one way of passing on my experiences of life in Gaza for fifteen days in July 2014. It is the photo story you will not see on television or in the newspapers. With a small, black camera ready in the pocket of my green operating scrubs, and with permission from the hospital management, I was able to take photographs freely, but naturally within normal ethical limits. What I experienced was awful, and it was immense. The sounds of bombs and screaming, bodies torn to pieces and a society reduced to rubble; but I also saw camaraderie, dignity, human courage and unflinching resolve. I had no choice. I had to write.» DR. MADS GILBERT Summer 2014 the World witnessed a 4th attack on Gaza since Original title: Natt i Gaza 2006. The attack lasted 51 days. The Norwegian medical doctor Pages: 190 Mads Gilbert has worked at the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza Published: 2014 during all four attacks. Publisher: Kagge Forlag In July 2014 he decided to leave his work in Tromsø, North Norway and join his friends and colleagues at Al Shifa. Sold to: UK - Skyscraper, While helping wounded patients, he carried a small camera in US - Interlink, the pocket of his green coat. Through text and pictures he tells Turkey - Intifada. his personal story of 15 days and nights at the hospital under continuous bombing and human suffering. Full English ms. available. Dr. Gilbert is invited worldwide, to universities and many other fora to lecture on his experiences and views on the Palestinians’ situation. In Gilbert’s previous book, EYES IN GAZA (2009), Noam Chomsky wrote a foreword. In this new book it is Max Blumenthal who has contributed with an introduction and the Mads Gilbert’s previous book Palestian journalist Mohammed Omer has written a postscript. Eyes in Gaza (2009, Gyldendal) sold to: Swedish, Finnish, English, Italian, Greek and Arabic editions. Odd Harald Hauge: Everest FICTION: THRILLER Explorer of the year, Martin Moltzau, is persuaded by his sponsor, Audi, to climb the Everest to complete his collecion of «adventurous trophees» after having conquered both the North and the South Pole earlier on. What Martin hides for his sponsor -- and for everyone else -- is his paralyzing fear of heights. Martin signs up with a commercial to be led by the legendary British climber Sir Richard Lawrence. The 41 year old Norwegian lawyer meets his fellow expeditioners in Kathmandu: A French mountaineer Celine Blanc, an American Wall Street broker Mark Simmons, an Italian woman named Manuela Franchesi and five of the best Tibethan sherpas in the world. All five have their secret motives for signing up, and before they reach Base Camp the Original title: Everest conflicts in the group are piling up. But nothing turns out as Pages: 350 they expected as they enter the Death Zone. A thrilling story of Manuscript available five extreme individualists who are forced to trust each other Published: Spring 2016 beyond the point of ease. Publisher: Kagge Forlag English synopsis and extended ”The Dead Zone” is the expression used for areas higher than samples available. 8000 meters above sea level. An altitude where no human being can survive for long. The body automatically shuts Sold to: India (Yatra Books - down functions, one by one, as time passes. Eventually critical English, Bengali, Mahrati, Hindi), Poland (Edipresse Ksiazki) functions will shut off and death occur. “A real page-turner!” Fædrelandsvennen Erling Kagge: Silence in the Age of Noise NON-FICTION: ESSAY The Joy of Shutting out the World “... a philosophical adventurer or perhaps an adventurous philosopher”. THE NEW YORK TIMES “Whenever I am unable to walk, climb or sail away from the world, I have learned to shut it out.