The Brage Prize is awarded in four classes: Fiction, children’s and youth books, non-fiction and non-fiction for children and young people. The last award to be handed out was the honorary award. It went to the author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. – An author who, through his realistic prose, has given us a series of fascinating literary portraits of people around us, who rarely get the opportunity to speak, said the jury before it was announced that the 67-year-old received the honorary award. It was the author’s wife Gabriele Haefs who received the award at the Vulkan stage in Oslo. Ambjørnsen was at home in Germany due to poor health. Ambjørnsen won the Brage prize in 1995. These are this year’s winners: – Tribute to simple people With the novel “The day Nils Vik died”, Frode Grytten won this year’s Brage prize for best fiction. WON: Frode Grytten received the Brage Prize in the fiction category on Thursday for “The day Nils Vik died” during the 2023 Brage Prize Awards. Photo: Frederik Ringnes / NTB The author drew inspiration from his own grandfather when he wrote the story. – Grytten has written a tribute to simple people and their contribution to the lives of others in small communities that are slowly disappearing. The book is written in beautiful, flowing language and offers rich and complex portraits. Grytten is not afraid to write about big topics in an unpretentious and approachable way, the jury’s reasoning states. “The day Nils Vik died” is published by Forlaget Oktober. news’s literary critic calls the book a worthy winner. This is not the first time Frode Grytten has won the Brage prize. In 1999, he received the prize for the novel “Beehive season”. In addition to Grytten, Vigdis Hjort, Lars Ramslie and Oliver Lovrenski were nominated for this year’s award. The prizes were awarded at a sold-out Vulkan arena in Oslo. AI researcher wins non-fiction of the year This year’s non-fiction winner is Inga Strümke, who researches artificial intelligence. Her book is also about this topic. BOOK ABOUT AI: Researcher Inga Strümke won non-fiction. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB news’s reviewer wrote the following about the book earlier this year: “Inga Strümke has not written the book on artificial intelligence that I wanted. But she has written the one I needed”. The jury’s reasoning states: – Easily understandable, with a twinkle in her eye, the particle physicist and AI researcher Inga Strümke provides a solid historical overview and thorough insight into artificial intelligence in “Machines that think”, the jury writes in its reasoning, and concludes that the book provides an indispensable insight into how we can take control of our own future. Inga Strümke’s “Machines that think” won the award in the non-fiction category. The award was received by her editor, Joakim Botten. Photo: Frederik Ringnes / NTB Strümkes was not himself present during the award ceremony. The prestigious award was accepted by her editor Joakim Botten. – She wants to thank everyone who took part and held up the book, he said from the stage. Ragnhild Holmås and Henriette T. Osnes received the non-fiction prize for children and young people. It was Culture and Equality Minister Lubna Jaffery who handed out the awards on Thursday evening. She called the winning book “Ordenes hair-raising secrets” crazy. Ragnhild Holmås and Henriette T. Osnes won the award for best non-fiction for children. Photo: Frederik Ringnes / NTB – A lot of work has been put into this language book, this was an idea that grew wilder and wilder, says prize winner Ragnhild Holmås. – The verbal text of Ragnhild Holmås really bubbles with the joy of communication, and a lot of energy has been put into dragging the reader along from one publication to the next. Henriette Osnes follows up the wild play visually, writes the jury. “Oskar and I” In the children’s and youth books category, Maria Parr won for the book “Oskar and I”. It depicts life as an older sister. Maria Parr and Åshild Irgens stand, who illustrated the book during the award ceremony on Thursday evening. Photo: Frederik Ringnes / NTB – Here, high temperature and painful twists are tightly wound together. Language fresh as sea spray, furious as a thunderstorm and soft as a summer wind alternate, the jury’s reasoning states, among other things. Could be the first debutant to win In advance there was excitement about whether 19-year-old Oliver Lovrenski would win the award. If he had won it would have been like the first ever debutant. In September, Lovrenski came out with his first book “When we were younger”. Last week he received the Bokhandler prize for the book.
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Frode Grytten won this year’s Brage Prize in fiction – news Culture and entertainment
