All That Is Wrong with Georg

The first year in high school is coming to an end. The class has been tuned, the roles have been appointed. Then Georg turns up, and there is a new ambience – of malice. And the malice is not directed at the new student. All That Is Wrong With Georg is another youth novel in unmistakable Hilde Hagerup style. The reader doesn’t stand a chance to escape.

Hilde Hagerup’s books have received great attention and recognition both nationally and internationally, and she has received a considerable amount of prizes for her youth novels.
Hilde Hagerup is one of our most uncompromising writers for young adults. She writes savagely, with a rawness of dialogue that some may find shocking, but is undeniably real. In other places she can be pure and poetic, and provide glittering detailed descriptions ...Hilde Hagerup drills into the uncomfortable and the evil, and that deserves respect. Just like one of her esteemed colleagues, Harald Rosenløw Eeg, she dares to explore characters who aren't exactly mother's favorite child. Although she tells her story with warmth, it is raw and uncomfortable, and readers cannot fail to be moved by it.
(Anne Cathrine Straume, NRK)

First published: 2010, Aschehoug Children and Young Adult
Hilde Hagerup: Biography and bibliography