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None of this is about me
Literature and Fiction2016 · 192 pp

None of this is about me

Stig Sæterbakken

When Stig Sæterbakken died in 2012, he left behind a manuscript of autobiographical notes.The texts range from stylistic essay writing to slapstick humour. They give us insight into his day-to-day and family life, and describe the importance of friendship and the significance of other authorships, all in Sæterbakken’s persuasive literary form.This is a powerful testimony from one of our most important contemporary authorships. 'Even the darkest texts in the posthumous publication of Stig Sæterbakken’s notes are brightened up by the author’s joy in giving them expression.'MORGENBLADET 'A dark, amusing and beautiful conclusion to an unusually wholehearted writing career.'DAGBLADET

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Cargo
Literature and Fiction2016 · 136 pp

Cargo

Lars Saabye Christensen

Kargo is a wide-ranging, humorous, serious and poetic anthology of poems. Lars Saabye Christensen uses his distinctive view of the world to take us on a journey from Oslo to Haiti. Like a ship laden with what remains when everything is thrown up into the air and whatever falls down is caught, Kargo carries a generous and random selection of experiences.

Kenneth Bergstrøm II
Literature and Fiction2016 · 224 pp

Kenneth Bergstrøm II

Tor Edvin Dahl

Idar Vik is a quite ordinary middle-aged man, but one eventful evening he is mistakenly taken for someone else – a well-known, popular and respected TV and radio journalist. Does he really look like Kenneth Bergstrøm? Does he have previously unrecognised possibilities? This is a novel about what we can perhaps become if we take over somebody else’s identity. Or if we try …

The Cross
Literature and Fiction2016

The Cross

Anders Malm

Bas checks social media, sitting in Hans Brattrud's 'Scandia Senior' armchair. He reads fashion magazines, in a chair from Sven Ivar Dysthe's 1001 range. He makes love with his lover, Iso, on a sofa by Børge Mogensen. But no item of furniture makes him feel at home as much as 'Krysset,' Fredrik Kayser's armchair from 1955. After directing three very successful advertising films for Norwegian interior design classics, Bas has chosen to find fulfilment through his possessions. He finds calm, stillness and peace in the carefully planned world of designer furniture. But there comes a time when his life begins to crack: His relationship with Iso starts breaking; His body goes into decline; His things seem foreign to him. Bas loses himself and has to start building a new ‘I,' using the basic materials of skin, flesh and bone. Cohabiting with objects is no longer enough; the next step is symbiosis. Krysset is in a genre somewhere between tribute and critique. With a nod to authors such as J.G. Ballard, Georges Perec and Dag Solstad, Anders Malm has written a story about a person who doesn't see himself primarily as part of a social system, but rather as an object among other objects, in a hierarchy of things.

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Memories of choking
Literature and Fiction2016 · 120 pp

Memories of choking

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo

In Memories of Choking (Kvelningsminner) we meet people who have to send their loved ones away to institutions, and we follow them in their search to recognise the core value of every human being. Eivind Hofstad Evjemo writes about the big questions of life, death, the tribulations of old age, and the plight of people with multiple handicaps and their relatives trying to make sense of the world. No other author describes the great themes in the struggle of daily life as Eivind Hofstad Evjemo does. "Very few writes this tenderly about sorrow and care that Eivind Hofstad Evjemo does."DAGBLADET "Memories of Chocking become even better upon re-reading, with many rewarding turns of insight and empathy."STAVANGER AFTENBLAD "The Distance of things close"DAG OG TID "One of the best young writers of Norway writes outstanding poetry about the weak and painful parts of the welfare state. (...) This book makes a great impression, increasing by every re-read."KLASSEKAMPEN

Palace of Lust
Literature and Fiction2016 · 208 pp

Palace of Lust

Olav Starheimsæter

Olav Starheimsæter’s debut novel has a rather unusual focal point, namely The Palace of Lust – an internet forum for people who want to meet others to have sex in different ways, according to their desires. Naturally, such a forum regularly gives rise to various ethical considerations. This could have become tendentious, but it is not so. For Starheimsæter the sex forum is just that, a sex forum. What interests him is the variety of people who are drawn into it. We meet them in critical situations where they have to make tough decisions to survive. What is common to them all is that they are searching for the boundaries of who they are, either to expand them or to see if they can be found at all.

Clearing the Air
Literature and Fiction2016 · 112 pp

Clearing the Air

Päivi Laakso

Päivi, an artist, gets a telephone call from her mother to say that her father is on his deathbed. She hurriedly packs her bags and leaves to be with her father during his final days. The family meet in a hospital in North Finland in an attempt to clear the air and find reconciliation. Laakso takes us through their last days together, with unmistakeable rawness and unsurpassed humour.It takes exactly one hundred pages for Finnish-Norwegian Päivi Laakso to describe a life. A death in the family puts in motion the thoughts about how a life can be lived. This book is a beautiful little novel.NRK Clearing the Air represents a refreshingly crafted and different contribution to Norwegian literatureHAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD More beautiful than realityVirtuously beautiful and efficient, Clearing the air is a fine and precise novel written mostly in short sentences and in present tense. In this way the reality of the book feels like it is happening right now, it quivers and it is real, not just a reference or a translation. You will not find any euphemisms, no tiptoeing around the burning hot topics. The level of precision of the language, combined with the absolutely non-sentimental rendition, makes even the most unappetizing topics fascinating. It is just something that is. A prerequisite. ike time. Or gravitation. The book is quite serious, and serious happenings occur. But the neutral way that it is portrayed makes it at times comical; not least when Päivi in just a few sentences describes her wedding. But this book is neither comedy nor tragedy. It is a piece of outstanding writing, about the small human in endless space.DAG OG TID

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Fool
Literature and Fiction2016 · 64 pp

Fool

Maiken Horn Bolset

The poems in this collection are dramatic explorations of phenomena such as sexuality, love, grief and aggression, expressed through observations, metaphors and aphorisms.Outwardly, people clothe themselves in various states of mind, as if each of them was a different felt shape.The observer talks to herself and to a ‘you’ whom she alternatively trusts and mistrusts. 'This charm-bomb of a debut collection explodes on the reader with lasting effect.'VG 'The combination of plain language and dark elements works perfectly and convincingly.' DAG OG TID'The physicality and humour in Maiken Horn Bolset’s poetic debut provide warm, enriching reading.' KLASSEKAMPEN

The New Moon Days
Literature and Fiction2016 · 56 pp

The New Moon Days

Casper André Lugg

Few people can put intense, existential experiences into words in the way Casper André Lugg does. Nymånedagene is a beautiful collection of poems which show us how renouncing ones, self and all practical considerations leads us nearer to the heart of life.‘My own criteria in assessing the quality of poetry are the capacity to create images in combination with philosophical and perceptive depth and musicality. In my opinion Lugg has all of these. He has the seed for something really big.' This is what one of our leading poets, Steinar Opstad, says about Casper André Lugg. Few writers succeed as Casper André Lugg does in putting acute, existential experiences into words. Casper André Lugg made his debut with Lite rekviem in 2011, followed last year by the collection Dagene er som gress. With Nymånedagene Casper completes what can now be called a trilogy. Casper has been named as one of the young lyricists to look out for in future. He won the Booksellers' Author Stipend in 2016. 'Lugg writes clean-cut poems with clear diction […] He writes very good pictures.'KLASSEKAMPEN 'A thought or experience which can seem obvious enough, but which in Lugg’s hands […] is expressed in poetry which spell-binds me in its elegant simplicity.MORGENBLADET

It Will All Be Different
Literature and Fiction2016 · 432 pp

It Will All Be Different

Eivind Buene

Oppstandelse is a wide-ranging epic novel in two parts. It is about two couples in an open relationship. We meet four more or less equal main characters who all make themselves heard in their own way.This novel is something between a novel of ideas and a psychological study. It starts in the 1980's with a group of friends who find their salvation when they discover shared joy and musical solace within the context of the Pentecostal movement, which they are led to by the main character David's excessively ecstatic and paralysing meeting with The Saviour. David experiences the same excess as an artist and through living in an open relationship where partner-swapping and sexual experimentation are important ingredients.David is married to Vilde, who works as an art historian at the university and who shares David's free sexual boundaries in an apparently harmonious marriage.In part two, David and Vilde have sex with the married couple Kim and Kamilla. Kim is Vilde's former lover. Kamilla has never taken part in such activities before, but is challenged and drawn in by the project's breaking of personal boundaries.Eivind Buene brings out interesting social trends in this novel, which contains shades of both Philip Roth and Michel Houellebecq. 'Oppstandelse by Eivind Buenes is a well written and original novel of ideas … This is good literature, free of moralism and clear answers. Searching and well written.' VÅRT LAND

Pelargonia
Literature and Fiction2016 · 96 pp

Pelargonia

Frederik Svindland

Pelargonia is a novel about the process of growing up rather than a narrative plot. It is a collection of texts and descriptions of a childhood in Norway at the beginning of the 1990s, which now and then opens connections to both youth and young adulthood.‘Svindland enriches the realm of books with literary sensibility, transforming the private nostalgia into a general expression of how our childhood never stops working inside us.’ KLASSEKAMPEN

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Genuine Joys
Literature and Fiction2016 · 88 pp

Genuine Joys

Lars Saabye Christensen

Two of our greatest artists have created their first book together, an exceptionally beautiful book for adults about the joy of small glimpses.‘We have laid bare private life, abandoned our inhibitions and vacuumed every corner to find as many joys as possible. We have succeeded. It is important for us to emphasise that these joys are not ironic; as the title says, they are genuine.’'Lars Saabye Christensen and Stian Holes picturebook for grown ups is a Genuine Joy.' DAGBLADET'[…] a jewel of a picture book for grown-ups.'FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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