Three nominations for The One Needful Thing by Olaug Nilssen

November 11 2020

The One Needful Thing by Olaug Nilssen is nominated to the Booksellers’ Prize, The National Book Award (the Brage Prize) and the Young People’s Critics’ Prize 2021 – to be awarded in March 21. A professional jury selects 8 titles to be read and discussed between young readers. The jury underlines the liberating reneval of the tragedy in this critical acclaimed novel.

So ruthlessly and compassionately written that the reader gasps for breath. (Dagens Næringsliv).

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