Booksellers’ Prize
Tarjei Vesaas’ First Book Prize
The Young Critics’ Award
Aschehoug First Book Scholarship
Amalie Skram Award 2015
Mads Wiel Nygaards legat 2015

Helga Flatland (b. 1984) is already one of Norway’s most awarded and widely read authors. Her debut Stay If You Can. Leave If You Must (2010) received excellent reviews and established her as one of the foremost up-and-coming you Norwegian Authors. She had a massive breakthrough With a broader audience With the novel A Modern Family (2017). Within weeks of publication the novel had sold 20,000 copies.

Of her trilogy Stay if you can, leave if you must the Danish Extrabladet wrote: “Each novel on its own is a stylistic masterpiece that could, but shouldn’t be read separately. Together they form a phenomenal story”.