Oslo Literary Agency

Oslo Literary Agency O L A is Norway’s biggest literary agency representing authors in the genres of literary fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and young adult.

We work with translation rights, film rights and dramatization rights.

Nora Dåsnes’ SAVE OUR FOREST! wins the Prix UNICEF de littérature jeunesse 2025 We’re proud to announce that Nora Dåsnes...
05/06/2025

Nora Dåsnes’ SAVE OUR FOREST! wins the Prix UNICEF de littérature jeunesse 2025


We’re proud to announce that Nora Dåsnes is awarded the 2025 UNICEF’s Children’s Literature Prize in France. Over 40,000 children have voted for «Save Our Forest!» as the winner. This year, the prize goes to a book that addresses children's right to grow up in a sustainable world, a book with a gripping child character who encourages readers to challenge authorities and defends the right to a healthy environment.

The French edition, «Le jour où j’ai voulu sauver la forêt», is translated by Aude Pasquier and published by Casterman. The award ceremony will take place in Paris during the General Assembly of UNICEF France at the Cité Universitaire de Paris on June 27th.

https://my.unicef.fr/article/prix-unicef-de-litterature-jeunesse-2025/

https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/save-our-forest/

Photo: Agnete Brun

Maja Lunde’s novel Shutter Speed (Lukkertid) is published in Germany this week and goes right into 7th place on Der Spie...
24/01/2025

Maja Lunde’s novel Shutter Speed (Lukkertid) is published in Germany this week and goes right into 7th place on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list! Congrats Maja Lunde, translator Ursel Allenstein (superb wie immer) and to the brilliant team at Btb!

Kathrine Nedrejord has won this year's Brage Prize, Norway’s national book award, for her novel THE SAMI PROBLEM! In the...
22/11/2024

Kathrine Nedrejord has won this year's Brage Prize, Norway’s national book award, for her novel THE SAMI PROBLEM!

In their statement, the jury said:
“The author of this story poses the big existential questions in a type of narrative we can't recall having read before. … The tone is irreverent, doubtful, proud, and sore, and fiercely angry at the same time. The book does not leave Norway as a state with much honor, and after reading this book, the stinging lashes against the body of society feel well-deserved.

If good literature and good literary texts are supposed to be defamiliarizing, as the jury believes, then both the language and the story in this novel are a brilliant example of that. Through the nature descriptions and the ability to describe small shifts in social situations, the author gives us new insights.”

Previous winners of the prize include Jon Fosse, Karl Ove Knausgård, Nina Lykke, Frode Grytten, Ingeborg Arvola, Carl Frode Tiller, Per Petterson, Hanne Ørstavik, Dag Solstad, Niels Fredrik Dahl and Rune Christiansen.

Rights sold: English (Akoya: UK & Commonwealth), German (Eichborn), Danish (offer received)

“Fearless and furious … a Sami indictment against the Norwegian majority society’s oppression, invisibility, mockery, and racism” - Dagbladet, 6/6 stars

“Incredibly powerful … literary dynamite” - NRK, 6/6 stars

“Nedrejord writes brilliantly … Nedrejord is a master at depicting the dynamics between perpetrator and victim, and The Sami Problem exposes all these nuances in a virtuoso manner.” - VG, 6/6 stars

“Powerful … a dazzling exposition of Sami identity” - Aftenposten

“With The Sami Problem Nedrejord superbly places herself in an international tier of non-fiction-oriented novels … should be read by everyone.” - Vårt Land

https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/the-sami-problem/

Author's photo: Fartein Rudjord

Our warmest congratulations to Maria Kjos Fonn, whose novel MARGARET, ARE YOU GRIEVING has won the Riksmål Prize, mere d...
01/11/2024

Our warmest congratulations to Maria Kjos Fonn, whose novel MARGARET, ARE YOU GRIEVING has won the Riksmål Prize, mere days after its publication. In her statement, Jury Chair Anne Gaathaug said: “Margaret, Are You Grieving is an intense read. Maria Kjos Fonn handles the dysfunctional sides of people with the utmost elegance. And even though it deals with harsh and painful things, it is not without humor.”

The Riksmål Prize is given to a literary work written in outstanding prose. Previous winners of the Riksmål Prize include Nina Lykke, Simon Stranger, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Roy Jacobsen, Rune Christiansen and Karin Fossum.

MARGARET, ARE YOU GRIEVING was published last week to terrific reviews:

“The pain is so pulsatingly fresh, the language so dramatic and vivid, in a way both colorful and pitch-black at the same time. (…) She has an artistic sensibility that approaches the gothic, dramatic and youthful in all its feverish, hallucinatory intensity. (…) And despite all the darkness, the book does not collapse into nihilism. Rather, in the end, we are dealing with a novel about reconciliation and healing, about the possibility of piecing together a new reality, a new life, after everything has been torn apart”
Leif Bull, Dagens Næringsliv

“In this compact and poetic novel, we constantly teeter between life and death, and the author demonstrates how the two, despite being absolutely separate, cannot exist without each other, much like the changing seasons … With this year’s novel, Maria Kjos Fonn has once again proven how literature can expose vulnerable and complicated lives, without romanticizing, but with a poetic nerve that brings to life the stories we so often look away from.”
Sigrid Elise Strømmen, Vårt Land

https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/margaret-are-you-grieving/

Author's photo: Agnete Brun

NEDREJORD AND RØNNING NOMINATED FOR THE BRAGE PRIZEThe nominations for the Brage Prize were announced today, and Kathrin...
30/10/2024

NEDREJORD AND RØNNING NOMINATED FOR THE BRAGE PRIZE

The nominations for the Brage Prize were announced today, and Kathrine Nedrejord’s THE SAMI PROBLEM and Malin C.M. Rønning’s THE TWELFTH HOUSE were both nominated in the adult fiction category. The other nominees are Heide Furre’s TECHNOTIKA and Brynjulf Jung Tjønn’s NORWEGIAN LOVE.

The Brage Prize is Norway’s National Book Prize. This year’s winner will be announced 21st November. The previous three winners of the prize are Frode Grytten, Ingeborg Arvola and Jon Fosse.

https://osloliteraryagency.no/author/malin-c-m-ronning/
https://osloliteraryagency.no/author/kathrine-nedrejord/

Authors' photos: Malin C.M. Rønning (left) by Baard Henriksen, Kathrine Nedrejord (right) by Fartein Rudjord.

Congratulations to Line Baugstø, Tore Renberg and Carl Frode Tiller, whose novels are all nominated for the Booksellers’...
28/10/2024

Congratulations to Line Baugstø, Tore Renberg and Carl Frode Tiller, whose novels are all nominated for the Booksellers’ Prize 2024! For the nexts two weeks booksellers across Norway will be voting for their favourite among the 10 titles on the list. Last year’s winner, Oliver Lovrenski’s Back in the Days, went on to become the biggest selling fiction title of 2023.

Among the other nominees are acclaimed books by Trude Teige, Margreth Olin, Erika Fatland and Kyrre Andreassen. Last year’s winner, Oliver Lovrenski’s Back in the Day, went on to become the biggest selling fiction title that year.

Author’s photos (clockwise from upper left): Line Baugstø by Fartein Rudjord, Tore Renberg by Signe Urdal, Carl Frode Tiller by Trine Melhuus.

Carl Frode Tiller: A Worker’s Heart - Book 1
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/a-workers-heart-book1/
Tore Renberg: The Lord
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/the-lord/
Line Baugstø: Evil Grandma
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/evil-grandma/

https://bokhandlerforeningen.no/bokhandelens-favoritter-er-klare-her-er-nominasjonene-til-bokhandlerprisen-2024/

NIELS FREDRIK DAHL WINS THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE 2024!We’re immensely proud and happy to share the news that ...
23/10/2024

NIELS FREDRIK DAHL WINS THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE 2024!

We’re immensely proud and happy to share the news that Niels Fredrik Dahl’s novel WALKING MAN (original title: Fars rygg) has won the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2024, in strong competition with, among others, outstanding works by Maria Navarro Skaranger, Helle Helle, Theis Ørntoft and Kristin Eiriksdottir. Dahl is the first Norwegian winner of this prize since Jon Fosse in 2015.

WALKING MAN came out in Norway last autumn to rave reviews in Norwegian press. The novel is published in Denmark today, and the first reviews are very good. Rights are so far sold in Denmark (Gyldendal) and Sweden (Natur & Kultur).

“This year’s winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize has written a powerful yet subdued novel about approaching the blind spots in one’s own origins, and thus also the formation of one’s own identity. It’s a both tender and unsettling attempt to shed light on and understand the fabric of our own, singular, and fragile experiences, and the shared, almost overwhelming events in the world we all relate to. With this year’s winner, Fars rygg [Walking Man], Niels Fredrik Dahl, has delivered a deeply probing and highly unique novel about lost time and the conditions of longing."
- From the Nordic Council Prize jury statement

See our web site for more information:
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/fathers-back/

See the Nordic Council's web site for full jury statement:
https://www.norden.org/en/nominee/winner-2024-nordic-council-literature-prize

Author's photo: Fartein Rudjord

Congratulations to Mona Høvring, who yesterday received the prestigious Aschehoug Prize for her works!The Aschehoug Priz...
30/08/2024

Congratulations to Mona Høvring, who yesterday received the prestigious Aschehoug Prize for her works!

The Aschehoug Prize is an annual honorary prize given to a Norwegian writer irrespective of publisher and decided by the board of the Norwegian Critics’ Association. Recent winners include writers such as Linn Ullmann, Johan Harstad, Per Petterson, Vigdis Hjorth, Geir Gulliksen and Erlend Loe.

From the jury speech:

"[Høvring] has never written a book longer than 130 pages. And yet, [her] works are very weighty in literary terms. … The works are characterized by a rare ability to formulate condensed, surprising sentences that seek existential insight, as well as great linguistic, formal, and thematic richness. … The texts feel as if they are poured directly from a brimful well of slow-flowing melancholy, feelings of loss, and longing for inner peace, but also of bubbling desire and bliss at being met with grace, or catching sight of the sacred. At the same time, there is little reverence for these overwhelming core experiences of human life; the language is often seemingly simple and always bold…. [Her books] are extrovert and genre-expanding, twisting motifs and forms from myths and biblical texts.”

Author's photo: Agnete Brun
https://osloliteraryagency.no/author/mona-hovring/

Kathrine Nedrejord is the winner of the Oktober Prize 2024! The Oktober Prize is given to a significant younger writer w...
29/08/2024

Kathrine Nedrejord is the winner of the Oktober Prize 2024! The Oktober Prize is given to a significant younger writer who has shown exceptional literary coiurage.

“Kathrine Nedrejord is an author who never shies away, and there is a steadfastness, a fearlessness, and an intellectual power in Nedrejord that can bring to mind the novels of Dag Solstad. Kathrine Nedrejord crushes conventions in her writing, and with THE SAMI PROBLEM she has written a novel that could stand as a modern classic.”

The Sami Problem will be out 13 September.

Congratulations to Kathrine!

https://osloliteraryagency.no/author/kathrine-nedrejord/

Ein Hoch auf DIE LUNGENSCHWIMMPROBE! Hooray for Tore Renberg’s novel THE LUNG FLOAT TEST, which today celebrates a full ...
28/08/2024

Ein Hoch auf DIE LUNGENSCHWIMMPROBE! Hooray for Tore Renberg’s novel THE LUNG FLOAT TEST, which today celebrates a full year on the Norwegian bestseller list.

A breathtaking historical novel set in 17th century Saxony, The Lung Float Test is the story a young woman who is accused of infanticide, told from multiple perspectives. The book was met with rave reviews in Norwegian press and is printed in 43,000 copies so far. Danish, Dutch and – of course – German editions are due later this year, with Italian and others to follow.

Author's photo by Petter Sandell

https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/the-lung-float-test/

Thure Erik Lund is this year's winner of the Bonnier Literature Prize!This annual prize is given by Bonnier to “a signif...
21/08/2024

Thure Erik Lund is this year's winner of the Bonnier Literature Prize!

This annual prize is given by Bonnier to “a significant, distinctive voice in contemporary Norwegian literature”. The winner is selected by the Norwegian Authors’ Union’s Literary Council.

In their prize announcement, the jury writes:

"Thure Erik Lund's books are not easy to relate to. The Lundian writing is slippery and self-willed, it twists and turns in ways that evade the demands of our time for immediate meaning, it conceals as much as it reveals. But in this way it also appears as a possible line of flight out of the totalitarian algorithmic structures that are increasingly taking control of our lifeworld."

One of Norway’s most innovative and acclaimed writers, Lund has won numerous literary awards, including the Hunger Prize, the Critics’ Prize, the Aschehoug Prize and the Dobloug Prize. An English translation of his contemporary classic THE DITCH INCIDENT MYSTERY is scheduled for publication by And Other Stories in 2025.

Author’s photo: Christopher Helberg

https://osloliteraryagency.no/author/thure-erik-lund/

Congratulations to Monica Goksøyr, who has won the LO Prize of Literature for her debut collection of stories, BAD GIRLS...
31/05/2024

Congratulations to Monica Goksøyr, who has won the LO Prize of Literature for her debut collection of stories, BAD GIRLS! LO is the largest umbrella organization of labour unions in Norway, and the prize is a given to a work of fiction. The aim of the prize is to heighten the status of workers' literature and to draw attention to the stories of working people. The other nominated authors were Ingeborg Arvola and Lotta Elstad.

Goksøyr's critically acclaimed debut won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas Debut Prize earlier this year.

From jury leader Julie Lødrup’s speech to the winner:

"In sparkling short stories, we are taken to Thai restaurants in small places, where community is created and strengthened over food and mutual support. We are taken to an expensive living room where a respected man takes what he wants, with an aura of matter-of-factness and a total lack of interest in the humanity of others.

We meet people who are not unconditionally good, but who are fundamentally human. Who burn with conflicting desires and needs, follow them, with consequences that may not have been unexpected, but not willful. In a poetic way, the author depicts how human emotions and drives work between the formal and informal power structures of society. […]

[The stories] capture the complexity of life and how we all struggle in our lives, with doing the right thing and doing what is true to us. It describes people and environments that we otherwise rarely see in Norwegian literature and public life. It makes it possible for more people to read stories they recognize themselves in, and for more people to read stories they do not recognize themselves in."

https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/bad-girls/
Author's photo by Oda Berby

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