2020 is off to a good start, lots of books are moving on out into the world. Here’s a roundup off the latest deals.
GREEN JOY has been sold to Quadrille (World English) and Uhinehud from Estonia . Agnes Ravatn’s dark novel SEVEN DOORS has been sold to Orenda Books (World English) and the film rights has been sold to Truewest from Bergen.
SLEEPLESS has just been sold to Mairisch Verlag in Germany. And THE ICE has been sold to Pushkin Press (UK) and Simbol in Catalonia. Thomas Berg Reinertsen award winning THEATER OF THE WORLD has been sold to Seidosha from Japan and Ad Marginem in Russia.
The film rights to Janne Stigen Drangsholt’s first book about Ingrid Winter, THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES OF INGRID WINTER, is sold to the Norwegian production company Chezville.
There are offers in from Sweden on Erik Martiniussen’s THE WAR AGAINST BACTERIA. There is also offers from Russia on Linka Neumann’s WILDERNESS SWEATERS.
Norway’s largest independent literary agency, Northern Stories, has been named a Gazelle Company by Dagens Næringsliv for the second consecutive year. In 2024, the agency grew its turnover from NOK 10.2 to 15.8 million – an increase of more than 50 percent, marking yet another record year.
We’re delighted to share that Agnes Ravatn has been nominated for the Booksellers’ Award 2025 for her brilliant new novel Doggerland. Her novel is also already sold to Poland, and in World English.
We’re proud to announce that Frode Helland has been nominated for this year’s Brage Prize for Nonfiction, Norway’s most prestigious literary award, for his extraordinary book Holocaust – A history told by the victims. This is a deeply moving and illuminating contribution to our understanding of one of history’s darkest chapters.
Northern Stories has hired Dilani Vamapahan as a literary agent. She was chosen from a pool of 175 applicants.
“A great honour,” says Kristofer Hivju about playing police investigator Ole Vik in the crime series Sogn Murders. The TV2 series is based on Jørgen Jæger’s bestselling books, and filming started this week in Sogn.