Lit in Translation

Carl Frode Tiller

Born 1970 · Norway

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Brage 2022 · Shortlist

    Det framande landet

    Title translated by AI:“The Foreign Land”

    Carl Frode Tiller · 52 when first published

    Poetry · 67 pages

    AI-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.

  • In English

    Brage 2007 · Winner

    Encircling

    Innsirkling

    Carl Frode Tiller · 37 when first published

    Novel · 333 pages

    AI-generated summary:David has lost his memory; a newspaper notice asks those who knew him to write to him, and the letters of an old friend, his stepfather and a teenage sweetheart begin to circle in on his past and their own.

  • No English yet

    Brage 2001 · Shortlist

    Skråninga

    Title translated by AI:“The Slope”

    Carl Frode Tiller · 31 when first published

    Novel · 271 pages · Family, Coming of age

    AI-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.