Every year, news organizes its own literature prize, and now the six nominated novels are ready from the expert jury. This year, the award has been given a new name. What used to be called the “P2 listeners’ novel award” is now called the “Listeners’ novel award”. A hand-picked jury of six regular readers will now read all the books. When they have finished reading, the listening jury will go to the studio at news to discuss the open microphone and fight for their favourites. Only one novel can win the prize, and the final voting will take place on news Radio in March 2023. The nominated novels have been selected by the specialist jury in news’s literature editorial team, here presented in alphabetical order. “Oskespiralen” by Leander Djønne Photo: Baard Henriksen and Oktober forlag In “Oskespiralen” it is about revenge, although forgiveness is also up for discussion. Two brothers are on their way home to the farm where they grew up. The father is still there, but what actually happened to the mother? Read the whole message: “Pitch-black Hardanger bridge carved in stone” “Princes of Finntjern” by Lars Elling Photo: Forlaget Oktober and Baard Henriksen At the beginning of the First World War, we follow two brothers on constant journeys out into the Oslo countryside, where something happens which causes lifelong discord between them. Lars Elling draws a picture of several generations and stretches out a large, historical canvas with action that stretched up to our time. Read the whole message: “An artful portrait of an Oslo of yesterday” “The Surgeon” by Ida Hegazi Høyer Photo: Tiden forlag and Svein Finneide Henrik Wold is a surgeon who not only wields sharp knives, he also has sharp elbows and is on his way up the hierarchy at the university hospital where he works. The supreme alpha male has full control both at work and in his private life. It cannot last. The question becomes what it is that falls him, and how deep the fall will be. “Under pressure, morale tears like a poorly sewn suture,” writes Marta Norheim in her message. Read the whole message: “Ugly fall in beautiful prose” “Own children” by Trude Marstein Photo: Julie Pike / Gyldendal The novel is set to a charity weekend on a farm in Sweden. The couple who bought the summer idyll are divorced, but meet up with new girlfriends and various full and half siblings. Marta Norheim writes in the message that we are going all the way to the point where biology is averse to social norms. Dugnadshelga becomes a pressure cooker where feelings and replicas have to be put on the lid. Read the whole message: “Relentless and superb family drama” “They call me the wolf” by Zeshan Shakar Photo: Erika Hebbert/Gyldendal How did it go with the young men who came from Pakistan to work in Norway in the early seventies? In “They call me the wolf”, Zeshan Shakar tells about how things went with one of them. He married a Norwegian lady with roots from Northern Norway. Towards the end of his life, he wants to return home to Lahore, and his son comes to visit him to help him with the packing. Read the whole message: “A literary bypass operation” “On stone and earth” by Peter Strassegger Photo: Maja Hattvang/Cappelen Damm The author grew up with a grandfather who enlisted as an SS soldier in 1942 and was with when German troops surrounded Leningrad. A 50-page “confession” the grandfather wrote in his old age inspires the author to fight. In any case, it says to read in the novel where novel-Peter follows the old man in the seam. Marta Norheim wrote in the message that “Many of the quotes in the letter are forgivable. They become frightening when you think about what is not there.” Read the whole message: “Strong novel about the front-line fighter who did not want to see” The criteria for being nominated are that the novel must have been published in the current year, and that it has been five years since the author was last nominated. The award is a graphic print, interview and celebration broadcast on P2.
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These are the six nominees for “Lytternes novelpris” 2022 – news Culture and entertainment
