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FICTION FORLAGET OKTOBER 3 Forlaget Oktober Forlaget 24 - Per - 24 Skomsvold -Kjersti Annesdatter 26 Bugge Mikkel - 29 Fjæren Eline Lund - 30 Fossum Marita - 31 Hoem Edvard - 32 Hval Jenny 33- Mona Høvring - 34 Kiøsterud Erlend - 35 Kleiva Anna - 36 Michelet Jon - 37 Nedrejord Kathrine - 38 Næss Kristine - 39 Oterholm Anne - 40 Skaranger Navarro Maria - 41 Åmodt Tina - 42 Content 4 - Simon Stranger Simon - 4 Gaarder Jostein - 6 Isakstuen Monica - 8 Heivoll Gaute - 9 Kjos Fonn Maria - 10 Sveen Petter Lars 12- Kjos Hellum Mari - 13 Helene Guåker - 14 Bjørnstad Ketil 15- & Commercial Thrillers Gallefoss Lasse - 16 Lindell Unni - 17 Aas Wessel Katrine - 18 Literary fiction Literary Cover illustration by Morten Malvin Myhrvold, from the jacket of Per Petterson: Men in My Situation Petterson: of Per from the jacket Cover illustration by Morten Malvin Myhrvold, publisher. osloliteraryagency.no

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to an agency representing authors from any from authors representing an agency to In addition, Literary Agency carries full full carries In addition, Oslo Literary Agency Oslo Literary Agency was established in 2016, established in 2016, was Oslo Literary Agency representation of 's leading publisher of of Norway's leading publisher representation Oslo Literary Agency is Norway’s largest literary largest is Norway’s Oslo Literary Agency transforming from the in-house Aschehoug Agency Agency Aschehoug the in-house from transforming fiction, crime and commercial fiction, children’s and fiction, children’s commercial fiction, crime and agency, representing authors in the genres of literary in the genres authors representing agency, Oslo Literary Agency, Sehesteds gate 3, P. O. Box 363 Sentrum, N-0102 Oslo, Norway Sehesteds gate 3, P. Oslo Literary Agency, 2 Simon Stranger Keep Saying Their Names From the reviews:

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION A chilling and gripping double portrait of a young man ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION who became a torturist and a family that would have been "A compulsive twist on familiar stories from WW2. Simon Stranger has been inspired an entirely different one had Norway not been invaded by this to write the best novel about the arrest of Norwegian Jews since Steinar Løding’s “Erindringens tre (eng: The Tree of Memory)” (1992). Both the story of Rinnan in 1940. and the story of the Kommisar family, in particular of Ellen and her growing despair about living in “Bandeklosteret”, is told in a prose that glows and sparkles and makes What turns the bashful shoemaker’s son Henry Rinnan this story horribly engaging", -Dagbladet, 6/6 stars from Trøndelag into one of the most hated criminals in Norwegian history; a double agent killing Norwegians for "Riveting and beautiful (...) This book deserves to be read by very many" the Nazis? And why would a Jewish family want to move - Bok 365, 6/6 stars into Rinnan’s headquarters shortly after the war, in the house that for many became the very symbol of the atroci- "Masterly and frightful" ties committed during the German occupation? - Adresseavisen, 6/6 stars

Learning that his wife’s mother grew up in the infamous "Remarkably well-done. Stranger is making a bold move when choosing to write an en- tire novel about themes every well-read person knows very well. When «Leksikon om “Bandeklosteret”, where the Rinnan group gathered to lys og mørke» is still such a successful project, the sole reason is the author’s literary scheme, feast and torture prisoners in the basement, talent. This novel is intense with a tremendous narrative drive, at the same time as the author Simon Stranger starts excavating the story of the prose has an almost flowing lightness to it" - VG, 5/6 stars 4 Jewish Kommisar family, both those who lived and those 5 whose life came to an abrubt end. And doing so, he faces humanity at its darkest, personified through a young man "As the title more than suggests, Stranger has composed this book with a kind of According to Jewish tradition everyone dies encyclopedic structure, each chapter starting with a letter. This is no simple task, but whose descent into evil made a crucial, direct and indirect twice. The first time is when the heart stops it works excellently, even with letters like X, Y and Z. Very little appear superfluous and beating, and the synapses in the brain shut impact on this family’s lives. the high quality of the prose is upheld all the way through till the end. down, like a city during a blackout. The sec- ond time is when the dead person’s name is Stranger writes wonderfully, there is no doubt about it. The language is economic, uttered, read or thought of for the last time, Spanning over four generations, Simon Stranger skillfully almost ascetic, but flows beautifully. Here are no bombastic metaphors. Stranger goes after fifty or hundred or four hundred years. constructs a story consisting of the most beautiful and straight to the core, also emotionally. The contrast between the sober prose (the last Only then, is the person really gone, erased painful elements of human life in this epic and ambitious few pages are some of the most wistfully dreadful I have read in Norwegian) and the from life on Earth. dirty, bloody and macabre gives the at times scandalously violent content a lyrical novel, pieces that when put together also becomes the dimension. It leaves the reader with a sense of pensive unease. history of his own family. Stranger's descriptions of agony of death and resignation are frightening and sad. The most horrible scenes are cold and observing, yet emphatetic, and makes me think of an author like Flannery O’Connor." Simon Stranger - Minerva Simon Stranger (b. 1976) made his debut in 2003, and has since written ten books for children, young adults and adults. His books for children and young Foreign rights sold to: adults have been translated into Swedish, Danish, German, French, Dutch, Ara- US (Knopf) Denmark (Politikens) bic, Spanish, Korean, Japanese and Kurdish. His latest children ’s book Kokotopia (Polaris) (2018) became an instant bestseller in Norway. Keep Saying Their Names is his Germany (Eichborn Verlag) first novel published by Aschehoug Forlag. Photo: André Løyning/saftflaske.no Netherlands (Harper Collins) Czech Republic (Omega) Hungary (Scolar) Leksikon om lys og mørke Novel Aschehoug, 2018 396 pages Jostein Gaarder Just Right. A Brief History of Almost Everything … it means a lot to me that I this night am finally able to put into writing the big paradox, the biggest there is, before making my final decision … Because it

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION On his first day at the University in Oslo, Albert seems to me that I am no longer sitting here thinking all alone. More and more, ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION notices a girl, Eirin, in front of the coffee machine. it feels as if I am sitting here thinking and writing on behalf of the universe They have never met before. Still, they both startle itself… as they see each other. 37 years later, in April 2009, Eirin is in Melbourne at a Freshwater biology We live in a «sustainable» universe, and as it turned out, a fertile universe. The conference, and Albert is alone when he receives basic forces of nature, and a long string of so-called physical constants, was some truly terrible news from Marianne. Can he go just right for the occurrence of the atoms, the stars and us. The Universe itself on living with what he knows? is in a Goldilocks Zone, from its very beginning fine-tuned for atoms, mole- cules, stars and planets. And for creatures like us… He travels to The Fairytale House, the small cabin that has been Eirin’s and his safe haven for many years. And grants himself a 24 hour deadline to write down the history of their life together. There are things he must try to understand. During the course of this time, he will make the most import- From the author: ant decision of his life. And there are things he needs to confess, things that involve Marianne. He - If you asked me to describe Just Right in three words, I would tell you that this is a short story of life, death and love. And if I had only two, I might just will not check out from this planet leaving behind 6 settle for «love story». However, this would not be a book from my hand had it 7 a great lie... not also been addressing the greatest mystery of all: What is a human? Foreign rights sold: And I think of this book first and foremost as a story, something slightly differ- On the surface, it is a simple story of a man and the ent from the traditional novel, which is why I decided to include the word in Germany (Hanser Verlag) most crucial decision of his life. But being a Jostein the title. The events unfolding on the page are dramatic, both on an inner and Spain (Siruela) Gaarder novel, it also takes on some of the greatest Greece (Livanis) outer level. In my view, however, the plot itself is the driving force in the nar- questions each of us can possibly grapple with. It Serbia (Geopoetika) rative, and it is my sincere hope that the reader will be completely immersed is also a beautiful love story, with a final, surprising in the pages in order to find out what will actually happen in the end. Because plot twist felt both organic and, well, just right. the outcome will remain open until the very last page, and perhaps even then, a few more questions will remain unanswered.

Jostein Gaarder Jostein Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder's novel Sophie’s World is the biggest Norwegian liter- ary success in our time, translated into 64 languages and has sold 50 million copies worldwide. Gaarder’s other works, both his children’s books and adult novels, amongst them The Solitaire Mystery, Through a Glass, Darkly, The Ringmaster’s Daughter, The Orange Girl, and The Puppeteer, have proved hugely popular with readers around the world. Photo: Kimm Saatvedt

Akkurat passe Novel Aschehoug, 2018 135 pages ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION 9 - From the reviews: the reviews: From have few But the brutality about of adolescence well written have "Many the with that will stay novel A powerful Fonn. Kjos than Maria better done so storyteller" talented (…) an unusually a long time for reader - VG - and enlighten insightful narrated, well also but read, "Kinderwhore is a tough to ought everyone A novel real. and the the unfathomable ing. A book about read" - Dagbladet this reading after unmoved (…) No one will remain insistent powerful, "Raw, novel" - Adresseavisen life an endurable – and against – for the struggle about strong "Extremely and distinct a wise has written Kjos Fonn Maria child neglect and assault. after is very literary and the composition book, where the language quality of both something know who think they anyone mandatory but for read, high. A tough being a victim" about - Dagsavisen the story told just because a deep impact, not makes novel Kjos Fonn’s "Maria tightly connected. so are and form the content because but traumatic, is so Sæterbak the books of Stig Like and terrible. beautiful is both (…) The result ken, it gives you a sense of defenslessness. Maria Kjos Fonn must never stop stop never must Kjos Fonn Maria of defenslessness. a sense you it gives ken, writing" Land Vårt - with describes Kjos Fonn "The Maria something is real, of adolesence horror literary force" tremendous - Morgenbladet Novel pages 231 Charlotte’s mother is always at home, yet mother is always Charlotte’s she is there. Most of the time hardly ever to remain medicated in order asleep, heavily she brings home so. When she is not asleep, One of them shows new dads for Charlotte. else, something her a glimpse of something he is replaced by yet But too soon, better. another dad. something happens, When Charlotte is 12 possibly take in or something she cannot use of her moth- process. She starts making to learn that there are ways pills, happy er’s a of shutting off your feelings. She establishes divide between her body allow- and mind, ing her to take on different sexual roles, like the sedated, passive Doll or the proactive Machine. first novel is a raw, pow- Maria Kjos Fonns erful and important story of sexuality, assault and survival. Kinderwhore Aschehoug, 2018 "One of the most important books this -Tarafall" Maria Kjos Fonn (b. 1990) made her debut with the critically ac- Maria Kjos Fonn in About This Anyone claimed short story collection I Have Never Told and Debutant Award Vesaas’ 2014. She was nominated to the Tarjei Debutant Stipend for her first recieved the Aschehoug book. She lives is her first novel. in Oslo and works as a journalist. Kinderwhore Kinderwhore Maria Kjos Fonn Kjos Maria Maria Kjos Fonn Maria

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION 8 Monica Isakstuen Gaute Heivoll Rage Song of Sixty-Eight Traitors

PELIKANEN - LITERARY FICTION A novel about crime and punishment, guilt and TIDEN - LITERARY FICTION Norwegian Book Award winning author Monica atonement, shame and reconcilliation. And about Isakstuen’s new novel explores the protagonist’s music and its ability to unite what is seemingly sudden, uncontrollable anger with the ones closest impossible to unite. to her. Andreas is the musical prodigy of his small village Rage is a story about two thinking, talking people and even more people are starting to take note who meet, fall in love, have twins and buy an old of this child who creates such magnificent music. ramshackle house more or less before they know Music that for a short while manages to soften the what hit them. Sitting topless and pinned to her painful divide caused by the war. And by the list. sofa by a giant twin nursing pillow (or rather pillory), the protagonist wonders what is left of the For there is a list, on the counter of Gerhard person she presented to her partner a year and two Andersen’s store. It has sixty-eight names on it. Six- years earlier. How do you love someone so that ty-eight members of the Norwegian Fascist Party they really feel it? she asks herself. And am I the , in a society of just a few hun- sum of my actions or my ideals? dred souls. Amongst them, Andreas’ father Sigvald, teacher, sexton and Church singer. Andreas cannot 10 Isakstuen’s original prose moves unexpectedly, but tell if his father has changed since becoming a 11 organically, between extremely precise and brilliant party member. Still, everything feels different. From the reviews of Be Kind to The Animals: insights and moments of the most banal self-decep- Neighbour stands against neighbour, old school- tion in this funny, urgent and timely novel. friends who once stood shoulder to shoulder in "A pitch black, stylistically impressive novel, well "A great read (…) sensuous and evocative. «Song front of the preacher at their confirmation, now deserving of the Norwegian National Book Award" of Sixty-eight Traitors» is a toned-down and - Gøteborgs Posten, Sweden Rage is edited by Karl Ove Knausgaard. nuanced story of community and division, pun- look a one another with anger and distrust. The ishment and justice. About loss and love that will tension is rising. Then, on the night before Christ- "…. merciless, but also surprisingly funny, with an never be forgotten – about wars which, for some, mas, eight of the men in the village are arrested. abundance of ideas" - Morgenbladet never end" - Dagbladet

Monika Isakstuen Gaute Heivoll

Monica Isakstuen (b. 1976) made her literary debut in 2009, and won Gaute Heivoll (b. 1978) made his debut in 2002, and has written the Norwegian Book Award Brageprisen for her 2016 novel Be Kind poems, children’s books, short stories and novels. In 2010 he was to The Animals, translated into German, Swedish, Danish, Bulgarian awarded Brageprisen, The Norwegian Literary award, for his novel and Albanian. The critic in Aftonbladet, Sweden, named the book Before I Burn, which is translated into more than 20 languages. Song of "The best divorce novel I have ever read". Her 2014 novel Replay Sixty-Eight Traitors is his ninth novel. about pianist Joyce Hatto and ”the greatest fraud in classical music” earned glowing reviews” Photo: Tommy Ellingsen Photo: Paal Audestad

Rase Novel Sang for sekstiåtte forrædere Pelikanen, Oct 2018 228 pages Tiden, 2018 Novel 317 pages Mari Kjos Hellum Lars Petter Sveen An Extraordinary Week in the Life of Glenn Johansen Five Shadows

TIDEN - LITERARY FICTION "The novel for everyone who misses Er- Aisha, Said, Isir, Khadar and Aaliyah. Five ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION lend Loe at his finest. Light and entertain- young people who’ve fled Somalia, through ing about accepting yourself as you are Africa and across the Mediteranean. Now they (..) perfect for a lazy, summer day at the have reached Europe and are heading north, beach" - Dag og Tid looking to start a new life and trying to craft new stories of whom they are and where they One Sunday evening in April, after having thought came from. The kind of stories the new world things through thoroughly, Glenn Johansen tries wants to hear. But who are you really, when to hang himself in his garage. Unfortunately for no one knows who you are?

Glenn, a rafter breaks, and he ends up mildly bruised on the floor next to his shabby Toyota Five Shadows is a stand-alone sequel to the Avensis. What now? author’s critically acclaimed 2017 novel Five Stars. Professionally, Glenn has stagnated as a mid-level excecutive in a medium-sized business. From the reviews of Five Stars: He is childless and newly separated from Anita who has already moved on. Except for his interest "A raw and heartbreaking story told by a 12 in WW2 books and movies, little seems to give God-given storyteller"- Dagsavisen 13 him much joy. Still, could it be that something in From the reviews: him has changed, after all? Named one of Norway’s ten best authors under 35 "Masterful (...) written with great authority about "There is no doubt in my mind that Mari Kjos by Morgenbladet (2015) one of the most burning issues of our time (…) P.O. Enquist Prize (2016) Hellum has written one of the most solid An Extraordinary Week in The Life of Glenn Johansen Sult Award (2015) not just timely, it has the narrative drive of a debut novels of 2018, a book that will be read is a funny, sharp, surprising and philosophical Jan Roar Leikvoll Memorial Award (2015) thriller" - Dagbladet and loved by many." - Morgenbladet novel about the largest and silliest question of all: Nynorsk Literature Award (2014) Mads Wiel Nygaard Legat (2014) The meaning of life. Debutant Price (2008) "An almost explosive reading experience" "Glowing (...) A fabulous debut novel" Aschehoug Debutant Price (2008) - Fædrelandsvennen - Fædrelandsvennen

Mari Kjos Hellum Lars Petter Sveen

Lars Petter Sveen was born in 1981. He made his debut with the Mari Kjos Hellum (b. 1975) has an MFA in literature, and now teach- short story collection Driving from Fræna in 2008, and got his big es at the Østfold University College. An Extraordinary Week in The breakthrough in 2014 with his third novel Children of God for which Life of Glenn Johansen is her first novel. he was awarded the prestigous P.O. Enquist Prize in 2016. The book is sold to the US, France, Denmark, Sweden, China and Bulgaria

Photo: Paal Audestad Photo: Tine Poppe

En begivenhetsrik uke i Glenn Johansens liv Novel Fem skuggar Novel Tiden, 2018 120 pages Aschehoug, 2018 253 pages ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION 15 Photo: Aschehoug Photo: Novel pages 765 More than 100 000 booksMore than sold in Norway! wildly Bjørnstad’s volume of Ketil fourth The literary chronicle successful autobiographical, about past our recent implies a major change A sudden disruption to He moves back in the life of the author. C. he tries to put his Oslo and when meeting behindold life and all the lies him. Old and cruelty. It is the decade of irony bothtruths are put on trial, at a personal level USSRand in world politics. The dissolves and the Balkan wars break out. Lady Di is killed. President Clinton is brought to court pub- by the Lewinsky-affair and Bjørnstad’s is shot. Nygaard lisher William author leaves for with C. the Together Bangladesh. Later, they settle in the heart of the dooms- When Y2K is approaching, Paris. Europe and day mood increases in Northen America. The Seventies and The Eight- Seventies and The The Ketil Bjørnstad Ketil Ketil Bjørnstad (b. 1952) is a pianist, composer and author. His books author. Bjørnstad (b. 1952) is a pianist, composer and Ketil have been translated into 17 languages and have been bestsellers in Sixties, The and Germany. France Norway, series of novels ies, the first three volumes in his autobiographical Mine, are all bestsellers and received widespread Was That World The critical acclaim in Norway. Ketil Bjørnstad Ketil Nineties The fascinates (…) captivates (…) captivates fascinates The Nineties "Bjørnstad’s the reader" - Fædrelandsvennen "The of the memoir … one Nineties is an impressive Bjornstad best books in this ongoing quartet. Ketil offers The Nineties unabashed. is unstoppable, grief and love, and commitment, temperature Dagsavisenanger" - VG - punch” “Impressive provocing" and thought its best it is touching "At -Dagbladet Verden som var min - Nittittallet - som var min Verden 2018 Aschehoug, Photo: Niklas Lello Photo: somebody is peeing next door. in the apartment above me in the apartment around me, peeing everywhere pee shit fart belch toilet bowls blood running down in all over my building heavy penises spitting out the last drops menstruation cups and slag collecting blood and mucus bleeding beating dripping we squeeze life out of us like the world squeezes us out of it -- we stumble into each other again and again like stones in a quarry their like the small trees that can’t make it without supporting trees his wind flows into mine i spread wide wings around his branchy body and that’s how we roll Poetry 84 pages -

Helene Guåker Helene “The brutal and at times is rough, language like issues intimate and addresses discomforting, of 6 stars, 5 out harassment and abuse.” shame, Hamar Arbeiderblad - Klassekampen and confronting» visual «.. carnal, Helene Guåker (b. 1983) writes in the genres fiction, poetry and YA. fiction, poetry and Helene Guåker (b. 1983) writes in the genres University College as She has studied creative writing at novel Arc YA Her Literature at the University of Agder. well as Nordic . Radiation (2017) was nominated to The Farvel alle hemmeligheter alle Farvel 2018 Aschehoug, les sexuality, feminism, longings, vulnera- feminism, les sexuality, and honesty boundaries bility, In this bold collection Helene Guåker tack Guåker Helene bold collection In this

All Secrets Farewell Secrets All Guåker Helene

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION 14 ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS 17 Heggø Olav Photo: Crime fiction Crime pages 376 A man stands in a closed down military camp in a closed down A man stands forest. He is a drone ut into a dark and sends 16th June, 17 Friday, time is 09.35, The filming. just beforedegrees celsius, sundown. trees seem to be tops of the pine in flames The create a sharp dividing as the last rays of sunlight and dark green. line of brilliant orange the open area of a drone approaches The suddenly appears on the rapeseed field. A tent tent stands exactly where The monitor. drone’s was stabbeddeath five years to Thorn Evie woman comes into And now another earlier. her tent on the exact pitched Did she really view. a wide sun sinks down creating same spot? The segmented line on the horizon, and disappears. heart mans’s birds stop twittering. The The He has pounds like a hammer against his chest. should not be out never had a girlfriend. Women camping alone, not in the dark forest. Drone is the second novel in the stand The alone-series featuring Marian Dahle.

Dronen 2018 Aschehoug, Unni Lindell (b. 1957) is one of Norway’s best-selling authors. Her Unni Lindell (b. 1957) is one of Norway’s crime mysteries featuring Cato Isaksen and Marian Dahle have been translated into many different languages and have sold close alone. Lindell has won many to four million copies in Norway prestigious prizes for her writing. Unni Lindell Unni German (Aufbau), Swedish Swedish German (Aufbau), rights sold: Foreign (Querido) Dutch (Piratforlaget), VG - 6 stars, LIndell at her best", 5/ "Unni Adresseavisa - stars, 5/6 "Masterful crime", Aftenposten - and intellingent" composed "Well Dagbladet - up" moments queing "Exciting Unni Lindell Unni Drone The Photo: Raymond Mosken Raymond Photo: World War II govern the is over and the victors War World Storm the German occupation During country. the Norwegian a double agent for Steinset was still and his mission is Movement, Resistance reveal his true gave an oath never to covert; he even in peacetime. activities during the war, live with the fact that his means he must This think Department Police colleagues in the Oslo he was a Nazi. who worked for the When several policemen were found dead of the Nazis during the war same they themselves used torture methods realises that he too must during the war, Storm the same time he death list. At be on the killer’s has been assigned to investigate the case. youngest partner is the police force’s Storm’s who Rødberg deputy, a rising star Robert dreams of becoming a hero - and despises people like Storm. In their hunt for the killer Storm and Robert of delve into the secrets of the innermost circles There power in the formerly occupied country. war is the threat of a new war breaking out, a secrets from the past war can get you in which killed. Crime fiction Crime 450 pages Lasse Gallefoss Lasse Lasse (1980) is a director and documentary filmmaker. Gallefoss countries, and has made As a documentarian he has filmed in 35 several documentary series for NRK. last three of his series The the Norwegian Award, have been nominated for a Gold Frame Emmy, and his latest series Flight (2017) won three Gold Frames, among others for best director. "A convincing and intense crime thriller, well well thriller, crime intense and convincing "A VG - written" and well composed the name noted already not have "If you Klassekampen - just do it" Gallefoss, Lasse Bergens - and surprising" "Sophisticated Tidende Krigernes fred Krigernes 2018 Aschehoug, Warrior's Peace Warrior's Lasse Gallefoss Lasse

ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS 16 Katrine Wessel-Aas Katrine Wessel-Aas Familien Winther If You Want Me

PITCH - COMMERCIAL FICTION The Winther Family is the first book in an The second book in the series about the upper- elaborate series on the women in and around class family Winther. The story takes place in

the Winther family, and follow their lives in the at the end of the 19th Century. Karen PITCH - COMMERCIAL FICTION gilded rooms as well as in the busy kitchen – Moen dreams of becoming a teacher, but when through their dreams and hopes for the future. her father dies she has to go off to work.

The series begins in 1898 and stretches to the She takes a position as a servant in the Winther first World War. The reader becomes acquainted household. The dream of a different and better with the women in the family - among both the life lives on. Through her former teacher she is gentry and the servants. It is a time when old introduced to a rebellious and antagonistic labour- traditions crumble and social structures change. er, Alfred. Karen soon finds herself in a situation In addition to fighting to protect the family where she is ensnared by her loyalty to her em- wealth and status, the characters experience ployer, her dream of the future - and love. something we all experience or seek in life: true love, sorrow, power, jealousy, despair - and A horrible revelation about her father’s death finding happiness. The struggle between the turns her world up side down. The life of the characters’ own desires and what is best for the youngest son in the household, Fredrik Winther is 18 family is a central theme in the story. also takes a turn when his older brother dies in a terrible fire Suddenly Fredrik finds himself the heir 19 The Winther family is a little universe in itself, to the Winther Dynasty, a task which he reluc- "A taste of Downton Abbey and Lucinda Riley, with its various family members. No one is just tantly accepts. and I am having a ball"- Rørvik Libris nice or just nasty. No one is perfect - not even the main character, Cecilia Winther. She also The situation does not get less complicated when "Unforgettable reading," - Liv Gade, Bookin- has her dark secrets to deal with. he falls in love with the beautiful, but poor servant spirator girl, Emma. A girl the family could hardly accept. The Winther Family stands out from the more What will he choose, love or family? "Strongly recommended" - Oselios Bok traditional “women's fiction” that portrays a young heroine’s first experiences of love. Our "Thanks to an exciting cliffhanger, I'm already main character Cecilia is a mature woman in her Katrine Wessel-Aas awaiting the next book" - Bokormen mid-forties. Katrine Wessel-Aas (b. 1970) worked as a journalist and editor for many years, but now is a novelist full-time. Trondheim is Kathrine Wessel-Aas hometown, and the perfect historical backdrop for the events in The Win- ther Family. This beautiful city with wide streets, tall trees, the river Nid with all its bridges, is the starting point for a story that has been called Norway’s answer to Downton Abbey…Katrine has also written an historical novel series from Kristiania in the 1800s.

Familien Winther Commercial fiction Om du vil ha meg Commercial fiction Pitch, 2018 350 pages Pitch, 2018 350 pages Content Forlaget Oktober FORLAGET OKTOBER

24 - Per Petterson 26 -Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold 26 - Mikkel Bugge 28 - Eline Lund Fjæren 29 - Marita Fossum 30 - 31 - Jenny Hval 32 - Mona Høvring 33 - Erland Kiøsterud 20 21 34 - Anna Kleiva 35 - Jon Michelet 36 - Kathrine Nedrejord 37 - Kristine Næss 38 - Anne Oterholm 40 - Maria Navarro Skaranger 42 - Tina Åmodt FORLAGET OKTOBER 23 I Refuse (2012): On I Refuse Un- talent. unique this Norwegian’s that confirms powerful novel "A time" our of authors the major Nordic one of doubtedly Lire, France - realist writ- leading Scandinavia’s as reputation his confirms "Petterson er" Dagblad, Denmark Kristeligt - Time (2008): of the River On I Curse - ten His […] magic singular is result the humour: sensitivity, "Candour, - Out Steal and as In the Wake is as masterfully evocative novel der new as all three" Siberia , and as exceptional ing Horses, as gentle as To The Irish Times, Ireland - writ- he has again Once for. wait you novels are novels Petterson’s "Per illuminated" magically are of life the dark secrets where a novel ten Switzerland Zeitung, Zürcher Neue - HorsesOn Out Stealing (2003): noir” Scandinavian “Superb the Decade of Books The 100 Best – Times York New - his native writing about deeply atmospheric Petterson’s Per "Novelist bleak awards…The critical him numerous won has rightfully Norway the and writing, poetrythe of Petterson’s by elevated is matter subject of the descriptions his vivid for acts as a vehicle plot quietly unfolding country." , UK Telegraph Sunday - Photo: Baard Henriksen Henriksen Baard Photo: To Arvid Jansen, life has become Arvid a question To He revisits on to a few firm things. of holding drunk, around town, gets old battlefields them, or and goes home with meets women Mazda, where he also he drives around in his his bedspends the nights when becomes an impossible place to be. took their Turid A year has passed since Early one morning three daughters and left. closed railway station she calls him from the her up and drives Bjørkelangen. Arvid picks in Skjetten. But for her to her new home her what she asks. In once, he refuses to give the terrace house, there is no trace of their He has been completely wiped life together. out. his oldest daughter, Arvid feels that Vigdis, sees what kind of man he really is. And that’s But why she has had to keep him at distance. at the same time she might be who the one needs him the most. Men in My Situation is a tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces. Novel pages 301

Menn i min situasjon 2018 Oktober, Forlaget Per Petterson Per (born 1952) made his debut in 1987 and became a Petterson Per world-wide literary sensation with the novel Out Stealing Horses (2003). His books have won several international prizes, including the Prize. In Norway Fiction and the Independent Foreign Prize IMPAC Prize twice and the he has won the Brage Prize twice, the Critics’ film adaptation of Out Stealing Horses, Booksellers’ Prize twice. The for release in 2019. featuring Stellan Skarsgård, is scheduled Bulgarian (Znatsi), rights Bulgarian sold: Foreign French Danish (Batzer), (Otava), Finnish (De Dutch German (Hanser), (Gallimard), Geus) Men in My Situation My Men in Per Petterson Per

FORLAGET OKTOBER 22 FORLAGET OKTOBER 25 In the morning, Bo went out, and came back from the bakery the bakery back from and came out, In the morning, Bo went - the se stab, stab after endured and persisted, I persisted room in the waiting up, sitting in the taxi throwing As I was the only thing harshly, said the midwife room, In the delivery al- if it was gentle and kind, and asked was midwife The new It was a new year, a new beginning, and outside the first rain was rain the first outside and beginning, a new year, a new It was it tightened, my waist, around strapped I had a belt like I felt falling. the night, all through then released, and was hole, another tightened away rain washed The day. the following through the morning, through in the a stab an ambush, by woken night I was and the next the snow, that hard stabbed so as I slept, me in the back stabbed back, someone lying down. already I was though even me, it toppled bread expensive such know I didn’t sixtywith a loaf that cost kroner. expensive deserved a time we ever was if there but said, he existed, now. it’s bread, still but again, the moon rose ticked, the long hand hand ticked, cond was late, too been afraid of being I, who has always go. to I refused me I shouldn’t had told they early, too coming about worried more now of a tortured those like inside my body, from Sounds early. in too come me more my lips, and the pains trammelled through animal, escaped standing, stay barely the light of the moon, I could to I clung and more. that if I didn’t realised and finally I of the other, in front one foot or put get there. manage to never I would go now, a under were My thoughts forest. actually in the I was up, throwing know I didn’t me, The pain ripped through up at the crown. gazing tree, inhabit pain could that such in heaven, world, in this pain existed such - in it, bre stand I couldn’t Yet pain that I existed. only in the it was me, I decided nothing. me, athe in it, the pain decided over lost heart. I completely scream. What help to it doesn’t was: she said angry when people are and much It upsets me so me then? help would my ripped from was the scream me screaming, harsh, and it wasn’t work. manage this, that it wouldn’t going to that I wasn’t I knew throat. of pain drilled wave as another again me surrounded then the forest But under the I stood forest, the fled into my thoughts my body, through I not could beyond, all around, light green, was everything and tree this? get beyond soon just like, do what you and I said me, this, emptied injected right if they here, feel, had hair, that the baby said with. She and done get it over no I wanted in something partake me to she asked has hair, the baby hold of my hand. then she took but feel, to dare I don’t no, I said part of. understand that a and only then did I fully head, its hair, the baby’s I felt of me. out come going to was person, a real living baby, Sample translation by by translation Sample Dickson Kari Photo: Agnete Brun Agnete Photo: NRK Radio VG Adresseavisen - read close by stronger which grows novel “A reader”ing and which will enrich the stars,5/6 - original portrait artist of the as a mother “An and humour subtle with all portrayed … it’s unexpected - associations” love the book about wonderful, balanced “A writes and child … She mother between pain, physical insufferable about beautifully only a that relief the and grippingly about give” can baby stars,5/6 - This is a love story. is a love This tells her new-bornA mother about child the Her stories birth. led to the child’s events that are about illness, loneliness and long-term grief. About being afraid to love somebody, and about to do so anyway. daring with an unsual novel explores existence The eye for the vulnerability and an excellent to connect to others, things that make us able it impossible. and the things that make Novel 121 pages

Barnet 2018 Oktober, Forlaget Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold Kjersti Annesdatter Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold (born 1979 in Oslo) made a sensa- book won the Smaller I Am. The I Walk, Faster tional debut with The Prize was shortlisted for the IMPAC Book Award, First the Vesaas and has been sold to publishers in more than 25 countries. She is the author of four acclaimed novels, a book of poetry and a children’s book. Brazilian Portuguese rights Brazilian Portuguese sold: Foreign (GRIF), Danish do Verbo), (Casarão - German (Hoff (Cambourakis), French (Granta), English World Campe), & mann (Sekwa) Swedish The Child The Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold Kjersti Annesdatter

FORLAGET OKTOBER 24 Mikkel Bugge Eline Lund Fjæren You Are New Consumption in September

FORLAGET OKTOBER She gets pregnant with a man she just met. Consumption in September is the story of Espen FORLAGET OKTOBER He has strong shoulders that can carry a lot. and Emilie. He is a literary critic in a cultural But the child inside her pushes everything weekly, she is a young, promising culture out of position. In between intimacy and journalist at the same paper. desperation, a new reality takes shape. After a party at work, they end up in bed You Are New is a portrait of the dizzying, together. From there we follow the two of fragile time before and after the birth of a them separately, learning the story of their child. relationship from two different perspectives, each with their different understanding of the other. Through an intense, confident prose and an effective use of changing perspective, the novel investigates the self-reflexivity of the social game, asking the question whether Espen and Emilie ever really meet each other as they really are.

26 Consumption in September is a restless, efficient 27 story about desire, gender and longing for “A young woman [is] about to give birth, “An intense, realistic novel about a young “A dense, elegant study of longing for and the reader gets to know the entire couple and the dizzying, fragile time before love in the age of individualism … The love, about fundamental loneliness and a intensely overwhelming process in her and after the birth of a child” tension and vitality is on the characters’ constant gnawing self-consciousness that own words … as simple as it is ambi- - Adresseavisen, 5/6 stars level of reflection, in their expectations threatens our ability to open our eyes for tious” towards the other and their critical other people. - Stavanger Aftenblad, 5/6 stars “This is a vulnerable story about a very fragile self-examination … Fjæren portays the phase in a life which was fragile to begin challenges of intimacy effortlessly and with … a beautiful depiction of an experience with precision” which is as unique as it is universal” - Dagsavisen - Dagsavisen

Mikkel Bugge Eline Lund Fjæren

Mikkel Bugge (born 1978) is an author and playwright. He made his Eline Lund Fjæren (b. 1994) lives in Bergen. She made her debut in debut with the acclaimed short story collection Perimeters in 2007. 2013 with the novel Young Girl, Adult Male, which received excellent His first novel Go Under Ground (2010) was nominated for the P2 Lis- reviews and which won the Norli Debut Prize and the Oslo Prize. teners’ Novel Prize and the Young Readers’ Critics’ Award. The short In 2015 she published her second book, The Clock and the Bed. The story collection The Rope (2014) was praised for its inventive book was shortlisted for Book of the year by Natt & Dag. In 2016 she approach to the short story and was shortlisted for the Brage Prize. received the Booksellers’ Writers’ Grant. Photo: Agnete Brun Photo: Isak Okkenhaug Andersen

Du er ny Novel Forbruk i september Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2018 208 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2018 144 pages Marita Fossum Edvard Hoem Singularity Midwife on Earth

FORLAGET OKTOBER Gullemor is middle-aged and childless. She In 1821 Edvard Hoem’s great-great grand- FORLAGET OKTOBER has decided to challenge an existence where mother, Martha Kristine Nesje, took the nothing is at stake. In active empathy with long walk from the North-Western coast of those who are kept on the outside of society Norway to Oslo to become a midwife. At or who don’t live safely in their homes, she the time she had two children, the youngest will become a prostitute. Her decision is sped having barely turned one. When she finished up when she finds an unconscious young her training, she walked back, and started man lying in his underpants under a pink practicing her vocation as a midwife in the rhododendron in an Oslo park. After the villages and rural districts of the Romsdal ambulance takes off with the unconscious Fjord for more than 50 years. Distrust in the stranger, she tries to find out who he is and first midwives was strong, leading to con- what happened to him. sequences for both Martha and her family. There is a always a price to pay for those Marita Fossum’s seventh novel is written with who follow their calling. gusto, wit and great sensibility. It is a shrewd, original novel about a woman who risks the Based on historical facts, Hoem makes Mar- security of her everyday life to open up to the tha come alive with great poetic power. This 28 world and to existence itself. is the story of a cotter’s daughter who didn’t 29 want to take her husband’s name and who re- "Witty and energetic ... an entertaining, * Author of the bestselling emigrant series - fused to be affected by village gossip. It is also more than 200,000 copies printed in Norway warm novel about a woman in her search for the story of the emergence of the important meaning and community in life" * Rights to the emigrant series sold to US and midwife profession. - Dagbladet Denmark

"A tragicomic story, at times almost farcical, at other times a brutal story of vulnerability and marginalisation ... both good and rare" - Klassekampen

Marita Fossum Edvard Hoem

Marita Fossum (b. 1964) made her debut in 2002 with the novel The Edvard Hoem was born in 1949, and made his debut in 1969. Since World Outside. In 2005, she was awarded the Tanum Scholarship for then he has published a number of novels, and has been nominated Women. She also became the winner of the 2005 Brage Prize, the for the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize four times. In addition, Hoem national book award, for Imagine. For her novel Dear Shepherd Boy has written plays, essays and biographies and has translated seven of (2006) she received the Booksellers’ Writer's Grant. William Shakespeare's plays into Norwegian.

Photo: Finn Ståle Felberg Photo: Paal Audestad

Singularitet Novel Jordmor på jorda Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2018 144 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2018 300 pages Jenny Hval Mona Høvring Girls against God Because Venus Passed an Alp Violet on the Day I Was Born

FORLAGET OKTOBER Girls against God is a novel about magic, In a hotel, high up in a mountain village, two FORLAGET OKTOBER writing and art. sisters in their early twenties will spend a few winter weeks in peaceful surroundings. The novel starts with the main character’s Martha has just been discharged from a youth in southern Norway in the 1990s, sanatorium after a nervous breakdown, and a part of the country known for its deep Ella follows her to take care of her. But at the religiosity and its white wooden houses. A hotel, secret encounters take place and new powerful, primitive feeling starts growing fascinations arise. Through Ella’s confiden- within her: A hatred of God. In this hatred, tial story, we get a look into the underlying there is a force which stays with her long conflicts that have led the two women away after she has left behind the classrooms of her from what once was a relationship based on childhood and the dark southern forests. mutual trust and devotion.

Later we find ourselves in a future, but still Mona Høvring writes with impressive insight recognisable Oslo. Here, a secret network of about love and confusion. Because Venus witches arise, carrying out subversive rituals. Passed an Alp Violet on the Day I Was Born is a At the same time, the narrator is writing a sharp, sensitive story about jealousy and pas- 30 film script, a magical document. sion, an original and surprising story about 31 the many distractions of the heart. Foreign rights sold: Danish (LESEN) “As intriguing and impressive a novelist as Girls against God is an uncompromising, re- she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet flective, playful and deeply fascinating novel horror and wonder.” about black metal and white-painted idyll, "Mysterious, dark and courageous" “A small novel with great power ... one of this – Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick about underground movements, magic and - NRK year’s best books. Personally I rate it higher rebellion. The narrative, the essayistic and the even than Camilla’s Long Nights, the fragmen- magical is organically woven together into "A shining pearl of a novel tary novel that brought Høvring a nomination - Dagbladet for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.” a literary text that both genre-wise and by – Aftenposten virtue of its content refuses to be boxed in.

Jenny Hval Mona Høvring

Jenny Hval (b. 1980) is a musician, sound artist and writer. She has Mona Høvring (b. 1962) has previously published six collections of released two albums as Rockettothesky, and four under her own poetry and three acclaimed novels. Her previous novel, Camilla's Long name, most notably Apocalypse Girl (2015) and Blood Bitch (2016). Nights, was nominated for the Nordic Council Literary Prize in 2014. She made her literary debut with the novel The Pearl Brewery in 2009, and followed up with Sings with Her Eyes in 2012. Her first novel will be published in English by Verso Books autumn 2018 under the title Photo: Baard Henriksen Photo: Agnete Brun Paradise Rot.

Å hate Gud Novel Fordi Venus passerte en alpefiol den dagen jeg blei født Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2018 256 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2018 136 pages Erland Kiøsterud Anna Kleiva The Revelation Echo Mountain - Stories from L.A.

FORLAGET OKTOBER In The Revelation, we meet Christian, owner Los Angeles is the main character in Anna FORLAGET OKTOBER of a boarding house by the Oslo Fjord. Here Kleiva’s first book of prose, which through he lives with his wife Magda-Marie and different perspectives and styles tries to the boarding house guests, a large group map and understand this divided, sprawling of homeless people. They are refugees and American city. Travel journals from several outcasts, coming from numerous countries encounters with L.A. between 2008 and 2017 and cultures. It’s a fragile community, with a are woven together with stories, conversa- potential for conflict. tions, and poetic as well as essayistic texts, and a certain Angelena’s letter to an un- The parallel to our own times is obvious, but known person. Kiøsterud elegantly manages to put his story in a deeper, more existential context. The Echo Mountain is about the city as a dream, novel’s story takes place in a not too distant myth and fiction, but also about the search future. From the capital there are reports of for the voices, stories and realities that hide a civil war-like conditions, and the idyllic beneath the glittering façade. It’s a book surroundings of the Oslo Fjord are oppressed about having a love affair with a city, about by an almost apocalyptic atmosphere: There being attracted and being shut out, but also 32 are forces that are working to conquer both about seeing and describing: How can you 33 nature and culture, and below the surface, a write about a shifting, condradictory reality, growing silence threatens. that can neither be captured nor limited?

The Revelation is a free-standing sequel to The Work of Hands (2015)

Erland Kiøsterud Anna Kleiva

Erland Kiøsterud (born 1953) made his debut as an author in 1973 Anna Kleiva was born in 1985 in Oslo. She is the author of three with the novel Wounds that Never Heal. He has since written several collections of poetry, the second of which, Springs Later (2014) was novels and novel series. Kiøsterud has been awarded the Gyldendal awarded the Oslo Prize and the Melsom Prize. Echo Mountain is her Prize and the Riksmål Society Literature Prize. In 2012, he received first book of prose. the Ypsilon Prize for the novel Mimina. His deep-delving novels have won him a special position in Norwegian contemporary literature. Photo: Finn Ståle Felberg Photo: Yngvild Gotaas Torvik

Åpenbaringen Novel Echo Mountain Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2018 92 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2018 200 pages Jon Michelet Kathrine Nedrejord The Warrior Returns - Hero of the Seas 6 Transformation

FORLAGET OKTOBER The Warrior Returns is the sixth and final vol- Transformation is a novel about returning to FORLAGET OKTOBER ume of the epic Hero of the Sea series. Halvor everyday life after a brutal rape. Skramstad wakes up in a hospital in New Guinea, having been in a coma ever since a K. is a young, Norwegian writer living in Kamikaze attack on his ship. Paris. Early one morning, walking home alone after a night out with friends, she is The end of the war is approaching in Nor- assaulted and raped outside her apartment way, but in the Pacific Ocean fighting against building. We follow her in the hours, days the Japanese continues unabated. Halvor sails and weeks after the event as she deals with to Okinawa, where both the Japanese and the experience, confronting the bureucracy, the Americans suffer enormous losses, and spending time with close friends and family numerous allied ships are sunk. in Oslo, and then returning to Paris to resume her normal life. In September 1945, heavily marked by his experiences, he returns to Norway, expecting K. has often made untraditional choices, driv- gratefulness towards him and his fellow sur- en by an open attitude and adventurousness. viving merchant seamen. Instead they're met She has always been the active part in her 34 with contempt and mistrust. The merchant life, the protagonist of her own story. But the 35 seamen fought Norway’s war at a great per- assault forces her into another role, another * Straight in at #1 in Norway, Sept 2018 sonal cost. Now they must fight a new battle: story, which she doesn’t want to be part of.

* First print run 40,000 copies the battle for the compensation owed them by the secret fund. But this time, In a brutal, candid and urgent way, Transfor- * 200,000 copies sold of book 1 injustice prevails, and many a disillusioned mation tells the story of a shattering experi-

* More than 750,000 copies printed of books seamen descend into alcoholism. Perhaps ence, while finding surprising connections 1-5 Halvor’s only hope of salvation is honest to bureaucracy, language and writing. It is work – and his love for the Irish Muriel. a brilliantly composed novel, written with wisdom and warmth.

Jon Michelet Kathrine Nedrejord

In the 1980s and 90s Jon Michelet (1944-2018) was one of Norway’s Kathrine Nedrejord (born 1987) is a Norwegian and Sami writer and most popular crime writers and an early exponent of what would playwright. She made her debut with the novel Transit in 1987, and later be known as Nordic Noir. Two decades later he crowned an followed up with Crowding in 2014. She is currently the house drama- already impressive body of work with his bestselling, addictive and tist at the National Theatre in Oslo. important naval epic from WW2.

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Krigerens hjemkomst - En sjøens helt 6 Novel Forvandlinga Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2018 576 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2018 256 pages Kristine Næss Anne Oterholm While I Remember Liar

FORLAGET OKTOBER Ten years ago, Ingeborg had success with a Oliver is 24. He has inherited an apartment FORLAGET OKTOBER novel which was praised for its diagnosis of and some money after his mother, who has the times. Now she is a part-time office work- died. He travels to Villefranche, letting his er in a temp agency, living alone with her ex-girlfriend Emma stay in his apartment dog. Her daughter has moved out and is hard while studying for her exams. On the beach at work putting her political ideas into prac- he meets Lucy, who works in a clothes store. tice. Ingeborg wants to write a Ph.D thesis But it could have been anybody really. They on the author Ingeborg Bachmann – but her agree to meet for a date the day after. There’s academic credentials are really not sufficient. no need for Oliver to move slowly. What’s worse, her friend Kristin is already a respected expert on the subject. Ingeborg When he is in Oslo, he works in a computer longs for friendship and love, but all potential store. He eats little or nothing, goes for a boyfriend candidates are either married, gay beer, plays computer games. Drifts around. or quite simply not that bright. Sits down here and there, to look at other people, preferably women. Ingeborg's response is to think – to think about utopias, about new and estranging Is what he says ever true? In Oliver’s dubious 36 technology, about whether the concept of exploration of existence, an intense unease 37 class is still useful, about the mechanics and trickles out. “Few writers other than Kristine Næss effects of capitalism, about her childhood and succeed in getting language so close to life itself; she is one of the very best of our about lust. And she thinks about thinking. Liar is a merciless, unsentimental portrait of generation.” a young man. – Karl Ove Knausgård on Only Human With a satiric, yet deeply empathetic eye for its main character, While I Remember is a won- "Wonderfully original, and sparkling in derfully entertaining and stimulating novel both its theme and its prose ... empathetic and elegant" about hubris and insecurity, about female 5/6 stars, Adresseavisen self-esteem, and hopeless, attractive men.

Kristine Næss Anne Oterholm Kristine Næss (b. 1966) made her debut in 1996 with the collection Anne Oterholm was born in Illinois in 1964 and grew up in a small of poetry Obladi. She has since written novels, stories and a book of town outside of Oslo. She made her debut in 1995 with the novel poetics, and her distinct, personal voice has given her a significant Nothing Else Than What You Want, for which she received the Bok- place in the Norwegian literary landscape. She has also edited a liter- klubben Nye Bøkers Prize for Debut Author of the Year. In 1999 she ary journal and worked as a critic. In 2015 her novel Only Human was was awarded Tanum’s Scholarship for Women, and in 2010 she won nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize. the . Photo: Finn Ståle Felberg Photo: Pernille Marie Walvik

Mens jeg husker det Novel Løgnhals Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2018 368 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2018 250 pages Maria Navarro Skaranger Tina Åmodt Book of Grief (The Story about Nils in the Forest) Doris

FORLAGET OKTOBER Book of Grief (The Story of Nils in the Forest) 14 year old Doris and her father Roy Arne FORLAGET OKTOBER tells the story of the family who is left behind Holmås are on holiday somewhere along after a young man takes his own life. It’s the the west coast of Norway in a 50 ft yacht, story of a mother who can’t stop crying, also named Doris. Doris and her father have about an absent father, about siblings who left her mother Bella and the other boats struggle to understand. Skaranger’s second travelling with them, sailing aimlessly around novel is a raw, moving book about respon- along the coast. sibility and trying to save a person close to you, about desperation and rage, but also Doris is increasingly frustrated with the situa- about love, hope and the light that exists tion, and is in opposition to both her parents after all. and life at sea. What she really wants is to get to a place with a proper cell phone signal and to see her thirteen year older flame Jimmy again. What are her unpredictable father’s plans? Where are they going? And how long does he want them to be out at sea?

38 Doris is a sharp, humourous and painful 39 portrait of life as a teenager and of a fa- ther-daughter relationship out of balance. It is a warm, merciless story of being under constant surveillance and about always being watched by others.

Maria Navarro Skaranger Tina Åmodt Maria Navarro Skaranger was born in 1994 in Oslo. Her debut novel, Tina Åmodt was born in 1985 on the West Norwegian island of All Foreigners Have Their Curtains Closed, was sold to Denmark before Askøy. In 2010 she made her debut with Builders’ Prose, which was its Norwegian publication. Skaranger was awarded the Debut Award, received with great acclaim. In 2014 she published her first novel, and shortlisted for the Tarjei Vesaas’ Debut Prize. It Never Gets Light Here. In 2015 she received the Stig Sæterbakken Memorial Prize.

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