“Aubert’s texts hit the reader hard both on and between the lines. Through her exceptionally sharp observation of complex human relationships, she brutally exposes the pettiness and shame in both her characters and readers… This is literature that can have lasting effects, literature that leaves its mark. This year’s winner of the Bjørg Vik Prize makes you delight, makes you cringe, makes you squirm in your chair; she makes you think: Is this how we are, is this who we truly are?”
Jury statement, Bjørg Vik Prize
Marie Aubert
Winner of the Bjørg Vik Prize 2023
Winner of the Young Readers’ Critics’ Prize 2019
Marie Aubert was born in 1979 and lives in Oslo. She made her debut with the short story collection Can I Come Home with You (2016), which was a huge success in Norway, selling more than 10,000 copies. Her acclaimed first novel Grown-ups (2019) won the Young People’s Critics’ Prize (Norway’s equivalent to the Goncourt des lyceens) and was nominated for the Booksellers’ Prize.
Book info
Language
Foreign publisher
- I’m Not Really Like This
- Jeg er egentlig ikke sånn
- Marie Aubert
- Forlaget Oktober, 2022
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- CzechDobrovsky
- DanishLindhardt & Ringhof
- DutchDe Geus
- FinnishGummerus
- GermanRowohlt
- HungarianScolar
- PolishPauza
- SwedishWahlström & Widstrand
- Grown-ups
- Voksne mennesker
- Marie Aubert
- Forlaget Oktober, 2019
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- CroatianNaklada Ljevak
- CzechDobrovsky
- DanishLindhardt & Ringhof
- DutchDe Geus
- EstonianTänapäev
- FinnishGummerus
- GermanRowohlt
- HungarianScolar
- IcelandicBenedikt
- KoreanJaeum & Maeum
- PolishPauza
- RomanianParalela 45
- RussianPolyandria
- SpanishNórdica Libros
- SwedishWahlström & Widstrand
- TurkishYan Pasaj Yayinevi
- World EnglishPushkin Press
- Can I Come Home with You
- Kan jeg bli med deg hjem
- Marie Aubert
- Forlaget Oktober, 2016
Fiction, Short stories
- LanguageForeign publisher
- AlbanianOnufri, Tirana
- DanishLindhardt & Ringhof
- GermanRowohlt
- HungarianScolar
- PolishPauza
- SwedishWahlström & Widstrand