Like fint å jobbe som å danse

by Hilde Hagerup

Da forfatteren, skuespilleren og regissøren Klaus Hagerup døde i 2018, tok et allsidig forfatterskap slutt. Nå har datteren, Hilde Hagerup, skrevet et varmt portrett om faren sin. Ikke ulik boken Klaus Hagerup skrev om moren, Inger Hagerup, Alt er så nær meg (1988).

Klaus Hagerup var en svært folkekjær forfatter. Han skrev bøker for både voksne og barn, og han skrev i mange sjangre. Ungdomsromanene hans om den engstelige gutten Markus Simonsen er elsket og lest av mange, og for Markus og Diana (1994) fikk Klaus Hagerup både Brageprisen og Bokhandlerprisen.
Klaus Hagerup var en utålmodig sjel som skrev og jobbet hele tiden. Hilde er selv forfatter, og hun hadde et nært forhold til faren sin. Like fint å jobbe som å danse er skrevet i et forsøk på å holde ham fast. Boken er full av Klaus Hagerups humor, iver og sjarme, i tillegg til å være et personlig forfatterportrett og en bok om en sorgprosess.

Tittelen er lånt fra Klaus Hagerups berømte «Ellinors vise».

Genres: Nonfiction

195 pages, Hardcover

Published October 13, 2021

About the author

Hilde Hagerup is a Norwegian novelist and author of children's literature. She is the daughter of Klaus Hagerup. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best children's book in 2002 for Løvetannsang.
She is a highly acclaimed and award winning author. Her books have been translated into many languages. She teaches creative writing and literature at The Norwegian Institute of Children’s Literature.

Hilde Hagerup was born in 1976. After her childhood and youth in Fredrikstad she went to Great Britain, where she among other things studied Third World history at the University of London.

Hilde Hagerup’s books have received much acclaim and have been published in Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Lithuania, Germany, France, Thailand, Finland, the Netherlands, and Croatia. For Spindrift (1998) she was awarded the Norwegian Ministry of Culture’s First Book Award. Dearly Loved was published in 2000, and The Dandelion Song (2002) received The Critics Prize, Sonja Hagemann’s Children’s Literature Prize, and the School Librarians’ Prize. For The Bite (2007) she received the Ministry of Culture’s Literature Prize. In 2011 the first book in the series The Ghosts of Frosty Island was published, and it shows a whole new side of Hilde Hagerup’s authorship. The series about Master Detective Tim and Co is written in cooperation with her father, author Klaus Hagerup.

Hilde Hagerup has also written a biography of Agatha Christie, several short stories, and the play Hummingbird. In 2005, the novel Folly was published, her first book for adults. In addition to her own books, several short stories she has written are published in numerous anthologies.

Reviews

[Hilde Storhoug · Rating 4 out of 5]

Denne var nydelig og god og viktig. Håper Klaus Hagerup reinkarneres som onkelen min i et senere liv

[Anki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Å, denne var fin! En litt annerledes biografi og skrevet med så mye kjærlighet.

[Snorre Frydenlund · Rating 2 out of 5]

Det ble mest selvbiografi