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I SUGGEST WE WAKE UP
Literature and Fiction2020 · 544 pp

I SUGGEST WE WAKE UP

Beate Grimsrud

A white envelope flies through the air and lands in Vilde Berg's letterbox. She is at a midpoint in her life, and has everything she needs. But the envelope contains a message that will turn her life upside down – she is seriously ill. Exuberant and curious, Vilde has always asked questions about herself and the world, and she has never taken the answers to these questions lightly. When your own life – something you take so for granted – can come to an end, what questions do you ask then? Time now seems both in short supply and drawn out – how long will she have to wait for answers, to hope and to recover? Does she have to hurry and use her time as best she can?Parallel to Vilde's story about wanting to live, are all the stories about Vilde's childhood in the fabled Dovre mountains, where she stole a golden pen from grandfather. From this pen spring tales of a wistful and playful rat longing to be noticed and loved by the fox with the beautiful tail.I Suggest We Wake Up was a new milestone in Beate Grimsrud's career, trembling with raw nerve and wild hopefulness, combined with the author's stubborn energy and distinct sense of humor.WINNER OF THE 2020 BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST FICTION!The Brage Prize Jury said: This year’s winner of the Brage Prize for Fiction contains everything you could possibly hope to find between the covers of a new book. The winning novel is quite simply a cornucopia of pithy sentences, accurate observations, dizzying philosophical thoughts and wild imagination. The novel has a unique narrative voice which skips back and forth with unexpected leaps of thought and original associations without ever losing sight of reality. The narrative style creates a lively atmosphere and forms a successful contrast to the book’s dark story of cancer. The author has a well-developed sense of humour, and the novel is rich in quick repartees and spontaneous observations, which makes reading it a literary feast. The novel’s central character is diagnosed with cancer, and the depictions of the existential upheavals which follow in the wake of such shocking news are characterised by wisdom and insight. The author writes frankly and without sentiment about the various stages from ill to potentially healthy with a life-affirming attitude that imbues the language with exceptional power. In this ground-breaking novel there are no barriers between reality and fantasy, and it feels completely natural to be joined by a rat and a fox, who discuss the big and small questions in life as the story progresses. We would so have loved the chance to follow this exceptional and imaginative writer for years to come, but sadly it was not to be. And that is why we are especially pleased to announce that I Suggest We Wake Up by Beate Grimsrud, who died earlier this year, is the winner of this year’s Brage Prize for Fiction. The novel is another highpoint from a creative writer whose clever, enduring books deserve a long life. R E V I E W SBeate Grimsrud’s new novel I Suggest We Wake Up is one of the most poignant, strangest and entertaining Norwegian books I’ve read in a very, very long time.(…) a deeply original and meaningful reading experience that you will surely remember for a long time.VERDENS GANG (NORWAY) ******A bold and humorous novel full of adventure and imagination.(…) I am a fan of Beate Grimsrud’s books. Of her imagination, of her thinking, of her humor, which makes the reader wonder and think in new ways.(…) It leaves me mentally out of breath. But it’s worth it.(…) Grimsrud puts into words Vilde’s feelings and reactions through unique images that makes it possible for the reader to live through this heartbreaking story.ADRESSEAVISEN (NORWAY) ******Beate Grimsrud invites you into a linguistic roller coaster ride that makes you scream with joy and horror. Buckle up and read!DAGBLADET (NORWAY) ******(...) a strong and original novel.(...) the story balances elegantly between reality, fairytale, dreams, nightmares, discussions of ecology, aesthetics, politics, friendship, love and difficult mothers.NRK (NORWAY)I Suggest We Wake Up reaches broader and deeper, in the literary and existential sense. In a style that travels the lanes of association in a wise and learned mind, as well as the tangled pathways of a child’s inner thoughts, this novel is in every sense a fabulous report from someone gravely ill, about the dream she carries of continuing to exist.MORGENBLADET (NORWAY)(...) terrifyingly beautiful.(...) It doesn’t get any better than this.DAGSAVISEN (NORWAY)Beate Grimsrud’s novel about cancer is an innovative mix of realism and fairytale.(…) With wisdom and credibility, it describes the existential earthquakes that occur in the wake of getting the shock message: you have cancer.(…) she once again demonstrates exactly how skilled she is at charging events and people with extended significance.BERGENS TIDENDE (NORWAY)(...) The woman with the gold pen.(...) Beate Grimsrud has yet again written a novel without one bad sentence.(...) Each sentence carries content, quivers of excitement, strut of the future or sinks in sadness in the author's search for continuation and connections that create life.(...) Her novels are, this year's novel is no exception, stories that elevate the human condition and its capacity for art and love and pursuit of life and friendship, to a higher level.AFTENPOSTEN (NORWAY)Beate Grimsrud’s new novel is like water for a thirsty throat. DAGENS NYHETER (SWEDEN) Beate Grimsrud has written her best novel to date. SYDSVENSKA DAGBLADET (SWEDEN)I Suggest We Wake Up is an anxiety-ridden, fun, and inviting read, full of airy light and dark depths. VÄSTERBOTTENS-KURIEN (SWEDEN)Grimsrud writes more beautifully than ever. GÖTEBORGS-POSTEN (SWEDEN)The novel has an emotional pressure you just cannot defend yourself against. But you don't want to defend yourself, either, because Beate Grimsrud writes so well. NORRA SKÅNE (SWEDEN)

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I’ll Let It Be That Way
Literature and Fiction2020 · 112 pp

I’ll Let It Be That Way

Marianne Teie

The Jewish violinist Joseph Schechter (1892-1943) was one of the six million victims of the Holocaust. Joseph was arrested in Bergen and his story is told through a modern-day woman in Norway. She takes up Joseph’s fate almost as a distraction from her own life, and writes his life into existence – the way she wishes it had been.

In the same dream
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2020 · 288 pp

In the same dream

Gunn Marit Nisja

It’s a perfectly ordinary evening in Vilja’s student dorm when her mother rings. But the conversation is far from ordinary. Her mother speaks in a confused and incoherent way. Has she been drinking? That isn’t like her. A frightened Vilja takes action, getting her mother admitted to the local hospital. When Vilja arrives, the doctor says her mother is suffering from an acute brain disease. In the Same Dream is a novel about life’s sudden upheavals – a tale of a daughter who has to take responsibility for her mother’s future as well as her own, and the dilemmas that brings. But it is also the story of a divided family trying to find their way back to each other in a new situation. Gun Marit Nisja writes with beautiful subtlety about the lives and dreams of ordinary people.

Wolverine
Literature and Fiction2020 · 128 pp

Wolverine

Ida Fjeldbraaten

The main character in the novel Wolverine lives in an institution, working as a cleaner at the city zoo. She has an underdeveloped gaze at the world around her. She is closer to her basic instincts and drives than most of us, and she has to fight herself to restrain the fury and forcefulness raging inside of her. In the Nordic nature area of the zoo, we meet the wolverine. The wolverine is among the most skilled survivors of the animal kingdom, but trapped as the weakest of his pack, the beast within him is cowed. Wolverine is a novel about the animal in humans and the human in animals. The novel examines zoos as a luxury. What happens in a place like this when the society beyond its walls breaks down? Wolverine is a brutal, tender and compelling tale of bodily fluids, jaws, teeth, mud and bites; about nature, culture and about powers that reside in all of us – and can, perhaps, never be reined in.

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The Coffee Cod
Children's Books2020 · 64 pp · Age 6 - 9

The Coffee Cod

Lena Lindahl

The Lofoten fishing season is underway and everybody wants to catch this year’s coffee cod – a fish weighing over 30 kilos that will earn them a kilo of coffee. The sea’s no place for little kids, say the fishermen, but Tora just scoffs at that. Because she’s ten and can do absolutely anything. Or at least that’s what Mum tells her. Tora sneaks off in the little boat and heads out to catch a coffee cod. But the sea is wild and the obstacles are many. A beautiful, fully illustrated story about brave girls, choppy seas and enormous cod.

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Sailing Alone
Literature and Fiction2020 · 288 pp

Sailing Alone

Kjetil Nordengen

35-year-old Andor Leine has a critical and somewhat stubborn approach to life. He is hardworking and popular with his colleagues, but is profoundly dissatisfied with his own life. Andor has ambitions to achieve more. The trouble starts when he is interviewed for the workplace intranet. The photo of Andor – dressed in a grey windcheater and ill-fitting jeans – is picked up by a fashion blogger for an internet article about the new normcore trend: “Fashion for those who realise they are one of seven billion.” And what are you supposed to do when you suddenly have to relate to the fact that your uniqueness consists of being a person who doesn’t stand out? Abruptly, Andor becomes a kind of poster boy for the new trend, which sets off a series of events beyond his control. He has to go home for Easter to his newly divorced mother in Hamar; he meets up with his brother Edward, who has always overshadowed him; he goes to parties with old classmates and measures himself up against their successful life histories. Along the way, he is confronted with the questions: What is my story? And how am I supposed to tell it? Andor decides to live a less sensible life. After rewatching Fight Club, with the scene where Edward Norton beats himself to a pulp in his boss’s office, Andor is so inspired that he decides to give up his job. Things don’t necessarily turn out the way he’d planned. Kjetil Nordengen has written a funny novel full of satirical barbs in which deeper themes gradually emerge: it’s about surface versus depth, about controlling your own destiny. About cause and effect, and about how the stories of our lives are constructed. Who are we, really?

The Clown Who Really Wasn’t Very Funny
Children's Books2020 · 48 pp · Age 6 - 9

The Clown Who Really Wasn’t Very Funny

Kim Fupz Aakeson

Danish writer Kim Fupz Aakeson and Norway’s prize-winning author and illustrator Stian Hole have joined to make this stunning picture book. The Clown Who Really Wasn’t Very Funny, is a beautiful, playful, colourful book about Dummy the clown who’s about to lose his job because the audiences aren’t laughing as loudly or as often as the circus owner would like them to. But Jan Jensen (as he’s really called) has other sides to him – other sides that the audience also appreciate. It’s all about life and about being sent back to the reserves bench! And it’s about how not everything has to be funny, noisy and action-packed all the time. You should sit very still while you look and read! It’ll make you a better person.POLITIKEN, DK The collaboration between Kim Fupz Aakeson of Stian Hole is a meeting of masters within the genre of Nordic picture books. WEEKENDAVISEN, DK

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Locotopia in the Stone Age
Children's Books2020 · Age 6 - 12

Locotopia in the Stone Age

Simon Stranger

Come along to the Stone Age! Simon and Helena live in a cave, but have to move out due to a huge flood. Even the shaman can’t stop all the rain… They are forced into the most dangerous place in the whole world: the forest!! Which is full of sable-toothed tigers, mammoths and other lethal animals. Simon and Helena are ravenous, but can they overpower the huge mammoths with their simple tools? And as if that wasn’t enough, Simon and Helena have to solve the oldest murder mystery ever: Who really killed Ötzi, the iceman? On their journey, Simon and Helena also meets mysterious Neanderthals, and discovers the curious stone formation Stonehenge. And maybe they can knock their heads together (or their flint) to build a fire? This is the third stand-alone book in the world’s most incorrect history of the world. Get excited to learn this history like you never were taught it in school.

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Broth and other Power Liquids
Cook Books / Self Help2020 · 160 pp

Broth and other Power Liquids

Gry Hammer

Are you dreaming of good health, a well-functioning digestion, young looking skin and shiny hair? Adding broth to your diet can make those dreams come true. In Broth and other Power potions you will learn everything about the good and health bringing broth, as well as 50 recipes for powerful liquids like toddies, soups, tonics, smoothies - and a bonus of candy and desserts you can make based on the same principles. Gry Hammer will tell you about the standard base broths, boiled of bones and leftovers from meat, poultry and fish, enriched with vegetables and herbs. Gelatinous broth is naturally reviving, and the health benefits are many. Broth works as an anti-inflammation, stimulates digestion, strengthens the immune system, bones and all the joints, betters sleep quality and is to put it shortly the best anti-aging remedy you can get, as it builds connective tissue from the inside. Cooking broth is trendy as well as traditional and sustainable - and broth is also super food for the intestines! Gry Hammer is the author of several books on food and health. She is a food enthusiast, lifestyle artist, blogger, yoga teacher and the guru of fermentation and broth cooking in Norway. She is known for her sharp pen and inspiring lectures. She was awarded the Norwegian Food Prize in 2017 and has also been named Blogger of the Year for her blog jordtilbord.no.

The World’s most Difficult Thought
Self Help2020 · 192 pp

The World’s most Difficult Thought

Ingunn Kyrkjebø

Think before you act: it’s familiar advice. But that isn’t the advice you’ll get from The World’s Most Difficult Thought. Instead, you’ll learn how good not thinking can be for your life – mentally, physically and creatively. For centuries, Japanese art and martial arts have sought out ways to refine humanity, and their essence lies in the concept of mushin. Mushin means empty thought and is the highest level achievable in Zen Buddhism and the martial arts. Empty thought was also a crucial part of Samurai life because the heightened state we achieve when we succeed in thinking of nothing can mean the difference between victory and death on the battlefield. There is gold in empty thoughts, but if you try, you’ll quickly discover how difficult it is to do something as simple as not thinking. The World’s Most Difficult Thought takes you on a journey via Japanese culture and modern science into the realm of empty thought. A universe where far more is possible than you may have imagined: if you’re going to get more done, you must do less. And what happens if you work to suppress your ego?

Creativity
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 304 pp

Creativity

Hilde Østby

Creativity has in the last century been linked primarily to artists with a relaxed relationship to alcohol, fun STD´s and a wild and extroverted way of life. But what is creativity, really? What drives creativity, and how can we all learn how to be more creative?There are more than enough books that would like to give you the instructions on how to be creative. This is not that type of book. Creativity is a book that combines brand new brain research on creativity, the cultural history of creativity and an analysis on society, as well as the experience of a number of creative people. It is a narrative exploration of creativity, as well as a criticism of society. It is a counterpart to a society that wants to measure everything, where everyone feels the pressure to perform and become a celebrity.With this book the author tries to make messing about, boredom and trying and failure the new gold standard: Because when AI and the climate crisis arrives, we will have to be very creative! And creativity lives in a very strange place, what the researchers call DMN, also known as daydreaming. Into the Rabbit hole!The starting point for this epistle book is the bicycle accident that the author was involved in on the banks of the Aker River in Oslo. She literally hit the wall – or more precisely the bridgehead – and had to reconstruct her self after being smashed. The process ends up as a defence letter for the playful human and it´s fragile brain.MORGENBLADET Personal and and well-copmposed about creativityIn her search for the nature of creativity, Hilde Østby combines form and content in a way that is both gripping and full of insight.DAGSAVISEN The view from SaturnIn Creativity, Hilde Østby makes sense out of an ocean of new connections by drawing the lines between brain science and the experiences of creative people.BLA Bokvennen Charm Prose!Hilde Østby has delivered a well-composed and very entertaining book about popular science. A deliberate portioning of the details in her personal story and striking comments along the way, make the theoretical insights come alive.KLASSEKAMPEN

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The Body is a Murderer
Literature and Fiction2020 · 368 pp

The Body is a Murderer

Kitty Byng

We can’t put it off any longer, I tell Nina. What can’t we put off? Nina says. We have to get down to making babies, I say. Soon I’ll be old: soon I’ll be too tangled up with varicose veins to be able to make a baby with this body of mine. I’m getting older, I say. Nina looks at me. My eyes are wet with tears, because my heart. Nina and Kitty are married and live an active life in Oslo, with careers and good friends. If they want to have a child, the time to start is now. It’ll take more to make it happen than a romantic evening or two. They have to make a choice themselves if anything is going to happen. And life is so good just the way it is. They start to click around on a donor website, just to take a look. What does trying to have a child entail? Will it corrode their relationship? Is Kitty’s body even capable of bearing a child? And why does the thought of new life make Kitty think of death? The Body Is a Murderer is a complex love story about Nina and Kitty; an urgent and intimate examination of the life we have and the life we make.