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| Discover This Year’s Top Titles from Cappelen Damm Agency |
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Despite the pandemic, this fall has been eventful. Amongst our authors and illustrators are several nominees and winners of prestigious awards including the Brage Prize and The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize 2021.
Browse our fall 2021 rights catalogues here. |
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| Here are our top 5 titles from this fall: |
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| | Right to Privacy
Selma Lønning Aarø’s new novel is a funny, sometimes frightening and unusually topical. A continuation of a strong feminist tradition, it also comments on the debate about reality literature.
“Elegantly done (…) Selma Lønning Aarø writes with levity and humour, with lots of funny and sharp turns of phrase, observations, conclusions. (…) And there is it again, the question of what is real – and “real”.” DAGSAVISEN
Right to Privacy is a NORLA FALL 2021 fiction selection.
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| | Handbook for Young Antiracists
Racism is a complicated topic for grown-ups to navigate, and many find it hard to talk to their children about it. For what can you say? Where do you begin?
“Tinashe Williamson has written a book that is easy to understand and utterly engaging. The book obviously has great potential to start important conversations between people from different generations.” DAGBLADET
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| | The Christmas Calendar
Fie’s life is turned up-side down when her husband abruptly demands a divorce. Dazed and in despair, Fie accepts a challenging Christmas Calendar from her sister.
A charming and touching Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!
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| | Cool Machines
Line Halsnes takes the very youngest budding engineers seriously, showing us big working vehicles and machines just as they are, in a way that will make readers curious and a little bit wiser.
Cool Machines by Line Halsnes was nominated in the Open Category for the Brage Prize 2021.
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| | The Secret Life of the City
The majority of Europe’s population live in towns or densely populated areas, and city nature is the nature most people encounter. Biologist Hanna Bjørgaas walks out her door and takes an enthusiastic interest in the nature she encounters over the course of a year, using the most fascinating specialist knowledge available to us. Can she experience nature in the city?
The Secret Life of the City is a NORLA FALL 2021 non-fiction selection.
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About Cappelen Damm Agency
Cappelen Damm is Norway’s largest publishing house, publishing approximately 1000 titles a year, within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, educational books and children’s books. Cappelen Damm is owned by Egmont.
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