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FICTION Frode Grytten CRIME FICTION Floating Bear Flytande bjørn Samlaget 2005 247 Pages PHOTO: HANS JØRGEN BRUN One June night, in a small town gripped by a sweltering heat wave, a young man is forced off the road and into the river. Robert Bell, a disillusioned local Grytten made his literary début in 1983 with a collection of poems. He has published journalist with a dry sense of humour and an escalating drink problem, leaves several volumes of short stories, novels and behind the banality of his quiet office to investigate the mysterious death. children’s books. His breakthrough novel Simmering racial tensions in the town threaten to boil over and local Serbian Beehive Song (Bikubesong), 1999, earned him the Brage Prize and was nominated for immigrants become the easy targets for blame. Robert's own brother, Frank, is the Nordic Council's Prize for Literature. The the investigating police officer, but they have a problem sharing information. stories were put on stage with considerable And another darker, hidden problem; Robert's in love with the one woman he success in 2003 and 2013. In 2005 Grytten wrote the literary crime Floating Bear can't have: Frank's wife Irene. Their affair continues through the stifling heat (Flytande bjørn) – and with this novel he until one morning Irene vanishes. Is her disappearance somehow linked to the placed himself in the front line among young man's death? Soon Robert is drawn deeper into the desperate hunt for a Norway’s contemporary authors. In 2007 the collection Rooms by the Sea, Rooms in the murderer and, as the storm clouds gather, finds some uncomfortable truths City (Rom ved havet, rom i byen) was about his seemingly quiet community. published; stories inspired by the painter Edward Hopper. In 2011 he wrote the trilogy The Riverton Prize / The Golden Gun for the best Norwegian crime Saga Night (Saganatt). fiction 2005. FOREIGN SALES Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, UK AWARDS The Riverton Prize / The Golden Gun (the prize for the best Norwegian crime) for Floating Bear, 2005 The Brage Prize for Beehive Song, 1999 'A finely wrought political novel suggestive at times of American RIGHTSHOLDER big-city crime.' HAGEN AGENCY by Eirin Hagen Lindemans gate 3 D Aftenposten NO-0267 Oslo Tel: +47 22 46 52 54 Mob: +47 93 41 10 56 'A superbly told story of a [email protected] journalist working in the shadow www.hagenagency.no of death and love.' Stavanger Aftenblad 'A perceptively written thriller flavoured with tragedy and comedy and spiced with piquantly politicized pepper.' Adresseavisen www.norla.no FICTION Jon Fosse NOVEL - TRILOGY The Trilogy: Wakefulness (2007), Olav's Dreams (2012), Weariness (2014) Trilogien: Andvake (2007), Olavs Draumar (2012), Kveldsvævd (2014) Samlaget 2007, 2012, 2014 PHOTO: TOM A. KOLSTAD English edition to be published by Dalkey Archive Press 2016, translated by May-Brit Akerholt Jon Fosse is regarded by many as one of the most important authors of our time. His work has been translated into over 40 Andvake, Olavs draumar and Kveldsvævd start with Alida and Asle who come languages and there have been over 1000 to Bjørgvin to find work and a place to live. Alida is in the advanced stages of productions of his plays worldwide. Fosse is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, pregnancy, but nobody is willing to give her and her boyfriend shelter. They both in his native Norway and abroad. become more and more discouraged as they walk around in the rain. They carry with them memories of a happier time, from when the two of them met and He made his debut as fiction writer in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, Black), and understood immediately that they were meant for each other. But painful has since written more than 30 plays, among memories also interfere and the echo of the Bible story is strong throughout. them Nokon kjem til å komme (Someone Is Going to Come), Draum om hausten (Autumn Dream) and Eg er vinden (I Am the The sequel Olavs draumar gives us a brilliant portrait of the love that the two Wind). Besides novels and plays Fosse writes young people share, rendered in a simple and potent language. It is a poetry, essays, short stories and children’s dreamlike, disturbing and claustrophobic story, similar to a Biblical allegory. books. They decide to leave Bjørgvin, but in Kveldsvævd Asle, who now decides to change his name to Olav, returns to Bjørgvin to purchase a gift for Alida. It does FOREIGN SALES not turn out as he had hoped. Titles in the trilogy sold to: Czech republic, The story in Kveldsvævd is told by old Ales, Alida’s daughter. Through her we Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, The learn what happened to Alida and Asle, the couple who sacrificed their Netherlands (the first title: Andvake), conscience to love. Asle was hung in Bjørgvin. Alida and their young son Sigvald Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, USA accompany fellow townsman Åsleik back to Dylgja, the town that Asle and Alida left once upon a time. RIGHTSHOLDER Winje Agency Winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize 2015. Gina Winje Skiensgate 12 NO-3912 Porsgrunn “Fosse is one of our most [email protected] distinctive authors, a mystic Tel: + 47 91841150 whose language allows nature to www.facebook.com/winjeagency live, a poet who with his voice makes prose sing.” Dagbladet www.norla.no FICTION Kjersti Annesdatter NOVEL Skomsvold The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am Jo fortere jeg går, jo mindre er jeg Oktober 2009 125 Pages PHOTO: FINN STÅLE FELBERG English edition available Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold is from Oslo. She made her literary debut in 2009 with the Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. But one novel The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am, thing she has learned. They are not like her. Now, as an old woman, she which was awarded the prestigious Tarjei suddenly experiences a great grief, and she is struck by the fear that she will die Vesaas First Book Prize 2009, nominated for the Booksellers’ Prize 2009 and the P2 before anyone will know that she has lived. Mathea digs out her old wedding Listeners' Prize, and shortlisted for the dress again, bakes some sweet cakes and goes out among the others. International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold’s first novel stands out for its humorous 2013. The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am received a lot of attention and glittering earnestness and unusually inventive prose. reviews; the newspapers Aftenposten, VG and Klassekampen all included it in the lists Winner of the Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award 2009 of their critics’ favourite books of 2009. It has been sold for translation into more than Nominated for the 2009 Norwegian Booksellers' Prize 20 languages, and received massive attention Shortlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award when it was launched in USA and UK in the fall of 2011. Monsterhuman (2012) is Skomsvold's second novel. It got shortlisted for the P2 Listeners' Prize and was nominated for Best Norwegian Book 2012 by Natt & Dag. A Little Sad Mathematics was published in the fall of 2013, and is Skomsvold’s first poetry collection. Skomsvold’s most recent novel, 33 (2014), has also received rave reviews from the Norwegian press. FOREIGN SALES Egypt, Brazil (Portuguese), Brazil, Bulgaria, China (Chinese complex and Chinese simplified), Croatia, Czech republic, 'Original and moving. Kjersti Denmark, Faeroe Islands, France, Germany, Annesdatter Skomsvold Hungary, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, portrays with absurd insight South Korea, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the horrible and fascinating Sweden, Turkey, UK, USA aspects of nearing death (…) Skomsvold has created a RIGHTSHOLDER character adorably absurd both Aschehoug Agency in her language, thoughts and P.O. Box 363 Sentrum NO-0102 Oslo actions.' Tel: + 47 22 40 04 65 Dagbladet Fax: +47 22 20 63 95 [email protected] www.aschehougagency.no 'An astounding literary debut (...) nothing less than scorching poetry.' Aftenposten www.norla.no FICTION Karin Fossum CRIME FICTION Eva's Eye Evas øye Cappelen Damm 1995 304 Pages English edition available PHOTO: ARILD SØNSTRØD Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when a man’s body Karin Fossum made her literary début in floats to the water’s surface. Eva goes to call the police, but when she reaches 1974 with the poetry collection Kanskje i morgen, for which she won the Vesaas First the phone, she dials another number altogether. Writer’s Award. She has published books in several genres, but is perhaps best known for The police find the body anyway. Inspector Sejer and his team quickly her crime fiction about Konrad Sejer. Several of her books have been filmed. She has determine that the man, Egil, died in a violent attack. But Egil has been missing received a number of prestigious awards, for months and the trail to his killer is cold. It’s as puzzling as another unsolved including the LA Times Book Award for her case on Sejer’s desk: the murder of a prostitute, found dead just before Egil novel The Indian Bride. went missing. Sejer sets to work piecing together these two impossible cases; it's not long before he realizes that they aren’t as separate as they previously FOREIGN SALES seemed. Albania, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, UK PREVIOUS TITLES (Selected): Se deg ikke tilbake!, novel 1996.