Flatland’s exquisitely crafted exposé of family life is acutely perceptive, and while her analysis is forensic it is also empathetic, displaying a deep understanding of the stre
‘It’s the sort of thing that sisters know, I think to myself, how to hurt one another…’ So muses forty-year-old narrator Ida in Grown Ups, the toothsome debut novel by Norw
Michael J Malone will be interviewing Norwegian literary star Agnes Ravatn, and her translator, Rosie Hedger. Zoom (link to follow on sign up), Wednesday 23rd September, 7pm Email&
Gine Cornelia Pedersen’s explosive debut made a big impact in Norway, drawing stylistic comparisons to ‘a punk-rock single’, and receiving, in 2013, the Tarjei Vesaas prize f
A Modern Family explores the impact of one couple’s decision to divorce after forty years of marriage, documenting the reactions of their three adult children as they process the
Ever since I began learning Norwegian back in 2006, I’ve been impressed by the active literary scene that thrives in Norway. I was initially struck by the fact that publishers th
“There’s no such thing as the perfect crime,” I insisted. “Oh really?” he replied, his expression bordering on exasperation. We had met in the kind of place to which men
