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O L A is Norway’s leading literary agency representing authors in the genres of literary fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel, children’s books and young adult.

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

21/11/2025

Congratulations to Leander Djønne, whose acclaimed novel EAT ALL (Alt et) has won the Brage Prize, Norway's national book award, for best fiction!

Eat All was praised by reviewers upon its publication in September and brought its author the Oktober Prize, given to a “younger writer with a significant body of work who has demonstrated particular literary courage”.

Praise for Eat All:
“Horror meets poetry in Leander Djønnes’s terrifying, mythical universe … I am stunned … it is his grandiose determination – and ability – to push the plot and language to the extreme that makes this a very special novel”
Espen Stueland, Klassekampen

“A brilliant nightmare!”
Gabriel Michael Vosgraff Moro, VG (5/6 stars)

“Eat All is unique in every way. It has been a long time since I have held such an unruly, enigmatic and vital novel in my hands.”
Anne Merethe K. Prinos, Aftenposten

“Djønne’s prose is beautiful. The rhythm, the prose and the story pull you in and I am hooked on the novel until the bitter end.”
Marta Norheim, Morgenbladet

“A superb journey to hell”
Knut Hoem, NRK (5/6 stars)

https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/eat-all/

Author photo by Baard Henriksen.

29/10/2025

Leander Djønne’s EAT ALL and Merethe Lindstrøm’s ON THE NATURE OF THINGS are both nominated for the Brage Prize!

The jury on Lindstrøm’s ON THE NATURE OF THINGS:
‘The novel triumphs both stylistically and thematically with apt metaphors and vivid portraits that leave a deep impression on the reader.’

The jury on Djønne’s EAT ALL:
‘Leander Djønne goes hard and wild into the darkness and refuses to let any light in ... To distil so much evil into literature is a powerful accomplishment.’

The winner will be announced November 20. The other nominees in this category are Marte Magnusdotter Solem’s GUSTAV and Sigbjørn Skåden’s PLANTERHAUG. Congratulations to all!

https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/eat-all/
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/on-the-nature-of-things/

Photos by Fartein Rudjord (Lindstrøm) and Baard Henriksen (Djønne).

27/10/2025

Congratulations to Helga Flatland, Maja Lunde & Lisa Aisato, Johan Mjønes, Per Petterson, Simon Stranger and Nikolai Torgersen who have all been nominated for this year’s Booksellers’ Prize!

The Booksellers’ Prize is one of the major literary awards in Norway, and the winner is decided by votes from booksellers across the country. There are 10 nominees, and the winner will be announced November 11.

Photos clockwise from top left: Petterson by Baard Henriksen, Torgersen by Agnete Brun, Lunde & Aisato by Oda Berby, Stranger by Agnete Brun, Mjønes by Agnete Brun, Flatland (center) by Agnete Brun

Nikolai Torgersen: Streets I Have Lived
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/streets-i-have-lived/
Simon Stranger: Stranger
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/stranger-2/
Per Petterson: You Are Home Now
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/you-are-home-now/
Johan B. Mjønes: Spuria
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/spuria/
Maja Lunde & Lisa Aisato: The Thunder Queen
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/the-thunder-queen/
Helga Flatland: Nowhere Fast
https://osloliteraryagency.no/book/nowhere-fast/

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

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!

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

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

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.

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/

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

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