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Arne Lygre and Kjersti Vik win prizes
13/01/2010Novelist and playwright Arne Lygre has won the Mads Wiel Nygaard Endowment for 2009. Kjersti Vik has won the Aschehoug Debutant Grant 2009.
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Yet another win for Knausgård
15/01/2010My Struggle - First Book has been awarded the 2010 P2 Listeners' Prize. This is the first time ever that an author has received this prize twice; Karl Ove Knausgård also won for A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven (2004). This is the third prize for Knausgård's ambitious six-novel project.
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Three of our authors nominated for the 2009 Critics' Prize
05/02/2010Karl Ove Knausgård's MY STRUGGLE - FIRST BOOK and Ingrid Storholmen's CHERNOBYL STORIES are both nominated in the category Best Adult Fiction, whereas Endre Lund Eriksen's SUPER is among the nominees for the Best Book for Children and Young Adults.
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Rune Christiansen wins The Riksmål Society’s Literary Prize
03/12/2009Christiansen is awarded the prize for his latest, critically praised novel CHRYSANTEMUM.
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Ark Childrens’ Book Prize to Bjørn Sortland
04/12/2009Sortland wins the prize for THE BERGEN MYSTERY, the 10th installment of his increasingly popular Art Detective series.
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Knausgård nominated for the 2010 Nordic Council's Literary Prize
01/12/2009Little more than a week after winning the prestigious Brage Prize, Karl Ove Knausgård has been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize for his novel My Struggle - First Book.
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Per Petterson’s OUT STEALING HORSES named best book of the decade by Norway largest newspaper
27/11/2009Dag Solstad, Carl Frode Tiller, Karl Ove Knausgård and Anne B. Ragde also make the top 10 of VG's prestigious list.
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Karl Ove Knausgård wins Brage award!
20/11/2009Knausgård won the prize for best work of fiction for My Struggle - First Book. The Brage award is the biggest and most prestigious Norwegian book award.
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Out Stealing Horses ranked one of the 100 best books the last decade
20/11/2009On the prestigous British newspaper Times' list of the 100 best books the last decade, Per Petterson's critically acclaimed and prize winning novel Out Stealing Horses is ranked as # 68.
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Knausgård longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC Award
20/11/2009Karl Ove Knausgård's acclaimed novel A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, published by Portobello in the UK last year, has been longlisted for the prestigious 2010 IMPAC Award.
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Karl Ove Knausgård nominated for three awards
03/11/2009Karl Ove Knausgård's acclaimed novel My Struggle - First Book has been nominated for both the 2009 Brage award and the 2009 Booksellers' Prize.
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Four of our authors nominated for Brage awards
02/11/2009The Brage award is the biggest and most prestigious Norwegian book award. In addition to Karl Ove Knausgård's nomination for My Struggle – First Book in the category best work of fiction, Ingrid Storholmen is nominated for Chernobyl Stories. In the category best children’s book, Bjørn Sortland and Hilde Kramer are nominated for What the Heart Remembers. In the category best work of non-fiction, Helge Ryggvik is nominated for To the Last Drop. The Political Economy of Oil.
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Skomsvold nominated for Booksellers' Prize
30/10/2009Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold's literary debut The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am has been nominated for the Booksellers' Prize, one of the most prestigious Norwegian literary prizes. Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle - First Book is also one of the nominees.
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I Curse the River of Time #1 on German SWR's Best Read List
30/09/2009Per Petterson's I Curse the River of Time is number one on Südwestrundfunk's renowned "Bestenliste" for October, where literary critics list the books they want German readers to be aware of.
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Rave reviews for Karl Ove Knausgård
22/09/2009Knausgård’s hugely anticipated third novel, My Struggle - First Book, has received excellent reviews by the Norwegian press. The first of a total of six novels, it examines the writer Karl Ove Knausgård’s struggle to master life, himself and his own literary ambitions.
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Literary prize for Kjersti Ericsson
22/09/2009Kjersti Ericsson has received the Unified Language Prize 2009 for her writing. The prize is awarded annually to a writer who has created excellent literary works using a popular, radical bokmål Norwegian.
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Carl Frode Tiller awarded the first EU Prize for Literature
01/09/2009The prize is given to young talented European writers and aims to “put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature, to promote more circulation of literature within Europe and encourage greater interest in non-national literary works”.
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Inger Bråtveit receives the Bjørnson Grant
01/09/2009The grant, founded by the Booksellers’ Association, The Norwegian Writer’s Union and the Bjørnson Festival, is given to an emerging writer of great promise.
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