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Founded in 2005, we are proud to represent more than 200 authors from Gyldendal Norsk Forlag and the Kolon Imprint.

20/12/2023

Hurray! Alexander Kielland Krag’s upcoming YA novel, NEVER BETTER, has been sold to Gads Publishing in Denmark!

15/12/2023

2 book-deal for Ørjan Karlsson’s Arctic Noir series to Orenda Books/UK! Congratulations! 🥳

21/06/2023

Hurray! 🤩
Mari Kanstad Johnsen is awarded the Versele Prize!

The prestigious prize, Best Children’s book in the French language 2023 (age 7+), goes to Mari Kanstad Johnsen for the magical picture book "3-2-1" 👏

Quote from the jury:
"Her daring line emerges on each page in a profusion of details, an apparently out of place line, unexpected perspectives, characters with elastic shapes, original colors. An ultra-modern style to address consumerism, the relationship to money, rivalries, the meaning given to work, vacations."

We are so proud!

Translator: Catherine Renaud

21/06/2023

Sold to France in a two-book-deal to Mercure de France :
Kjersti Anfinnsen "The Last Signs of Love" and "Moments for Eternity"

Congratulations!🥳

Anfinnsen's books have previously been sold to Denmark, Serbia, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Iceland, Russia, India and Poland!

06/06/2023

What a wonderful review of the Swedish edition of Gunnhild Øyehaugs novel "Knots" in the Sweedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter:

«Few can draw the reader in and twist around perspectives like her. [...] A concise summary of the reading experience. You are spun around and sent away and lose control. Amazingly, you land with yourself afterwards. Slightly freer, and in a good mood. Possibly with a few knots fewer." Anna Hallberg, Dagens Nyheter

You can read the whole review here (in Swedish!):
https://www.dn.se/kultur/gunnhild-oyehaugs-novellsamling-ar-hisnande-och-uppfriskande/

Translator: Marie Lundquist
Sweedish publisher: Nirstedt/litteratur

02/06/2023

Look at this beautiful Polish cover for Monica Isakstuen’s novel BE KIND TO THE ANIMALS. To be out in Poland in September at Wydawnictwo Czarne👏

04/05/2023

Geir Tangens latest critically acclaimed crime novel "Dog Days" is sold to the fantastic Danish publisher Straarup & Co 🥳 Hurray!

It's a story about power and powerlessness in intimate relationships, about violence and manipulation, about what grinds us down and how even our humanity can be put at stake when the ground crumbles beneath our feet.

15/03/2023

Look what we got in the mail! The novel «Max, Mischa & The Tet Offensive» by Johan Harstad is now out in Croatian, congratulations to the author and to the publisher Naklada OceanMore 🎉

Translated by Anja Majnaric 👏🏼

09/03/2023

We are happy to announce that the thrilling, exciting and original children's novel "Noor and the Miniature", written by storytelling talent Julia Kahrs, has been sold to the Danish publisher Straarup & Co - even before the book was out in Norway!

Straarup publishing has since earlier also bought the rights to Julia Kahrs previous award winning novel "The Storm is Coming".
Congratulations to Julia!🥳

About "Noor and the Miniature":
On just another day, Noor discovers something pretty unusual in the cellar: a miniature version of herself! Why on earth has Noor got a miniature?

But perhaps this is precisely what she needs, because on top of her annoying classmates and huge amounts of homework, Noor has managed to sign up for the school’s Christmas show – not that she has a clue what she’s going to perform. And when circumstances surrounding the Christmas show turn unexpectedly shady and dangerous, having a sneaky miniature on your side turns out to be a good thing.

22/02/2023

We are thrilled to present this seasons selected titles from NORLA ! A great collection of fantastic books indeed 🎉

08/02/2023

We are amazed by the Ukrainian publishers ‘s continued work, in spite of extremely tough conditions. It makes us especially happy to see the fantastic Ukrainian edition of Chris Tvedt’s praised novel “Extenuating Circumstances” 🙌🏼🤩

02/02/2023

Our biggest congratulations to Mazdak Shafieian og Julia Kahrs for the nomination to The Norwegian Critics’ Prize 2022 for best adult fiction and best children's book 🤩🎉

Shafieians book "Shining Dead" is based on the author’s own experiences from the eight-year Iran-Iraq war as well as the changes that occurred in Iranian society in the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The book has gotten astonishing reviews.

Julia Kahrs "The Storm is Coming" is a wild, exciting and highly original story. The book was the Winner of the Brage Prize 2022 and nominated for both ARK’s Children’s Book Prize 2022 and “Boksluker-prisen” 2022. In addition, "The Storm is Coming" is one of eleven books that are being pitched at the international movie festival Berlinalen in february.

23/01/2023

We are so happy that Levi Henriksen's critically acclaimed novel "Twelve Words from Oskar Maier" is sold to the German publisher Alfred Kröner Verlag! 👏 An amazing book coming your way, Germany!
Translator: Gabriele Haefs
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Said about the book:
“Few can win over the reader with sentimentality like Henriksen can without it becoming awkward. So it is too in this complex and multifaceted novel about war and impossible love.”
Stavanger Aftenblad
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“ … A passionate love story and a sweet portrait of a mother … ”
Dagbladet

Levi Henriksen & Babylon Badlands/forfatter og musiker Alfred Kröner Verlag

21/12/2022

Look what we got just in time for Christmas: The Slovakian and Dutch editions of Ingvils Rishøis critically acclaimed story, "Stargate. A Christmas tale" 🎄
We are so happy that this wonderful book is reaching new readers in so many new countries. Congratulations to the publishers, Tatran and Koppernik, with beatiful new books. Merry christmas and happy reading!

Slovakian translator: Zuzana Bátarová Vahančíková
Dutch traslator: Liesbeth Huijer

15/12/2022

Great news! The world English rights to Tomas Espedals "Lust (An Author’s Autobiography)" have been sold to Seagul (India/UK/US) 🤩 Congratulations to the author and the publishers!

09/12/2022

Hurray! Zeshan Shakars critically acclaimed novel «They Call Me The Wolf» was recently sold to the Swedish publisher by pre-empt, and then also sold to after a tight Danish auction.

"This is fantastic," says Zeshan Shakar, who has just won the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize for the novel. "It's particularly cool to see that the story is also relevant outside of Norway, which is not a given."
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«They Call Me The Wolf» is a wise and moving examination of culture, history, family, identity and masculinity. It’s a novel about being a man from two countries, about having a mother from Finnmark and a father from Pakistan. It’s about being a parent, about the housing market, and about childhood. And it’s about survival and being hungry like a wolf.

22/11/2022

Zeshan Shakar awarded The Bookseller’s Prize 2022!

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The critically acclaimed novel «They Call Me The Wolf» is a wise and moving examination of culture, history, family, identity and masculinity. It’s a novel about being a man from two countries, about having a mother from Finnmark and a father from Pakistan. It’s about being a parent, about the housing market, and about childhood. And it’s about survival and being hungry like a wolf.

07/11/2022

has been nominated to the Norwegian Bookseller Prize! Congratulations with the nominativ and an amazing book 👏🏼

«They Call Me The Wolf» is a wise and moving examination of culture, history, family, identity and masculinity. It’s a novel about being a man from two countries, about having a mother from Finnmark and a father from Pakistan. It’s about being a parent, about the housing market, and about childhood. And it’s about survival and being hungry like a wolf.

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Read more about the book and the author here: https://agency.gyldendal.no/fiction/novels/they-call-me-the-wolf/p-10031652-en/

02/11/2022

This autumn one of our wonderful authors, has been nominated to no less than three prestigious children’s book prizes for her newest novel «The storm is coming»! 🎊
It’s a wild, exciting and highly original story. The book is nominated for:
🌟The Brage prize 2022
🌟ARKs Children’s Book Prize 2022
🌟«Boksluker-prisen» 2022

We hope that this is only the beginning 🤩

About the book:

Gørja seems to be a completely ordinary place, with a school, a shop and a kiosk. But there are also secrets in Gørja that the adults cannot – or will not – explain. There have been two child disappearances from Gørja, and both times a storm raged through the streets and the forest, and across the lake and the sky. Now a new storm is brewing – and Sam’s family has only just moved here.

20/10/2022

Swipe and take a look at the finished Korean edition of s book «I Live a Life Like Yours»!! 🤩

13/10/2022

The German edition of Ingvild H. Rishøis critically acclaimed novel «A Christmas tale» is ready! Just in time for Christmas 🎄(It might be a bit early, but never the less) We wish the publishers and the German readers happy holidays with this beautiful Weinachtsgeschichte!

Translator: Daniela Syczek

The book is also sold to:
Sweeden, Denmark, Russia, Spain, France, Netherland and Slovakia

07/09/2022

Tarjei Vesaas is one of the most important Nordic writers in the 20tht century. .kleinheinrich Verlag has created three fantastic German editions of “Båten om kvelden” (1968), selected short stories from “Noveller i samling” (1964) and selected poems from “Dikt i samling” (1997). In addition to the wonderful covers, the books include beautiful art from Olav Christoffer Jenssen. We are so happy for what the publishers are doing for Vesaas in Germany 🌟

Translated from Norwegian to German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel

Cover, «Nimm meine Hand»: the rubicon painting no. 03
Cover, «Boot am Abend»: the rubicon painting no. 05
Cover, «Der wilde Reiter»: the rubicon painting no. 04

31/08/2022

✨ NORLA has selected three titles from Gyldendal as this autumn's focus titles! We are so happy to present these amazing books:
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One’s Own Children by Trude Marstein. A novel about ambitions and disappointments, pretensions and revelations. About our search for belonging and meaning, for intoxication and transgression. About children and the power one has – and doesn’t have – over them; about responsibility and a longing for freedom. And about the joy and love that arrives in flashes, almost at random.
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Trying and Failing by Jan Grue. A novel about an almost completely normal couple. Like all parents of young children, Magne and Hannah have their challenges, but with Magne in a wheelchair even a trip to the beach at Huk turns into a gruelling odyssey. In spite of his master’s degree in literary science, Magne has a poorly paid job as a hotel receptionist. But with his visible disability, he is at least a welcome expression of the hotel chain’s benevolence and its diversity policy.
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Vilde’s Drawer by Nina Anderson Sjødal. How do you hide the fact that everything’s wrong at home from your best friend? Is it possible to avoid telling the truth to the person who knows you best?
Vilde’s Drawer is a warm, charming children’s book about friendship, lies and things that are difficult to talk about.

You can read more about these and our other titles at https://agency.gyldendal.no/

30/08/2022

It’s fantastic to see our books thrive abroad! We are so proud for instance of the amazing job the Danish publishers has done with these fantastic books from Tarjei Vesaas 🤩 All three titles have received wonderful reviews 🙌🏼

The books are translated by Jannie Jensen and Arild Batzer.

22/08/2022

Take a look at the amazing German cover of «Uviglslet jord», by 🤩 The lucky German publishers of this fantastic crime fiction is , congratulations!

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Translator: Maike Dörries and Günther Frauenlob

15/08/2022

We are so happy for and his fantastic book «The Hour of the Woolf» that’s been sold to the Danish publisher 🙌🏼 Hurray! Danish readers can look forward to spring 2023 🥳

02/06/2022

Take a look at the German edition of Mari Kanstad Johnsens "3 2 1"! 🤩 Congratulations to the German publisher Beltz & Gelberg with a beautiful book 🥳👏

Translator: Friederike Burhinger

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02/05/2022

Look at this awesome Italian cover for Geir Tangens critically acclaimed crime novel "Vargtimen"! The book will be available in Italian on june 22th, published by the historic Florentine publishing company Giunti Editore 👏

27/04/2022

Wow! The Arab rights to "Huset med den blinde glassveranda", by wonderful author Herbjørg Wassmo is sold to Egypt! Mahrousa Center for Publishing are the lucky publishers. This is the first time Wassmo is translated into Arabic!

20/04/2022

Wuhu! We are so proud that the winner of Tarjei Vesaas’ Debutant Prize, Look your last on all things lovely, has been sold to Denmark, to TURBINE forlaget ! Congratulations to the amazing author Kristin Vego :)

The women in Look Your Last on All Things Lovely all encounter something unknown, a side of life that they have never seen before. These nine short stories deal with desire and loneliness, loss and forgiveness, but also the beauty that comes to light in glimpses, the sacred and the ordinary that manifests itself in life’s coincidences.

You kan read more about the book here: https://agency.gyldendal.no/fiction/short-stories/look-your-last-on-all-things-lovely/p-10027437-en/

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Arne Svingens "Extraordinary Edgar" is one of NORLAs Selected Spring Titles 2022! It's a book about big courage, unique friendships, and having an extra chromosome. Edgar isn’t like everyone else. But if everyone was the same, people would die of boredom and go extinct. Edgar’s convinced of that. So he would much rather have Downs. Imagine if it was possible to turn everything on its head? To do something that nobody else has ever done before? This is the authors presentation.

NORLAs Selected Spring Titles 2022 are here, and among them are Kjersti Anfinnsens short stories "The Last Signs of Love" & "Moments for Eternity"! This is the author's presentation. "The Last Signs of Love" was awarded the “Havmann” Prize 2020, and "Moments for Eternity" is nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) 2022.

We are so happy that Ingvild H. Rishøis amazing magical realistic novel STARGATE is getting so much positive feedback in Sweden! 👏👏👏👏 Translator: Marie Lundquist Cover design: @jacobsonmartin Form: Nils Sundberg och David Andréas Video: @floforlag #ingvildhrishøi #stargateenjulberättelse #stargate

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