Tore Kvæven has won another literary award, this time for best novel from the South of Norway.
“Man’s dependence on nature is masterfully described, and the life of the animals is told so that we actually live in the head of an exhausted polar bear and an endangered walrus. This is a great reading experience.”
We couldn’t agree more.
Read more at bok365.no (in Norwegian)
We are proud to welcome Jens M. Johansson to Northern Stories. He is one of his generation’s most praised voices, with awards and great reviews to his name. He’s sharp and funny, kind and direct – a man you want to have with you both in a wedding and in a funeral. Read his books and you’ll understand what we’re talking about.
The Bookseller: Sandstone Press has bought World English rights to Anders Bortne’s Sleepless. And it is also just sold in Denmark to Gads Forlag.
Agnes Ravatn’s novel The Bird Tribunal is sold to Mima Förlag in Sweden, making it the 13th country where it will be published.
The 72nd Cannes Film Festival took place last week and we where there to meet international producers.
After a fierce international competition for the rights to John Kåre Raake’s thriller The Ice, Nordisk Film Production gets the job of creating a lavish, international TV series with Tomb Raider director Roar Uthaug at the helm.