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Small Print
Literature and Fiction2025 · 64 pp

Small Print

Lars Saabye Christensen

With Liten skrift (Small Print), Lars Saabye Christensen continues his wry perspective on contemporary times and the world. Ever since his debut, he has been one of our Norway's most widely read poets.

Saturdays With Mom and Other Stories
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Literature and Fiction2025 · 352 pp

Saturdays With Mom and Other Stories

Kristian S. Hæggernes

Saturdays with Mom and Other Stories is a continuation and expansion of the project that began with Cashiers I Have Loved and Other Stories in 2010. This time, several of the stories revolve around themes such as death and illness, growing up and ambitions, and relationships between parents and children through different stages of life. In the title story, when Åshild is out in town with her mother, as is their Saturday morning custom, they meet one of the neighbor boys from her childhood, and memories from the years she spent a lot of time with the four boys in the house next door come flooding back. The narrator in "Remember the Pillow" joins his younger colleagues for a Friday beer to avoid going home to his sick wife. Thea wants to write a piano suite about the Norse gods, so she can name one of the movements after her classmate Loke. Daniel not only experiences his younger sister getting a boyfriend before him but also has to watch her get together with one of the boys who used to bully him in football and in junior high. But perhaps he himself is on the verge of making things work with Rebekka, who is a recurring character in the last three stories, where her life turns out completely different from what she had envisioned it would be. Saturdays with Mom offers melancholy tales from decisive everyday moments.

The Magnolia Woman
Literature and Fiction2025 · 96 pp

The Magnolia Woman

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Heline is most beautiful in the spring. She's already started to get buds on her neck. In a fortnight, her long, green hair will be full of white flowers. Heline is 10% magnolia. Kaj lives on the outskirts of civilisation, or what's left of it, with Heline and the cat, Zakkeus. In their world, some people have taken on genetic material from plants and animals, and this material is gradually taking over. Both Kaj and Heline know that there isn't much time left before she isn't 10%, but 100% plant. Until it might just be Kaj and the cat. But they choose to do the best they can, live as well as they can, together, even though the wildfires are becoming an ever-greater threat, it occasionally rains acid from the sky, spooky creatures roam the forest, and the food deliveries by drone become fewer and eventually stop altogether. The Magnolia Woman is a story about who we become when the world falls apart, but most of all: who we should be, can be, if we retain our dignity, love and curiosity. In classic Bringsværdian style, this little story is in a big story. It is a story for our time, and a story for eternity, a story about what it means to be human.

Mao's Widow
Literature and Fiction2025 · 144 pp

Mao's Widow

Kristian Klausen

Jiang Qing is best known as Mao's widow. Before she met Mao she was an actress, and played, among other roles, Nora in A Doll's House. In this novel, her experience with Ibsen forms the basis for an alternative history:What if, in 1972, she began to feel regret?What if, in Peking, she reread A Doll’s House and The Wild Duck, and in light of these works, began to question the choices she had made?What if she started to doubt her role as Mao’s right hand—her part in the policing of China’s cultural life, in the persecution, torture, and execution of dissidents?What if she decided to travel incognito to Norway to visit Ibsen’s grave? In Norway, Jiang enters the working class and takes a job at a café. She becomes entangled in the life of an elderly man—Candidate Rygh—a priest with psychic abilities who claims he has been waiting for her. In Rygh, Jiang sees her final chance to start over, to reclaim something human within herself. At the heart of the novel is Jiang Qing’s longing for reconciliation—and forgiveness—for her actions in China. At the same time, she encounters Norwegian cultural currents in 1972 that are moving in the opposite direction: toward an enthusiastic Maoist cult of personality.

Men Falling
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2025 · 368 pp

Men Falling

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen

He is finally dead. The brilliant writer, the master manipulator. The man convicted of rape, then acquitted. Now, collapsed on the street and instantly dead. For journalist Selna Bru, this incident is the best birthday gift she could have asked for. RT Remi destroyed her career, branding her a plagiarist and left her with nothing. With his death, she is given the chance to reclaim her name and expose the world that protected him. But as she digs deeper, she finds herself trapped in a web of power, lies, and deceit. Suddenly she finds herself not just an observer, but also a player. Looking for love in all the wrong places, Selna might also fall victim to her own weaknesses, blinding her when she needs to be at her very sharpest. Men Falling is a suspenseful novel about power, truth and the fine line between justice and revenge. Blending psychological intrigue, MeToo revelations, and crime elements, it pulls the reader into a world where no one are really who they seem. [Men Falling is] a novel that satirises the ‘culture man’ and literary institutions, complicating the Manichaeism of crime fiction. It's crime fiction for women who have studied literature. … [The book] is an enjoyable depiction of a dusty, romanticised environment and an industry that ultimately answers to the bottom line, and where everyone is governed by recognition, love, and money. If there's a moral here, it might be this: The freelancer is always an easy target.BOKMAGASINET First and foremost, this is an exuberant, Sex and the City-esque story about a woman who wants to freeze her eggs and stop messing around, but who still usually gets drunk. … It is equally a cheerful mockery of the media industry and how publishers disregard ethical objections in their desperate quest to launch the most scandalous celebrity books.MORGENBLADET ... [the novel can] undoubtedly add insight into how complex they are, the stories of the women who are victims of sexual abuse, how much belief and doubt and self-loathing they can experience along the way, with partly foggy memories of what was done to them. In this way, the novel is good, as it never simplifies or trivialises, rather it problematises, while it is takes meetoo completely seriously.SAMTIDEN

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Moon-Woman
Literature and Fiction2025 · 88 pp

Moon-Woman

Charlotte Louise Vaillot Knudsen

Moon-Woman is a poem about the grand forces of nature, wild animals, and the remarkable qualities of plants, as well as a person's change of pace, and transformation deep within a primeval forest. A pact between the woman and the Moon suddenly breaks. She suffers from migraines and stabbing pains in her ovaries, and begins a long journey to an ancient forest. There, witches perform their arts, and bison roam freely. The witches give her a hut with earthen walls and a smoke hole in the roof, and reveal to her nature’s many possibilities for relief, ecstasy, and transcendence. In the lush green, she lives in symbiosis with all creatures. Though her pain does not fully cease, her body acquires new knowledge. The Moon-Woman unites with her animal powers.

Backwoods Fable
Literature and Fiction2025 · 192 pp

Backwoods Fable

Sigbjørn Skåden

When the old drunkard Nilsen dies in the Norwegianized Sámi village Planterhaug, once known as Láŋtdievvá, no one suspects anything criminal. Yet, the following autumn Inspector Huuva from the Oslo Criminal Police arrives in the village to investigate the death. Huuva is determined to uncover the truth about the village and find out about his father's fractured family history. Through his investigation, Huuva discovers that something Evil is haunting in the village, and the case propels him deep into the soul of Planterhaug. But is he truly uncovering new truths, or is he merely treading water in a place where secrets have long been silenced? Backwoods Fable is a novel about identity, about what it means to be Sámi, and about the search to find home – whatever that may be. It is both a deeply serious and deeply humorous novel about nature, culture and belonging. WINNER OF NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE 2026 NOMINATED FOR THE BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST WORK OF FICTION 2025 «Skåden is a poet, it shows. The novel is full of fine, delicate and atmospheric descriptions. ... a creepy, subtle and remarkable novel with many layers and connections, which perhaps only reveal themselves to the reader after the book is closed.»STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, five/six stars Blood, betrayal and chess in Sápmi«Backwoods Fable mixes dark Nordic crime and Sami folklore into a meaty and original story with a lot of mystery and even more guts.»DAGSAVISEN Twin Peaks, Troms«The burlesque and the sorrowful come together into something unlike anything else I've read.»KLASSEKAMPEN «Written with force and drive and humour.»DAG OG TID

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Pretty Normal
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2025 · 432 pp

Pretty Normal

Cathrine Hellesøy Harrisson

What’s the absolute worst thing you can imagine? I’m the one who constantly makes things up, creates the world anew, creates the day, creates the dream, creates what allows everything to be split apart and crushed. No imagined scene is safe or strong enough. Not even now, when things were so good between us. You could have saved me, from all this chaos, I'm sure.Instead, you have disappeared. For real, this time.Why?Where are you?Can you at least call me?"Hush," said DadDon't make it a big thing. What is infatuation? Is it a neurosis? A compulsion? And what about love— is it something else? Pretty Normal moves between the innocent, the beautiful, and the naive, and the skewed, the violent, and the slightly perverse. The author describes obsession, and especially sexuality, in a direct and vivid way, from the innocent awakening to a more adult and at times destructive exploration. The story contains many layers, understated humour, and a main character who, despite her violent thoughts, fights fiercely for meaning and love.

Purgatorium
Literature and Fiction2025 · 160 pp

Purgatorium

Hedda Robertsen

Purgatorium is an essay on inspiration and unconventional beauty, movement and stillness, fantasy and reality. By studying dance as a motif and metaphor – in film, artworks, and literature – Hedda Robertsen suggests that writing, too, is an exercise in stretching, soaring, and flowing: It's about letting words drip like tears or drops of sweat, about the elasticity of thought, the ecstasy of writing, and the drama of the nymph.

Collected Poems
Literature and Fiction2025 · 360 pp

Collected Poems

Kristin Berget

In this book, Kristin Berget's award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry collections are gathered: Middelalderen, våre sår i hogstflaten rense overgi blanke trær blomstre opp i dødsraten hvisk navnet ut her, og når det blir lyst blir det helt fantastisk, Hennes ansikt, Der ganze weg, and the debut loosing louise. Afterword by Ida Linde.

Sandefjord Girls’ Choir
Literature and Fiction2025 · 304 pp

Sandefjord Girls’ Choir

Stig Aasvik

The narrator – or is it the author Stig Aasvik? – is in a desperate situation: He has been asked at short notice to step in as a substitute teacher at the writing academy in Bø. There, our bewildered protagonist immediately enters into a scandalous relationship with a young student. All hell breaks loose, with everything being jeopardised at once. Sandefjord Girls’ Choir is the seventh novel in a series where we encounter various iterations or versions of the author himself. We travel seamlessly through time, and with text written like a stream of consciousness, the series has evolved into a kind of magical realism.

The Sorrow in St. Peter Ording
Literature and Fiction2025 · 128 pp

The Sorrow in St. Peter Ording

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Ingvar Ambjørnsen is a major voice in contemporary Norwegian literature, renowned for his unflinching portrayals of marginalised individuals and his sharp social commentary.He is one of the grand masters of the short story, often employing a concise, unsentimental style to deliver powerful, resonant narratives exploring themes such as alienation, identity, and the search for meaning in a fragmented world. With The Sorrow in St. Peter-Ording, we are presented with seven new, dark and atmospheric short stories. In one story, two teenage boys—friends and birdwatchers—stumble upon a cabin with an open door. What begins as a night of adventure with beer, porn magazines, and other “treasures” takes a chilling turn. The ending is shocking—there’s a gruesome reason why the cabin’s owners won’t be returning that night. In another, a man takes the ferry Color Magic to Kiel. Memories from the past come flooding back, including one of a previous ferry trip where he and his girlfriend received an unexpected erotic invitation from another couple. Suddenly, the power goes out. The sound he hears is unlike anything he’s ever heard. The ferry hits bottom. He moves through the belly of the sinking vessel—again, an unlocked door, an open door—and inside, on a narrow bed, sits a crying woman with long hair.

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