Ingvar Ambjørnsen
Per Dybvig (ill.)

Captain Nero (Samson & Roberto vol. 4)

Kaptein Nero: Samson & Roberto 4

Genre: Children And Young Adults
Category: Series (Illustrated By Per Dybvig)
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Year: 2013
Pages: 120
English sample translation available

The first three books about Samson and Roberto are loved by big and small readers alike.
The clever cat, Roberto, and the amiable dog, Samson, inherited Fjordgløtt Guesthouse and they live a peaceful life there alongside the pageboy badger, Greta. Handyman otter Olli pops by when something needs repairing. One of their guests, the widowed goose Gåthaug, is nervous and depressed. She believes the end of the world is nigh.
After a while it seems that strange and scary things are happening out at sea. Several people have spotted an enormous, bright eye and when lighthouse keeper Fredrik, a strong and terrified ram, comes rowing at breakneck speed, everybody quickly understands that something is wrong. A small expedition, consisting of Samson, Roberto, Stork von Struts and Benny the News Rat, decide to find out exactly what it is out there that is scaring so many of them. This expedition sends them into perilous territory, with big surprises and unexpected occurrences.

The book is as exciting as any James Bond film and is guaranteed to please Samson and Roberto fans new and old!

Previous titles in the series are:
SAMSON & ROBERTO 1. The Inheritance of Uncle Rin-Tin-Tei (Arven etter onkel Rin-Tin-Tei), 1998
SAMSON & ROBERTO 2. Fiery Friends (Krakilske kamerater), 1999
SAMSON & ROBERTO 3. Father Pietro’s Secret (Pater Pietros hemmelighet), 2000
Previous titles sold to Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden

Illustrated by Per Dybvig.

Photo: Marie Sjøvold

Ingvar Ambjørnsen (1956–2025) is considered 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 become successful films and theatre adaptions.

Per Dybvig (b. 1964 ) is one of Norway’s most acclaimed illustrators and visual artists. He has illustrated numerous children’s books, many of them bestsellers. Dybvig has earned several prizes for his work, among them The Ministry of Culture’s Picture Book Prize and the Book Art Prize awarded by the Norwegian Designer’s Guilds’ Visual Prize that honours book design and book illustrations of highest standard.

Foreign rights

Previous titles in the series sold to: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, South Korea

Awards

Anders Jahre’s Cultural Prize 2004
The Salvation Army’s Booth Prize 2004
Oslo City Cultural Prize 2001
The Booksellers’ Prize 1996 for Brødre i blodet (Beyond the Great Indoors)
The Brage Prize 1995 for Fugledansen (The Bird Dance)
The best book for Young Readers of the 1980’s for Døden på Oslo S (Death in Oslo Central
Station) 1991
The City of Lübeck Grant
The City of Hamburg Grant
The Cappelen Prize 1988

Previous titles

SELECTED PREVIOUS TITLES FOR CHILDREN
De levende og de døde (The Living and the Dead), 2006
Drapene i Barkvik (The Murders in Barkvik), 2005
Pelle og Proffen (Pelle and The Prof) series, nine titles.
Samson & Roberto (Samson & Roberto) series, three titles

Rights

Cappelen Damm Agency
NO-0055 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 61 65 00
foreignrights@cappelendamm.no
cappelendamm.no