Winje Agency

17/06/2024

Aslak Nore’s «The Sea Cemetery» came out in Italian on June 4th (Il cimitero del mare, tr. Giovanna Paterniti) and is raking in the rave reviews! Last week, Aslak toured four Italian cities to promote the book alongside his Italian publishers, Marsilio. 🇮🇹🇮🇹

Some reviews:

«Part family saga and part spy story, The Sea Cemetery is an ambitious book, and it is worth letting yourself be carried away by it.» -Internazionale

«Aslak Nore is reminiscent of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø, but he is definitely the freshest Nordic voice to which we can listen today.» -Francesco Mannoni, Il Mattino

«Aslak Nore is a real revelation.» -Francesca Visentin, Corriere del Veneto

«Thanks to his experience as a journalist and to his first-hand knowledge of the Middle East, Nore moves with skill in the hottest theatres of contemporary wars, just as he wanders confidently among the much more cramped offices of lawyers, managers and politicians in which he depicts the more or less legitimate plots devised by this or that actor in history to preserve power and wealth.» -Marco Ostoni, Corriere della Sera

Congratulations to all!

Read more about the book here: https://winjeagency.com/books/146-aslak-nore-the-sea-cemetery

NORLA

06/06/2024

Victoria Kielland and translator Elke Ranzinger have been shortlisted for Germany’s Internationaler Literaturpreis 2024 for "My Men" (Meine männer, Tropen Verlag)! 🇩🇪 The winner will be announced on July 5th.

From the jury’s statement:
"Victoria Kielland's book tells the story of a woman who is unable to close herself off from the world and, because of the intensity of her perception, not only destroys herself but also drags those around her down with her. ‘My Men‘ starts in 1876 in rural Norway with seventeen-year-old maid Brynhild, who is hopelessly in love with the heir of the farm, following the main character through this first catastrophe to emigration to the United States, and deeper and deeper into a vortex of destruction – which ultimately ends in a series of murders. Kielland radically draws us into the perspective of her protagonist, narrating entirely from her sometimes boundless, sometimes suffocatingly narrow inner world. Her frenzy becomes a linguistic storm—and Elke Ranzinger's translation plunges into it with full force, creating magic and melt, oppression and dizziness, pulling out all the stops from whispering to screaming."

About the prize: For the sixteenth time, the House of World Cultures (HKW) and the Elementarteilchen Foundation are awarding the International Literature Prize. This prize honors an outstanding work of contemporary international literature in its first German translation, recognizing both the original work and its translation. From the 132 submissions, the jury has selected six books for this year's shortlist.

Read more here: https://www.hkw.de/programme/internationaler-literaturpreis/meine-maenner-victoria-kielland-elke-ranzinger

Read more about the book (now sold to 16 languages!) on our website: https://winjeagency.com/books/144-victoria-kielland-my-men

Congratulations to Victoria, Elke, and publishers Tropen Verlag - and best of luck!

Photo: Elinor Lazar & Clara Molau / HKW

05/06/2024

Jon Fosse is in Milan! 🇮🇹 Tonight, he will be a guest at La Milanesiana. Ideata e diretta da Elisabetta Sgarbi, "a festival that aims to spread culture in all its forms, giving space to literature, music, cinema, science, art and philosophy," where he will give a reading, have a dialogue with award-winning Italian author Paolo Giordano, and be named an honorary citizen of Milan.

His latest book, "A Shining" (Un bagliore) also came out in Italian yesterday. Congratulations to publishers La nave di Teseo and translator Margherita Podesta!

Read more about the book (now sold to 22 languages!) here: https://winjeagency.com/books/159-jon-fosse-a-shining

29/04/2024

Jon Fosse’s most recent play, "Everyman" (Einkvan), premiered in Oslo last week, and reviewers agree: it’s among his best work to date.

Congratulations to Jon and to Det Norske Teatret on an incredible premiere!

Read more here: https://winjeagency.com/books/207-jon-fosse-everyman

25/04/2024

Happy English publication day for Aslak Nore’s "The Sea Cemetery" (MacLehose Press, tr. Deborah Dawkin)!

The first book in the Falck Saga, "The Sea Cemetery" is an award-winning bestseller that’s been sold to 17 markets. Part literary thriller, part sweeping family saga, the book is a dark and dramatic tale of secrets, betrayals and doomed love, drawing on the true story of one of Norway’s most devastating maritime disasters.

Read more about the book here: https://winjeagency.com/books/146-aslak-nore-the-cemetery-of-the-sea
Purchase the book here: https://www.maclehosepress.com/titles/aslak-nore/the-sea-cemetery/9781529424355/

24/04/2024

Victoria Kielland’s “My Men” came out in Italian (I miei uomini, Sellerio, tr. Andrea Romanzi) a few weeks ago to outstanding reviews. 🇮🇹🇮🇹

«Don’t expect a Nordic noir. Instead, brace yourself to delve into the depths of Belle’s psychoses, running breathlessly through anxieties, intrusive thoughts, repetitive gestures, and unexplained deaths [...]. «My Men» moves beneath Belle’s skin, within her guts. It’s written in the third person, but reads like a single monologue, almost like a prayer, a litany punctuated by repetitive gestures and recurring questions. Victoria Kielland’s writing is feverish, desperate. «My Men» is an extraordinary book.» - Il Libraio

Read more about the book here: https://winjeagency.com/books/144-victoria-kielland-my-men

23/04/2024

We are over the moon to announce the first of (hopefully) many sales of Jon Fosse’s wonderful children’s books! Italy’s Iperborea Casa Editrice, an independent publishing house focused on bringing the best Nordic literature to Italy, will be publishing "The Fiddler Girl", "Very Very Slowly", "Kant" and "Dark and Wet".

Editor Cristina Marasti is thrilled about the acquisition:
"Four timeless poetic gems that surely stand out from most nowadays children's literature. 'The Fiddler Girl' enchanted us with how it conveys the limitless power of art, imagination and childhood. 'Very Very Slowly' is so brilliant, a little moment in everyday's life that becomes such a big adventure, full of suspense and feeling - you can't help but identify with the little protagonist. And we are so fascinated by 'Dark and Wet' and 'Kant' dealing with our fears and our intellectual and imagination means to overcome them. We are honoured and excited to introduce these works of art to our little readers as well as to the Italian readers of all ages, and to welcome Jon Fosse among our authors."

Read more about the books:
The Fiddler Girl: https://winjeagency.com/books/76-jon-fosse-the-fiddler-girl
Kant: https://winjeagency.com/books/44-jon-fosse-kant
Dark and Wet: https://winjeagency.com/books/203-jon-fosse-dark-and-wet
Very Very Slowly: https://winjeagency.com/books/204-jon-fosse-very-very-slowly

17/04/2024

Aslak Nore’s “The Heirs of the Arctic” was published in France by Le bruit du monde last week (Les héritiers de l’Arctique, tr. Loup-Maëlle Besançon), and the first reviews are outstanding:

“With ‘The Heirs of the Arctic’, Aslak Nore confirms that he is indeed the new great voice of the Scandinavian thriller. No noir novelist has achieved such mastery since John le Carré.”
- Olivier Mony, Livres Hebdo

“Aslak Nore invites us on a wonderful contemporary odyssey, a novel between espionage, political history, and coming of age, between vertigo of the shadow and loyalty to oneself and to one’s family. [….] Nordic suspense takes on other colours and renews the genre thanks to an author who came from the cold but settled in Marseille. Remember the name: Aslak Nore.”
- Linda Pomereul, PAGE des libraires

“The Heirs of the Arctic” is the second instalment in the Falck saga after “The Sea Cemetery”, an award-winning bestseller that’s been sold to 17 markets. The paperback version of the first volume was published in France by Edition 10/18 in the beginning of April. It is also on the shortlist for esteemed Prix Relay, which guarantees wide distribution and visibility in French train stations and airports.

We're thrilled about your success, Aslak!

Read more: https://winjeagency.com/journal/french-success-and-more-for-aslak-nore

11/04/2024

German publication day for Aslak Nore's "The Sea Cemetery"! 🇩🇪

Congratulations to Aslak, publishers Kiepenheuer & Witsch, and translator Dagmar Lendt.

10/04/2024

It's been a busy few days at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, with wonderful meetings with publishers and agents from all over the world! Lots of exciting news to come... ✨

03/04/2024

Aslak Nore is having an exciting week! Book 1 in the Falck series, “The Sea Cemetery”, came out in German on Monday (“Meeresfriedhof”, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, tr. Dagmar Lendt) and Book 2, “The Arctic Heirs”, comes out in his adopted home country of France tomorrow (“Les héritiers de l'Arctique”, Le bruit du monde, tr. Loup-Maëlle Besançon).

…and the action doesn’t stop there; “The Sea Cemetery” will be launching in English on April 25th (MacLehose Press).

We’re over the moon that more and more readers are getting to experience Aslak’s thrilling series!

Read more about the books:
The Sea Cemetery: https://winjeagency.com/books/146-aslak-nore-the-cemetery-of-the-sea
The Arctic Heirs: https://winjeagency.com/books/170-aslak-nore-the-arctic-heirs

25/03/2024

A wonderful write-up in Publishing Perspectives about Fosse’s children’s books heading to the Bologna Children's Book Fair!

Children’s Book Rights: Jon Fosse’s Kids’ Books Go to Bologna | https://publishingperspectives.com/2024/03/childrens-book-rights-jon-fosses-kids-books-go-to-bologna/ | Jon Fosse’s sense for ‘what it’s like for a child to familiarize themselves with world.'