Non-Fiction_HIGHLIGHTS

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

Terra Insecta. The little ones that make the world go ‘round (Insektenes planet)

Popular Science J. M. Stenersens Forlag 2018 224 sider

Rights: Stilton Literary Agency | hanspetter@stilton.no | www.stilton.no
So far sold to: Brazil, Czech Republic, Chinese (simplified and complex), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French North America, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Spanish (World rights), Turkish, Ukrain, UK & BCW, US & Canada

Insects are everywhere — in forest and meadows, in streams and parks. They live at an altitude of eighteen thousand feet, in the deepest caves, in baptismal fonts, inside computers and in a walrus’s nostrils. For every person on Earth there are 200 million insects. Yet their numbers are dwindling. While the number of people has doubled over the past 40 years, the number of individual insects has decreased by half. Without insects, people and animals would die.

Katharina Vestre

The First Mystery (Det første mysteriet)

Popular Science Aschehoug 2018 150 sider

Rights: Oslo Literary Agency | even.rakil@osloliteraryagency.no | http://osloliteraryagency.no
So far sold to: American English, British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

The First Mystery tells the story of you (and me and everyone), from conception to birth, from the first primitive cell divisions – until nine months later, when we fight our way out of an overly narrow opening as ready-made human children.

The First Mystery is popular science, history of science, storytelling and public education at its best. Charming, entertaining, fun, accessible, inclusive and knowledgeable.

Marta Breen

Women in Battle (Kvinner i kamp. 150 års kamp for frihet, likhet og søsterskap)

Graphic Non-Fiction Cappelen Damm 2018 128 sider

Rights: Cappelen Damm Agency | foreignrights@cappelendamm.no | www.cappelendammagency.no
So far sold to: Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, USA

150 years ago, women and men led very different lives. Women could not vote or make their own money. They had no control over their own bodies.
A woman’s father would make her decisions until she was married. Then her husband would take over.
This changed when women began to organize. In this book writer Marta Breen and illustrator Jenny Jordahl tells the story about the women’s movements many dramatic battles.
Winner of the 2018 Ministry of Culture’s Prize for best non-fiction book
Honorable Mention 2019 Bologna Ragazzi in the category of Non-fiction

Nina Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl

The Wonder Down Under (Gleden med skjeden)

Aschehoug 2017 308 sider

Rights: Oslo Literary Agency | even.rakil@osloliteraryagency.no | www.osloliteraryagency.no
So far sold to: American English, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (complex and simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

The Wonder Down Under is a book which explains everything you wanted to know about the vagina but didn’t dare to ask. It also deflates a lot of things you thought you knew but which the authors show are actually just myths.
The Wonder Down Under is written with grace, humour, authority and non-judgemental straightforwardness.
Illustrated by Tegnehanne.

Kaja Nordengen

Your SUPERSTAR Brain (Hjernen er stjernen. Ditt eneste uerstattelige organ)

Popular Science Kagge Forlag 2016 204 sider

Rights: Stilton Literary Agency | hanspetter@stilton.no | www.stilton.no
So far sold to: Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain (World rights), Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine

Your superstar brain makes you who you are. It enables you to communicate with other people, from simple messages to subtle use of irony.
The brain gives you feelings and personality. The brains keeps memories from early childhood, it makes you able to learn new skills and knowledge.
The brain makes you fall in love, and helps you interpret complex patterns and information. But the brain can also tempt you to make bad choices, and it rewards addiction.

Morten Strøksnes

Shark Drunk. The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean through Four Seasons (Havboka)

Travelogue Forlaget Oktober 2015 320 sider

Rights: Copenhagen Literary Agency | monica@cphla.dk | www.cphla.dk
So far sold to: Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, USA

A book about a mission, the famous Lofoten islands and the art of catching a shark from a tiny rubber dinghy. More than anything: It is a book about the ocean. With Shark Drunk, Morten Strøksnes has written a award-winning and superbly enjoyable book, full of knowledge, enthusiasm and excitement. Strøksnes attempts to acquire the ocean’s swaying language through uses of poetry, science, history, ecology, fiction, mythology – or the almost obsolete language older local fishermen still use to describe the sea. The result is a salty and entertaining book.