Narrative non-fiction

Min metode

"My Method" is a collection of texts based on talks with ten prominent non-fiction writers, where they discuss their writing with persons that know their books very well. The talks where arranged by NFFO. Chapters in the book: Foreword by Kristine Iversen. Toril Moi: To write is to thinkToril Moi and Tore Rem: On Academic writingAgnes Ravatn and Marte Michelet: The Humoristic EssayÅsne Seierstad and Cathrine Sandnes: The Method on Documentary WritingTore Rem: The biography of Jens BjørneboeHans Petter Blad: The aesthetic exchange of reading non-fictionEspen Søbye: The biography Kathe, Always been in NorwayEspen Søbye and Dag Solstad: Talk about the biography Kathe, Always been in NorwayEspen Søbye: What are the Archive StudiesErle Marie Sørheim: About Steffen Kverneland - It will not be allowed to ruin the tripAgnete Øye: To work without being seenAgnete Øye and Per Qvale: On TranslationBjørn Arild Ersland and Liv Gulbrandsen: The joy of working things out with people I like. Non-fiction for young readers. Ane Farsethås and Bernhard Ellefsen: What makes the thing so very hard. On Literary critique. Dag O. Hessen and Espen Stueland: The Poetry of Reality. The motif and meaning in Science EducationPeter Englund: My Method Afterword by Helge Jordheim.

MUSIC AND THE BRAIN

Are Brean / Geir Olve Skeie

About the magic power of music and its amazing effect on the brainCreativity in music and the skills to play and appreciate music are uniquely human characteristics. All mammals seem to enjoy a tune but only human beings show true musicality and ability to communicate through music. The brain composes music to please itself: one can learn much about how the brain works by studying its responses to music and music-making.This book is written as three parts: The first part discusses what brain does with music, that is: how music is sensed and perceived, processes grouped together as the basis for "perception of music".The second part describes what music does to the brain: how it affects its functioning and enables it to change – effects known as manifestations of neuroplasticity. The authors then go on to analyse the characteristics of "the musician's brain" – the brains of musicians have shared features that set them apart from other people's brains.In the third part, the authors give an account of the ways in which the brain-changing effects of music can be used to aid recovery after blows to the head and to treat neurological and related disorders such as dementia, Parkinson's disease and mental illnesses. Music for the brain, not for the earsThe easy read, exciting and intriguing popular science book Music and the Brain is warmly recommended fro anyone who would like to learn more about the grey lump of water and fat that we carry between our ears.BALLADE Musically about the brainThis is a fascinating rendition of the power that music has over man. Music and the Brain is an engaging presentation of extremely advanced processes in the brain. The book is full of interesting facts and reflections around how we relate to music. It contains exciting and brand new research on the topic, well balanced and knowledgeable.AFTENPOSTEN

On the Norwegian Mentality

Georg Johannesen

Chosen as the post-war era's most important non-fiction book! Ever since its release in 1975, this book has held an outstanding position among Norwegian writers and intellectuals. The essays in On the Norwegian Mentality were written over a span of 20 years. They show Georg Johannesen's rhetorical talent, but also his ability and willingness to analyze the literary, cultural and political issues of the time.

Travels without a Donkey in the Cevennes

Alexander Leborg

A Secular Pilgrimage In 2017, Alexander Leborg was commissioned to translate Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. As part of his preparations, he decided to walk in the author's footsteps, and took notes along the way. He is by no means an experienced wanderer, but his reflections about life on the road are wise, enthusiastic and full of admiration for the journey Stevenson took almost 140 years earlier.

SABOTEUR - OPERATION MUSKETOON

John S. Jamtli

A dramatic war story unlike anything you've read before! We're in Northern Norway in 1942. It's a dark and cold September evening. Suddenly a submarine – Junon – rises out of the water, and twelve commandos on a sabotage mission appear. Operation Musketoon is underway. It's a very risky job. A team consisting of two Englishmen, one Canadian and two Norwegians row quietly into the fjord. Their target: the Glomfjord power station. Their guide is a young soldier from Linge-company, Sverre Granlund. This is his story. While Saboteur, John S. Jamtli's first critically acclaimed graphic novel about WW2, was a tall story based on reality, Saboteur – Operation Musketoon is the story as it really happened. But it is no less dramatic! Readers get to follow the saboteurs closely, over the mountain, through storms and fog, with the enemy hot on their heels. Based on the experiences of Sverre Granlund – who went from being a local guide in Northern Norway to carrying the whole operation on his shoulders.

THE GATHERING BOOK

Jørgen Ravneberg

People are becoming more and more interested in edible, wild crops, and nature is chock full of them: vegetables, salads, herbs, shoots from trees, flowers, shrubs, berries, roots and even seaweed. In this book, you will learn how to identify and find plants and when you should harvest them. Each of the 185 edible crops is thoroughly described and illustrated through photographs. The Gathering Book is easy to use in the search for tasty free food.

Thirty-three Norwegian Trees

Ole Mathismoen

There are ten billion trees growing in Norway. All producing oxygen, absorbing carbon, purifying the air and providing homes for thousands of insects, birds and other animals. From a cultural perspective, they have also provided food storage, building materials, hiding places, housing, something for us humans to climb – and in the past, a continual source of myth and superstition. With infectious enthusiasm, Ole Mathismoen, an award-winning journalist (and lumberjack) takes us on a cultural nature trail to 33 of the oldest and biggest trees in Norway. Several of these giants have witnessed and survived the Viking Age, the Black Death, witch-burnings, Danish kings and two world wars.There are proud old trees all over Norway, and in this glorious book you will find beautiful photographs, along with wellknown and less-well-known stories about 33 of them, and the roles they have played throughout Norway’s history.Mathismoen and photographer Stig B. Hansen introduces us to hollow oak trees that are homes to hundreds of different insect species. An old Pine where lawbreakers would be hung. A hollow tree that was used as a hiding place for both robbers and priests. On the border between Sigdal and Numedal we find a spruce that is 539 years old. That means that is started sprouting three years before Marthin Luther was born. But this spruce is far from the oldest or biggest tree in Norway. Brukeika - The Brides Oak - is almost eleven meters around the base, and in the municipality of Birknes in Aust-Agder we find Mollestadeika - The Mollestad Oak tree - that planted its roots when Olav the Holy was still ruling the lands. Around the country we find these proud old trees towering, and in this picture book we find beautiful pictures as well as known and unknown stories about thirty-three of the trees and the role they have played through history.

#MYSTORYMYOPINION

Iman Meskini

350 Voices on the Hijab ‘Why do female muslims wear the hijab? Why do people consider the hijab oppressive? Do those who wear it find it oppressive?’ Iman Meskini (better known as Sana in popular Norwegian TV show SKAM) asked these questions on Instagram. She received several hundred responses covering the entire emotional spectrum of feelings about and attitudes against the headwear. The Instagram thread also says more than all the research and TV reports in the world about the young Muslims’ view of themselves and their place in modern society.

ALONE ON THE PLATEAU

Peder W. Cappelen

Catalogue text Alene med vidda has inspired and encouraged authors and readers for over fifty years. Peder W. Cappelen spends a few months in a small stone cottage far out on Hardanger Plateau. Here he fishes and hunts as winter turns to spring and all the nature is reborn. The magificence of the book is expressed through a distinct sensitivity to nature. Cappelen has a unique ability to listen to the nature around him.

All this is Tokyo

Ina Strøm

‘To me, Tokyo is still mysterious and new. And there's still no other place I'd rather be,’ writes journalist Ina Strøm in this fully-illustrated book. Since her first visit to Tokyo ten years ago, Strøm has spent over ten thousand hours exploring this metropolis. Her book is divided into 12 chapters based on each district. And as a reader, you'll be surprised at how different these districts are – in architecture, tempo, demographics, history and green spaces.