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Good Night, Nosferatu
Literature and Fiction2026 · 270 pp

Good Night, Nosferatu

Lina Ulvestad Halås

A superhero universe meets 1930s horror meets kitchen-sink realism. Karl Eliassen is immortal, but he keeps it hidden from the world. Instead, he moves and changes jobs after a while so that no one he works with will discover that he doesn't age. At the same time, he starts appearing in several videos and pictures, reviewed by a certain police investigator Hejer, in connection with a mysterious incident outside the Parliament building. Soon enough, the question arises: how can the same man be in recordings from such different time periods?

A mirror of women’s changing roles in society
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Pig
Literature and Fiction2026 · 128 pp

Pig

Peter Franziskus Strassegger

Pig is a terse and vividly alive rural tale.On one side of the river lives the tomato farmer. His family has been condemned and humiliated ever since the war.On the other side of the river lives the wealthy farmer, Mauland.The tomato farmer’s wife has crossed the river and had a child with the wealthy farmer, while the son, Patrik, is left behind in the summer of puberty.One night, Patrik crosses the bridge and opens the door to the pigsty. Pig is a Greek drama set to the Western coast of present time Norway, about humiliation, betrayal, love, fall and revenge. The language is dense and poetic, the thoughts can go to the darkest stories from the Old Testament, inspired by the style of Agota Kristof and John Steinbeck. "Reading Pig is almost like an archaeological excavation. As a reader, you have to uncover layer upon layer of symbolism, but what you are left with is well worth the effort (...) Strassegger has a true mastery of language (...) Although the plot contains a great deal of symbolism and mystery, the language is easily accessible, yet at the same time perfect for the tone the novel sets.”Stavanger Aftenblad "A novel for the discerning and language-conscious reader (...) Pig is a novel that attempts to grasp the ungraspable, while that very pursuit becomes the essence of the text (...) his books, alongside their stylistic merits, are characterized by profound psychological insight, particularly into the adolescent mind.»Dag og Tid "Pig is a novel that stands firmly on its own terms (...) For such a short text, it carries considerable weight, without the dark engulfing the light (...) At times, my thoughts wander to Tarjei Vesaas' Mattis in The Birds (Fuglane)."Klassekampen

Boy
Literature and Fiction2026 · 98 pp

Boy

Eivind Sudmann

Mikael is 17 years old and shouldn't be here. He knows this. That is, he shouldn't be here, in a general sense, as the coincidence he is, and he shouldn't be here specifically, in this garden in the west of Oslo, standing and waiting on an early November morning. Who or what he is waiting for, the reader doesn't immediately know, but already in the first sentence the sense of something unsettling is evident. Mikael is simply on his way off the cliff, and slowly but surely the novel counts down to an event that shouldn't happen. With clear nerve and stylistically assured writing, the novel closes in on Mikael. Through his gaze, we see a world that most people will perceive as both alien and hostile, where the dark corners of the internet have the power to define. Define what it means to be a man and a woman, what a good life is, and when it's time to end it. Boy is an explosive and poetic short novel about loneliness and trauma, how grief turns into anger, and the destructive mechanisms that make a 17-year-old boy surrender to the darkness that grows inside him.

Goodbye
Literature and Fiction2026 · 208 pp

Goodbye

Ellen Mari Thelle

It is April 2019 in Modum. Elise Falck has lived here for almost three years, together with Lars. In a few weeks, her children will come for their very first weekend visit. A room on the second floor of the house is cleaned, a bunk bed is bought. But the certainty of the impending visit sets everything in motion again. ​For how to live, when one often hurts those one loves, and why live, if it might be better to die? With Farewell, Ellen Mari Thelle concludes a novel of nine books about memory, recollections, life and death.

Come On, Bones
Literature and Fiction2026 · 127 pp

Come On, Bones

Morten Wintervold

In his sixth poetry collection, Morten Wintervold turns his gaze toward the past, while remaining firmly planted in the present.

The Leading Role
Literature and Fiction2026 · 176 pp

The Leading Role

Victoria Durnak

In The Leading Role by Victoria Durnak, a woman who is not pregnant creates a picture of some baby clothes meant to delicately suggest that she is. She spends a long time editing the photo. Just to feel what it would be like. If it were true. If she had something to reveal. Then, by mistake, she shares the photo anyway. And the world starts to react. And what does she do – this woman who is not pregnant – now that the congratulations are pouring in? Now that she finally has the leading role?

House and Car
Literature and Fiction2026 · 189 pp

House and Car

Aksel Selmer

Willy has just buried his father. Now he is an orphan. He misses his mother intensely, but feels relieved that his father is dead. Now Willy imagines a future with Aud, his father's fiancée, whom he is very fond of, in the house he is going to inherit, but Aud has sick parents to take care of. Furthermore, she thinks Willy is behaving too familiar with her. Consequently, Willy lives mostly alone in the big house. He isolates himself more and more, even though he and his friend Stein occasionally go on trips in his father's Mercedes. Willy visits his mother's grave to talk to her, he makes himself drinks and shows up drunk at school. He locks himself in the bathroom and continues drinking and self-harming and tries to figure out how to die. He is sure that it is his turn now, as long as he has lived with death by his side, how familiar they have become. House and Car is an intense, gripping and painful story about loneliness, about clinging to life, about enduring and desperately searching for hope in a sometimes hopeless existence. It's a free-standing sequel to Suit and Tie (2022).

If I Were Agnes
Literature and Fiction2026 · 256 pp

If I Were Agnes

Nikoline Riis Lindahl

Astrid is 12 years old when her mother walks out the door, never to return. Astrid lives with a father who can be violent. Some weekends she gets to stay with her grandmother and the dog Buster, other weekends she has to stay with her father's friend Frank, who doesn't treat her the way an adult man should treat a young girl. Astrid finds ways to survive; she studies nature and ants to see how they manage. If I Were Agnes is at times a somber and bleak story, but also one of hope. «If I were Agnes is not a book you finish, put down, and forget. It's the opposite.»Framtida, six/six stars «Nikoline Riis Lindahl (30) makes a smash debut with a tender and strong portrait of a childhood in an environment which lets you down.»Dagbladet, six/six stars

A raw exploration of violence, abuse, and resilience
White Drin
Literature and Fiction2026 · 200 pp

White Drin

Leonard Karahoda

The narrator in White Drin is a history graduate student who has just been abandoned by his partner. When he unexpectedly receives word that his Uncle Mon has died, he leaves Oslo for his family's homeland, Kosovo – not just to escape, but to understand. Through meetings with relatives, strangers and stories that have long been buried, a family history marked by division, ideology and war is uncovered. The choices made by one generation – between Hoxha's Albania and Tito's Yugoslavia – cast long shadows over the next. At the same time, the landscape opens up: the White Drin river, the villages, the people, the memories – everything and everyone carries stories that refuse to be silent. In his debut book, Leonard Karahoda depicts a journey through grief, identity and heritage. White Drin is about searching for belonging in what has been lost, and about finding a way forward when the past cannot be revived. «An impressive linguistic vitality. This is a talented debut author (...) The book is a pleasure to read. There are so many great passages that it is futile to try to single out the best (...) linguistically powerful elegy about Kosovo, family memories, diaspora, and the search for identity»Samtiden «...one of the best debuts I have read in a long time (...) White Drin is a brilliantly crafted novel based on classic motifs (...) this kind of debut is a rarity»Klassekampen “A smashing debut (...) brimming with distinctiveness, splendid imagery, and lingering, beautiful passages about time and history, landscape, identity, and memories (...) rich in sensory, original descriptions that evoke spontaneous enthusiasm.”Aftenposten

Intention and Innocence
Literature and Fiction2026 · 158 pp

Intention and Innocence

Eike Aalen Øi

The fantastic and fabulating stories in Intention and Innocence are populated by extraordinary characters. The much-loved bullfighter Pamodoro, for example, or the longing austronaut Ne, and the twin kings Claus and Yve who decide to dig the world's deepest hole. The seven stories in this collection all revolve around loneliness, community, and the sorrow over something lost, and thus say something essential about what narratives we need in our lives, as individuals and as a society.

I Long for Shipwrecks and Sudden Death
Literature and Fiction2026 · 186 pp

I Long for Shipwrecks and Sudden Death

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg

The journalist, film critic, author, researcher, and left-wing radical activist Wenche Blomberg left many imprints on Norwegian society. She also left her mark on her only child, her daughter Hilde Charlotte. This is a novel about what it was like to grow up as a so-called "ml-kid" (child of Maoist-Leninist activists) in the 70s. The author tells, both poetically and realistically, about a dominant mother and an unusual and difficult childhood and youth. After her mother's death, Hilde Charlotte seeks out Wenche's private archive at the National Library. There she finds, among other things, her mother's diaries dating back to 1963. The weeks she spends going through the archival material give Hilde Charlotte new insight. Her mother emerges with her whole self and her entire background. I long for shipwrecks and sudden death is a shocking, yet also a reconciling novel about a different kind of mother/daughter relationship. «It is so heartbreaking, so devastatingly gruesome and at the same time so cleverly put together, with many beautiful, poetically striking, but at the same time modest formulations. The text is an achievement.»Dagbladet, six/six stars «Hilde Charlotte Blomberg moves you when she writes about her mother Wenche Blomberg.»Klassekampen Neglect under red banners«We need this book.»Morgenbladet «A sharp and poetic piece of literature about a mother-daughter relationship.»Dagsavisen

Raw and unflinching memoir
Camera
Literature and Fiction2026 · 208 pp

Camera

Line Nyborg

Klara has become pregnant and travels north to her childhood cabin. There, she finds a father who sets nets and curses the poor catch, but otherwise says little. And a mother who has developed a heart condition. An old family sorrow surfaces during the week Klara is home, forcing its way through the silence. The North Norwegian nature and its people are seen through Klara's eyes. Behind the camera, she pauses, sees everything more clearly, with calm and openness. Can she let go of the past, open herself up, and accept love and intimacy?

Delves into the complex and challenging mother-daughter relationship