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PICTURE BOOK // AGE 6–9
MIDDLE GRADE // YOUNG ADULT
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
48 pages
A story about finding one’s place in the world and taking destiny in one’s cloven hooves.
It’s not easy to be a little reindeer on a huge mountain plateau, when all you want to do is to go to a palm beach and eat ice cream. Because reindeer can’t fly, exactly. Well, Rudolph can! And if he knows how, it must be possible to learn it, surely? The little reindeer seeks out the owl, who knows a thing or two about flying. The stage is set for a crash course.
Ragnar Albu (b. 1966) is a Norwegian illustrator and picture book author. He made his debut with Cow Focus in 2004, receiving the Department of Culture Debutant Prize. His books have received Department of Culture prizes thrice – The Picture Book Prize (2018), the Prize for Educational Works (with Stein Erik Lunde, 2015), and the aforementioned Debutant Prize. He has been nominated another three times.
Augusta wants to celebrate her birthday, but Mum says they can’t afford it.
Augusta’s not getting a big birthday party, because that is too expensive, Mum says. Will it be a proper birthday then?
Augusta still makes invitations. They turn out really nice! She folds them like paper planes. And paper planes can’t stay still, can they? They must fly!
A heartwarming picture book about having less money than others, but also about being surrounded by good people.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
56 pages
Annette Saugestad Helland (b. 1975) is a visual artist, illustrator and animator. She was trained at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and Konstfack in Stockholm. She has made numerous animated films and has worked in the animation industry for many years. Helland pursued Author Studies at the Norwegian Institute of Children’s Books, and has published several books for children.
Maren and Mum wake up in the big bed. They’ve got plenty of time, Maren has decided.
But all of a sudden, they have to hurry, and Mum’s voice is full of rushing. How can Maren fix time, to make it good again? Maybe she must do something she’s not allowed to?
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
48 pages
Anne Aanesen Randøy (b. 1963) lives in Kristiansand with a view to the Oksøy lighthouse. Randøy is a kindergarten teacher and special needs teacher by education and works as a pedagogue in Lindtjønn FUS kindergarten. In 2023, she makes her literary debut with the picture book Plenty of Time.
Hilde Hodnefjeld (b. 1966) was educated in graphic design and illustration at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Oslo, majoring in drawing. She works as an illustrator and as part of the Illustratørene collective in Oslo, and has illustrated a number of books for children.
Archimedes and Eureka need to stop an orange peeler gone wild.
Eureka loves oranges! But her dad is sick of peeling them and would prefer to spend his time on new inventions.
To get some peace, he invents an orange peeler to help Eureka. But he forgets to invent the off-button, and the peeler wants to peel EVERYTHING!
Can Eureka and Archimedes stop the orange peeler before it peels the whole neighbourhood?
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
56 pages
Hans Sande debuted in 1969 with the poetry collection Strime, for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas Debutant Prize. Writing chiefly in a stylish New Norwegian, his authorship is distinctive, wide-ranging and trailblazing – and has plenty of high points. Sande has been the recipient of many awards for his books, and he has been translated into multiple languages. He is a medical graduate and is a specialist in psychiatry alongside his work as an author. Sande was born in Bergen in 1946. He lives in Kvinnherad.
Marianne Gretteberg Engedahl (b. 1986), also known as Skinkeape, is a writer, illustrator and chef. In recent years she has caught the attention of critics and prize juries.
Charming new book about Leo!
Imagine if Leo was a lion! Then he could go hunting at his neighbour’s house and growl at his older sister. Really loudly! But are people scared of lions?
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
40 pages
Arne Svingen (b. 1967) is one of our foremost writers for children and young adults. His production spans from easy reads for children, to novels for children and young adults.
The author had his international breakthrough with The Ballad of a
In addition to critically acclaimed novels, Svingen is the creator of several popular series, including the horror-themed Svingen’s Dark World, the humorous Svingen’s Mad World, and his books about Hubert. His first stories about the young secret agent Elvin Griff arrived in 2019.
Tiril Valeur
Tiril Valeur (b. 1975) is a writer, illustrator and graphic designer. She lives in Kristiansand.
Jenny Jordahl (b. 1989) is a designer, illustrator and cartoonist. She is a graduate of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Jenny won the Brage Prize in the category Best Children and Young People’s Book in 2020.
Wilma is going to walk home alone for the very first time. It’s not far at all, just past the playground and football pitch, then through the park. But it’s not that simple to walk straight home, because there’s so much excitement along the way. Is there any glittering treasure behind the tree? And might there be some gold coins in that mysterious black bag? And what do pigeons actually eat? Wilma has promised her mum that she’ll go straight home, but she just HAS to investigate!
Emma Gullberg, born and raised in Sweden, has lived in Oslo since 2009. For several years, she worked as a user-controlled personal assistant, but has since switched fields and is now responsible for EHS, quality systems and personnel systems in an electrical company. She has always been interested in writing, an interest she has used in her genealogical research. The first book in the Wilma Whirlwind series marks her debut as an author of children’s literature.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
48 pages
Lise
Lise Osvoll (b. 1979) is an illustrator, children’s book author and award-winning animation film director. She has made a number of feature films and TV series for children.
Lush, charming picture book story!
Mieko loves to dance! Especially when she can wear shorts and a T-shirt instead of those stupid tights and that uncomfortable leotard. Mieko has never spun so fast or jumped so high before! And now Sofia with the smile has started dancing too – that smile that makes Mieko melt inside, that makes it even nicer to be there.
But why has Mieko been put in the jump group? They’re all boys!
«A fresh take on expanding the category of girlhood […] In the drawings from dance practice, illustrator Skinkeape shows a wonderful variety of kids. Despite the simple lines, the figures’ expressions are nuanced, underlining the fact that all personalities are unique. »
-Aftenposten
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
48 pages
Foreign Sales:
Germany, Limbion Books
Spain, Alba Editorial (Spanish and Catalan)
Mariko Miyata-Jancey (b. 1989) is a dancer and choreographer, and has extensive experience with teaching and performances aimed at children and young people, as well as being very familiar with the target group as an educator.
Marianne Gretteberg Engedahl (b. 1986), also known as Skinkeape, is a writer, illustrator and chef. In recent years she has caught the attention of critics and prize juries.
Picture book about the questions, big and small, that can come up at bedtime.
What’s that, shining in the sky? What’s a star? Where does everything go when it’s dark? The Horse keeps asking and asking. Karin has to tell him all about the lights and the orchestra in the sky and why night-time comes – because the Horse is just a horse who doesn’t know a lot of stuff, so you can’t just lie down and go to sleep.
«This is like Betty Botter’s better butter for the tongue, which appeals, of course, to the young.»
- Klassekampen«Karin and the Darkness is a poetic and melodic exploration of children’s great imagination. The author puts the idea of darkness as something frightening for kids aside and instead encourages wonder without caring much about finding answers. This makes the book a lovely little good night story within a good night story.»
- PeriskopJanne-Camilla Lyster (b. 1981) has published eight poetry collections and two novels. Lyster is a dancer and choreographer trained at the Ballet Academy at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Karin and the Darkness is her first book for children.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
32 pages
Annette Saugestad Helland (b. 1975) is a visual artist, illustrator and animator. She was trained at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and Konstfack in Stockholm. She has made numerous animated films and has worked in the animation industry for many years.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
48 pages
A love letter to books. And to the library.
A small boy is in the library with his mum after hours. This is possible when dad is a librarian. When the library is empty and almost all the lights are out, stories reveal themselves, both those between book covers and those from when mum was little. And imagine: a new story waits in every single book! For the little boy, these evening visits to the library is the best part of the week. Tonight, we get to join him.
Max Estes (b. 1977) is born and bred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is now residing in Fredrikstad. Since his debut in 2005, he has published almost 30 books. The picture book The rainy day (Ena publishing, 2022) earned him a nomination to The Picture Book Prize (The Department of Culture Prizes for Cildren’s and Young People’s Literature, 2023). He has also received several prizes in the Grafill Most Beautiful Books of the Year Awards and the Visuelt competition, as well as the prize Ordknappen (by Leser søker bok) for his wordless comic The Flood (Cappelen Damm, 2019).
Can Ellinor tell others about her mother? Or is it a secret?
Just mother and Ellinor live together. They make sushi and drink cocoa with chili and draw anything they like.
Mother is the most beautiful person Ellinor knows. But sometimes mother gets sad and lies on the sofa all day.
Can Ellinor tell others about it? Or is it a secret?
A warm picture book about togetherness, starfish and the desire to do the right thing.
Ingrid Z. Aanestad (b. 1983)
She made her debut in 2006 with the novel I dag er ein fin dag and has since published several novels and essays. Just Mother and Ellinor is her first children’s book.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
88 pages
Sunniva Sunde Krogseth (b. 1987) She debuted in 2020 with Naturinnstruksjoner (Nature Instructions), a poetic picture book for adults. Nature is a recurring theme in her work. Just Mother and Ellinor is her second children’s book.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
128 pages
The Crypto Series is sold to:
Denmark, Gads Forlag
Sweden, Nypon/Vilja
Netherlands, De Vier Windstreken
Spain, Edebé
Catalonia, Edebé
France, Jungle – Steinkis Group
Germany, Loewe Verlag GmbH
Macedonia, Feniks
Faroe Islands, Bókadeild Føroya lærarafelags
The fishermen in Saltvik believe that Little Krako is a danger and want to get rid of him. But Ophelia doesn’t think that it’s Little Krako who is destroying the boats in the harbour. There has to be something else in the water – a bigger monster. Ophelia dives beneath the surface, where she sees piles of trash and an oil spill! Will Ophelia be able to convince the people in Saltvik that the monsters aren’t dangerous, but hungry? First, she has to make it back to Saltvik in one piece, because her voyage underwater is riskier than it’s ever been before. And what about the sea monster Ophelia has to deal with? She has closer ties to it than she first thinks.
Hans Jørgen Sandnes (b. 1979) is an illustrator, animator and cartoonist. Together with Jørn Lier Horst he created the Detective Agency No. 2 books, which is Norway’s best-selling children’s universe in book form with a print run of over 1.7 million.
Hans Jørgen has illustrated classics such as Alf Prøysen’s Circus Mikkelikski and Anne-Cath.
Vestly’s books The Big Book about Granny and the Eight Children and Twiglet
In the spring of 2020, Hans Jørgen Sandnes debuted as author-cartoonist with Into The Deep, the first book in the Crypto series.
Hans Jørgen’s illustrations have been published in over 20 countries.
Crypto 1: Into the Deep
Ophelia moves to Salt Cove to live with her foster family, the Birkens, and gets to know local fisherman Bernard. Both have seen traces of sea monsters, and together they discover the sea monster Krako and a missing boy! They rescue the boy, but Krako gets captured by the boss of the town’s aquarium.
Crypto 2: The Hurricane
The aquarium is closed because of a hurricane warning, so Ophelia and Bernard free Krako from captivity in a dramatic and perilous rescue operation. When another monster rescues Ophelia from the sea, it becomes clear that she has a very special connection to the sea monsters. Are they really dangerous, or is it people that are making them feel unsafe?
Crypto 3: Open Ocean
Dalis steals Ophelia’s book on cryptozoology. Ophelia and Bernard pursue her out to sea and discover that Dalis is working for a secret organisation – Crypto. Dalis is badly injured in a dramatic encounter with a new sea monster, and along with Dalis, Bernard and Ophelia head for Fingal’s Island, where Crypto has its headquarters. They discover that the organisation isn’t hunting the sea monsters, but is working to protect them and keep them in hiding.
To Ophelia, the organisation on Fingal’s Island feels strangely familiar. She explores the island on her own, and when she encounters a dangerous swarm of sea monsters, she discovers that she can sing the crypto-siren songs, can understand strange cryptosymbols, and can tame sea monsters. It turns out that her biological father has a connection to Crypto. Is it right for the organisation to keep its knowledge of the sea monsters a secret?
Ophelia and Bernard join Dalis on an expedition to the Arctic, in hot pursuit are the aquarium manager and some American businessmen who want to cash in on the sea monsters. Ophelia comes across traces of her father and realises that he was trying to expose Crypto. He believed that if only humans knew about the sea monsters, we would also be considerate of them. During the expedition, Ophelia is put in great danger, and the aquarium manager realises that he has to abandon his business plans.
Crypto is a series that will consist of ten books dealing with the protection of animals and the environment. How can we protect and save things that for most people are unfamiliar and scary?
Empirix.no
«When Crypto is read like an interconnected story, it offers thrills, drama, conflict and sea monsters, and Ophelia makes for a heroine that one easily roots for.”
New book in the bonkers and gloriously absurd series Svingen’s Mad World!
The moment Norman begins at the new school, he meets Bjørn, who is of the opinion that the most normal thing is to have no more than one friend. What? Just one friend? It’s time for the wildest friendship test ever!
This is the 15th book in the series.
Publisher: GyldendalPublication year: 2023
64 pages
Arne Svingen (b. 1967) is one of our most popular authors and has written over 100 books. His work ranges from children’s books to novels for young people and adults. He has been awarded a number of prizes for his books, including the Brage Prize, the Ministry of Culture’s Literature Prize, ARK’s Children’s Book Prize and the Bookworm Prize. Svingen’s novels have been translated into 25 languages, including Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Korean and English.
Henry Bronken (b. 1975) is a Norwegian cartoonist. His first comic was published in the Norwegian anthology Forresten in 2001 and he has published several comic books since.
Elli finds an injured bird on the roof. There are no trees for it to live in, because in the city, everything is gray. How can she help the bird? None of the grown ups want to listen, so who can help Elli out?
From garbage and metal scraps she builds an accomplice: The robot Enter. He’s got plenty of silly and clever functions, and together, they hatch a plan to bring the nature back to the city.
This is the first book in a new series for 6-9-year-olds. In the series, we join Elli and her robot friend Enter on their adventure in a big city where nothing grows, the temperatures are too high to cultivate food, and the oceans are full of plastic. But Elli and Enter have a plan! An exciting and engaging tale of two friends who decide to take on climate change by themselves.
Vaar Bothner (b. 1991) grew up in Kragerø and lives in Oslo.
She has a degree in landscape architecture from NMBU and UC Berkeley and works with urban development in Oslo. She is passionate about all life in the city – humans, animals, and vegetation – and is particularly interested in the ways our cities must be adapted to our changing climate.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
112 pages
Bendik Skotland (b. 1991) is raised in Oslo. He holds a bachelor’s degree in visual communication from the Royal Danish Academy for Design and works as a digital designer. In addition to his job as a designer, Bendik has a passion for illustration. He has worked freelance with design and animation for Gyldendal and DSB, amongst others, as well as for a number of journals. His style is playful, highlighting characters and details.
Elli and Enter and the Great Plant Plan is the first children’s book he has illustrated.
A factual story about a favourite animal.
In this book, we meet an animal that most kids know about, but few actually meet. We follow a red fox from birth and through its first year. With the fox cub as company, we learn about where foxes live, what they eat, and how they hunt.
This is a great book to read out loud for kids aged four to eight, or for school kids to read on their own. In addition to the story, which is full of facts, there is also a big, detailed spread at the end of the book where the facts are presented in a more concise manner.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
40 pages
Synnøve Borge (b. 1960) has a degree in pedagogics and has studied creative writing for children at Norsk Barnebokinstitutt, where she specialized in documentary texts. She writes about animals by zooming in on one individual, following it closely for a year or part of a life – as a kind of unauthorized biography. Through a prose that opens up for all that is perceptable in nature, she aims for her books to create meetings between nature and children.
Nora Brech (b. 1988) is a Norwegian illustrator and children’s book author who has made several picture books. Nora Brech has previously illustrated Forest of Wolves (2019) and was nominated for the Brage Prize 2019 for her illustrations in Buffy By is Gifted.
The best striker in the world is from Norway!
People all over the globe has heard about the lightning fast and super strong guy from Bryne, who whacks in more goals than anyone with his famous left foot. A man who entertains the entire world of soccer with his crazy hat tricks and hilarious outside-the-field shenanigans. Did you know, for instance, that he sleeps with five balls he’s scored hat trick with and calls them his «girlfriends»?
This is the book about Haaland’s journey from Jærhallen to Wembley Stadium, peppered with fun facts, quizzes, and photos. This book tells the entire story of the golden season 2022/23, when Haaland cemented his position in soccer history by breaking an unbelievable number of records.
An inspiring and exciting read for kids who like soccer everywhere!
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
88 pages
Hans Olav Brenner (b. 1978) is a television presenter, cultural journalist, actor and author. Brenner is especially well known as a TV presenter, including for Bokprogrammet, Diktafon, Brenner – historier fra vårt land, Brenner og bøkene and Brenners bokhylle. He won the Gullruten award for best male presenter in 2008 for Bokprogrammet, and was nominated for the Gullruten award for best male presenter three times (2012, 2013 and 2014) for Brenner – historier fra vårt land. In 2011 he published Om å skrive, a conversational book in which Brenner talks to various Norwegian writers about writing.
Heidi Marie Vestrheim
Jenny and Signe are neighbours, best friends AND they’re playing a concert together at this year’s summer festival in the village. This is going to be the best summer ever!
But the news arrive with a bang just before the summer holidays start: Signe is moving – far, far away. Jenny is devastated. What’s going to happen with the band and the concert now? And what happened about being the bestest best friends in the whole wide world? Can you really be best friends with someone who lives miles away?
One day, someone moves into Signe’s house! Someone with a rock’n’roll hairdo, tight pants and a drum kit in the basement. Someone who’s irritatingly cool, who makes yummy smoothies and makes Jenny’s head spin. Someone called Sara, who’s moved all the way from Oslo.
This is going to be the worst summer ever…or is it?
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
208 pages
Heidi Marie Vestrheim
«There’s potential here for a best seller.»
Periskop
«I think this is the best book I’ve ever read […] I hope there will be more books about Jenny Fender!»
Sigrid, 11 years old
Heidi Marie Vestrheim (b. 1977) comes from Øystese and lives in Oslo. She is a TV and radio presenter, musician, songwriter and author.
Vestrheim has a two-year authorship course at the Norwegian Children’s Book Institute. Jenny Fender is her first children’s book.
A story about those who have passed away –and then return to take revenge.
Adam travels to an abandoned fishing village with his family. He pays a visit to his grandmother, who has dementia and only talks nonsense about those who died at sea.
Then his little sister Mia begins playing with a new imaginary friend. But when the game turns dangerous, Adam realises that something mysterious is afoot. Is there anything in what Grandma is saying – that they’re in danger? And that those who died at sea, those who were never buried … have come back?
Draug is a ghost story, a tale about those who have passed away – and then return to take revenge.
Publication year: 2023
224 pages
Christoffer Lamøy (b. 1991) comes from Harstad and lives in Oslo. He works as a pharmacist and holds a master’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Oslo. In 2016 he won the publisher LIV’s short story competition.
For as long as he can remember, he has indulged in films and books in the horror genre. His dream is to write a story that scares the life out of his readers.
Julia Kahrs
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
192 pages
Foreign Sales: Denmark, Staarup & Co
Julia Kahrs!
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?
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.
«Charmingly spirited […] Noor and the miniature hits all the marks when it comes to charm. The narrative liveliness is kept up through the entire book, and makes sure we’re all set for more stories about the cutie pie Noor and her miniature partner-in-crime Oor.»
Dagbladet
«...enthralling and charming [...] Noor and the miniature is entertaining and well-written, full of humor and well-paced, and it’s easy to like Noor and Oor.»
Barnebokkritikk.no
Julia Kahrs (b. 1985) is one of our most original children’s book authors. Kahrs made her debut with the adventure novel The Silver Foxes in 2009. Since then, she has written several novels for the intermediate level, where she is not afraid to enter the absurd and grotesque. Her books are often described as unpredictable, magical-realistic and wild.
Kahrs had her big breakthrough with The Storm is Coming in 2022, for which she received the Brage Prize and the Norwegian Critics’ Prize.
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.
A wild, exciting and highly original story from Julia Kahrs.
Winner of the Brage Prize 2022
Winner of the “Boksluker-prisen” 2022
Winner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize 2022
Nominated for Ark’s Children’s Book Prize 2022
«The novel is well composed, the language rushes along, and the whole thing is driven forward by adventures and surprises [...].
What is the novel about? About belonging. Hidden truths. Finding out who you are. Love. All the important things, wrapped up in a wild and sensuous package.»
From the jury statement, the Brage Prize
«This family is so strange and different that the novel becomes completely unpredictable and incredibly fun to read. It’s also exciting, since the storm is approaching and some children usually disappear with it. The book is full of absurd situations and laconic comments — this isn’t a book to leave behind half-read at the cabin. A crystal-clear 6 out of 6!»
Publisher: Gyldendal
Illustrator: Sunniva Sunde Krogseth
Publication year: 2022
256 pages
Foreign sales:
Denmark, Straarup & Co. The Netherlands, útjouwerij
DeRyp, (Frisian language)
Germany, Oetinger
«Wildness and mystery from one of our most original children’s novelists.»
Periskop.no
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
192 pages
“Tell us about what happened at the party yesterday,” the investigator says, and I breathe in, not knowing where to begin, thinking about my mum. Then I finally open my mouth to explain.
Yousef’s life is centred around rules – at home, at school, and among his group of friends. But he’s a constant letdown to his mum, the child protection service has already got a foot in the door, and among his mates, Yousef is well on his way to becoming an outsider.
But Yousef believes he can fix all this. Until a party in Stovner changes everything.
«In On One Condition, Alaei explores a relation with no obvious solution. This makes the novel even more interesting. What constitutes an unbearable day-to-day reality? What help is there to be had? […] Especially the dialogue is written in a language that young people growing up in places like Stovner will feel at home in.»
Aftenposten
«Alaei is exceptionally skillful at telling an engaging story. In addition to this, she masterfully balances outward brazenness and inward vulnerability, by showing rather than telling.”
KlassekampenNeda Alaei (b. 1991) grew up in Moss and lives in Oslo. She graduated in Writing Studies from the Norwegian Institute of Children’s Books in 2017. She is a trained child welfare officer and her day job is as a milieu therapist working with young people.
This Isn’t Us was her first novel, for which she received the Ministry of Culture’s Debutant Award, the Book Blogger Award and the U Prize.
If I tell the truth, then everything is gonna be alright. That’s the condition, right?
The inn called “The Buxum Nixie” is found at the crossroads between all worlds. Here, knights, monsters, zombies, pirates and all sorts of peoples and critters come to enjoy a hot meal.
Behind the counter, we find the swamp kids Lok, Knis and Nøste, who would way prefer to be out adventuring to serving and washing up after horrible yetis, sassy mermaids and stinky trolls. But when the bailiff turns up and demands taxes that the inn is unable to pay, the swamp kids must come up with a plan to save “The Buxum Nixie”.
They have to host the best party ever to earn the money they owe. But to do so, they’ll have to go to Port Mortem to get everything they need. Will they escape with their lives?
The Last Skull is the first book in the Wild Wilderness series – a funny and exciting comic about three swamp kids who have to save their inn from ruin.
Ola Nielsen Oldani (b. 1989) is an award-winning commercial writer who writes to create wonder and unlock the joy of reading. The comic book The Last Skull, that he creates together with Martin Hvattum, is his first publication.
Publisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
88 pages
Martin M. Hvattum works as an illustrator, in recent years with a lot of focus on illustration as part of identity design, as well as editorial illustration and campaigns. He was educated at the Academy of Art University where he graduated with distinction.
A poetic graphic novel by Ronja Svenning Berge.
Linda lives with flat mates in a shared accommodation. She goes out drinking with her friends, works, lives a normal life. At the same time, she carries with her a brutal experience, which re-surfaces for her when she finds a box of stuff she thought she’d long gotten rid of.
This is not a story about drowning in one’s inner darkness. It is a story about finding out how to live with it. And most of all, it is a story of friendship.
«Wonderfully painful and beautiful at the same time [...] The simple visual language is wonderfully beautifully executed.»
NettavisenPublisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
192 pages
«Poetic and beautiful [...] Ronja Svenning Berge’s debut book is among the most beautiful Norwegian graphic novels I have read.»
Framtida
Ronja Svenning Berge (b. 1984) is a comics artist and illustrator and works at a library. For many years, she has been a co-writer for the comic series Nemi. If it Doesn’t Burn is her first graphic novel.
A gripping graphic novel about Alzheimer’s.
A grown-up son’s travel to visit his father, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and put in a care facility, also turns into a journey through memories from his childhood, youth and, eventually, adulthood. In a shared, associative world of imagination, the son tries to understand and reconcile with his father as well as his past.
Martin Ernstsen’s last graphic novel was the awardwinning adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger. Now he’s back with a deeply personal story about his father and Alzheimer’s disease.
«But who are you? is another artistic victory for Ernstsen.»
Sydvesten
«In his new graphic novel, Martin Ernstsen has managed to draw on all the narrative possibilities dementia lends itself to. The result is deeply moving.»
Empirix
«But who are you? is a graphic novel for everyone who has experienced the loss of someone close to them to a slow death like dementia, or who wants to prepare for the fact that this is something that might happen down the line.»
Dagens NæringslivPublisher: Gyldendal
Publication year: 2023
144 pages
Martin Ernstsen (b. 1982) has a bachelor degree in illustration from the UK, and a master degree in Storytelling from Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden. He made his debut in 2007, and has since then produced several comic albums and books, amongst them the thriller Fugløya (2009) and the panoramic animal fable Kodok’s Run (2011). Some of his books have been translated to other languages, such as Swedish, Polish, Finnish and Danish, and his book Eremitt won an award for the year’s most beautiful comic book in Norway in 2012. Along with his own comic publications, he has also contributed to several comics anthologies internationally, and he has self-published a number of comics fanzines. He is also working as a children’s book author and illustrator.
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