Being Young
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Being Young was the best selling YA book in Norway 2018. With more than 65 000 copies sold, the book has definitely reached a large YA audience.
Linn Skåber has interviewed young people and asked them about their lives – about everything from acne to peace and loss. What’s the best thing about being a young person? What’s the worst? What would you change about it? Why are adults so lame? What are you afraid of?
Skåber has used this material to compose fictional monologues about this both wonderful and hopeless time – the transition from child to adult – as seen from a young person’s perspective.
The hallmark of all these short monologues is that readers will recognise themselves in them – whether as a young person currently navigating adolescence or as someone looking back on this time from adulthood. The texts have been written with a light, humorous touch, but in true Skåber-style an underlying sincerity always shines through.
The book is beautifully illustrated by Lisa Aisato.
Winner of The Riksmaal society children and YA prize 2018
Nominated for the YA prize Uprisen 2019 and the 2018 Norwegian Writers for Children First Book Prize (“Trollkrittet”)
“Wow, what a debut! Skåber are incredibly good at creating linguistic images… Skåber and Aisato both has the same blend of sweetness, depth and quirky humour.”
Dagbladet, 6 of 6 stars
“This year it was easy to choose the prize winner. The choice became clear and easy as soon as we became aware of Being Young. It is an exceptionally successful book (…). Congratulations!”
Riksmålsforbundet (The Riksmaalsociety)
