Gudrun Skretting

Anton and Other Squares

Anton og andre flokkdyr

Genre: Children And Young Adults
Category: Novel (Vol. 2 in a series)
Publisher: Aschehoug
Year: 2017
Pages: 259

Anton is back!
Anton has it all set out for middle school. His plan is to blend in, avoid standing out in any way, a small part of the large herd of students. But of course, things are not going according to the plan. Based on a complete misunderstanding, all of a sudden Anton is considered one the cool guys, an image he has to struggle really, really hard to maintain. For Anton, surviveing middle school is like an animal’s battle for survival. He must decide who he wants to be: an ordinary gnu amongst gnus, or a lion who eats gnus for breakfast.

Winner of the 2017 ARK Children’s Book Award

Gudrun Skretting is a classical pianist educated at The Norwegian Academy of Music. She has studied creative writing and literature at the Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books. She has previously written Anton and Other Accidents, which is sold to Danish (ABC Forlag), German (Carlsen Verlag) and Swedish (Lilla Piratförlaget), and won several awards:

Skretting is one of the participants chosen for NORLA’s development programme for new literary talents “New Voices”, a part of the project of Norway as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2019.

Foreign rights

Bulgarian (Izida), Danish (ABC Forlag)

Awards

The Ministry of Culture’s First Book Prize 2016
The Norwegian Children & YA Author’s Association First Book Prize 2016
Nominated for the ARK Children’s Book Prize 2016

Previous titles

Anton and Other Accidents, 2016

Rights

Oslo Literary Agency
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NO-0102 Oslo
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