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FICTION AND NON-FICTION FORLAGET OKTOBER 3 Literary Fiction Hagen Rani Kathleen - 32 Eirik Ingebrigtsen - 34 Simenstad Line Madsen - 35 Tandberg Vibeke - 36 Tideman V.S. - 37 Christiansen Rune - 38 Lindstrøm Merethe - 39 - 40 27 - Ellen Vahr Ellen - 27 Wessel-Aas Katrine - 28 Crime and Thrillers Aslak Nore - 29 Teige Trude - 30 Oktober Forlaget Non-Fiction Marsdal Magnus - 42 Content Literary Fiction Oda Malmin - 14 Lunde Maja - 16 Flatland Helga - 18 Tiller Frode Carl - 20 Gøhril Gabrielsen - 22 Jan Kjærstad - 23 Koritzinsky Roskva - 24 Sveen Lars Petter - 25 Brekke Toril - 26 Vestre Katharina - 4 Beate Kasin Marit - 6 H. Svendsen Lars Fr. - 7 Henrik Svensen - 8 Walgermo Alf Ketil - 9 Ellen S. Dahl & Nina Brochmann - 10 Moddi Knutsen Pål - 12 Sandmo Erling - 13 Stensønes Malin - 14 Non-Fiction Gøhril Gabrielsen publisher. osloliteraryagency.no

YA books and non-fiction. books and non-fiction. YA literary fiction, Forlaget Oktober. literary fiction,

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 largest publisher of publisher of Norway's largest representation Oslo Literary Agency is Norway’s biggest literary 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 Katharina Vestre and Linnea Vestre (ill.) The First Mystery. The Story of You - Before You Were Born

ASCHEHOUG -NON-FICTION The First Mystery tells the story of you (and ASCHEHOUG -NON-FICTION me and everyone), from conception to birth, from the first primitive cell divisions – until nine months later, when we fight our way out of an overly narrow opening as ready- made human children.

Did you know that the expression ‘The rabbit died’ (indicating that a woman is pregnant) stems from pregnancy tests during the 1920s, where the doctors injected the woman’s urine into a rabbit and later studied the changes in its ovaries; Or that the tiny male sea worm ‘Bonellia viridis’ spends his entire life inside the much larger female, as her personal sperm donor.

4 These are two of the numerous strange facts 5 you’ll find in The First Mystery. The Story of Foreign rights sold: World English (Profile Books), You – Before You Were Born, where Katharina Swedish (Atlantis), Danishk (Turbine), Polish (Zysk), Italian (Mondadori) Rumanian (Publica) Hungarian Vestre tells us all about the miraculous pro- (Cser), French (Flammarion), Dutch (Ambo/Anthos) cess that takes place inside a mother’s womb. The First Mystery is popular science, history of An exciting and astounding visual story about science, storytelling and public education at our creation (…) she has an incredible ability its best. Charming, entertaining, fun, accessi- to explain complex phenomena in an under- standable and appetising way ble, inclusive and knowledgeable. - Dagbladet

Katharina Vestre Katharina Vestre (b. 1992) is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the De- partment of Biosciences at the University of Oslo. The First Mystery is her literary debut. The book is illustrated by her sister Linnea Vestre (b. 1993).

Photos: Hildur Augustsdottir

Det første mysteriet. Historien om deg – før du ble født Popular science Aschehoug, 2018 150 pages Marit Beate Kasin Lars Fr. H. Svendsen Winter Dance Understanding Animals

ASCHEHOUG -NON-FICTION 1000 kilometres. 14 dogs. 1 woman. What would your dog say if it could talk? KAGGE -NON-FICTION Most of us assumes that a dog is happy when The Finnmark Race is one of the toughest it wags the tail, or that the cat is happy when dog sled races in the world. Marit Beate it mews and curls up on your lap. But how Kasin has participated three times. In Winter does the animals we surround us with think? Dance she tells the story from within, giving And can we understand them? a vivid, exhilarating account of how the contestants fight with themselves, the forces Lars Fr. H. Svendsen has written a book of nature and their competitors for six days about understanding animals, with examples and nights over thousand kilometres in some and discussions from the history of philos- of the most demanding and remote mountain ophy. From the French philosopher who areas north in Norway. feel shame when he stands naked in the bathroom and the cat looks at him, to the Winter Dance also tells Kasin’s own story, philosophical questions whether animals can from being a newbie in long distance dog be lonely. sled racing, to become Norwegian champion and overall winner in Europe’s longest sled Understanding Animals is an informative, 6 dog race. It is a life in storm and silence, close entertaining and witful book about animals 7 to nature and close to the dogs, with their and whether it makes sense to describe our Foreign rights sold: German (DuMont) different fascinating personalities. animals with human characteristics.

An exciting and astounding visual story about This book should be hailed an instant classic in Winter Dance is first and foremost a book the Norwegian wilderness prose. A heart- about living simple and dreaming big, about warming read. Helge Ingstad would be proud the interaction between humans and animals, - Dagbladet about the forces of nature and the forces in Has the suspense of crime literature ourselves, and how extreme situations and - Bladet Hundekjøring (Dog Sled Racing) challenges makes us stronger.

Marit Beate Kasin Lars Fr. H. Svendsen Marit Beate Kasin (b. 1983) is a dog sled racer and a jour- Lars Fr. H. Svendsen (b. 1970) is a doctor of philosophy and nalist. In 2008 she started the kennel Winter Dance. She professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen. He is also an has participated in the extreme Finnmarksløpet sled dog internationally bestselling non-fiction author, with a unique ability race three times. In 2015 she ended up as the best rookie. to communicate difficult contemporary and international topics In 2016 she became the Norwegian champion, and she in a straightforward way. Svendsen has received several prizes for was the overall winner in 2016 and 2017 combined. his works, and his books have been translated into more than 25 Photo: Sturlason Photo: Dominique Fleischmann languages.

Vinterdans Nature/adventure Å forstå dyr Popular science/philosopy Aschehoug, 2018 210 pages Kagge, 2018 130 pages Henrik Svensen Alf Ketil Walgermo Stone by Stone A Rough Guide to the Bible

ASCHEHOUG -NON-FICTION The Earth 252 million years ago: a planet in This is the book for all who need to brush up SAMLAGET -NON-FICTION crisis. Huge volcanic eruptions. Animals and on their knowledge about the Bible, and for plants dies, a destroyed ozone layer and a those who never opened it. sour and lifeless sea. That’s how it was. On the Earth. Before us. But how do we know? The Bible is the world’s best-selling book of all times. It is both a sacred text and a literary Henrik Svensen collects stones, studies them triumph. It is the starting point for two world in a microscope, looking for something that religions and a cornerstone in the western can solve one of the biggest questions in literature and civilization. Is it possible to science today: why did 90 percent of life understand our own history, language and on Earth at that time, disappear during the culture, if we don’t know the Bible? greatest mass destructions in history? Alf Kjetil Walgermo has written a knowledge- In his search for answers, Svensen meets aca- able and accessible guide to the Bible. With a demic celebrities’ and academic enemies, un- curious mind and educational sense, he takes predictable Russians, South African farmers the reader along into the most important and and an eager double. The events of the past influential book ever written. 8 are untangled, millions of years compressed 9 into something tangible, something that could provide answers to what can happen Walgermo’s combination of humility and with a planet that stands on the threshold of respect for the original text, and his bold Anthropocene, our own age. contemporary reading of it, is just liberating, enlightening and engaging - VG

Henrik Svensen Alf Ketil Walgermo Henrik Svensen (b. 1970) has a PhD in Geology from the University Alf Kjetil Walgermo (born 1977) is an author, journalist and literary of Oslo (2000), followed by studies in History of ideas. He is currently critic. He has previously written seven books, including books for working as Research professor in geology at the University of Oslo. children and YA. Alf Kjetil Walgermo is today the culture editor of His earlier books The End Is Nigh – A Human History of Natural Disas- the Norwegian daily Vårt Land. ters (2006) and In High Places (2011) are sold to several countries. Photo: Private Photo: Agnete Brun

Stein på stein Popular science Røff guide til Bibelen Religion Aschehoug, 2018 240 pages Samlaget, 2017 384 pages 11 ASCHEHOUG - NON-FICTION 11 - - Foreign rights sold: Foreign Portuguese (Dar Al-Muna), Braz. US), Arabic (Quercus English American Kite/Hodder/Hachette), (Yellow English British das Letras), (Compahnia complex Chinese (Columna/Destino/Planeta), Catalan (Bard), Bulgarian Czech (Znanje), Croatian China), simplified (PRH Chinese (Morning Star), Es Luitingh-Sijthoff), (Uitgeverij Dutch Press), Danish (Peoples (Omega), German (Fischer), Sud), (Actes (Otava), French Finnish (Pegasus), tonian (Forlagið), Icelandic (Cser), (Modan), Hungarian Hebrew (Patakis), Greek Books), Latvi (Open Korean (NHK-Publishing), Japanese Italian (Marsilio), Portuguese Draga), (Sonia Polish (Alma Littera), Lithuanian an (Zvaigzne), - (Slovart), Span Slovakian (Eksmo), Russian (Trei), Romanian Editora) (Porto Ukrainian (Epsilon), Turkish (Forum), Swedish Spain), ish (Grijalbo/PRH (Vivsyanka) Dahl and Brochmann crush myth after myth, all in a language afterall in a language crush myth myth, Brochmann Dahl and uplifting engaging, understandable, easily factual, is both that This is simply brilliant. and witty once. at 6 stars 6 out of Fædrelandsvennen, - is set to do for the vagina what Guilia Guilia what vagina the do for to is set Down Under The Wonder ago. years a few system digestive our Gut did for Enders' Stylist - Photo: Anne valeur Anne Photo: Sold to 34 languages Sold to 34 everything you didn’t you can learn Finally, ed. get to in sex think you know your own genitals? You Down Under you Wonder again! In The Think learn the truth about the clitoris’ inner life, dance and whether the menstrual hormone book exists. The the vaginal orgasm really how different types helps you understand in the body,of contraception work what like and what the a “normal” vagina looks clitoris really is. book the quite simply gives women The knowledge they need to make wise choices about their sexual health. Popular science/sexual health science/sexual Popular 320 pages

Gleden med skjeden 2017 Aschehoug, Dr Nina Brochmann (a qualified doctor) and Dr Nina Brochmann Ellen Støkken Dahl (a final-year medical student) have for several years worked as - educators in sexual health, advising teenag ers, sex workers and refugees. In 2015, they Genital started the blog Underlivet (The fast became Area), which one of Norway's - most popular health blogs. Seeing the obvi ous demand for more information about the female body and frustrated by the amount of medical misconceptions and shame that surrounds female sexuality, they wrote The book has taken This Down Under. Wonder the world by storm and is currently being translated into 34 languages. Nina Brochmann og Ellen S. Dahl Nina Brochmann The Wonder Down Under Down Wonder The Nina Brochmann & Ellen S. Dahl Ellen S. & Brochmann Nina

ASCHEHOUG - NON-FICTION 10 NASJONALBIBLIOTEKET - NON-FICTION 13 Photo: Universitetsforlaget Universitetsforlaget Photo: Cultural history Cultural pages 95 Gigantic sea snakes, multi-eyed ocean pigs snakes, multi-eyed Gigantic sea of the size of elephants: Sailors or fish the when prepare for the worst past had to professor the seas. History they travelled into the archives Erling Sandmo has dived and found a series of the National Library of encounters with sea of spectacular stories little book delightful brings monsters. This of monsters from old us images of a variety maps and books, with Sandmo's together essaysinsightful, fascinating on their origin, disappearance.meaning and eventual “The occasion for this little book is to gather a few a few gather book is to little “The this for occasion I have That is what pages. these between monsters of the while conscious all the do here, to attempted definition, Per endeavour. of the nature paradoxical and boundaries transgresses necessarily a monster anxiety and sowing disrupting systems categories, into vanishing before established order, the within and bind try pin it down moment we to darkness the definitions. our it within - twen present I hereby goal. is my that Nevertheless, My cri monsters. - sea ty precisely, or more monsters, at one must they first, twofold: are inclusion for teria monsters, true been considered time in history have in be available must material source the and second, Library National the at collections of Norway.” the ErlingSandmo Sea Monsters in Maps and Literature 1491-1895 in Maps and Sea Monsters Uhyrlig - Sjømonstre i kart 1491-1895 og litteratur - Uhyrlig 2017 Nasjonalbiblioteket, Erling Sandmo Erling at the University Erling Sandmo (b. 1963) is professor of history at the national library, author and critic. He of Oslo, researcher has written a number of books on criminal violence, and articles a few, and is an historical method and classical music, to name established music critic. Foreign rights German sold: Foreign & (Nagel Kimche) Erling Sandmo Erling - Monstrous Photo: Aschehoug Photo: A scheduled gig in Tel Aviv in the Spring of in the Spring Aviv in Tel gig A scheduled - life forev Knutsen’s Moddi Pål 2014 changed of criticism a cross fire After experiencing er. was not that playing in Israel and realizing hearted or seemingly a matter for the faint name of music, he a simple gesture in the concert. decided to cancel the him to discover how cancellation lead The simple song can bepolitically powerful a and of artists who had that the world was full been and silenced for their songs, imprisoned journey beganeven killed. And so, a over five Israel, Mexico, continents, through Chile, Lebanon and other countries, Vietnam, where he met artists who had written songs that mattered. In Unsongs we meet 10 destinies behind the songs, who all have faced censorship, per- book secution and violent suppression. This is a tribute to the power of music in a time as when most people shun the idea of music a political tool. Moddi, however, shows us that political music can be as dangerous as a shotgun. Music/politics 287pages Ten untold stories about untold and music censorship Ten Foreign rights German (Nautilus) sold: Foreign Forbudte sanger - Historier fra fem kontinenter - sanger Forbudte 2017 Aschehoug, and a political and social activist. His music has beenand a political and social activist. His music described as a refers to himself as a singer blend of folk music and pop, although he Moddi is widely recognised for his interpretations and and storyteller. and Pussy Riot. Bunyan as Vashti translations of other artists, such Unsongs is his first book. Pål Moddi Knutsen Pål musician and author, Moddi Knutsen (b. 1987) is a Norwegian Pål Unsongs - Unsongs Pål Moddi Knutsen Moddi Pål

ASCHEHOUG - NON-FICTION 12 ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION 15 Photo: Oda Berbye Photo: - They say family, your you cannot choose They flat, windy, up in Jæren, on the but growing you outskirts of Norway, sparsly populated else, either. much cannot choose Elderly cousins Ingeborg and Randi have been before friends since they could walk, other? each choose but did they ever really Ingeborg going to be was never a farmer, but away and was never she did. Randi moved but she did. When Ran- going to come back, are bothdi is seriously ill, they forced to look at their life and relationship, and secrets back everything. to change emerge that threaten Steinauge is a story of adolescent love leading to a dangerous game of dare, of rebellion and tradition, of deepfelt love of animals and physical labor and of the difficult task of actu- ally talking to the people closest to you. A striking literary talent with a very distinct to voice that we are very proud to introduce the world. Novel 189 pages DEBUT Steinauge 2018 Aschehoug, Oda Malmin De Oda Malmin was born in Stavanger in 1987. She has a Master’s Oda Malmin Oda Steinauge Languages,gree in Nordic Publishing House and works for Samlaget lives in Oslo. Steinauge is her debut novel. Photo: Aschehoug Aschehoug Photo: Non-fiction 356 pages The work of Delta Norway, from everyday from work of Delta Norway, The terror hit. 22nd 2011, when the life to July in recent years beenEurope has subject to a number Charlie Heb- terror attacks. of rough bomb in attacks in Paris, do and the Bataclan and shootings in public Brussels, knife attacks crowds, are all parts places, cars plowing into ones to com- of the same picture. The threat first and foremost the bat these threats are forces. Delta Norway European contra terror forces, network of such is part of a European at the same police it is the Norwegian time as against serious and force's main measure organized crime. the first time one of the contra terror For more than two forces has opened up. For years’ Malin Stensønes were allowed inside in their work. to follow Delta Norway In this book, in we follow Delta Norway - everyday life, during recruiting, training, exer and cises, patrol service and sharp operations, for the first time members of the force tells in detail about their actions July 22nd 2011, when the terror hit Norway. På vår vakt - Beretninger fra politets beredskapstropp fra politets Beretninger - vår vakt På 2017 Aschehoug, Malin Stensønes (born politician and 1968) is a Norwegian of the board she holds the position as chairman of Today author. Establishment. Defence Research the Norwegian Malin Stensønes Malin To Serve and Protect - Delta Norway and Protect Serve To Malin Stensønes Malin

ASCHEHOUG - NON-FICTION 14 Maja Lunde Blue

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Maja Lunde swept the world off its feet with ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION her debut novel The History of Bees. Now she is back with another magnificent and grip- ping story about people and water.

2017: Signe is close to 70, but sets out on a hazardous ocean journey, all alone and carrying a strange load, to confront the man she once loved.

2041: David feels too young to be a father, but has to flee alone with his young daughter through a drough ridden Southern Eu- rope, where there isn't enough water for all anymore. Everything changes the day they discover an abandoned sailboat in a deserted garden far away from any shore. 16 17 Blue is the second, stand-alone novel of the four books in Lunde's planned Climate Quar- The History of Bees: tet, that is already sold in its entirely to major Sold to 32 territories The most sold book in any genre in Germany in territories. 2017, with 500 000 copies sold. Winner of the Norwegian Booksellers´ Award

Blue: Sold to 15 territories

Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde (b. 1975) is a Norwegian author and screenwriter. She lives with her husband and three sons in Oslo. The History of Bees (2015) is her first adult novel. It recieved massive attention when it was first presented at the London Book Fair (Spring 2015), and was sold to seven languages before the book was launched. Her second novel Blue was launched in October 2017.

Blå Novel Aschehoug, 2017 370 pages Photo: Oda Berbye Helga Flatland A Modern Family Flatland has perfected her literary style, and this novel hits the bull’s eye. And, she is funny, too. With this book, Flatland

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION «We’re leaving each other» ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION demonstrates, once again, her impressing skills in describing the modern human being – or rather, a modern family. (…) A quiet earthquake occurs as siblings Liv, Cements her position as one of our most important, younger Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners authors and children, are gathered around the dinner – Dagbladet, 6 out of 6 stars table somewhere on the outskirts of Rome to celebrate Dad and Granddad Håkon’s 70th birthday. There is a hint of Ingmar Bergman in this portrayal of a com- pletely normal family, it delves deep and wrenches your heart. Shock and disbelief follow, as the three – Adresseavisen, 6 out of 6 stars grown children tries to cope with their parent’s decision. Not only does it affect their relationship as siblings, it echoes through the Once again, Helga Flatland proves that she is an unusually wise homes they have built for themselves, as well and sharp observer of people, of how we act, and interact, of as forcing them to them reconstruct their our traumas and coping mechanisms. Her prose is crystal clear shared narrative about their upbringing and and unpretentious, spiced up with drips of humor. family history. – Dagsavisen 18 19 Helga Flatland masterfully conducts this story, voiced in turn by Liv, Ellen and Håkon, Foreign rights sold: UK/World English (Orenda), Buckle up and enjoy this novel – a roller coaster of a read. with rare psychological insight, humor and Sweden (Polaris), Germany (Weidle), Denmark Intense emotions, highs and lows, and the events that set (Turbine), Bulgaria (Perseus) an almost filmatic narrative drive. A Modern them in motion are vibrantly and insightfully described. Hope, Family is a novel that will make you look at razor-sharp irony, suffocating jealousy and heartfelt unity, the people closest to you just a little more characterize this so-called modern family, that on the outside is thoroughly. so well-polished and old-fashioned that no one gets to stay in- doors on a sunny day and everyone eats pancakes for breakfast at everyone’s birthday. – Bok365.no

Helga Flatland A Modern Family is an important novel, adressing the challeng- Helga Flatland (b. 1984) is already one of Norway’s most awarded es of interaction with the ones close to you in a way that every and widely read authors. She has written four novels and a children’s reader can relate to book. Of her trilogy Stay if you can, leave if you must the Danish - NRK Extrabladet wrote: "Each novel on its own is a stylistic masterpiece that could, but shouldn’t be read separately. Together they form a Photo: Niklas Lello phenomenal story."

En moderne familie Novel Aschehoug, 2017 239 pages Beginnings

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Nominated to the 2018 Nordic Council ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Literature Prize Beginnings by Carl Frode Tiller has it all: A fascinating composi- tion, black humor, moving scenes, psychological depth, poetic Life can only be understood backwards; but features (...) An Ibsen's Brand for our time. it must be lived forwards, Søren Kierkegaard - Aftenposten wrote. Beginnings is the story of one man’s life, told from end to start, from suicide to birth. To better cast light on the ever recur- Dark glowing fiction art (...) Tiller is best in this country when it ring question of why life turned out just the comes to describing extremely uptight, desperate and despairing way it did? characters. - NRK Terje is a father and a husbond, a son, a brother and an environmentalist. Pained by his shortcomings when it comes to interact- Heartbreaking and psychologically poignant (…) Hardly any other ing with the ones closest to him and wres- Norwegian author makes such convincing and merciless use of tling with the notion that his activism and the trivial and banal in everyday conversations to reveal deep Pr efforts on a local scale just might be useless in human relations. 20 the face of a global catastrophe. - Dagsavisen 21

Foreign rights sold: Germany (BTB Random A gripping and highly original novel about House), Denmark (Rosinante) choice, freedom and determinism. How fortunate we are to have an author like Carl Frode Tiller's view on human nature. - Dagens Næringsliv

One of the fall's best books, with an unmistakenly Tiller-ish signa- ture. - Bergens Tidende Carl Frode Tiller Carl Frode Tiller (b 1970) is admired for his instantly recognizable, furious prose and his ability to create vivid, complex characters. In His nature scenes has a hint of the language and imagery of Jon 2005 he was named one of the 10 best Norwegian writers under 35. Fosse (...) a novel on the very top shelf of this author's body of In 2006, The Slope was named among the 25 most important Norwe- work. gian novels from the last 25 years. In addition to his novels, Tiller has - Morgenbladet written three plays and a number of short stories and short prose. His books have been translated into 22 languages, and has won every Photo: Therese Alice Sanne major Norwegian Literary award.

Begynnelser Novel Aschehoug, 2017 343 pages Gøhril Gabrielsen Jan Kjærstad Arrival Berge

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION At one of the northernmost outposts of Nor- Probably this year’s most important Norwegian ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION way, a scientist arrives to spend the winter in novel. - Hamar Arbeiderblad, six out of six stars a deserted, old fisherman’s cabin, finishing a research project. On a warm day in August 2008, Labor Party minister Arve Storefjeld and several members Her toddler daughter is with her ex-husband of his family, are found murdered in their in the south. All alone, surrounded by endless family cabin at Blankwater, in the Nordmarka snow and the petulant forces of nature, she is forest. Five people with their throats slit. awaiting her lover to join her.

Journalist Ine Wang has felt out of touch As the weeks pass, and her lover lingers, the lately. But the Storefjeld murders changes ev- remoteness she has sought starts to feel less erything. Judge Peter Malm lives a withdrawn like a refuge and more like a threat. life and attends his hobbies in happy solitude. The last thing he wants is attention drawn The rational thinker is drawn towards the to himself because of a case Nicolai Berge irrational, her loneliness gives way for a was head over heels in love with Gry, Arve disturbing presence, something dark and Storefjeld's daughter, for years. Then she 22 unknown, moving outside or inside herself. broke up with him. Now she is dead. 23

Foreign rights sold: Germany (Suhrkamp Insel) Foreign rights sold: Denmark (Rosinante) , Sweden (Atlan- Berge is a story of horrible events, told from This short novel has it all: exquisite storytell- tis), Germany (Septime) three different points of view. A journalist, a ing, a perfect plot and a fantastic portrait of Creeping suspense in an elegant wrapping In Berge, Jan Kjærstad dismantles some of judge and an ex-boyfriend. Without touching a woman. Quite simply a wonderful novel ... Gabrielsen once again demonstrates her the biggest myths, traumas and archetypes upon the July 22nd attack in Norway, Berge in recent Norwegian history. The result is (…) The ending surpasses every crime novel impressive, accurate prose. is a novel that would not have been written one of his strongest novels he’s ever written. I have read this year. - Dagsavisen I dare to name Berge a certain winner of the without it. - Adresseavisen, six out of six stars 2017 book fall. - VG, six out of six stars

Gøhril Gabrielsen Jan Kjærstad Gøhril Gabrielsen (b 1961) grew up in Finnmark and lives in Oslo. Jan Kjærstad occupies a prominent place in contemporary Norwegian She made her debut in 2006, and has since published five novels. She literature. He he made his debut as a writer of fiction in 1980, and has was awarded Aschehougs debutant price in 2008, the Tanum Wom- since written a number of novels, short stories and essays. His trilogy ens writers price in 2010 and the Amalie Skram Prize in 2016. The Seducer (1993), The Conquerer (1996) and The Discoverer Her third novel Dizzying Opportunities was published in English by (1999) was hailed as a monumental contribution towards renewal of Peirene Press under the title The Looking-Glass Sisters in 2015.. the art of novel writing in Scandinavia, and was awarded the Nordic Photo: Per Are Løkke Council’s Prize for Literature. Photo: Mimsy Møller

Ankomst Novel Berge Novel Aschehoug, 2017 170 pages Aschehoug, 2017 378 pages Roskva Koritzinsky Lars Petter Sveen I Have Not Yet Seen the World Five Stars

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Five young people fleeing through an un- ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Nominated to the 2018 Nordic known world. Council Literature Prize Aisha and Said are child soldiers, but manage A middle aged man, working in drug reha- to escape from the camp outside Mogadishu. bilitation, leaves his wife and children after Later they meet Isir, Aaliyah and Khadar who falling in love with a teenage client. A single is also on the run. The five decide to stick woman returns from work one day, to find together and try to make it to Europe. But that an entire litter of puppies have gone how do you survive in a world where you are missing. A girl writes a love letter to her boy- unwanted by all? friend, seven months after his death. This is the story about those who loose all and flee to nothing, but also about hope, commit- The final story, where a daughter writes to her ment and friendship. And of who you become father, is world class. Sore and painful, reveal- when no one knows you are. ing and near. - VG A raw and heartbreaking story told by a 24 god-given storyteller (…) a solid and vital liter- 25 Extreme precision (…) Everything she writes ary work about people in a disastrous situation. seems significant, no metaphor is well-used or - Dagsavisen Foreign rights sold: Sweden (Lindelöws), Named one of Norway’s ten best authors under 35 by Denmark (Batzer) cliche, rather they appear as striking as they Morgenbladet (2015) are dark. «I Have Not Yet Seen the World» is P.O. Enquist Prize (2016) Masterful on the refugee crisis ... Sveen writes Sult Award (2015) dense like poetry. This is a thoughtful project with great authority about one of the most Jan Roar Leikvoll Memorial Award (2015) with an admirable abundance of literary Nynorsk Literature Award (2014) burning issues of our time … Five stars is not energy. Mads Wiel Nygaard Legat (2014) just timely, it has the narrative drive of a thriller. Debutant Price (2008) - Fædrelandsvennen, six out of six stars Aschehoug Debutant Price (2008) - Dagbladet, six out of six stars

Lars Petter Sveen Roskva Koritzinsky Lars Petter Sveen was born in 1981. He made his debut with the Roskva Koritzinsky (b. 1989) made her debut with the short story col- short story collection Driving from Fræna in 2008, and got his big lection In Here Somewhere in 2013, for which she received Aschehoug's breakthrough in 2014 with his third novel Children of God for which Debutant Prize and was nominated to Tarjei Vesaas ' Debutant Prize. he was awarded the prestigous P.O. Enquist Prize in 2016. The book In 2016 she was selected as one of the first authors in New Voices, is sold to the US, France, Denmark, Sweden, China and Bulgaria NORLA 's development programme for new literary talents. Sveen was named one of Norway’s ten best authors under 35 by Mor- Photo: Håkon Borg genbladet in 2015. Photo: Tine Poppe

Jeg har ennå ikke sett verden Short stories Fem stjerner Novel Aschehoug, 2017 94 pages Aschehoug, 2017 256 pages ASCHEHOUG - UPMARKET 27 Photo: Pernille M. Walvik Pernille Photo: A young woman leaves everything behind leaves everything A young woman a maid for the Vanderbilts. to serve as and in throughout Europe, WW1 rages baker family Thoresen Christiania, Norway, One day a letter is not able to obtain flour. in America offering arrives from two aunts Marie a position Thea their oldest daughter family Vanderbilt as maid for the wealthy on Long accepts she Island in USA. If Thea to saywould not only have farewell to her the bakery, but also dream of developing part with her boyfriend Hans, the reliable has spoken of mar- young tailor friend who old riage. In order to help her family, 17 year to a life she travels across the Atlantic Thea could never have imagined. In the country manor Idle Hour, the class Thea had seen at home appear differences is faced with a secret that she small. Thea has to bear in order to keep things from are falling apart. When the Vanderbilts is not only threatened by a scandal, Thea confronted with the question of what she believes is right, but who she is and what freedom means to her. Novel 350 pages Idle Hour Trilogy, Book 1 Trilogy, Idle Hour Based on a true story: on a true As in her debut Based The Gift, Miss Marie one is about novel, This time foremothers. of the author’s a is the inspiration for grandmother Vahr’s to find who has fictional character strong it. walk to and dare - path in life her own Ellen Vahr great-great-great grandchild. is Anne Brannfjell’s (b. 1963) Ellen Vahr and has previously published She works as a professional life coach Life (2013). Her first novel, of Dreams (2011) and Risk Your Power The to Germany. Gift, was published in 2016 and sold for publication The Hour Idle 2018 Autumn Aschehoug, Ellen Vahr Ellen - Miss Marie Photo: Tine Poppe Tine Photo: - Who’s my father? Agathe asks several father? Agathe my -Who’s no one ever answers. times, but nicer areas during the 50s, in the Set in Oslo lives with her grandparents of town, Agathe who dreams of becomand her uncle Jannik - her mother, a woman who And ing a sailor. but is lost in her child, doesn’t really see her like the stages of longing for other places, Berlin, London or Paris. is left to herself and she is the Little Agathe handicapped boyone to discover that the next door both walk and talk – and loves can music. is torn Agathe One day everything changes. away from the beautiful life she knows and moves with her mother and the new family to to a working class suburb, where she has hide that she can read and play instruments. Mother is a coming of age All Loved Your We novel, and a hymn to those living in the a shadows of others, who still manage to find place in the sunlight. Novel 350 pages

Alle elsket moren din elsket Alle 2017 Aschehoug, ... an examplary, historic novel. Simple, Simple, novel. historic ... an examplary, an easy prose, and old-fashioned subdued and and entertaining impressive … An read literary and a solid research, hand- thorough Brekke! icraft. Congratulations, Land on The Promised Dagbladet - We All Loved Your Mother Loved All Your We Toril Brekke Toril

Toril Brekke Toril lated to Danish, German, Dutch and Russian. lated to Danish, German, Dutch affairs with a rare talent for storytelling. Her affairs with a rare talent for storytelling. books have been trans- and stories for children. Brekke combines a broad interest in public and stories for children. series of novels, short stories, biographies, booksseries of novels, short stories, biographies, for young adults Toril Brekke (b. 1949) is one of Norway's most notable, multi-talent most is one of Norway's Brekke (b. 1949) Toril a wide-ranginged and dynamic fiction writers. She has published

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION 26 ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS 29 - - Photo: AKAM1K3 AKAM1K3 Photo: Thriller 350 pages Winner of the Riverton Prize 2018 of the Riverton Prize Winner thriller aboutAn extraordinary a man of the to change the course determined second world war. veteran injured A disillusioned and regretting Henry Storm Norwegian on the Eastern front, Getting to know is the unlikeliest of heroes. secret about “wonder weapon”, he a German to Germany, to uncover the decides to go back himself. mystery, and redeem se Sorge is an officer in the German Werner curity service whose investigations cross paths program and Storm. To with the secret rocket Norwegian spy he employs his own find the secret weapon: A beautiful and troubled Polish woman turned into a German agent. Can Storm get his game-changing intel out of - the Wolf Sorge bait him into Will the Reich? sangel trap? is a rejuve Based on historic events, Wolfsangel Eye Follett’s nation of suspense classics like Ken Berlin trilogy. of the Needle and Philip Kerr’s Ulvefellen 2017 Aschehoug, Aslak Nore (b. 1978) is an author, editor and runs the popular Aslak Nore crime blog OP-5. acclaimed non-fiction has written several Nore books, among others God Is Norwegian (2007), about Norwegian debut, A Norwegian soldiers abroad. In 2012 he had his non-fiction the critics praised. spy-novel which Spy, an adventure packed Foreign rights Denmark sold: Foreign year Book of the - VG novel. A great - Dagbladet Aslak Nore Aslak Nore Aslak Wolfsangel

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KATRINE WESSEL-AAS KATRINE har jobbet som journalist (f. 1970) men er nå i mange år, og redaktør forfatter opp på heltid. Hun vokste og har lenge drømt i Trondheim en historiskom å skrive roman en herfra. har også skrevet Katrine historisk Kristiania romanserie fra Hun bor i Bærum på 1800-tallet. med mann og to barn. Omslagsdesign: Studio Hanne Løvdal/Lovedales Foto: Nora Ristvedt Nora Foto: - is a lush series and a is a lush series Family Winther The historicalNorwegian good” drama. “feel An intoxicating, and riveting enthralling time, place and position. journey in leading is Trondheim’s Cecilia Winther life of luxury socialite. She lives a comfortable she has created the on Market Street. Here perfect family together perfect home and the other city wom- The with her husband Karl. she saysen follow eagerly everything and is dawning, old tradi- does. But a new day on the verge of collapse. tions and wealth are point for Cecilia. Summer 1898 is a turning home with his Her oldest son moves back liberalnew wife. Ellinor is new rich, and frightfully modern. She questions everything feels she life. And suddenly Cecilia in Cecilia’s is losing her grip on everything and has to fight to save the family harmony. is the first in a series, the Family Winther The sequel, If you want me, is to be in launched June 2018. Novel pages 300 E S ROMAN A ATRIN

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Men en ny tid er i emning, gamle tradisjoner og formuer står for fall. Sommeren 1898 blir et vendepunkt for Cecilia. Eldste- sønnen flytter hjem med sin nye hustru. Ellinor er nyrik, liberal og fryktelig moderne. Hun stiller spørsmålstegn ved det meste i Cecilias liv. Med ett er det som om alt glipper ut av hendene hennes, og Cecilia må kjempe for å bevare familielykken … Hun likte ikke nyrike Cecilia likte ikke disse moderne kvinnene. heller. Følte seg ubekvem rundt dem. Det var en mennesker grunn til at man hadde regler, skikker. Det gjorde samspillet mellom mennesker forutsigbart. Hva var poenget med å rokke ved alt som allerede sto fjellstøtt? Cecilia Winther er Trondhjems ledende sosietetskvinne. Hun lever et behagelig luksusliv i Kjøpmannsgaten. Her har hun skapt det perfekte hjem og den perfekte familien sammen med ektemannen Karl. De andre byfruene følger ivrig med på alt hun gjør og sier.

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for livet og fremtiden. for og fremtiden. livet stuene og på det travle Om du vil ha meg Familien Winther kvinnene i Winther-familien. bok i en storslagen serie om bok i en storslagen serie om Vi følger dem i de luksuriøse drømmer, lengsler og begjær lengsler og begjær drømmer, kjøkkenet – og gjennom deres – og gjennom deres kjøkkenet Trude Teige Content The Patient Forlaget Oktober FORLAGET OKTOBER ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS Never forgive, never forget.

He calls himself Croesus and has been a patient at the Norwegian mental institution Dikemark for 50 years. Before he dies, he 32 - Kathleen Rani Hagen whispers: - they kill patients here. 34 - Eirik Ingebrigtsen

One of the few who managed to talk to Croe- 35 - Line Madsen Simenstad sus, is Julia, the daughter of a brain surgeon 36 - Vibeke Tandberg who works at Dikemark. 37 - V.S. Tideman Some years later Julia disappears without a trace, and when journalist Kajsa Coren is 38 - summoned to find out what happened, she 39 - Merethe Lindstrøm is thrown into a maelstrom that includes psychiatric research, an undiscovered Edvard 40 - Thorvald Steen Munch-painting and neglected children. 42 - Magnus Marsdal 30 31 Soon Kajsa's employer is found murdered, Nominated for the Booksellers' Prize 2017 and the investigation reveals that he was not who he said he was. Suspenseful and well-written - Fædrelandsvennen

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Trude Teige Trude Teige (b. 1960) is one of Norway’s most recognized journal- ists, through her work as political reporter, news presenter and TV- host. In 2009 she wrote her first crime, featuring the TV-journalist Kajsa Coren. For the novel The Girl Who Stopped Talking, Teige was nominated to the Bookseller’s Award. Her books have been sold to Germany and Russia. Photo: Oda Berby

Pasienten Thriller Aschehoug, 2017 350 pages Kathleen Rani Hagen Fundamentals of Plant Diversity WHEAT

The first time I see him, I don't know anything about grasses, I only know FORLAGET OKTOBER - LITERARY FICTION DEBUT At a garden party for the students at an agricul- FORLAGET OKTOBER - LITERARY FICTION tural university, she falls wildly and suddenly in that there are many different species that are still unfamiliar to me, species love. Peter from Liverpool has disheveled hair growing in the woods only a stone's throw from here, or in ditches along and a leather jacket, and it’s impossible not to the side of the road and in the field below that, which I pass every day think about him. She studies botany and tells on my way to the university. I don't even know what variety of corn it is Peter everything she knows about plants, about growing there in the field, I have a feeling this is something I should know. moss and lichen and parasitic hyphae growing on the roots of certain trees. In that particular moment it is hard to tell anyway, it's nothing but sprouts growing there on these May-days. They look like grass, one might be Fundamentals of Plant Diversity is a novel tempted to say, and one would not be wrong, because all of the variations about everything that grows, about a love that of corn that humans have cultivated belong to Poacea, the grass family. overshadows everything else and about how Wheat and oats, rice and maize. One of the factors by which these spe- difficult it is to find the right words. cies can be classified as grasses is that they have nodes running up along their stems. Because of these, the grass is able to keep growing even if it has been grazed upon; when the predators of grass, the grazing animals – cattle, horses and sheep – eat the grass, it grows back again from its nodes. 32 In fact, grasses grow better after having been nibbled, this is a defence 33 mechanism – instead of allowing itself to be overrun by the creatures of the Both the will this novel shows to experiment with the form of the story, by weaving in plains, grass has turned the creatures' grazing to its advantage. Grass grows botanical information, and the desire it has to and grows over everything, just imagine the great pampas in Argentina – challenge our views on humans and nature, are in my mind the strengths of this novel … plain after plain of grass for herds of cattle, cattle that will be made into The botanical details are only loosely related to the events that unfold, but the make up an beef, grass as far as the eye can see. important part of the cognitive context for the love affair at the center of the story - BLA Translated by Becky L. Crook

Kathleen Rani Hagen Kathleen Rani Hagen (b. 1988) was born in Stavanger and lives in Ås in Norway. She studies genetics and evolution, works as a book reviewer in Fædrelandsvennen and writes a long-running blog about literature, politics, environmental issues, biology and feminism.

Fundamentals of Plant Diversity is her first book. Photo: Pernille Marie Walvik

Grunnleggende plantediversitet Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2018 220 pages Eirik Ingebrigtsen Line Madsen Simenstad White Book Dark Winter Queen Maud Land

FORLAGET OKTOBER - LITERARY FICTION Isa is a 14 year old boy from the little town DEBUT A mother who hides her boy in a secret FORLAGET OKTOBER - LITERARY FICTION Gjakova in Kosovo. He is half Serb, the son country. A father lying in bed, swelling before of an unknown Serbian soldier. Isa has grown death. A sister who knows everything there is up with his mother Deborah and his stepfa- to know about love. ther Reza, a veteran from the Kosovo war, who has never accepted the idea of having a The five stories in this collection are all bastard son in his house. Isa sticks with his marked by great distance between the three years older brother Shkodran, who is characters. Line Madsen Simenstad writes the only one who can protect him against in sober, clean-cut prose about loneliness Reza. and rejection, about trembling attempts of approaching others and sudden moments of The story of White Book Dark Winter is acted tenderness. out within the space of one day, when Isa Shkodran and Reza are out in the forest with a workteam of war veterans to cut down trees for firewood. The extreme cold is ever present in this concentrated, poetic story 34 about the relationship between two brothers 35 and about how hard physical labour can keep the memories of war at bay. A shocking book on the aftermath of war and about a hatred that still lives. It’s also a beautiful portrait of the A powerful story of how war keeps on solidarity between two brothers, and living in the language, in memory and in about the love for an unknown father “this damned blood” - Vårt Land - NRK P2

Eirik Ingebrigtsen Line Madsen Simenstad Eirik Ingebrigtsen (born 1975) was born in Os, and made his debut Line Madsen Simenstad (b. 1985) is a journalist, living in Oslo. Queen with the novel Creature in 2001. He has since published a number of Maud Land is her first book. acclaimed novels. In 2013, he was awarded the Sult Prize, an annual award given to an outstanding younger writer. In 2016 he won the Nynorsk Literature Prize for the novel Nails from Falling Boards. Photo: Finn Ståle Felberg Photo: Linda Bournane Engelberth

Kvit bok mørk vinter Novel Dronning Maud Land Short stories Forlaget Oktober 2018 128 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2018 121 pages Vibeke Tandberg V.S. Tideman Eurydice Anal Letters

FORLAGET OKTOBER - LITERARY FICTION A man sits in a bar, struggling to remember a Letters is a novel about an intense and FORLAGET OKTOBER - LITERARY FICTION name that keeps slipping away from him. He all-consuming loss, in the shape of a love tries to recall the encounter with a woman letter. The writer is a man, alone in his flat in who has partly disappeared from memory, Berlin. The receiver, a woman. She is all he and whose name mixes with the names of a wants, all he can think of, but she isn’t there. book he is reading. He might have talked to He writes to endure the two or three months her recently, but it might also be a long time they will be apart. He wants to fill every hour since they met. The narrative moves from with writing. He writes about his longing for the bar to an aircraft cabin to an operating her, for her body. He writes about alcohol, table and to an apartment he most has most tobacco, lack of food, lack of money. His gaze probably never visited. In detailed, flowing is directed inwards, into himself, towards his prose, Vibeke Tandberg explores the unclear own past and towards the reunion between boundaries between memory and forgetting, the two that will come. and between your own and other’s memory. Letters is a dark, at times desperate novel, Eurydice Anal is a distinctive, enigmatic nov- written in raw, immediate prose. el, where danger arises from forgotten thing 36 that suddenly flare up, before fading away. 37

Vibeke Tandberg V. S. Tideman One of Norway’s most influential visual artists on the contemporary V. S. Tideman (b. 1980) made his debut in 2009 with the novel kock- scene, Vibeke Tandberg (b. 1967) made her literary debut in 2012 mania inc. Letter is his fourth book. with Beijing Duck. Her subsequent novels have affirmed her position as an imaginative writer with a voice and a vision that set her apart in contemporary . Photo: Maria Berggren Photo: Iris Schober

Eurydike anal Novel Brev Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2018 110 pages Oktober, 2018 200 pages FORLAGET OKTOBER - LITERARY FICTION 39 Photo: André Løyning André Photo: Luminous, powerful prose ... a very beautiful ... a very beautiful prose powerful Luminous, book and intense Dagsavisen - outsiders about on novel A deeply upsetting run ... razor sharp prose the Adresseavisen - Hordes of people are on the move, chased chased people are on the move, Hordes of their camps. houses, their villages, from their A young boy the marching has escaped his com- walks alone, following crowds. He protruding like pass north, his shoulderblades wings that have been cut off. He carries with their definitions him the gaze of the others, his hunger, his poverty of him, together with and his degradation. a companion, one Along the way he gets A kind of under- who also carries a secret. standing arise beween them, as they walk to- full of bothgether through territories beauty and destruction. still contains North is a dark novel which light. It is a story with traces of fables and myths buried deep in our collective mind. Novel 220 pages Merethe Lindstrøm Merethe in 1983 with a bookMerethe Lindstrøm (b. 1963) made her debut of short stories, and has since published a number of volumes of short book. In 2008 she was nominated to stories, novels and a children’s Critics’ Prize Literature Prize and the Norwegian Council’s Nordic Guests. In 2011 Days History in the for her short story collection The of Silence, she was awarded both Council Literature Prize the Nordic and the Critics’ Prize. Nord 2017 Oktober, Forlaget - rights Denmark sold: (Gylden Foreign Sweden (Cambourakis), France dal), (Weyler) Merethe Lindstrøm Merethe North Photo: Baard Henriksen Henriksen Baard Photo: , 6/6 stars , 6/6 A magnificent novel … gripping, poetic … gripping, and novel A magnificent and wise incredibly … thought-provoking beautiful - VG outstanding novel aesthetically A thoughtful, in life small and big questions the about Aftenposten - offers ... He greater form top at Christiansen if anything barbs and shows darkness, more imagery and stylistic- sophisti inventive more before ever than cation - Dagsavisen Fanny is a young orphaned girl who tries to girl who tries is a young orphaned Fanny live as best on the outskirts as she can, alone performing days go by The of a small town. repairing getting to school, simple chores: wood and keeping the the gutter, chopping But beyond these sorry condi- weeds at bay. tale, full of stubborntions, there is the fairy Fanny’s Through conceptions and possibilies. this seemingly world, to the approach distinct simple story becomes a simile about friend- transgression. ship, independence and and the Mystery is Forest in the Grieving Fanny a both deeply disturbing novel hopeful and and another masterpiece by a unique writer. Novel pages 224

Fanny og mysteriet i den sørgende skogen sørgende i den og mysteriet Fanny 2017 Oktober, Forlaget Rune Christiansen Rune Rune Christiansen (b. 1963) has beenNor- an important figure in In addition to several wegian literature ever since his debut in 1986. books of groundbreaking poetry, he has published a string of Lone- acclaimed novels. Hailed by critics as his best novel so far, The Erneman's Life (2014) won the , and was liness in Lydia shortlisted for both fiction and the P2 Listeners’ the Critics’ Prize for Prize. Novel A level rarely reached in Norwegian in Norwegian reached rarely A level contemporary not ... deserves literature only literary an audience also prizes but Norwegian the than greater far - Dag og Tid Foreign rights Denmark sold: (LESEN), Foreign (Notabilia) France 2017 Prize Brage the Shortlisted for Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest in the Mystery and the Fanny Rune Christiansen Rune

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- rights Denmark sold: (Tur Foreign Sweden (Sprotin), Islands Faroe bine), (Heidrun), UK/US (Seagull) Very powerful … Steen tells a universal a universal tells … Steen powerful Very story generational of conflicts, shame and concealment Adressavisen - Det hvite badehuset Det hvite 2017 Oktober, Forlaget Thorvald Steen Steen (b. 1954) made his literary debut in 1983, and has Thorvald plays, collections of subsequently published a wide range of novels, books and essays. He had poems, books of short stories, children’s his breaktrough with the historical novel Don in 1993, and has Carlos for his inventive histor- since won great acclaim at home and abroad often address political and ethical issues that are as ical novels, which His works have been translated into 27 languages. relevant today. Thorvald Steen White Bathhouse The

FORLAGET OKTOBER - LITERARY FICTION 40 Magnus E. Marsdal Mothers of Freedom - The Struggle for a Better Life in US and Norway

FORLAGET OKTOBER - NON-FICTION Two sisters grow up together on a crofter’s farm on a windswept island off the coast of Northern Norway. While Sanna, Magnus Marsdal’s great-grandmother, remains in Norway, as part of the generation that “built the country”, her sister Lina emigrates to America.

The Mothers of Freedom is a fascinating story of freedom, the defining concept of the political culture of the West. Starting with the lives of the poor farmer’s daughters Sanna and Lina, Marsdal explores the conditions of freedom in Norway and in the USA. Where will you find the greatest individual freedom: In the Scandinavian welfare state or in the land of the free? 42 100 years after Lina’s emigration to America, Norway has become the promised land for hundreds of thousands of people looking for a better life. What kind of society does the woman who cleans Marsdal’s house meet? And what is our responsibility to defend the freedom we inherited from those who built the country?

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Magnus E. Marsdal (born 1974) has worked as a journalist and has been the leader of Attac Norway.

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Frihetens mødre - Jakten på et bedre liv i USA og Norge Politics/reportage Forlaget Oktober, 2018 224 pages Even Råkil, Rights Director Aschehoug Fiction & Non-Fiction [email protected]

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