Leopard VI: The Norwegian Feeling for Real

by Harald Bache-Wiig, Birgit Bjerck, Jan Kjarstad

This new volume in the Leopard series of anthologies comprises a collection of the best Norwegian short fiction of the last forty years. The focus of the stories is the real and raw concerns of contemporary life.

Hans Herbjørnsrud - On an Old Farmstead in Europe
Kjell Askildsen - The Dogs in Thessaloniki
Roy Jacobsen - Ice
Johny Halberg - The Cock and Mr Gopher
Jon Fosse - I Could Not Tell You
Lars Amund Vaage - Cows
Ragnar Hovland - The Last Beat Poets in Mid-Hordland
Lars Saabye Christensen - The Jealous Barber
Karin Fossum - The Pillar
Jostein Gaarder - The Catalogue
Karin Sveen - A Good Heart
Herbjørg Wassmo - The Motif
Frode Grytten - Dublin in the Rain
Tor Ulven - I’m Asleep
Hanne Ørstavik - Love
Tor Åge Bringsværd - The Man Who Collected the First of September 1974
Bjørg Vik - A Forgotten Petunia
Trude Marstein - Deep Need - Instant Nausea
Kjartan Fløgstad - The Story of the Short Story
Gro Dahle - Life of a Trapper
Øystein Lønn - It’s So Damned Quiet
Laila Stien - Veranda with Sun
Jan Kjærstad - Homecoming
Beate Grimsrud - The Long Trip
Ingvar Ambojørnsen - Skulls
Merethe Lindstrøm - The Sea of Tranquillity
Dag Solstad - Shyness and Dignity
Per Petterson - The Moon over the Gate

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 27, 2005

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