The Art of Swimming by Inger Bråtveit is sold to Arabic, the prestigious Sefsafa Publishing House will publish this strong novel in Soha El-Sibaia and Sherin Awahab’s translation. A wonderful start on the New Year – a lot’s of books in translations there will be in this National Bookyear in Norway: Happy New Literary Year!
“Piège à loup” (Ulvefellen) came out in French earlier this month and “Felsengrund” (Ingen skal drukne), the second book in Aslak’s best-selling Falck Trilogy, just launched in Germany.
Strengthening its Scandinavian presence, Winje Agency welcomes Swedish agent Sofia Odsberg to the team. Odsberg brings with her award-winning authors Lina Wolff and Mirja Unge.
German translator Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel has been awarded the inaugural Fosse Prize for Translators. ’Hinrich has been instrumental in bringing not only the work of Jon Fosse, but of many outstanding Norwegian authors, to German readers—and for that, we are eternally grateful,’ says Gina Winje.
Chiquitita is heading to Germany, where it will be published by the prestigious Luchterhand Literaturverlag, and the UK, where it will be one of the first books the brand-new Akoya Publishing will be launching with.
The second book in Ruth Lillegraven’s thrilling “Clara”-series, “Blood Ties” (“Dunkler Abgrund”, Ullstein Verlag, tr. Günther Frauenlob) is hitting it out of the park in Germany since launching a couple of months ago!