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SPRING 2019 RIGHTS LIST RIGHTS FICTION / NON-FICTION Content FORLAGET OKTOBER FORLAGET Literary fiction Forlaget Oktober 4 - Klara Hveberg 14 - Maria Sand 6 - Simon Stranger 16 -Edvard Hoem 8 - Jostein Gaarder 18 - Ibsen NOR: Merete Pryds Helle, 9 - Maria Kjos Fonn Vigdis Hjorth & Klas Östergren 10 -Monica Isakstuen 20 - Bjørn Esben Almaas 11 - Lasse Gallefoss 21 - Line Baugstø 12 - Unni Lindell 22 - Øyvind Berg 23 - Hans Petter Blad 24- Tron Jensen 2 3 Oslo Literary Agency is Norway’s largest literary 25 - Kjersti Bronken Senderud agency, representing authors in the genres of literary fiction, crime and commercial fiction, children’s and 26 - Ingvild Solstad-Nøis YA books and non-fiction. 27 - Bård Torgersen Oslo Literary Agency was established in 2016, 28 - Karen Røise Kielland transforming from the in-house Aschehoug Agency to an agency representing authors from any publisher. In addition, Oslo Literary Agency carries full representation of Norway's leading publisher of literary fiction, Forlaget Oktober. Oslo Literary Agency, Sehesteds gate 3, P. O. Box 363 Sentrum, N-0102 Oslo, Norway Cover illustration by Exil Design, taken from the front cover of Maria Sand: A Child Forever osloliteraryagency.no Klara Hveberg Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine From the reviews: ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION LITERARY - ASCHEHOUG An unforgettable debut novel about mathe- FICTION LITERARY - ASCHEHOUG matics, classical music and the very thin line "A delightful history about the many aspects of love, and of the search for beauty in life." - Adresseavisen, 6/6 stars between great love and great loneliness. "A mathemagical debut. This incredibly strong novel makes music out of mathemathics Rakel has a rare talent for mathematics, and and turns life into poetry. Bravo!" - Dagsavisen an even greater talent for misunderstandings. She has never mastered the art of making "Klara Hveberg has written a truly wonderful history of love. A story told mainly in minor, friends, but sees boats kissing on the fjord but with a constant humoristic undercurrent that appears both refined and organic. The book is also packed with well-tuned references to music, literature, mathematics and when everyone else just sees them crossing. philosophy." - Romsdals Budstikke, 6/6 stars At nineteen, she moves to Oslo to attend university, and meets Jakob. He is her profes- From the novel: sor, and also working on a novel about Sofja On longing: Kovalevskaja, the first woman who became a Mathematics professor. Just as Kovalevskaja In order to walk away from someone you love, every organ in the body must be notified. It was very close to her much older advisor, is not sufficient for the brain to have made up its mind. For the heart can make the body turn around. As can the lips, the uterus, the gut, the neck pit, the earlobes, the eyelids, Rakel and Jakob are instantly drawn to each the popliteals, the toes, the iliac crest, — yes, even the umbilical pit — can make the 4 other and eventually become lovers, although body turn around. As can the deceitful spaces in-between, where imprints of the loved 5 one may be concealed. The space between nameless toes. The distance between the chin Foreign rights sold: he is married. and the throat pit. The space between the labia. Come, my friends. Come with me now. Germany I need you all. In the years to come, Rakel's academic career And never look back. Two lungs moving away. Four ventricles, twelve pairs of ribs, thirty-four vertebral and a "A remarkable novel (...) I was both in- soars, but her health declines. From her bed- tailbone. Two dimples on the lower back. Ten sensitive fingertips. Eight meters of intes- trigued and found myself falling in love side she imagines the life of Sofja while trying tines. Four liters of blood. Two square meters of skin. All moving away. with Rakel. Klara Hveberg has written Knowing this: Without him I have no one. Without him I am no one. For without him I a beautiful love story in D minor. I feel to understand her own. With a gaze both don’t know who I am. And still forcing oneself to move furter away. The spinal chord, the a little less lonely with this book on my naive and mercilessly sharp, she dissects what cerebellum — yes, the entire central nervous system — must obey this command: We will nightstand." may be her life's only love story, looking for move on. And never look back. - VG answers in numbers, music and literature. On chocolate: There are two kinds of confectionary lovers. Those who take their time reading the de- scriptions on the chocolate box in order to find just the right piece. And who spend even Klara Hveberg more time searching for this particular piece, only to learn, perhaps, that it has already been eaten by someone else. In that case they repeat the process while trying to conceal Author Klara Hveberg (b. 1974) studied music and literature before obtaining the disappointment of having to settle for another piece. If the piece they have chosen is her PhD in mathematics, writing her thesis on fractals, the elusive, incredibly still available, they risk having set their expectations for how good it will taste so high, that they will be disappointed none the less. The other kind of confection lovers take beautiful, geometrical formations who might be as close as you get to art in a random piece from the box without even looking at it, puts it in their mouth and and mathematics. Lean Your Loneliness Slowly against Mine is her first novel. The title appears to be enjoying a completely carefree existence. Sometimes people in the first is a slightly altered line from a poem by the Norwegian author Stein Mehren. category can infect people in the second through their way of being and thus complicate Photo: Agnete Brun their lives unnecessarily. Jakob cannot eat confectionary as effortlessly as he could be- fore. This is Rakel's fault. Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min Novel Aschehoug, 2019 305 pages Simon Stranger Keep Saying Their Names From the reviews: ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION LITERARY - ASCHEHOUG Sold in 17 territories "A compulsive twist on familiar stories from WW2. Simon Stranger has FICTION LITERARY - ASCHEHOUG been inspired by this to write the best novel about the arrest of Norwegian Winner of the Booksellers Prize 2018 Jews since Steinar Løding’s “Erindringens tre (eng: The Tree of Memory)” Winner of the Riksmål Prize 2018 (1992). Both the story of Rinnan and the story of the Kommisar family, in particular of Ellen and her growing despair about living in “Bandekloster- et”, is told in a prose that glows and sparkles and makes this story horribly A chilling and gripping double portrait of engaging", a young man who became a torturist and -Dagbladet, 6/6 stars a family that would have been an entirely different one had Norway not been invaded "Riveting and beautiful (...) This book deserves to be read by very many" in 1940. - Bok 365, 6/6 stars What turns the bashful shoemaker’s son Hen- "Masterly and frightful" ry Rinnan from Trøndelag into one of the - Adresseavisen, 6/6 stars most hated criminals in Norwegian history; a double agent killing Norwegians for the Na- "Remarkably well-done. Stranger is making a bold move when choosing zis? And why would a Jewish family want to to write an entire novel about themes every well-read person knows very move into Rinnan’s headquarters shortly after well. When «Leksikon om lys og mørke» is still such a successful project, the sole reason is the author’s literary talent. This novel is intense with a the war, in the house that for many became tremendous narrative drive, at the same time as the prose has an almost 6 the very symbol of the atrocities committed flowing lightness to it" 7 - VG, 5/6 stars during the German occupation? According to Jewish tradition everyone dies Spanning over four generations, Simon "As the title more than suggests, Stranger has composed this book with a twice. The first time is when the heart stops kind of encyclopedic structure, each chapter starting with a letter. This is beating, and the synapses in the brain shut Stranger skillfully constructs a story consist- no simple task, but it works excellently, even with letters like X, Y and Z. down, like a city during a blackout. The sec- ing of the most beautiful and painful elements Very little appear superfluous and the high quality of the prose is upheld all ond time is when the dead person’s name is the way through till the end. uttered, read or thought of for the last time, of human life in this epic and ambitious after fifty or hundred or four hundred years. novel, pieces that when put together also Stranger writes wonderfully, there is no doubt about it. The language is Only then, is the person really gone, erased becomes the history of his own family. economic, almost ascetic, but flows beautifully. Here are no bombastic from life on Earth. metaphors. Stranger goes straight to the core, also emotionally. The con- trast between the sober prose (the last few pages are some of the most wistfully dreadful I have read in Norwegian) and the dirty, bloody and ma- cabre gives the at times scandalously violent content a lyrical dimension. It leaves the reader with a sense of pensive unease. Simon Stranger Stranger's descriptions of agony of death and resignation are frightening Simon Stranger (b. 1976) made his debut in 2003, and has since written ten and sad. The most horrible scenes are cold and observing, yet empathetic, and makes me think of an author like Flannery O’Connor." books for children, young adults and adults.

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