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Kurt turns Evil
Children's Books1995 · 112 pp

Kurt turns Evil

Erlend Loe

The fork truck driver Kurt has been a truck driver for many years. Almost since he was a little boy. One day Kurt saves a man who is sleep-walking from drowning. As a reward he gets a diamond the size of a football. But what do you need a diamond for? Kurt sells it and gets fifty million kroners. With all this money in the garage it is understandable that Kurt turns evil. It can happen to the best of them.

Rights soldSold to 16 territories
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The Fish
Children's Books1994 · 80 pp

The Fish

Erlend Loe

Kurt is a fork truck driver. Every day he drives his truck down at the docks, and he lifts boxes weighing more than a thousand kilos. Besides, Kurt has a moustache, a lovely wife and three weird children. One day Kurt finds something strange on the peer. Something he has never seen before in his entire life. A giant fish! He brings it home on his truck, and together he and his family travel around the world eating from the fish.

Rights soldSold to 17 territories
Maria & José
Literature and Fiction1994 · 58 pp

Maria & José

Erlend Loe

José loves Maria more than anything else in the world. José lives inside Marias ear - far into the ear canal. At foot it can take him the better part of half an hour to walk from her ear to her hip. By bike three minutes. At nights he plays music in front of her eardrum. In the day he keeps her body in shape. This classic illustrated books is one of the first written by Erlend Loe, and it is characteristically illustrated by Kim Hiorthøi.

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Herman
Literature and Fiction1993 · 224 pp

Herman

Lars Saabye Christensen

At school there is Ruby with the big red hair, which someone claims houses five bird nests. At home there is Herman’s mom who works at the Jacobsen´s Colonial, and with a laugh so loud that the Nesodden ferry runs on ground and the City Hall clock comes to a full stop. She can also throw a lunch pack pretty far. Herman´s dad is a crane operator, and from his seat he can see as far as America and beyond. At the fourth floor, Grandpa is laying in a four-poster-bed. He cannot walk, but he is still fit as a fiddle. So is Herman, until the day when the hairdresser asks to talk to his mother. Winner of the Norwegian Critics Award. A very entertaining and highly readable book. Wise and rich in content. DAGBLADET

Rights soldSold to 22 territories
Ward 23
Literature and Fiction1991 · 238 pp

Ward 23

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

A chronic care department with twenty patients at Lier psychiatric hospital is the setting for Ward 23. It is a sharp and harsh depiction of psychiatric institutions, starting from Lier hospital in 1974 and 1975. Andreas Wiegert starts working there as a school-weary 18-year-old. Andreas aims to become a nurse at the hospital, but with time that goal fades as he sees how badly the systems treat the patients. Ward 23 is a novel about how patients are often dehumanised.

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When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town
Children's Books1980 · 144 pp

When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town

Thorbjørn Egner

Cardamom Town is a somewhat different town than we are used to. Here we meet both donkeys and camels in the streets – and maybe even a lion? The head of police Bastian is keeping the town safe and sound, but does not like to arrest anyone. Old and wise Tobias in the tower is predicting the weather, and Auntie Sophie is taking care of little Camomile. Syversen is driving the tram between the town’s two stops while he is singing for the passengers. But be aware! Just outside Cardamom the three robbers called Kasper, Jesper and Jonathan live!

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Karius and Baktus
Children's Books1958 · 48 pp · Age 0 - 12

Karius and Baktus

Thorbjørn Egner

This is the story about two tiny folks, Karius and Baktus, living in the teeth of a boy called Jens. As long as he only brushes his teeth every fortnight and eats white bread with syrup, the trolls are enjoying their happy days in the teeth. They even build a new house with an underground tunnel to the old house. Suddenly they hear Jens cry out in pain. He has a terrible tooth ache. Karius and Baktus can hear Jens’ mother insist on him brushing his teeth, and the happy days are threatened. Then one day Jens goes to the dentist…

Rights soldSold to 26 territories