Rights Information

Click here for foreign rights

Marketing Information

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

Reviews

The literary exploration of the mother-daughter relationship in Is Mother Dead is both universal and courageous – and delivered with linguistic aplomb and stylistic confidence displaying Hjorth’s usual quality.
DAGBLADET (Norway)

The relationship between mother and daughter could hardly be portrayed in a manner that is more critical and heart-breaking than Vigdis Hjorth does in her novel Is Mother Dead.

Vigdis Hjorth proves herself yet again to be a great author.

Beautifully modulated language, a sharp gaze, and the ability to depict, with merciless frankness and deep psychological insight, the central character (…)

Hjorth has a unique ability to create both large and small canvasses with apparently simple means, alternating texts, some told almost in the language of riddles or as brief, poetic stanzas, rhymes, or recurring phrases (…)

Is Mother Dead is superb writing, shocking, compelling and recognisable (…)

This is a hard-core mother-daughter relationship in a form which is elegant and linguistically coherent.
VG (Norway)

Is Mother Dead is a brilliant, almost physically painful novel (…)
BOK365 (Norway)

Is Mother Dead is an important novel that reveals to us an artist’s inner processes that spark a debate.
NRK (Norway)

Vigdis Hjorth is back at her best, with a raw and painful book (…)

Brave and uncompromising.
DAGSAVISEN (Norway)

A universal and powerful story about childhood wounds that never heal and a mother’s love that may not endure everything.

Is Mother Dead is a strong and very good book.
ADRESSEAVISEN (Norway)

Vigdis Hjorth's Is Mother Dead is a brooding and searching novel that proves why she is among our very best.

The book resembles a thriller; the crescendo is edge-of-your-seat literature. Hjorth is an expert in plotting and linguistic rhythm. Long sections are broken up by pages with plenty of air and low-key reflections, several of which you will return to and read again and again.

(…) among her very best.
DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV (Norway)

With Is Mother Dead, Vigdis Hjorth has written one of the most exceptional and accurate accounts of loss that I can remember ever reading.

The last 30 to 40 pages of Is Mother Dead are a crescendo of a very rare kind, and when I had read the last sentence my body reacted with a spontaneous gasp – of delight and amazement. Hjorth [has] written her finest novel yet. I will never forget Johanna.
MORGENBLADET (Norway)

Author Biography

Vigdis Hjorth (b. 1959) has made an exciting literary career and has written many popular books for both children and adults. Today she is an award-winning author and one of Norway's most interesting, contemporary writers.

She has won a number of prizes and awards, amongst them: The Gyldendal Prize in 2011, the Critics Award in 2012, The Honorary Brage Award and the Amalie Skram Award in 2014, The Aschehoug Award in 2015 and the Booksellers Prize in 2016.

Her books have been published in 27 countries.