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Marathon Shots
Literature and Fiction2023 · 96 pp

Marathon Shots

Geir Nummedal

A man in the middle of his life is preparing for his first marathon in Dresden, but ends up going all in the night. Still, he receives a starting number and begins running. In Marathon Shots we follow a 42195-metre-long race with many associative digressions along the way. With music in his ears the rhythm of the race propagates through both in his body and mind, where the stream of consciousness of the marathon runner becomes its own race within a race. Before he reached the end line, he has also run through his life. He passes the parks of Dresden, crosses bridges, sees a bald man running with a pineapple attached to his head, he takes shots from drinking stations that often miss his mouth, instead splashing on his shirt or the ground. The experience of running mixes with the experiences of life, from erotic fantasies to childhood memories, glimpses of his father at work in the welding hall, the letters his father sent home from a worktrip to China. The author Dag Solstad has stated that joggers are outside walking their fear of death, which is very possible. The narrator of Geir Nummedal’s Marathon Shots isn’t scared of walking his fear of death, walking his rooms of remembrance, which has resulted in this particularly lively read.

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My Dotted Sister
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

My Dotted Sister

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg’s debut poetry collection My Dotted Sister is about learning to live with mental disorder. My Dotted Sister is a prose poem collection about longing, joy, loneliness, help, art, and cats. But mostly it’s about being oneself. The plot? It’ll be a terrific journey, all the way to Japan, looking for the famous Yayoi Kusama, with a mourning nurse called Grete tagging along. The style? Minimalistic, naïve, wild, imaginative, dreaming. The inspiration? Yayoi Kusama and her dotted universe. Art! The life of the artist! (Looking for a family, someone to be close to, is an important topic for the author.) Loneliness, being different, being allowed to be different.

Mother When She Waves from the Train
Literature and Fiction2023 · 104 pp

Mother When She Waves from the Train

Emely Benedicte Kahrs

Emely Benedicte Kahrs’ poetry collection Mother When She Waves from the Train is about Nelly and her mother who live and eat and do their laundry together, about the need to break out, the fear of losing, dancing, falling in love, abortion pills, liberation. Nelly starts by writing poetry on napkins.

The Narcisisst
Literature and Fiction2023 · 240 pp

The Narcisisst

Erling Simon

Jim’s grandma is dying, and he has to clean up the empty house. This process puts him in touch with a childhood that wasn’t necessarily happy, and which made him, despite his talent, quit playing music, the thing he loved the most, when he was 15 years old. His childhood is well documented by his father, an internationally recognised photo artist. His father’s pictures of Jim as a child shows Jim and his older brother, Aksel, in scenes characterised by jealousy and fighting over their father’s favour. Jim’s artistic gifts made him and his father very close, but the weeks alone in his grandma’s house leads Jim to find signs of how his father’s actions poisoned his relationship with his older brother. The Narcissist is a novel about fathers and sons. About the mechanisms which hold them together, about a father’s self-assertion, and about love and trust that grow weaker. Intimate and controlled language shows up close how our view of reality sometimes can be shaken up; an existential experience which many can recognize. This is a novel about those who have stopped trusting their loved ones, or who no longer has their loved ones’ trust.

The Girl in the Snow
UpLit2023 · 272 pp

The Girl in the Snow

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

The Girl in the Snow is the beginning of a series set at the Sommersholm manor in the 1800s. Sommersholm is a venerable manor that has belonged to the Adler family for generations. Two young women with very different lives live there: the landowner's daughter, Rose, and Alise, a maid. Alise's grandmother got to know the Adler family's darkest secrets as a young chambermaid at Sommersholm. Until the day she died, she never revealed to anyone what she saw and heard. But the secrets did not follow her to the grave. After three years in Australia, the heir of Sommersholm, Birkthorn Adler, returns home to Norway. He went there against his father's will, and three years of separation have not dampened the strife between father and son. When he left, Alise was a young girl, but she has not forgotten the landowner's son who saved her life on a freezing cold winter night many years ago.

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Rainbow Trout and Boiled Rice
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

Rainbow Trout and Boiled Rice

Terje Dragseth

A couple cooks dinner together and their conversation moves from everyday reflections about the meal to living “half as a whole, or the other way around”. Around their legs their cats are living their best lives. As always in author Dragseth’s poetry there is a strong creative power combined with the desire to explore the edges and possibilities of language. An easy-to-read and thought-provoking little book that is equally as suitable in the living room, on an airplane, or a train as on the beach.

Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest

Amalie Kasin Lerstang

Eva Brattheim lives a normal life in a normal town. One thing she particularly enjoys: Going for walks in the nearby forest. One day Eva reads in the local paper that there are plans to build a motorway straight through the forest where she takes her walks. To Eva it is obvious – the road must be stopped. But how? With help from her capable sister, Eva attempts to navigate her way through the local government’s bureaucratic structures and the hierarchy of the local community. How does one actually write an opinion piece? And who wants to disagree with people they look up to, who wants to disagree with their handy neighbour who needs a job and who’s also in a feud with the county antiquary? Midway through the process, Eva falls head over heels for a brilliant case manager in the local government. Could she be the one to help Eva stop this motorway? Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest is a funny and subtle novel about impotence and love, about the relationship between human and nature getting lost, about an all-consuming crush, pine trees, garbage bins, about the fear of having an opinion in the local newspaper, and not least: about standing in the way of development. «... tender and comical ... The forest is kind and smells good, says a friend of mine, and I think that there is something fundamentally kind, a closeness and slightly modest about this novel, which I appreciate. Lerstang does not paint a high sky above her topics, but it is a stroke of heaven that I, as a reader, can thrive under.»Klassekampen «... a gem about what it's like to losing a piece of your local nature.»Morgenbladet «A funny and subtle novel with a serious, underlying topic.»Sandefjords blad

The Rooms' Book
Literature and Fiction2023 · 88 pp

The Rooms' Book

Helene Imislund

Helene Imislund’s poetry follows a child through the first hazy memories of a room. The poems move through the concrete and the experienced, between rooms that once were and places that still exist. And when the rooms are explored specifically, the question of memory also arises – which rooms are we able to remember? Is it possible to remember an event without remembering the room where it took place?

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Red danger
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

Red danger

Helene V. Nortvedt

Evy is 27 years old, an age where many have managed to establish themselves and sorted out their lives, but she’s only managed to isolate herself from others. Something pulls her back to her teenage years when her mother’s relationship with Rune broke down. Evy hasn’t seen Rune in 15 years. Rune with the golden, wavy hair, brown leather jacket and red shoes with white laces. At least that’s what he looks like in her memories. Is she romanticising him? Rune has another family now, and Evy knows where he lives. Several times she goes to his house and sees the lights on through the windows. One day she gets in touch with Rune. It doesn’t turn out the way she imagined. But what did she imagine? The relationship between children and parents in a family of divorce is explored in many novels, but what about the step-parents? Those who are present through the most formative years of growing up, acting as a parent? What happens when they disappear out of the children’s life? Red Danger is a literarily strong debut novel about the connections and boundaries that can exist between humans.

From Samuel Pedersen's Travel Journal
Literature and Fiction2023 · 128 pp

From Samuel Pedersen's Travel Journal

Knut Ødegård

Knut Ødegard is a maximalist poet, with a lush imagination and equally lush language. This is also true for this year’s long poem: From Samuel Pedersen’s Travel Journal. Samuel Pedersen goes on a road trip with Inga in a home-made mobile home, bought on Gumtree for very little money. A purchase that isn’t necessarily a great deal. During the road trip Samuel writes a journal, where both events on the trip as well as his thoughts and imaginations take place. Inga is the same woman who comes along on their trip in 2019, but Samuel is just as interested in Olga, who died in a parachute accident in 2017. The journey takes them around North-Western Norway through rain and thunder, while the priest and the pope, relatives and roots, birds and mopeds show up in their own unique ways.

Songs from Trees
Literature and Fiction2023 · 128 pp

Songs from Trees

Ellen Mari Thelle

Songs from Trees opens with a wake. Elise's mother is dead. But what the family and friends speak of the most during this time of mourning, is Elise. They tell stories of the extraordinary and indispensable person she was. As needy and bothersome as she was wild and beautiful. This is a novel about how death follows death, and creates life. A novel about how much, or how little, another person can mean for their surroudings, and how, after passing, that person disappears into them.

Last man on his back
Literature and Fiction2023 · 320 pp

Last man on his back

Arild Stavrum

Albert is 20 years old and works at the dock, but when he’s not working, he is practicing wrestling. All the time. He lives in a small, worn house with his mum and two younger brothers. He’s never known his father. The year is 1936. In Europe something is brewing. The dock is bustling. Most people are working with the cuttlefish, some aren’t as lucky and have to make a living making moonshine alcohol. Albert only has one competitor in his own town: Johnny Wiik, a rich boy who’s also his boss at the dock. When they were children, they used to play together, now they fight together. Competing for a spot in the Olympic squad. And it’s not just any old Olympic Games we’re talking about, it’s the Olympic Summer Games in Berlin, where Hitler himself will be in the stands. Arild Stavrum writes about sport and exercise, about two men on the mat, in such a way that we can smell the action, notice the muscles tensing, the bodies being thrown around, the sweat that flows, and the test of strength that costs everything. Last Man on His Back is a different and entertaining historical novel which amongst other things poses the eternal question: Is it right for a young man to give everything he has got to what he loves, to want to become the best in the world, without any monetary profit in sight, when he has a family at home relying on him?