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11 Spring 2017 An Outstanding Career When Jonas A
ndersson-Olsson defends his PhD thesis on the horror novel at the Literature Department of Gothenburg University, he fails catastrophically. He seems to have thrown away his chance at a career. An Outstanding Career is a tale of demise. Full of intrigue and double-crossing in the academic world, of the vagaries of romance, of existential and real crises, it portrays the experience of finally, as a grown man, opening your eyes to yourself and the world around you. It’s a classic tale of a unique kind – told with a large dose of satirical humour: a picaresque novel of a rake’s progress through society’s systems and of getting by when you have both luck and boldness on your side. Martin Engberg (b. 1974) An Outstanding Career Publisher Norstedts förlag info@norstedts.se www.norstedts.se Rights Norstedts förlag hakan.bravinger@norstedts.se Selected Works Tecknen runt huset (Norstedts 2006) Short stories Stjärnpalatset (Norstedts 2010) Novel Ta skada (Norstedts 2013) Novel Left Behind Lars Norén (b. 1944) Left Behind Left Behind is the last part in a trilogy of monologues by Lars Norén. The text, written without punctuation, but with capitals that mark the short sentences apart, has a powerful flow. It’s a current of life running out of the speaker’s mouth, from early childhood to the end of life. The book is at once poetry and prose, or perhaps it’s really a genre unto itself. Left Behind is a life story. In a way it is every life story in one, the man who speaks is everyone. The cruelties he has been subjected to, the things he has seen, the beauty, the unimaginable ugliness – all that is a part of life, is that which comes to us, and that we leave behind us. As always, Lars Norén appears to move between locations without obstacle, his darkly lit stage is at once modern and timeless. Publisher Albert Bonniers förlag info@abforlag.bonnier.se www.albertbonniersforlag.se Rights Margareta Pettersson Agent & Produktion maggan.pettersson@comhem.se Selected Works Fragment (Albert Bonniers förlag 2015) Poetry En dramatikers dagbok 2013 – 2015 (Albert Bonniers förlag 2016) Prose Stoft (Albert Bonniers förlag 2016) Poetry Literary Prizes (selection) Svenska Akademiens nordiska pris 2003 Litteris et Artibus (medalj) 2008 Sveriges Radios Lyrikpris 2012 Bellmanpriset 2012 Ferlinpriset 2016 Photo: Kalle Sanner Photo: Bobo Ericzen