Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Up Oridongo

Opp Oridongo

A man carrying a hat and suitcase arrives on a small island off Northwest Norway. He is fifty-something and, having left the past behind, is sporting a new name. He has been corresponding with a woman on the island and been invited to visit. But Ulf Vågsvik has come to stay.

Up Oridongo is a beautiful and disturbing novel about a small community shaken by dramatic events. It is also a very special love story.

Photo: Marie Sjøvold

Ingvar Ambjørnsen (1956–2025) is considered to be one of the great storytellers of contemporary Norwegian literature. From his literary debut in 1981, Ambjørnsen wrote a great number of novels, collections of short stories as well as essay collections, and several books for children and young readers.

Over the span of his career, he won numerous awards, including the Riverton Prize, the Brage Prize Honorary Prize, the Norwegian Booksellers’ Award and the Aschehoug Prize. Ingvar Ambjørnsen has been published in 30 countries. Several of his novels have successful films and theatre adaptions.