Famous at home. Unknown in English.

Brage 2025 · Shortlist

Gustav

Marte Magnusdotter Solem · 47 when first published

Novel · 312 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:A mother carries all the hopes and defeats of her imaginative son, who struggles to make friends, and when a boy his age moves in next door she does everything she can to make the friendship last.

Brage 2025 · Shortlist

Om tingenes natur

AITitle translated by AI:“On the Nature of Things”

Merethe Lindstrøm · 62 when first published

Novel · 250 pages

AIAI-generated summary:A woman living on the edge of poverty in a rented house by the forest cleans other people's homes, and agrees to write an essay on literary rooms that she cannot begin.

Brage 2025 · Shortlist

Planterhaug

Sigbjørn Skåden · 49 when first published

Novel · 187 pages · Crime

AIAI-generated summary:When the old drunk Nilsen dies in a Norwegianised Sámi village in Ofoten, nobody suspects a crime, yet the following autumn an inspector from Oslo's criminal police arrives to investigate.

Brage 2024 · Shortlist

Norsk kjærleik

AITitle translated by AI:“Norwegian Love”

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn · 44 when first published

Poetry · 126 pages

AIAI-generated summary:A poet brought to Norway for adoption as a child asks whether he was a child sold across borders, and whether he can still be glad he was brought to Norway, the country he only wants to belong to.

Brage 2024 · Shortlist

Technotika

Heidi Furre · 38 when first published

Novel · 120 pages

AIAI-generated summary:A grieving woman searches for her dead brother in nature, tending his grave and listening to the trees, and walks at night to a petrol station that never closes, while the world itself seems to be failing.

Brage 2024 · Shortlist

Det tolvte huset

AITitle translated by AI:“The Twelfth House”

Malin C.M. Rønning · 39 when first published

Novel · 311 pages · Family, Crime

AIAI-generated summary:A young woman returns to her hometown for the first time in years when her brother is found unconscious by the river beside a dead friend, and she sets out to tell the story of the violence that has followed them since childhood.

Brage 2023 · Shortlist

Fjellet, geværet, vannet

AITitle translated by AI:“The Mountain, the Rifle, the Lake”

Lars Ramslie · 49 when first published

Novel · 204 pages · Family, Nature

AIAI-generated summary:In the summer of 1983 a nine-year-old spends the holidays with the father he rarely lives with, on a small farm in western Norway, and one day is taken up the mountain with no water, little food and a rifle each.

Brage 2023 · Shortlist

Back in the Day

Da vi var yngre

Oliver Lovrenski · 20 when first published

Novel · 256 pages · Coming of age

AIAI-generated summary:Four boys in today's Oslo grow up too fast, with few people but each other, and set out to own the city and its streets rather than the school.

Brage 2023 · Shortlist

Repetition

Gjentakelsen

Vigdis Hjorth · 64 when first published

Novel · 144 pages · Coming of age, Family

AIAI-generated summary:A grown woman looks back on herself at sixteen in Oslo, on first kisses, first drinks and marathon training, under a mother who watches her like a hawk and a distant father, in a house full of secrets.

Brage 2022 · Shortlist

Det framande landet

AITitle translated by AI:“The Foreign Land”

Carl Frode Tiller · 52 when first published

Poetry · 67 pages

AIAI-generated summary:A long poem about creativity, creation and survival snakes through human history without chronology or logic, from Neanderthals to Elvis, as the world must be made again and again.

Brage 2022 · Shortlist

Stakkar

AITitle translated by AI:“Poor Thing”

Matias Faldbakken · 49 when first published

Novel · 183 pages · Coming of age, Love

AIAI-generated summary:A lonely foster boy working for his keep on a farm finds a wild child in the forest, nearly without speech and stunted in growth, captures it and takes it home, where it begins to develop at furious speed.

Brage 2022 · Shortlist

Femten år

AITitle translated by AI:“Fifteen Years”

Vigdis Hjorth · 63 when first published

Novel · 182 pages · Coming of age, Family

AIAI-generated summary:A girl's orderly childhood of family meals, ski trips and summers at the cabin breaks apart when she finds a bundle of letters her mother wrote to her grandmother, describing a family life full of lies.

Brage 2021 · Shortlist

Jeg grunnla De forente stater

AITitle translated by AI:“I Founded the United States”

Hilde Susan Jægtnes · 48 when first published

Novel · 413 pages · Historical, Politics

AIAI-generated summary:A sickly, fatherless boy born on a Caribbean island in the mid-1700s rises from squalor to the centre of events, becoming one of the founders of the United States, ruled all the while by his passions.

Brage 2021 · Shortlist

Brightly Shining

Stargate

Ingvild H. Rishøi · 43 when first published

Novel · 192 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:Two sisters in Oslo's Tøyen district face Christmas after their father loses yet another job: the elder hauls Christmas trees, the younger sells wreaths, and their father heads to the pub called Stargate.

Brage 2021 · Shortlist

Den siste overlevende er død

AITitle translated by AI:“The Last Survivor Is Dead”

Mattis Øybø · 50 when first published

Novel · 257 pages · War, Historical, Family

AIAI-generated summary:Present-day lives are woven around a young Jewish student who flees Norway for Sweden in 1942, from his grandson about to become a father to a couple who find old letters revealing a forbidden wartime love.

Brage 2020 · Shortlist

Yt etter evne, få etter behov

AITitle translated by AI:“From Each According to Ability, to Each According to Need”

Olaug Nilssen · 43 when first published

Novel · 190 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:In an ordinary family that has stopped being ordinary, one sister lies in bed wondering if she has chronic fatigue, the other cares alone for her intellectually disabled nephew, and their mother is busy elsewhere.

Brage 2020 · Shortlist

Jeg hadde en oppvekst nesten som min egen

AITitle translated by AI:“I Had a Childhood Almost Like My Own”

Per Marius Weidner-Olsen · 57 when first published

Novel · 226 pages · Coming of age

AIAI-generated summary:A boy grows up in the 1970s on a farm estate in Bærum, outside Oslo, where an ordinary childhood hides theft, abuse and loneliness, and strangers lure him with crisps and ice cream.

Brage 2020 · Shortlist

Is Mother Dead

Er mor død

Vigdis Hjorth · 61 when first published

Novel · 352 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:After three decades in the United States and the death of her husband, a painter returns to Norway and sets out to understand, and draw near to, the mother she left behind long ago.

Brage 2019 · Shortlist

The Other Name: Septology I–II

Det andre namnet

Jon Fosse · 60 when first published

Novel · 352 pages · Septologien, book 1

AIAI-generated summary:An ageing painter living alone on a fjord north of Bergen finds his namesake and double, another painter called Asle, collapsed in the snow, and in the weeks before Christmas finds himself caring for the friend and his dog.

Brage 2019 · Shortlist

Hvor lenge varer vi

AITitle translated by AI:“How Long Do We Last”

Mari Andreassen

Short stories · 158 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Seven stories of encounters in which everything is at stake: a hairdresser finds her childhood bully in her chair, a germ-obsessed dentist fights to save his relationship, a widow receives a visitor on the day of the funeral.

Brage 2019 · Shortlist

Hvit hare, grå hare, svart

AITitle translated by AI:“White Hare, Grey Hare, Black”

Øyvind Rimbereid · 53 when first published

Poetry · 89 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Poems that range from odes to sandpaper, hinges and an iron door to ekphrases of paintings from Oslo's closed National Gallery and personal elegies, including one for a Scottish poet friend.

Brage 2018 · Shortlist

Venn med alle

AITitle translated by AI:“Friends with Everyone”

Gunnar Wærness · 47 when first published

Poetry · 108 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Poems written over six years roam across borders, cultures and history, speaking of language, spirit, nation, violence, flight and death, and letting the voices of the dead address the living.

Brage 2018 · Shortlist

Kinderwhore

Maria Kjos Fonn · 28 when first published

Novel · 228 pages · Coming of age, Family

AIAI-generated summary:A girl grows up with a mother who sleeps away her days on medication and keeps bringing home new fathers. After something happens to her at twelve that she cannot take in, she discovers her mother's pills.

Brage 2018 · Shortlist

Så mye hadde jeg

AITitle translated by AI:“So Much I Had”

Trude Marstein · 45 when first published

Novel · 431 pages · Love, Family

AIAI-generated summary:One woman's life is told in snapshots from the age of thirteen into her fifties: a teenage girl, a young lover of an older professor, a mother of a small child, a woman watching her mother's face appear in her own.

Brage 2017 · Shortlist

The Waiter

The Hills

Matias Faldbakken · 44 when first published

Novel · 225 pages

AIAI-generated summary:For thirteen years a discreet waiter has kept order at The Hills, a worn old-European restaurant in central Oslo, until a very young woman pushes her way in among the regulars.

Brage 2017 · Shortlist

Penelope er syk

AITitle translated by AI:“Penelope Is Ill”

Ole Robert Sunde · 65 when first published

Novel · 206 pages

AIAI-generated summary:A writer’s wife is seriously ill, and he sets out down an Oslo street to buy sushi for her dinner. The short walk keeps being interrupted and turns into an endless odyssey.

Brage 2017 · Shortlist

Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest

Fanny og mysteriet i den sørgende skogen

Rune Christiansen · 54 when first published

Novel · 212 pages · Coming of age

AIAI-generated summary:Fanny, a young orphan, tries to live as best she can alone in a small village, going to school, mending the gutter, chopping wood and keeping the weeds down.

Brage 2016 · Shortlist

Døden og andre tiggere

AITitle translated by AI:“Death and Other Beggars”

Anne Helene Guddal · 34 when first published

Poetry · 79 pages · Politics, Love

AIAI-generated summary:Poems about politics and love, loneliness and resistance, destruction and remembrance, ranging from the matter-of-fact to the elegiac.

Brage 2016 · Shortlist

For øvrig mener jeg at Karthago bør ødelegges

AITitle translated by AI:“Furthermore, I Believe Carthage Must Be Destroyed”

Kyrre Andreassen · 45 when first published

Novel · 357 pages · Love

AIAI-generated summary:Krister Larsen, an electrician proud of his trade and plagued by slipped discs, knows better but never gets his way, understands the system but never gets the upper hand.

Brage 2016 · Shortlist

Wunderkammer (27 kataloger)

AITitle translated by AI:“Wunderkammer (27 Catalogues)”

Nils Christian Moe-Repstad · 44 when first published

Poetry · 734 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Stories, portraits, equations, essays, theories, encyclopedias, biographies, aphorisms and riddles, all in three-line poems over hundreds of pages, test what each of these literary forms can be.

Brage 2015 · Shortlist

Liljekonvallpiken

AITitle translated by AI:“The Lily-of-the-Valley Girl”

Anne Oterholm · 51 when first published

Novel · 248 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Newly divorced and middle-aged, a public defender cuts herself off from old friends and spends her free time with a mismatched young couple downstairs, watched all the while by the friend she has dropped.

Brage 2015 · Shortlist

Rønneimperiet

AITitle translated by AI:“The Rønne Empire”

Hanna Dahl · 38 when first published

Short stories · 150 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Stories about the moment language began to distort reality and the people in it, about trying to discipline one’s moods, and about legionnaires who want to revive the imperial mindset.

Brage 2015 · Shortlist

Å resirkulere lengselen, avrenning foregår

AITitle translated by AI:“To Recycle Longing, Runoff in Progress”

Inger Elisabeth Hansen · 65 when first published

Poetry · 54 pages · Nature, Politics

AIAI-generated summary:Poems move out into the world and creation, to fish and birds, gods and refugees, asking whether longing that is thrown away is recycled as stone in someone else.

Brage 2014 · Shortlist

På terrassen i mørket

AITitle translated by AI:“On the Terrace in the Dark”

Hanne Ørstavik · 45 when first published

Novel · 220 pages · Love

AIAI-generated summary:After breaking up with Jostein, the social anthropologist Paula goes to southern Spain and works as an escort, spending her evenings on the dark terrace of a university guest house above Málaga.

Brage 2014 · Shortlist

Winter Stories

Vinternoveller

Ingvild H. Rishøi · 36 when first published

Short stories · 189 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Three winter stories about love and about people who mean well and do their best but do not always manage: about running away on the Valdres express bus, karaoke, shopping centres and snow.

Brage 2014 · Shortlist

Magdalenafjorden

Kjartan Fløgstad · 70 when first published

Novel · 302 pages · Historical, War, Politics

AIAI-generated summary:Three enigmatic women, marked for life by the years 1939–1942, link a story that runs from Narvik in the north to Spain under Franco.

Brage 2013 · Shortlist

Det uoppløselige episke element i Telemark i perioden 1591–1896

AITitle translated by AI:“The Insoluble Epic Element in Telemark in the Period 1591–1896”

Dag Solstad · 72 when first published

Novel · 456 pages · Historical, Family

AIAI-generated summary:The narrator follows his mother’s family, and the farms it was tied to in Telemark, through three hundred years, refusing to invent anything beyond what the sources say.

Brage 2013 · Shortlist

Teori om det eneste

AITitle translated by AI:“Theory of the Only Thing”

Nils Christian Moe-Repstad · 41 when first published

Poetry · Autofiction

AIAI-generated summary:At nineteen the poet broke his neck in a diving accident. Two books, one about the body as nature and one a family and city history, examine the accident and its consequences.

Brage 2013 · Shortlist

Orgelsjøen

AITitle translated by AI:“The Organ Sea”

Øyvind Rimbereid · 47 when first published

Poetry · 77 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Poems go to the organ: its history, the fugue and the silent-film organ, the organ as a building, and on to factory chimneys, mortars, X-rays and photosynthesis, the state, and the organ that does not exist.

Brage 2012 · Shortlist

Flytterester

AITitle translated by AI:“Leftovers from the Move”

Cecilie Løveid · 61 when first published

Poetry · 67 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:A grown woman is on the move and takes stock of what remains of a life as she packs it up, and above all of her bonds with her own mother, her children and herself.

Brage 2012 · Shortlist

Nordaustpassasjen

AITitle translated by AI:“The Northeast Passage”

Kjartan Fløgstad · 68 when first published

Novel · 424 pages · Historical, Politics

AIAI-generated summary:Two little boys are evacuated from the losing side of the Spanish Civil War. One ends up in the Soviet Union, the other in Mexico, and their lives run on from the same start.

Brage 2012 · Shortlist

Kjøkkendikt

AITitle translated by AI:“Kitchen Poems”

Kjartan Hatløy · 58 when first published

Poetry · 63 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Poems set in the kitchen, among its furnishings and utensils, cast the everyday things we hardly notice in a new light and open onto life, death and time.

Brage 2011 · Shortlist

Maud og Aud

Gunstein Bakke · 43 when first published

Novel · 209 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:Two little sisters sit in the back seat when the car leaves the road and their mother is killed in a second. Nearly thirty years later, a black Mercedes starts threatening drivers.

Brage 2011 · Shortlist

Historien om fru Berg

AITitle translated by AI:“The Story of Mrs Berg”

Ingvild H. Rishøi · 33 when first published

Short stories · 118 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Five stories about care: about meeting a first lover, being clairvoyant and reading signs, discovering that you are just like Janis Joplin, and loving a hamster called Mrs Berg.

Brage 2011 · Shortlist

Bli Björk

AITitle translated by AI:“Becoming Björk”

Mette Karlsvik · 33 when first published

Novel · 447 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:An electrician and union man in Iceland is followed from the age of ten in 1957, and then his daughter, the singer Björk, up to her international breakthrough with the Sugarcubes in 1990.

Brage 2010 · Shortlist

A Fool, Free

En dåre fri

Beate Grimsrud · 47 when first published

Novel · 509 pages · Autofiction

AIAI-generated summary:Eli, a writer, has lived with voices all her life: Espen, Erik and Emil since childhood, and later the stylish, decadent artist prince Eugen. They rule her days and sometimes drive her into psychosis.

Brage 2010 · Shortlist

Osv.

AITitle translated by AI:“Etc.”

Johan Harstad · 31 when first published

Drama · 507 pages · Family, War

AIAI-generated summary:In 1994, while Sarajevo is under siege and genocide begins in Rwanda, an American family comes apart: the father moves into a park in Washington, the daughter struggles in London and the son photographs wars.

Brage 2010 · Shortlist

Straahlbox

Thure Erik Lund · 51 when first published

Novel · 491 pages

AIAI-generated summary:A narrator leads the reader ever deeper into people’s innermost hiding places through stories that grow out of the text itself, shifting time, place and identity and crossing borders of language and mind.

Brage 2009 · Shortlist

Voices from Chernobyl

Tsjernobylfortellinger

Ingrid Storholmen · 33 when first published

Short stories · 175 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Many voices and situations show what the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster did, and still does, to the people it struck, in short pieces of poetic prose.

Brage 2009 · Shortlist

Grense Jakobselv

Kjartan Fløgstad · 65 when first published

Novel · 435 pages · Historical, War, Politics

AIAI-generated summary:Early in the 1930s two well-educated young Germans make a choice that takes them to Oslo, to Grense Jakobselv and across the border, and in the end to power over life and death.

Brage 2009 · Shortlist

Child Wonder

Vidunderbarn

Roy Jacobsen · 55 when first published

Novel · 263 pages · Family, Coming of age

AIAI-generated summary:Finn lives alone with his mother in a block of flats in Oslo in the year of the Berlin Wall and Gagarin, until a mysterious little half-sister arrives on the bus with a light-blue suitcase.

Brage 2008 · Shortlist

Wait, Blink

Vente, blinke

Gunnhild Øyehaug · 33 when first published

Novel · 277 pages · Love

AIAI-generated summary:Sigrid, a young and rather timid literature student, has a fateful meeting with the writer Kåre, one of several restless lives, a filmmaker, a performance artist, another student, that interlock in this novel.

Brage 2008 · Shortlist

Adjutanten

AITitle translated by AI:“The Adjutant”

Jørgen Norheim · 56 when first published

Novel · 238 pages · Historical

AIAI-generated summary:In the 1960s a retired officer who served as adjutant to Kaiser Wilhelm II in the 1890s lodges with a fruit farmer at the summer farm Hylla on the Sognefjord, rereading old diaries as their talks stir buried memories.

Brage 2008 · Shortlist

Jeg skal vise dere frykten

AITitle translated by AI:“I Will Show You Fear”

Nikolaj Frobenius · 43 when first published

Novel · 319 pages · Historical

AIAI-generated summary:In spring 1841 Edgar Allan Poe meets the ambitious editor and critic Rufus Griswold at a Philadelphia hotel, the start of a rivalry of attraction, envy and loathing that grows into an obsession.

Brage 2007 · Shortlist

Søvnens lekkasje

AITitle translated by AI:“The Leak of Sleep”

Beate Grimsrud · 44 when first published

Novel · 197 pages

AIAI-generated summary:After a theatre show of acrobatics and quick-change acts, a writer begins a long night of strange events: she meets one of her own characters and a confused string theorist with startling ideas about the nature of reality.

Brage 2007 · Shortlist

Trilogy

Andvake

Jon Fosse · 48 when first published

Novella · 147 pages · Love

AIAI-generated summary:Alida, heavily pregnant, and her sweetheart Asle come to Bjørgvin to find work and a place to live, but no one will give them a room, and they wander the rainy town, losing heart.

Brage 2007 · Shortlist

Psi

Torild Wardenær · 56 when first published

Poetry · 60 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Poems that all carry the same overtitle, “Heirloom”, each meant as something the reader can take along; the book is named for the Greek letter that also stands for Schrödinger’s wave function.

Brage 2006 · Shortlist

Von Aschenbachs fristelse

AITitle translated by AI:“Von Aschenbach’s Temptation”

Jan Jakob Tønseth · 59 when first published

Short stories · 121 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Stories set between Oslo and Venice; in one, a man named Gustav stands alone before Tintoretto’s Crucifixion, trying and failing to drop his reservations and yield to what he calls the religious temptation.

Brage 2006 · Shortlist

Grand Manila

Kjartan Fløgstad · 62 when first published

Novel · 410 pages · Family, Historical

AIAI-generated summary:Five families in the industrial town of Sauda in western Norway in the 1950s, whose lives the novel follows out into the world and across the generations before returning to a café in the town.

Brage 2005 · Shortlist

A Blessed Child

Et velsignet barn

Linn Ullmann · 39 when first published

Novel · 307 pages · Family, Coming of age

AIAI-generated summary:For the first time in twenty-five years, Erika travels to the Swedish island of Hammarsö to see her father; she spent her childhood summers there with her half-sisters until something happened in 1979, the summer she turned fourteen.

Brage 2005 · Shortlist

Kompani Orheim

AITitle translated by AI:“The Orheim Company”

Tore Renberg · 33 when first published

Novel · 460 pages · Coming of age, Family

AIAI-generated summary:Young Jarle and his parents, a small, close family, move into a terraced house with a carport in Stavanger, Norway’s oil capital, and all looks fine until his father starts to drink.

Brage 2004 · Shortlist

Gå til fjellet

AITitle translated by AI:“Go to the Mountain”

Jonny Halberg · 42 when first published

Novel · 261 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:Johannes Ewald Renton, back from service with Norway’s peacekeeping forces, travels home to Melhus to make peace with the family he has not seen for six years.

Brage 2004 · Shortlist

Teori og praksis

AITitle translated by AI:“Theory and Practice”

Nikolaj Frobenius · 39 when first published

Novel · 288 pages · Coming of age, Autofiction, Family

AIAI-generated summary:In 1972 the architect’s son Nikolaj and his family move into his father’s theoretical paradise, the new suburb of Rykkinn outside Oslo, in what the book calls a lying autobiography of growing up there.

Brage 2003 · Shortlist

Out Stealing Horses

Ut og stjæle hester

Per Petterson · 51 when first published

Novel · 264 pages · Coming of age, Family

AIAI-generated summary:At sixty-seven Trond moves with his dog to a small house by a lake in the far east of Norway, where his nearest neighbour turns out to be a man he once knew, and the summer of 1948 starts to haunt him.

Brage 2003 · Shortlist

Frost

Roy Jacobsen · 49 when first published

Novel · 494 pages · Historical

AIAI-generated summary:Gest, an Icelander born in 993, is outlawed at thirteen after avenging his father by killing one of Iceland’s mightiest chieftains, and flees to Norway with the wild man Teitr.

Brage 2003 · Shortlist

Vill ni åka mera?

AITitle translated by AI:“Do You Want Another Ride?”

Selma Lønning Aarø · 31 when first published

Novel · 221 pages · Love

AIAI-generated summary:Whispering through a keyhole to someone behind a locked bathroom door, a woman named Berg tells the story of her love for the blind David, who sees what she has buried, a girl who once followed the carousel man into his caravan.

Brage 2002 · Shortlist

Kunsten å gå

AITitle translated by AI:“The Art of Walking”

Lars Amund Vaage · 50 when first published

Novel · 253 pages · Family, Coming of age

AIAI-generated summary:A sickly boy, long unable to walk and fed and tended by his stepmother, secretly starts walking in the boatyard, and there he begins to tell about his father, the shop and himself.

Brage 2002 · Shortlist

Stormstigen

AITitle translated by AI:“The Scaling Ladder”

Tone Hødnebø · 40 when first published

Poetry · 61 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Poems grounded in a critique of civilisation that test personal insight against philosophical and political questions, often reaching for things and ideas that usually lie outside poetry.

Brage 2001 · Shortlist

Skråninga

AITitle translated by AI:“The Slope”

Carl Frode Tiller · 31 when first published

Novel · 271 pages · Family, Coming of age

AIAI-generated summary:Held in a psychiatric institution for crimes he barely understands, a young man waits for his father’s funeral and, urged by his psychologist, starts writing about himself as childhood memories crowd in.

Brage 2001 · Shortlist

Klage

AITitle translated by AI:“Complaint”

Inghill Johansen · 43 when first published

Short stories · 126 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Prose pieces set in and around a churchyard: letters of complaint about graves, headstones and coffins, the musings of a gravedigger who orders the living and the dead, and the diary of a struggling priest.

Brage 2000 · Shortlist

Surrogater

AITitle translated by AI:“Surrogates”

Bjarte Breiteig · 26 when first published

Short stories · 104 pages

AIAI-generated summary:Seven stories of boys on the threshold of puberty, of parents and children, couples, and the old and the young, each bond shadowed by shame, guilt and a longing people try to soothe with stand-ins.

Brage 2000 · Shortlist

Brødrene Henriksen

AITitle translated by AI:“The Henriksen Brothers”

Cecilie Enger · 37 when first published

Novel · 242 pages · Family

AIAI-generated summary:On their parents’ wedding anniversary, a balloon trip over Oslo, the young brothers Ben and Axel witness an almost unreal accident, and the day binds them together in a way that grows hard to bear once they are men.