The listeners’ novel award is an award that stands out. Six novels have been selected as finalists, but it is not critics, publishing editors or journalists who decide who wins. For 25 years, news’s listeners have decided which Norwegian novel is the best of the year. Now the listeners’ jury begins its work to find the best Norwegian novel from 2023. What is the listeners’ novel prize? Every year since 1998, news has chosen the best novel from the past year. news’s expert jury nominates six books and then invites a bunch of listeners to discuss and vote for the best of them. The unique thing about this award is that the jury discussion takes place in a studio and is broadcast on the radio! The Lytternes novelpris is news’s own literature prize. It is awarded every year to a Norwegian fiction novel. The nominees are selected by a professional jury consisting of news’s own critics and literary journalists. The listening jury that chooses the winner consists of readers without special expertise in books other than being very fond of reading. Among the previous winners are Karl Ove Knausgård, Linn Ullmann and Carl FrodeTiller. The finalists in 2023 are… “Dordi Strøm is a fearless storyteller. (…) Family ties, practical work and flight of mind are raised to a distinctive wholeness in Strøm’s book. » The book was reported by Anne Cathrine Straume. “The text is full of small, concise sentences. From here she can move into the poetic, the surreal or into the curiosities of knowledge. (…) Signe Holm is aiming for the top shelf in literature, and she might as well end up there herself.” The book was reported by Marta Norheim. “Oliver Lovrenski takes us inside in a story that is told from the inside. (…) But most of all, it is the incredible energy that flows out of this text that I am still sitting with. He has cracked the code. He speaks to everyone.” The book was reported by Knut Hoem. “There is a consistent sensitivity here, to what is going on around us and in us. (…) Hanne Ørstavik makes us all sensitive readers – both literally and in the very best sense of the word.” The book was reported by Knut Hoem. “It is a remarkable suit Tore Renberg is wearing this time, but it is well made. Lungeflytprøven is a novel that gradually unfolds. Led by one of the country’s most virtuoso novel carpenters.” The book was reported by Knut Hoem. “Maria Navarro Skaranger writes about ordinary people who have to accept life as it was. (…) Skaranger gives no answers. But she gives the reader something to chew on.” The book was reported by Anne Cathrine Straume. Literary against The professional jury that has selected the six finalists consists of news’s critics and literary journalists. They have read all Norwegian novels published in 2023. Knut Hoem summarizes the literary year as follows: – Several of the authors in the well-grown generation are preoccupied with memories of childhood, and of the relationship with parents, and especially fathers. At the same time, the younger authors are more experimental and write in a different language, Hoem points out. Anne Cathrine Straume also believes that the Norwegian novels this year have a wide range of themes. The professional jury has chosen finalists who dare to go a slightly different route than the most established ones. – Both language and form bear witness to the literary courage of all the authors I have nominated, says literary critic Anne Cathrine Straume about the finalists. The novels have a nerve in them and a willingness to drill a little extra into something unspoken and perhaps undefinable, with the dangers it can bring with it, she says. Siss Vik looks for the books she goes and thinks about for several weeks after she has read them. – Often there is something unclear in them that I am happy to hear the jury decide on. Follow the five members of the listening jury’s work in the Lytternes novelpris on news P2 and on news Radio from Friday 2 February 2024.
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These are the finalists for the Lytternes novel prize 2023 – news Culture and entertainment
