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Delirium
Literature and Fiction2026 · 189 pp

Delirium

Roy Jacobsen

Posthumous novel by one of Norway's greatest contemporary writers. What really goes on in a human mind? And what remains when those around you disappear? Two men are walking on familiar paths in Oslo. They are the last remnants of a group of eight friends who grew up under a maple tree in a courtyard in Eastern Oslo. Now they are trying to clean up their own stories. But a long life has left inexorable traces. Delirium is a story about friendship and loneliness, love and loss, the forgotten and the remembered. "Candid and free on what matters most (...) Delirium is full of sentences that stand up to being read more than once (...)Moving, but also witty. Warm, wise, and sharp. And told with a certain reckless flair in a jazzy, improv style."NRK "A dark and moving tale of death and decay that warms the heart – and reminds us of the author's greatness (...) a joy to read, with subtext bubbling with reflections, philosophical musings, and, not least, subtle humor."Bok365, 6/6 stars "A great farewell address on old age, grief, and loneliness."Nettavisen, 6/6 stars "Even though the finale came too soon, Delirium will stand as a breath of fresh air in Jacobsen's solid body of work (...) Linguistically, it is sharper and tighter than the realistic novels (...) Existentially, the book probes deeply without feeling heavy-hearted."Aftenposten "Form and content work hand in hand in this novel, which borrows elements from detective fiction as well as the essay."Dagsavisen "… a brilliant book about ageing. … The different perspectives on old Norwegian wealth, immigration, and societal change weave long threads throughout the novel. The alternation between these perspectives is one of its greatest strengths, not least in the dialogues with site manager Zbigniew and café host Ibrahim. I would have loved to quote the dialogues, or the narrator’s intricate, insightful reflections (...) they are outstanding—on par with Jacobsen’s best."Klassekampen "This is a wistful and dark novel, one of Jacobsen’s darkest. Yet, the author still manages to bring forth a warmth within this universe."HK NYTT

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The Last Valkyrie
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2026 · 408 pp

The Last Valkyrie

Hanne Eik

How far would you go to save the one you love most? Set in modern-day Oslo, The Last Valkyrie is a pulse-pounding mix of enemies-to-lovers romance, Norse mythology and a deadly competition for wealth, fame, life and death. Every girl in Oslo who turns 18 this year is invited to compete in the mysterious competition The Valkyrie. The prize is 3 million kroner, a sum that for Ava would change everything. But joining the contest means declaring war on her powerful stepfamily — the ambitious twins Kamilla and Lukas. Their mother, Helene Threshow-Spilberg, is amongst Norway's wealthiest, and the twins are known to be ruthless in order to get what they want. The twins also team up with a stranger, someone whose connection to The Valkyrie runs deeper than he will admit. And he will stop at nothing to keep Ava out of the competition. As the competition unfolds, Ava realises The Valkyrie is more than a contest. It’s a divine trial that could awaken forces older than time itself. To survive, she must solve the riddles of the Norse gods, uncover who her true allies are, and face the terrifying possibility that not all myths are fiction. With the emotional depth of Twilight, the fierce survival energy of The Hunger Games and the secretive intrigue of The Da Vinci Code, The Last Valkyrie launches a new YA trilogy where epic love collides with Norse legend — blazing with mystery, passion, and power.

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No One is Looking Out for Us
Literature and Fiction2026 · 228 pp

No One is Looking Out for Us

Linn Strømsborg

It's New Year's Eve and Iris is celebrating with her boyfriend and old friends. The mood is good, midnight is approaching and the sky has already started to pop a little. Then she receives a message from her ex. He was once her very first boyfriend. An ex she hasn't seen in years. Iris doesn't want to open it, but she opens it. The message is only one sentence long: "Do you remember if I was ever violent towards you?" No One is Looking Out for Us is a novel about physical as well as psychological abuse in close relationships. About the absolute insecurity that women live with. Because they don't know. Because they can't know. If they're really with him, safe in their own home, safe in their own bed. Strømsborg also shows us how the responsibility for the truth is all too easily relaxed from the abuser to the victim, when he asks if she can remember what it was like, and if he really did something wrong. It's harrowing and everyday, and harrowing because it's so everyday. "No One is Looking Out for Us is an easy-to-read, airy, and engaging novel where timely questions about violence, power, sex, and consent are never far away, and where its use value is indisputable."Dagens Næringsliv

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Kitchen
Literature and Fiction2026 · 480 pp

Kitchen

Lars Saabye Christensen

Kitchen is a warm, wistful and piercing novel about the Minde family in Vika in the 1970s – a district where Oslo's slums are still close to everyday life. When her son Kaj moves out, Gerd Minde is left in a home where silence reveals more than words ever did. Life goes on as before, but something has moved in between the walls: the question of who we are when the roles around us fall away. With precise humor, dark undertones and an eye for the small cracks in the ordinary, Saabye Christensen writes a story about loneliness, about who we are and everything that happens when the dice are rolled – and no one quite dares to see where it lands. Kitchen is Saabye of best mark«It fills me with joy to read Lars Saabye Christensen. [...] The author's new novel Kitchen contains one of the finest portraits of women I have read in a very long time.»VG, six/six stars «Yes, there are many good Norwegian authors. But when Saabye Christensen is at his best, as in parts of the series Echoes of the City (Byens spor) and as in the short story The Hare (Haren) and as in the hot-off-the-press novel Kitchen (Kjøkken), then he is, in my opinion, in a class of his own.»NETTAVISEN, six/six stars «Christensen manages to create an atmosphere that fills the reader to the brim, time and time again.»NRK, five/six stars Saabye is a superb storyteller«Lars Saabye Christensen is a wonderful storyteller, with a particual ability to portray the unique in ordinary lives and the tragic in the trivial.» Dagbladet, five/six stars «As writes, as always, so well.»Adresseavisen Unstoppable Christensen«I don't know where Lars Saabye Christensen gets his drinking water from, but someone should immediately examine the source to see what it contains. How else can you explain his churning out works of such high quality every year after he passed 70?»Aftenposten «I don't know where Lars Saabye Christensen gets his drinking water from, but someone should immediately investigate the source to see what it contains. How else can you explain the fact that he keeps churning out works of exceptionally high quality every year after passing the age of 70?»Hammerfestningen «Kitchen is a novel where the dramatist Lars Saabye Christensen truly gets to show off his talent, through scenes, situations, and dialogue that are exceptionally well-crafted and believable.»Stavanger aftenblad «It's a fine [...] novel that Lars Saabye Christensen has written, and the portrait of Gerd is strong and convincing.»Dag og tid Lars Saabye Christensen tendlerly writes the "silent" women's histories«Gerd Minde is fictional. But she will live on for a long time.»Dagsavisen

Instant bestseller and critically acclaimed
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Anemone Blue
Literature and Fiction2025 · 320 pp

Anemone Blue

Jorid Mathiassen

Three women, two countries, one hidden past – a novel about love, legacy, and resistance. What happens when the past surfaces and casts new light on everything you thought you knew? On a warm day at the end of August, TV photographer Birthe Johannessen travels to Hjartøy, a weather-beaten island off the coast of Northern Norway. She’s there on assignment – but also in search of answers about her own origins. An old letter has revealed an unexpected family connection, and living on the island is a woman who has kept the truth buried for decades: Erle Christensen. For Erle, Birthe’s arrival forces long-suppressed memories into the open. She came to Norway alone, a child refugee from Latvia after the Second World War, and has never dared to look back. Now she must face what she left behind. Could family still remain in Riga? Who was she before she arrived? And what really happened in Latvia, spring 1939? We meet young Agate, living a privileged life in Riga’s cultural bourgeoisie. She falls in love with the idealistic architecture student Andris, but as war approaches and the Soviet grip on the Baltics tightens, both love and liberty are under threat. The decisions she makes will reverberate across borders and generations. Anemone Blue is a sweeping and emotionally charged drama of fate, silence, and rediscovery – a story of women’s lives, lost histories, and the long echoes of war and migration. With scenes set on Norway’s wild and beautiful coastline, in a haunting rural community, and in the shadowed streets of an occupied Latvia, the novel spans decades – from the trauma of war to the present day.

Classic feelgood with a story spanning across several generations
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The Good Person of Sandvika
Literature and Fiction2025 · 160 pp

The Good Person of Sandvika

Vigdis Hjorth

The Good Person of Sandvika is a tragic and comic novel about economy, gambling, beer, fate, and class. She brings her laptop and sits down at the local pub in Sandvika. She orders a beer, lets the dog sleep under the table, and writes. It's quiet enough to work, but not empty. Over time she begins to recognise the regulars: the young woman who comes in with a lottery ticket every Saturday, the elderly couple who never exchange a word, the quarrelsome man with a handlebar moustache, the world-weary drunkard who ends up crying by the bar. Many of them are waiting for their monthly social security payment. The pub fills up the day the money arrives and empties again when it is all spent. But one evening something happens that turns everything upside down. The Good Person of Sandvika is a novel about differences that aren't always visible from the outside. About drinking alone, yet in fellowship with others. About economic margins and social exclusion, and about a gradual tenderness that grows in silence. Vigdis Hjorth writes personally about life as it is lived, with a precision and nerve that makes the ordinary extraordinary. The pub becomes a place where life stories intersect, dignity is negotiated, and the question of who people can be for each other is asked with greater importance than first assumed. Reviews "A beautiful little novel (…) It is a thought-provoking book by Hjorth, one that is deeply moving." VG, six/six stars The Good Person of Sandvika demands so much of me and touches upon so many sensitive spots. I am shaken and happy to be struck by this novel. It feels good to realize how powerfully literature can impact one, at its best.” BOK365, six/six stars "There can be a lot of life wisdom in a three-minute pop song, but there can certainly also be in a tightly composed and seemingly simple novel." ADRESSEAVISEN, five/six stars “The Good of Author of Sandvika: Amidst all the misery, Hjorth is simply fun to go to the pub with. She definitely has command of language, and a clear, easily recognizable, original voice” DAGSAVISEN "Compassionate with people struggling with big problems. There is something archaic and captivating about the landscape, the station building, and the characters Hjorth evokes in her successful and unsettling modernization of Brecht." MORGENBLADET

Hjorth is one of Norway's most significant contemporary writers
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Good Mother
Literature and Fiction2025 · 160 pp

Good Mother

Nora Kristina Eide

Your child comes into the world, you have carried him, and as you look down at him, nothing happens. Life is not infinitely good and meaningful. Love is not absolute. It sounds terrible, but depressive symptoms in connection with childbirth and pregnancy are extremely common, experienced by around 1 in every 10 women. Resistance, coldness, rejection. Negative emotions that in turn create new negative emotions: shame, self-loathing and anger. Good Mother is a strong and dark, but at times also surprisingly comical story about postpartum depression, about the newborn and the newlywed and about the world around them.

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The Hare
Literature and Fiction2025 · 384 pp

The Hare

Lars Saabye Christensen

The Hare is a rich, entertaining, surprising, funny and thought-provoking collection of short stories from one of our foremost authors. The collection consists of twenty short stories move from what might happen when you’re out walking and encounter someone who doesn’t have control of their dog via forgotten and hidden songs to people who “remembered their wedding day but forgot their marriage”. In between, we must do lifesaving, meet a new colleague, learn a round of art history – and several laps of Bislett Stadium. Lars Saabye Christensen is one of Norwegian contemporary literature's most significant writers, and is particularly celebrated for his ability to capture the essence of everyday life with humor and empathy. He is one of true masters of the short story form, as he is able to skillfully crafts memorable characters and poignant moments, employing his keen eye for detail and his talent for revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary. In the short story, Saabye Christensen's unique writing style stands out, brimming with turs of phrases and word plays like only he can. «..short story writing at its finest. This is an absolute must-read!»NETTAVISEN, six/six stars The Master of the Short Story«That distinctive blend of the poignant and the witty, which is Lars Saabye Christensen's trademark, permeates this collection of short stories and makes it a truly rewarding reading experience.»DAGBLADET, five/six stars «A diverse collection of short stories, both short and long, touching and unsettling, beautiful, cheerful and sad.»KLASSEKAMPEN «...short stories that are truly fantastic tales in their most compressed and effective form.»AFTENPOSTEN A Master of Writing the Short Story«...a sophisticated blend of recognisable literary qualities and encounters with astonishing life stories. [...] Lars Saabye Christensen showcases the unruly nature of life in that astonishingly vital and creative language that is uniquely his.»DAGSAVISEN Masterly Short Stories«Not only is Saabye Christensen's language almost unmatched, especially in short pieces, but his characters are also utterly priceless. [...] The Hare. What a text!»FRI FAGBEVEGELSE

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In The Belly of the Whale
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2025 · 272 pp

In The Belly of the Whale

Hilde Rød-Larsen

In mid-July, newly divorced Jonas Sverdrup travels from Bergen to his hometown of Oslo, after his ex-wife has gone on holiday with their son. For three weeks, Jonas is borrowing a friend's flat, and he wants to spend the time following the impulse method. But the impulses fail to materialise, in a city abandoned by family and friends. Maud Elvebakken has no need to travel from her hometown of Oslo. She likes change of atmosphere that July offers, the opportunities it provides. She wants to gather friends and acquaintances who are left in the city around a long table in her backyard, and see what happens. Also Jonas, whom she hasn't seen since they were children in the teeming garden of her father. These summer weeks will open up to new human connections, but also to a past that Jonas and Maud in their adult lives have tried to shield against. In the Belly of the Whale is a standalone sequel to In the House of Pantaloon. «Like the previous novel pointed to the meaning of solidarity between individuals, the message from Rød-Larsen seems to be that it’s only when we, with our small lives, join forces, that the larger history can be challenged. The new generation represented by the passive Jonas and the obstinate Maud, has a golden opportunity to cry out on behalf of the victims of their forefathers’ cruelty.»VÅRT LAND «As always, Rød-Larsen has a firm grip on the text, with dialogues that flow effortlessly. She writes entertainingly, and most of the tension is in the exploration of the characters.»ADRESSEAVISEN

A feelgood story with literary elements
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Cocks
Literature and Fiction2025 · 256 pp

Cocks

Erlend Loe

One morning, while taking a shower, Tander's penis simply falls off. It’s awkward. It’s inconvenient. It’s… quite a problem, to say the least. He places it carefully in a box marked "Raspberries" and stores it in the freezer before cycling to the emergency room. Surely, someone must be able to reattach it? The doctors are fascinated, but unable to help. One even offers to buy it. Tander declines. He returns home without answers — and with some difficult questions. Should he tell his wife? Can he keep his job at the motor magazine? Has this happened to other men? Cocks is a sharply funny story about loss, identity, and modern masculinity. With Erlend Loe’s signature absurdism and satire, it explores what it really means to be a man — and to be whole. «The author’s dry, witty style is perfect for absurd stories like this. […] This is fun. A lot of fun.»Stavanger Aftenblad, five/six stars «When did a novel last make me laugh out loud? I mean, outright hooting with laughter? […] t's the outrageously original connections Erlend Loe makes between the important and the unimportant that make the laughter burst forth.»NRK, five/six stars «He’s a worldclass artist, and he’s still going strong after all the books he’s written.»Framtida «Loe is funny, extremely funny.»Dagbladet «Loe is, as always, a funny writer. He writes with an ease you have to admire.»VG «Mundane, you may think? Remember that this is one of Norway’s craziest writing minds, who regularly pumps out main characters with champagne problems you never would have been able to imagine.»Bok365 «Only Loe can come up with something so crazy and original – here is enough material to cure a light autumn depression. […] Loe writes amusingly in a wild and lush language.»Adresseavisa

Investigation into modern masculinity
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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

Debut by a journalist and literary critic
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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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