FictionNon-fictionChildren's & YAAuthorsAbout us

Representing the authors and titles of Cappelen Damm for translation and adaptation rights worldwide.

Catalogue

  • Fiction
  • Non-fiction
  • Children's & YA
  • Authors

Agency

  • About us
  • Rights catalogues
  • Rights deals
  • News
  • Fairs & events

Get in touch

foreignrights@cappelendamm.no
Stortingsgata 28, Oslo

© 2026 Cappelen Damm AS · Rights & AgencyPrivacy & cookiescappelendamm.no

Literary fiction

Literary fictionCrime & thrillerNarrative non-fictionChildren's & YASelf helpCook booksCrafts & hobbies

Browse

FictionNon-fictionChildren's & YA

Foreign rights

Rights sold

Genre

Children's Books902Literature and Fiction722Narrative Non-fiction336Self Help179Crafts and Hobbies146Mystery and Crime143Cook Books107UpLit82

Published

2025 and newer2020–20242015–20192014 and older

Rights sold to

Clear all filters

240 titles in the catalogue

Literature and Fiction2020–2024Clear all
The Shield-Maiden Trilogy
Literature and Fiction2022 · 224 pp

The Shield-Maiden Trilogy

Rune Salvesen

A shield-maiden, according to Norse literature, was a female warrior fighting alongside men. The Shield-Maiden Trilogy revolves around three women who at different parts of history – in the years 2022, 1942 and 872 – display fierce courage and resistance: The fictional politician Sylvi, the woman of resistance Solveig Bergslien and the Gausel queen Ragnhild. In 2022 Sylvi is at a cabin in Rogaland with two friends, when an external danger suddenly threatens them. What should Sylvi do? Can she learn something from Solveig and Ragnhild’s stories? What does it mean to stand up for what you believe in and fight for what matters? The Shield-Maiden Trilogy is an experimental novel which plays with timelines and narrators. The novel asks what kind of internal strength is required when one needs to mobilise to resist external enemies.

12…121314…1920
So Difficult and So Unbelievably Easy
Literature and Fiction2022 · 168 pp

So Difficult and So Unbelievably Easy

Ellen Mari Thelle

How does one approach life as a ruin? When her mother’s dementia worsens and she starts needing constant care, Line’s world changes. What was once a solid existential framework looks more and more like a ruin where the life of her and her mother so far is left in pieces around her. How is she supposed to keep it together? And at the same time keep the faith in meaning and excess in her own and her mother’s life? What happens to a life that the person living is unable to relate to? So Difficult and So Unbelievably Easy is a moving and upsetting attempt at keeping the faith in continuity and belonging in the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child.

Out Stealing Readers
Literature and Fiction2022 · 160 pp

Out Stealing Readers

Henrik H. Langeland

A new edition of Henrik H. Langeland’s handbook on how to write a novel is finally here! What makes a good story? What techniques do authors use to create such immersive narratives? Why is it that we find some stories boring, while others captivate us? Langeland’s writing courses – as well as this book – are intended for anyone who loves writing. His handbook is full of helpful examples, and Langeland shows the reader how they can develop their own successful story, in an easy-to-understand and enthusiastic way.

Beautiful Mothers
Literature and Fiction2022 · 160 pp

Beautiful Mothers

Petter Brevik

Johannes meets Aurelia in High School. Unfortunately, the happiness does not last, as Aurelia breaks up with him after two months. In a failed attempt to get her back, Johannes lies about being fatally ill. Beautiful Mothers is a linguistically conscious collection of seven short stories, where topics like rejection and masculinity are present. The stories have different temperaments but might all be the tales of the same narrator. In this way the book is also a portrait of a person in deep isolation, in a universe of broken connections that still must be uphold.

Persistent Weak Layers
Literature and Fiction2022 · 128 pp

Persistent Weak Layers

Kjersti Kollbotn

Persistent weak layers is a term used for a phenomenon that occurs in snow and that can potentially lead to avalanches. The remarkable thing about this phenomenon is that these layers can be buried deep down in the snow and therefore be invisible. Not surprisingly, this is also what makes them so dangerous. In other words, hikers can’t see any signs of danger, and it’s only when you start digging deeper that the weak layers show themselves. Emil is on a springtime ski trip in the mountains. Weather conditions during the season have left the mountainsides unstable and there are persistent weak layers in the snow beneath him. Internally, Emil also has persistent weak layers of his own. These two circumstances combine to unfortunate effect. Kjersti Kollbotn’s writing has never shied away from tough topics – and the same applies to this book. She also writes very well about nature and being out in the great outdoors. This is an exciting story.

Voodoo Science
Literature and Fiction2022 · 264 pp

Voodoo Science

Terje Dragseth

Terje Dragseth’s new extensive collection of poetry and prose Voodoo Science is included in the so-called Weird Poetry, where the subject is projected into a strange, depraved and weird world, like in Edvard Munch’s expressionism where the anxiety is encircled by a blood red sky. The poems and texts curve and bend the laws of nature and empiricism. The texts exist in a world which reminds us about the one found in science fiction, where unfamiliar forces affect the subject. It’s a journey into the unpredictable, the beautiful and dark areas of the human consciousness.

Rights soldSold to Denmark
Walking Home
Literature and Fiction2022 · 96 pp

Walking Home

Mathias Nyhagen Asplund

In a merciless tale told in meticulous language reminiscent of both Faulkner and Fosse, Asplund writes the story of a young man called Halvor who is trying to find his way home. Halvor has been fighting the war at sea and now plans to return home to his pregnant wife. He walks across mountains and through valleys, he meets a woman and a man carrying their son’s coffin, he meets two friends who have left the city to “be free”, and he is coaxed into the home of a young woman and her mother, who needs a man to help her. They tell him that there is a bear in the area, and that the bear is vicious. The road home is long, and on it Halvor encounters tragedy, temptation, kindness and mortal peril. Walking Home is Asplund’s third book.

Åsgårdstrand
Literature and Fiction2022 · 320 pp

Åsgårdstrand

Stig Aasvik

Åsgårdstrand is a small town by the Oslofjord, but also a condition, an open wound in the life of the protagonist. In the late winter of 1989, his mother dies suddenly. The family falls apart. The protagonist is standing at the threshold of adulthood and feels abandoned and unprepared. Of all the thoughts going through his head, there is one that persists: disappear, from his family and from Åsgårdstrand, from everything. The protagonist is a middle-aged man when he writes about the upheaval and loss he experienced as a teenager. We meet him going about his everyday life as a family man and author. The memories are fragmented, fragile and uncertain. Åsgårdstrand is the fifth novel in a series that started with The Lofoten Wall (2017). The books can be read as standalone stories but have a consistent form, an inner coherence and a common thread.

Eight
Literature and Fiction2022 · 240 pp

Eight

Gine Cornelia Pedersen

Eight is a collection of stories about people teetering over the edge – each in their own way. The characters are confronted with their urges, their feelings of jealousy and their intense longing to be loved. By creating images of themselves in others, the people in these stories are able to avoid themselves. Ingunn Bjørkli changes her name on social media to Aurora Irene Høst, in the hopes of erasing Ingunn for good. Meanwhile, Reiden Østby makes a new friend in her yoga class, but this friend starts giving her gifts and trying to get closer to Reidun than what she is comfortable with. Gine Cornelia Pedersen has made her mark as an author with a distinct voice. Eight is a collection of stories about people here and now, about their human impulses and desires: their longing for love, their jealousy, selfishness, intense irritation and grovelling admiration.

The Christmas Calendar
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2021 · 352 pp

The Christmas Calendar

Siri Østli

During breakfast on a totally ordinary Tuesday, Fie's husband declared that he wants a divorce. He is a dentist, and for years Fie has been his faithful assistant - without pay. Fie is banished from her home, to an impractical and uncharming attic apartment on the other side of the city. Dazed and in despair after losing everything, Fie tries to soften the blow with sedatives. Her adult son, embarrassed about his mother's breakdown, refuses her calls. As Christmas approaches, Fie’s sister Sara demanding that she gets a grip. To help her along the way, Sara makes a Christmas Calendar with tasks for Fie to do. Like getting a job, decorating her apartment, getting a pet. Can the calendar get Fie’s life back on track, and into the Christmas spirits? The Christmas Calendar is a charming and touching Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!

Charming Christmas story from Norway's Queen of feelgood
Rights soldSold to 6 territories
Andre og bedre historier
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

Andre og bedre historier

Edel Maria Landsem

Above the earth we tell stories. Stories of hugs and bodies and souls and sex. Dewy-fresh words and old sentences, genious pieces and deceitful memories. We want to be thinking humans in a gliding story, vagabonds with free will, free feet and a free head. Other and Better Stories by Edel Maria Landsem is a burlesque and sassy collection of short stories about everything that can happen when what’s well-behaved and normal is on collision course with the baser forces of our human nature. A woman travels to London in affect after a breakup, and ends up shitfaced in a hotel bar, grasping for the wrong guy. Another is on a romantic weekend getaway in Paris with her husband, but sneaks outside during the night wearing only a trenchcoat while he is sleeping. A third becomes so jealous that she reveals a scandalous secret about the parentage of her friends’ child. A fourth visits her father in a nursing home, gets terrified of early dementia, takes a leave of absence from work and travels to Switzerland. The women in these stories experience the small despairs of everyday life while dreaming of travels, self-fulfillment, excitement and belonging, all while they are feeling deep longing, spite, and the urge to break free. Fresh debut about well-behaved women's everyday despair, spite and primordial powers ... one can rejoice in a vital, rythmical languace, rich fantasy, odd perspectives, depth and knowledge, and not least, a significant dose of liberating and totally normal madness, as several female protagonists go off the deep end. FIVE OUT OF SIX STARSSTAVANGER AFTENBLAD Landsem’s talent is clear, her humanist capital is large, and taking into account her mode of writing – her essayistic, novel-like fragments without an obvious plot, but with surperior linguistic authority – I think we’ll see thicker books from her pen in the future.VÅRT LAND

Rights soldSold to Germany
Anne F.
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

Anne F.

Kristian Klausen

What happens when you move well-known biographical figures to a new place and give them new surroundings, a different background, a different narrative arc and an alternative ending? Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen in spring 1945. Before that, she and her family, along with four other Jewish people, spent more than two years living in hiding on the upper floor of business premises in Amsterdam until they were discovered and deported. Kristian Klausen’s novel, Anne F., portrays Anne and her father Otto in Drammen and it is Otto Frank’s Drammen that is depicted for the reader. Until the outbreak of war, Otto Frank runs a tobacco kiosk on Konnerudgata. Later, again, it is Otto’s perspective we see. We meet him alone in Auschwitz and at Drammen railway station after the war, as the sole survivor. It is Otto who obtains the diaries that were left behind and starts to live through them. A thought-provoking, gripping book from Kristian Klausen.