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An Even Greater Loneliness
Literature and Fiction2016 · 144 pp

An Even Greater Loneliness

Odd Klippenvåg

Finely tuned, intimate and surprising. Odd Klippenvåg doesn’t disappoint when he produces a collection of short stories.The common theme of the stories is human relationships as they play out in closely defined situations: the sister visiting her brother whom she has not seen for a long time; the man ordering flowers and champagne before leaving the office; or the pensioner sitting down to listen to classical music in the title story.The art of the short story at a high level.´Again, he convinces with his solid storytelling, to the point psychology and descriptions of the surroundings that amongst other things reflects about decay and dignity. ...All the texts are written with psychological intuition and empathy, and typically for the literary universe of Klippenvåg is the exploring of the borders where normality is put to test.´DAG OG TID´Finely tuned short story writing.´NORDNORSK MAGASIN´Klippenvåg convinces fully, and once more shows us his ability as a storyteller.´LOFOTPOSTEN

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The Last Days
Literature and Fiction2016 · 304 pp

The Last Days

Ole Kristian Ellingsen

The main character in Endetid is a priest. When his only daughter is raped and killed, at first he finds little comfort and help in the faith and the hope he has given to others.When the perpetrator flees into hiding in his homeland, the father is provoked by the powerlessness and passivity of the police and the authorities. This eventually leads him to defy the lack of extradition agreements and to take it upon himself to punish the crime which has been committed against his daughter. 'A good, powerful and memorable novel.'BOKELSKERINNEN

The Only One
Literature and Fiction2016 · 192 pp

The Only One

Silje Aanes Fagerlund

Eneste is a novel about love – the first great love in the life of a young woman, the 'I' narrator who addresses a 'you' she both reapproaches and distances herself from in the same movement. The narration begins when the relationship is over. Who were these two, together and separately, and who is she now, without him? The necessity of separation and breaking free is examined in testing and intense language, and the process of breaking free continues after the actual separation, after the painful end, after it is all over.

One Small Step for Man
Literature and Fiction2016 · 96 pp

One Small Step for Man

Rune F. Hjemås

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. So we can just imagine how much a thousand words are worth.In Rune Hjemås’ Et lite steg for mennesket, Fotografier (1985–2018), we see the world through a literary camera lens which moves from Beograd to Pyongyang, from Oslo to Trondheim. Mostly random people are photographed, either in the centres of their own vital existences or on the edges of something bigger and more life-threatening.This apparently atomised collection of short texts gradually weaves a whole pattern of impressions and feelings which brings you nearer to yourself and others, nearer your surroundings and the surroundings’ surroundings, not unlike the feeling of browsing through a good old-fashioned, patiently compiled photo album.

Fumblers
Literature and Fiction2016 · 192 pp

Fumblers

Ane Nydal

Ane Nydal has long been part of the literary scene, both as a reviewer and as an essayist. Now at last she is making her debut as an author. In her anthology of short stories, Famlere, we meet people who are trying to sort out their lives. We follow them as they try to live more healthily, to set boundaries and to belong. Whether it is the friendship between a homeless girl and a policeman, a rootless American in Israel, unconventional gender roles or questions of guilt and atonement, Ane Nydal shows mastery of wide ranges of theme and style

Delight and Danger
Literature and Fiction2016 · 224 pp

Delight and Danger

Vigdis Hjorth

All passionate reading is unbreakably linked to the readers mind, finding what the reader has a need for to survive and understand more of themselves and the world, no less. Vigdis Hjorth says this in the foreword to this collection of essays, where she discusses books and authors that have had great meaning to her. The authors she writes about are Bertholt Brecht, Tove Ditlevsen, Knut Hamsun, Søren Kirkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Dag Solstad, Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen and Witold Gombrowicz. Vigdis Hjorth has open and brave opinions about literature and the relationship between life and writing, looking for the great questions in her writing. Vigdis Hjorth has made a selection of good articles that she has written about literature in this book, showing that a warm, cultivated and enthusiastic human can give life and inspiration to learning in a way that machines could never copy. This is a book that takes time to read, but not because it is thick or too full of words. This is because you from time to time have to put the book down and think for a while, have some discussions with yourself about one subject or another. And after winning the discussion, brilliantly of course, you can pick the book back up and let yourself be taken further into literature, with Vigdis Hjorth as your good and wise guide.Odd W. Surén - DAG OG TID When I read Delight and Danger, I want to write more like Vigdis Hjorth. This book is an inspiring addition to the everlasting discussion about the role of literature. Toril Moi - MORGENBLADET Open, thoughtful and elegant. Vigdis Hjorth knows the art of seducing the reader without ever loosing the seriousness out of sight. The result is eleven very good texts about life and literature. Hjorth is concerned with freedom and responsibility, and in her essay about Søren Kirkegaard she weaves her personal experiences together with philosophical insight about daring to live you life outside the pressure of conformity. Vigdis Hjort´s life and literature is in this way an example to look to. The essay collection Delight and Danger remind us that literature in one way or another has to matter to the reader, if it aims at being relevant and interesting. Gro Jørstad Nilsen - BERGENS TIDENDE Essays without affectationExemplary presentation of writers.Olav Løkken Reisop - DAGBLADET Blissfully seriousThis essay collection gives good insight into Vigdis Hjorths many passionate literary relationships. The essays shows an author who has a wide register to choose from, and where the erotic is far from supreme, but jus one of many human fields that can be used to enlighten life and understanding more of the self. Turid Larsen - DAGSAVISEN

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Her Lying Face
Literature and Fiction2016 · 304 pp

Her Lying Face

Selma Lønning Aarø

In Kristiania in April 1897, the newspapers Morgenbladet and Verdens Gang announced that Knut Hamsun had reported Mrs. Anna Munch to the police and asked that her mental state be investigated. That spring, several anonymous letters slandering Hamsun had appeared in Kristiania.Hamsun was convinced that the letters had been written by the authoress Anna Munch, who was married to Edvard Munch's cousin, Peter Anker Ragnvald Munch. Anna Munch and Knut Hamsun first met during his lecture tour in 1891, when he went on the offensive against Ibsen and others. To put it mildly, she was entranced. She began to follow him, even to Paris, and on several occasions she booked in to the same lodgings as he had. She constantly sent him letters, to which she eventually received no replies. In other words, she was a good old-fashioned ‘stalker.' The police were not sure that Anna Munch had written the letters. For a while they even wondered whether Hamsun had written them himself.This epistolary mystery is the starting point for Selma Lønning Aarø's artistic novel, which brings a forgotten author to life and, not least, says something about the major struggle female authors had to be seen and heard.The author has made some amazing biographical discoveries which help to cast light on the most highly debated author in Norwegian history, Knut Hamsun. 'Selma Lønning Aarø’s latest novel has the potential to reach a vast audience and it will leave them shaken, moved and enligthened.' DAGBLADET 'Selma Lønning Aarø really knows how to wield a story. Here Anna Munch emerges from oblivion in a manner that can only be described as spellbinding … beautifully written and skilfully composed.'VG 'There is a lot to like about this novel. It is well told and excellently documented.'VÅRT LAND 'Selma Lønning Aarø has written one of the autumn’s most interesting novels, with life as it is really lived at its core. … the result is an amazingly artistic portrait.' STAVANGER AFTENBLAD'It’s amazing how Aarø fuses fact and fiction.' BERGENS TIDENDE 'Hennes løgnaktige ytre is a historical novel worth reading, about attraction, the life of an artist, madness and family.' DAGSAVISEN 'In Hennes løgnaktige ytre, Selma Lønning Aarø uses sparse documentation to create an exciting and well constructed historical novel.' DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV 'Hennes løgnaktige ytre is a really interesting novel.'KLASSEKAMPEN

White Trash
Literature and Fiction2016 · 352 pp

White Trash

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

White Trash is a generous and brutal story about outsiders rebelling against the hypocritical and complacent bourgeoisie. It is also the tale of a desperate journey towards downfall. White Trash is the story of an outsider, told by one of them. Like a glowing thread through the story we find the depictions of uncompromising friendship and solidarity. The threesome Erling, Carly and Rita, childhood friends and wannabe artists, are by no means a lucky bunch. They have chosen the ecstasy and explosion as a lifestyle, and fail at any frail attempts to adapt to society.

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None of this is about me
Literature and Fiction2016 · 192 pp

None of this is about me

Stig Sæterbakken

When Stig Sæterbakken died in 2012, he left behind a manuscript of autobiographical notes.The texts range from stylistic essay writing to slapstick humour. They give us insight into his day-to-day and family life, and describe the importance of friendship and the significance of other authorships, all in Sæterbakken’s persuasive literary form.This is a powerful testimony from one of our most important contemporary authorships. 'Even the darkest texts in the posthumous publication of Stig Sæterbakken’s notes are brightened up by the author’s joy in giving them expression.'MORGENBLADET 'A dark, amusing and beautiful conclusion to an unusually wholehearted writing career.'DAGBLADET

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Cargo
Literature and Fiction2016 · 136 pp

Cargo

Lars Saabye Christensen

Kargo is a wide-ranging, humorous, serious and poetic anthology of poems. Lars Saabye Christensen uses his distinctive view of the world to take us on a journey from Oslo to Haiti. Like a ship laden with what remains when everything is thrown up into the air and whatever falls down is caught, Kargo carries a generous and random selection of experiences.

Kenneth Bergstrøm II
Literature and Fiction2016 · 224 pp

Kenneth Bergstrøm II

Tor Edvin Dahl

Idar Vik is a quite ordinary middle-aged man, but one eventful evening he is mistakenly taken for someone else – a well-known, popular and respected TV and radio journalist. Does he really look like Kenneth Bergstrøm? Does he have previously unrecognised possibilities? This is a novel about what we can perhaps become if we take over somebody else’s identity. Or if we try …

The Cross
Literature and Fiction2016

The Cross

Anders Malm

Bas checks social media, sitting in Hans Brattrud's 'Scandia Senior' armchair. He reads fashion magazines, in a chair from Sven Ivar Dysthe's 1001 range. He makes love with his lover, Iso, on a sofa by Børge Mogensen. But no item of furniture makes him feel at home as much as 'Krysset,' Fredrik Kayser's armchair from 1955. After directing three very successful advertising films for Norwegian interior design classics, Bas has chosen to find fulfilment through his possessions. He finds calm, stillness and peace in the carefully planned world of designer furniture. But there comes a time when his life begins to crack: His relationship with Iso starts breaking; His body goes into decline; His things seem foreign to him. Bas loses himself and has to start building a new ‘I,' using the basic materials of skin, flesh and bone. Cohabiting with objects is no longer enough; the next step is symbiosis. Krysset is in a genre somewhere between tribute and critique. With a nod to authors such as J.G. Ballard, Georges Perec and Dag Solstad, Anders Malm has written a story about a person who doesn't see himself primarily as part of a social system, but rather as an object among other objects, in a hierarchy of things.

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