Dag Solstad’s novel SHYNESS AND DIGNITY is nominated to the prestigious FEMINA prize in France. The winner will be announced on November 3rd.

Carl Frode Tiller has won the prestigious Hunger Prize. The prize is given every year to a young writer who has already succeeded in creating an eminent body of work.

Kurt Aust's mystery novel The Invisible Brothers was launched in Denmark in June, and has been very well received by reviewers.

Per Petterson's novel To Siberia , which will be launched in the U.S. by Graywolf in October, has earned a starred review in Publisher's Weekly.

Per Petterson is number one on LA Times Bestsellers (paperback) – and has climbed to #19 on NY Times Best Seller List.

Endre Lund Eriksen has been awarded the UPrisen award for his book Pitbull-Terje Turns Evil.

After having been launched by Picador earlier this month, Per Petterson's prize-winning novel OUT STEALING HORSES is now stealing places in several best seller lists in the United States.

Bjørn Sortland's novel Moment of Honesty is nominated to the most prestigious German literary award for young adults fiction, Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. The book is published by Hanser Verlag in Germany. Sortland won the same prize in 1996 for the book "Red, Blue and a little bit of Yellow". Jostein Gaarder received the same prize in 1994 for "Sophie’s World".

Per Petterson’s critically acclaimed novel Out Stealing Horses is nominated to the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Petterson is one of five finalists for the prestigious prize which will be awarded Friday April 25, 2008.

Carl Frode Tiller, who was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize for Best Norwegian Novel 2007 for his book Entanglement, is now nominated to the 2008 Nordic Council's Literary Prize. This is the author's third book, and foreign rights have so far been sold to Denmark (Athene) and France (Stock).

“An authorship that holds on to, and continues to think further, concerning issues of language and literature, of possibilities and restrictions, of meaning and meaninglessness, thus maintaining that literature is not disconnected from life”
From the jury’s grounds