March 27 2018
Norwegian and Scandinavian literature of high quality
Winje Agency is representing authors of high quality in all genres. WA was founded in 2016 by Gina Winje in Norway.
Journal
March 18 2018
"A Tale Of Terrible Times" by Olaug Nilssen is one of NORLAs Selected Spring titles
A Tale Of Terrible Times by Olaug Nilssen has been selected by NORLA for their Spring 2018 catalogue.
March 13 2018
Welcome to Geir Angell Øygarden
March 12 2018
Fosse to Russia
Jon Fosse will be published in Russian for the very first time.
February 14 2018
A Tale Of Terrible Times by Olaug Nilssen sold to Albert Bonniers in Sweden
Authors
Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy’s literary debut, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, is highly praised not only in India, and widely translated, listed by World Literature Today as one of the essential books on India. Both her second and third books have won major literary awards, and Roy establishes herself as an important literary voice. Playful and lively, Roy writes about the paradoxes and gaps in modern societies.
Arnar Már Arngrímsson
The Saga of Sölvi the Young is Arnar Már’s debut novel. It was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2015 and was awarded the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize in 2016. Arnar Már studied Icelandic and German literature at the universities in Reykjavik and Cologne. He has worked as a sailor, a caregiver, and a tour guide. He now teaches Icelandic at Akureyri Junior College.
Bjørn Arild Ersland
Bjørn Arild Ersland (born 1965) has written more than 40 books for children and young readers, within fiction and non-fiction. He has been nominated for a large number of awards, including four nominations for Norway’s prestigious “Brageprisen”. Ersland debuted as a novelist for adults with Huge events on a small scale (Pelikanen 2016), which received very good reviews. “Please write more for adults!” Wrote Anne Cathrine Straume in NRK Book. Something he has now done.
Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon’s books include The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Room: Essay, I am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, frieze and Artforum. He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches at the Royal College of Art, London.
Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen /Akin Duzakin (illustrations)
Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen (b. 1954) has studied at the Norwegian College of Journalism in Oslo, as well as the University of Oslo, where she studied pedagogy, and Tromsø Teaching College. She has written several picture books, and has collaborated with illustrators such as Ana Ventura, Hilde Hodnefjeld, Ragnar Aalbu, and Akin Duzakin.
Akin Duzakin (b. 1961) is a graduate of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Oslo. He has illustrated over 40 picture books, and written two. He has received the Brage Award twice for picture books made in collaboration with Liv Marie Austrem. He has also received the Department of Culture’s Award for Illustrated Children’s Books twice, and received the Book Art Award in 2006 for his many years of work as an illustrator. Duzakin is particularly well known for his poetic, slightly naivist motives, using a characteristic palette. He displays great figurative abilities and a strong sense of craftsmanship in his work.
Dennis Zacher Aske
Dennis Zacher Aske (born 1960) is a lawyer with a long background in analytical and investigative work from the University of Stavanger. Prior to this, Aske worked as an officer in the Norwegian army.
Elisabeth Beanca Halvorsen
Halvorsen (born 1979) is a Norwegian writer, playwright and translator of German literature. Her latest book is Doris Lessing. En litterær forfølgelse (Doris Lessing. A literary Pursuit) (Gyldendal 2016). She lives in Oslo and Vienna.
Frode Granhus
Frode Granhus wrote from the place he knew best: Home. Granhus worked and lived in Leknes in Lofoten. Granhus lived in the perfect setting for a crime story, and wrote the northern landscape in sublime ways into his wellknown and praised “Lofoten – crime novels”.
Shipwreck became his fifth and sadly last book about Rino Carlsen. Frode Granhus died suddenly, aged 54 years old in September 2017.
Geir Angell Øygarden
Geir Angell Øygarden was born in 1968 and lives in Glemmingebro, Sweden. He received his doctorate from Uppsala University i 2000 with a thesis on boxing, Den brukne neses estetikk(The Aesthetics of a Broken Nose). His book Bagdad Indigo (Baghdad Indigo) was published by Pelikanen Forlag in 2011.
Ingebjørg Berg Holm
Ingebjørg Berg Holm (born 1980) is educated as an interior architect and lives in Bergen with her husband and two children. She was nominated for the Riverton Prize and won the Maurits Hansen Award for her critically acclaimed debut novel Stars Above, Darkness Below.
Jens M. Johansson
JENS M. JOHANSSON (b. 1971) is an award-winning author and journalist. He debuted as a short story writer in 2002, and has since released five novels and several non-fiction books. His book “A Good Life”, published in 2016, was praised by several critics as one of the best books of the year. Johansson has been translated into several languages. He lives in Oslo with his wife and two children. No dog.
Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse is widely considered one of the world’s most important living writers. Born in 1959 in Strandebarm, a small village in the western part of Norway, he lives today in the Grotten, an honorary residence, as well as in Hainburg, Austria, and Frekhaug, Norway.
Kate Briggs
Kate Briggs is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes’ lecture and seminar notes at the Collége de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together, both published by Columbia University Press. She teaches at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.
Leiv Magnus Grøtte / Silje Elin Matnisdal
Silje Elin Matnisdal was born in 1982 and comes from Brusand in Jæren. She has grown up on a farm and has always had an inherent and strong relationship with animals. You see this in her photos.
Leiv Magnus Grøtte was born in 1954 and lives in Stavanger. He is originally a teacher, but has worked as a tourism manager, and has been a copywriter in the advertising industry for 25 years.
Lisbeth Dreyer
Lisbeth Dreyer is a Norwegian writer and filmmaker, living in Bergen. Lisbeth has made short films, documentaries and written books for children. Since her literary debut in 2008 she has published the childrenbooks Luisa and the Owl and Konrad The Sea Urchin, as well as The Westcoast Garden andThe Album of Knud Knudsen (2015).
Long Litt Woon
Long Litt Woon (born 1958 in Malaysia) is an Anthropologist and certified Mushroom Expert in Norway. She went to Norway in her youth as an exchange student. There she met and later married a Norwegian, Eiolf Olsen, and made Norway her home. She currently lives in Oslo, Norway. The author’s surname is Long in accordance to Chinese naming tradition.
Mette Karlsvik
Mette Karlsvik (born 1978) had her literary debut in 2005 with Vindauga i matsalen vender mot fjorden, for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas’ debut prize. In 2011 she was awarded both Stig Sæterbakken memory prize, The Booksellers stipendium and the Skien Munincipality annual artist prize, and nominated to the prestigious Brage Prize for Bli Björk. She writes books in all disciplines and genres, and also works as a journalist.
Olaug Nilssen
Olaug Nilssen (b.1977) made her real breakthrough in 2005 with Turn Me On, Dammit (Få meg på, for faen). The book breaks taboos in relation to young people and sexuality and was defining for a whole generation. Since then she has written books in many genres and made her mark as an unusual and important voice in Norwegian literature.
Øystein Morten
Øystein Morten is a historian and author. He has released a string of critically acclaimed books, such as The Search for Saint Olaf (which was awarded 6/6 stars by Norway’s largest newspaper, VG), and The Search for Sigurd the Crusader.
Pål Hermansen is one of the country’s most distinguished photographers. He has contributed to 22 books, and has been published and celebrated all over the world.
Øyvind Vågnes / Akin Duzakin (illustrations)
Øyvind Vågnes (born 1972) is a writer and researcher at the University of Bergen. Vågnes has written non- fiction and novels, and writes about music in a Norwegian weekly newspaper.
Akin Duzakin (b. 1961) is a graduate of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Oslo. He has illustrated over 40 picture books, and written two. He has received the Brage Award twice for picture books made in collaboration with Liv Marie Austrem. He has also received the Department of Culture’s Award for Illustrated Children’s Books twice, and received the Book Art Award in 2006 for his many years of work as an illustrator. Duzakin is particularly well known for his poetic, slightly naivist motives, using a characteristic palette. He displays great figurative abilities and a strong sense of craftsmanship in his work.
Patrick Langley
Patrick Langley is an established writer on art and literature for publications such as frieze, Art Agenda, Art Review, Rhizome, and more. Langley is also a contributor editor, and writer, at The White Review. Langley has also been a runner-up for the Deborah Rogers Award for the title The Brothers King, an early draft of Arkady.
Ruth Lillegraven
Ruth Lillegraven (b.1978) comes from Hardanger, Norway, and now lives in the county of Bærum. She debuted with the poetry collection Big Bad Poems in 2005. Since then she has published the novel Between Us and the poetry collections Urd, The Manila Hall and Sickle. For Urd she won the prestigeous Brage Prize in 2013. She has also published five books for children.