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Brageprisen
Norway · Since 1992 · For books in Norwegian Bokmål or Norwegian Nynorsk
Awarded each autumn by the foundation Den norske Bokprisen (Stiftelsen Brageprisen) to new Norwegian books; this is its fiction category for adult readers, open to novels, story collections and poetry in Bokmål or Nynorsk. A jury nominates three or four books (four since 2007) and picks the winner.
The Brage Prize was established in 1992 to honour new Norwegian literature and to stimulate interest in reading. It is awarded by the foundation Den norske Bokprisen, with the Norwegian Publishers Association as secretariat. In each category a jury of booksellers, librarians, critics and academics reads every title submitted for the year and nominates the finalists, four today and often three in the early years; a separate electorate then reads the nominated books anonymously and votes for the winner. The prizes are presented at a ceremony in late November. Alongside fiction, the categories are books for children and young people, non-fiction, and non-fiction for children and young people, and an honorary prize is also given. In its early years the prize also had an open class whose genre changed from year to year.
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Brage 2023 · Winner
Den dagen Nils Vik døde
Frode Grytten · 63 when first published
Novel · 170 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A ferryman in the heart of Norway, who has carried people across the fjord all his life, sets out in his boat on his last journey, a man who has loved only one woman and loves her still.
Brage 2023 · Shortlist
Da vi var yngre
Oliver Lovrenski · 20 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Coming of age
AI-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
Gjentakelsen
Vigdis Hjorth · 64 when first published
Novel · 144 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-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 2021 · Winner
Eit nytt namn
Jon Fosse · 62 when first published
Novel · 232 pages · Septologien, book 3
AI-generated summary:As Christmas nears on a fjord north of Bergen, an ageing painter feels he has finished with painting, while his namesake and double prepares to spend Christmas with his neighbour and the neighbour's sister.
Also: International Booker 2022 shortlist · National Book Award 2022 finalist
Brage 2021 · Shortlist
Stargate
Ingvild H. Rishøi · 43 when first published
Novel · 192 pages · Family
AI-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 2020 · Shortlist
Er mor død
Vigdis Hjorth · 61 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · Family
AI-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 · Winner
Full spredning
Nina Lykke · 54 when first published
Novel · 250 pages · Satire, Love, Family
AI-generated summary:A general practitioner who has spent two decades listening to her patients' complaints moves into her own surgery after an old flame resurfaces on Facebook, leaving her husband fuming in their terraced house.
Brage 2019 · Shortlist
Det andre namnet
Jon Fosse · 60 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · Septologien, book 1
AI-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 2017 · Shortlist
The Hills
Matias Faldbakken · 44 when first published
Novel · 225 pages
AI-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
Fanny og mysteriet i den sørgende skogen
Rune Christiansen · 54 when first published
Novel · 212 pages · Coming of age
AI-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 2014 · Winner
Ensomheten i Lydia Ernemans liv
Rune Christiansen · 51 when first published
Novel · 264 pages
AI-generated summary:Lydia grows up the only child on a smallholding in northern Jämtland, trains as a vet and, after some years in Skåne, settles in a small Norwegian village, where solitude shapes her life.
Brage 2014 · Shortlist
Vinternoveller
Ingvild H. Rishøi · 36 when first published
Short stories · 189 pages
AI-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 2011 · Winner
Imot naturen
Tomas Espedal · 50 when first published
Novel · 203 pages · Love, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A middle-aged narrator examines work in the factory, the work of love and the work of writing, and finds himself drawn to impossible love, books, myths and taboos.
Brage 2010 · Winner
Før jeg brenner ned
Gaute Heivoll · 32 when first published
Novel · 307 pages · Crime, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:In 1978 an arsonist terrorises Finsland, a village near Kristiansand. On one of those Sundays a baby boy is christened in the village church; decades later, as a writer, he reconstructs the fires.
Brage 2010 · Shortlist
En dåre fri
Beate Grimsrud · 47 when first published
Novel · 509 pages · Autofiction
AI-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 2009 · Winner
Min kamp. Første bok
Karl Ove Knausgaard · 41 when first published
Novel · 434 pages · Autofiction, Family · Min kamp, book 1
AI-generated summary:The book opens with a dizzying account of death and moves on to a writer’s struggle to master his life, himself and his ambitions for his writing, seeking out what is vulnerable and embarrassing.
Brage 2009 · Shortlist
Tsjernobylfortellinger
Ingrid Storholmen · 33 when first published
Short stories · 175 pages
AI-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
Vidunderbarn
Roy Jacobsen · 55 when first published
Novel · 263 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-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 · Winner
Jeg forbanner tidens elv
Per Petterson · 56 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In autumn 1989, as the Berlin Wall falls, 37-year-old Arvid Jansen is getting divorced when his mother, just diagnosed with cancer, suddenly leaves for Denmark, and he follows her two days later.
Brage 2008 · Shortlist
Vente, blinke
Gunnhild Øyehaug · 33 when first published
Novel · 277 pages · Love
AI-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 2007 · Winner
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.
Brage 2007 · Shortlist
Andvake
Jon Fosse · 48 when first published
Novella · 147 pages · Love
AI-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 2006 · Winner
Armand V.
Dag Solstad · 65 when first published
Novel · 218 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:In the mid-1960s Armand and his best friend Paul Buer arrive in Oslo to study; Armand becomes a diplomat, outwardly loyal and inwardly not, in a novel made only of footnotes to an unwritten book.
Brage 2005 · Shortlist
Et velsignet barn
Linn Ullmann · 39 when first published
Novel · 307 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-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 2004 · Winner
Presten
Hanne Ørstavik · 35 when first published
Novel · 270 pages
AI-generated summary:Liv, thirty-five, is the pastor of a small town in Finnmark, where she once researched the Sami uprising of 1852; one Sunday after mass she is called out because a young local girl has hanged herself.
Brage 2003 · Shortlist
Ut og stjæle hester
Per Petterson · 51 when first published
Novel · 264 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-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 2001 · Winner
Halvbroren
Lars Saabye Christensen · 48 when first published
Novel · 766 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:Three generations of women share a flat on Oslo’s Kirkeveien; on 8 May 1945 young Vera is raped in the attic, and her son Fred grows up beside his small, artistic half-brother Barnum.
Brage 2000 · Winner
I kjølvannet
Per Petterson · 48 when first published
Novel · 202 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Six years after a catastrophe struck his family, Arvid lives through a few raw weeks still caught in its wake, confronted above all by the memory of his father.