Long before Maja Lunde’s debut novel “Bienes history” came out in August this year, was the sold to seven countries. Today she stuck with Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize in 2015.
Maja Lunde
Bienes history
– It’s absolutely incredible. I am simply speechless, says Maja Lunde (40) to VG.
She was just happy to be nominated as one of ten writers award as Norwegian bookstores votes until a total of 100 book titles, and thought not at all sure she could win.
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– I is of course a debutant, and never expected to win. But now I’m terribly happy. Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize is of course a very special price, there are so many voices, and they can so so much about literature. Much bigger than this, it can not be, says Lunde – who debuted with “Bienes summer” in August.
Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize was presented by Culture Minister Thorhild Widvey House of Literature in Oslo on Tuesday.
VG reviewer wrote that “Maja Lunde creates life stories that touches and engages while she illuminates a global catastrophe. Bees play the main role, but this is also a novel about parents and children, strategic choices and destinies and a “guild-relatedness” that transcends time and place. “
” Bienes history “: Read the full review here!
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Even before the novel was released in August, there was a lot of buzz around this release. The book became a hot topic at the London Book Fair in April and was sold to seven countries before it was released. Now it sold to 12 countries and its circulation is 57,000. The book is also nominated for the P2 listeners roma price.
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– I am incredibly happy, also because of the book’s themes – and that it has engaged so many. In the fall, I have traveled around the country and with the book, and all the individuals who come out and say they love the book, have warmed as much as the good reviews. It is very special, says Maja Lunde who primarily thinks that it is a great honor to receive this award.
– And then I know that it now certainly reach out to even more, and that this theme reaches out to so many, it means a lot to me.
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The theme of the book is in fact what is happening to our planet if the pollinating insects disappear, and she portrays a pretty bleak future in the book where one of the stories take place in China in 2098 – 50 years after a global collapse. “Bienes history» follow three fates with completely different starting points both in time and space. William is a biologist and frøhandler in England in 1852, George is a beekeeper in the US in 2007, and Chinese Tao is a human pollinating a world without bees anno 2098.
– There is a story about bees, yes, but also as much about people and relationships between children and adults, said Lunde when she previously visited VG bokpod Pocket.
There she told also lit initially that she just chose bees history as the theme for his debut novel.
– I have always been concerned about climate, the environment and the progress of our planet, but it started when I saw a documentary about Endangered bees – which meant that I was very frightened and fascinated at once. Thus I threw everything else I was going with, and devoted myself to this, says Lunde who worked intensely with the novel in two years.
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Maja Lunde has previously released several children and youth, including books about ” The world’s coolest gang. ” She has also worked extensively in film and television, where she wrote the screenplay for “Children’s super show” and “Side and side.”
Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize she will celebrate “quiet and calm” with the family – before she attends at an event with beekeepers organized by Bybi Wednesday.
THE NOMINEES: Here are the authors who were nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize 2015 top from left: Helga Flatland, Siri Pettersen, Roy Jacobsen, Maja Lunde, Michael Jaeger. Below, from left: Lars Saabye Christensen, Trude Teige, Ketil Bjørnstad, Heidi Linde and Samuel Birch.
Photo: Frode Hansen, Roger Neumann, Krister Sørbø, Tor Erik H. Mathiesen , VG
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