We are happy to tell you that Jomsviking has been sold in a very nice pre-empt to Penguin Verlag in Germany!
Britta Claus from Penguin has the following impression of Jomsviking:
’I’m afraid all of us here at Penguin may have caught a bit of the Viking fever! I delved into Jomsviking yesterday. Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen has a great way with words—I was very impressed—and the way he tells his story is so lively and atmospheric, you can practically envisage the scene right up to the tiniest, impeccably researched detail! Torstein as a character leaps out at you from the first line and, to be honest, I think I was ready to adopt him after the truly heart-rending scene where he is forced to watch his father’s brutal death.
Jomsviking is the epic saga we have been looking for for quite some time now, and it is the perfect, well-wrapped package: Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen is a great narrator and he knows his subject, the series will appeal to Viking enthusiasts as well as lovers of big-time narration and Game of Thrones fans, and I can see us working very well with the author’s background—he even kind of looks like a Viking!’
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.