According to the jury’s statement, “Sigmund Jensen contributes to taking literature back to an arena where it most definitely has a job to do. The intellectual capacity of his project and the unique intensity of his prose, make Sigmund Jensen an exciting voice in our contemporary literary landscape. THE TIBERIUS CLIFF is a literary marathon which comes close to saying it all and which interprets numerous signs of the times in the critical and peculiar light of fiction, though still leaving space for the unspoken. The book incorporates philosophical, historical and journalistic passages about the financial system and the world economy, international politics, epidemics, wars and climate crisis, as well as esoteric hermeticism and numerology.”

The jury states that, “Kristine Næss has a distinct, personal voice and a both authoritative as well as humorous way of portraying her characters, making the reader accept them and empathize with them. This is literature of the highest order, offered by a writer who takes her art seriouslym and we therefore look greatly forward to her future books … Kristine Næss’ writing demonstrates a high degree of consciousness, and she has nurtured her talent within different genres including poetry, where she exhibits a powerful will to take language and literature seriously.”

Each year the Bookseller Union award three writers in the process of establishing themselves with grants, one large (23,000 Euro) and two smaller (7,000 Euro).