We are happy to announce that THE HORNED GOD by Magdalena Hai, winner of the Finlandia Prize 2023, has been sold to Norway! Gursli Berg acquired the Norwegian rights in a deal closed by Anna Kappauf at Elina Ahlback Agency.
This is the second deal for this outstanding YA title (the Danish rights were sold last week) which is also nominated for the Runeberg Prize 2024. Magdalena Hai has previously won the Finnish Literary Export Prize (2017), Kaarina Helakisa Prize (2020), and Kuvastaja Award (2022), and her books have been sold into 30 languages.
Gursli Berg are a well-established independent Norwegian publisher and home of authors like Maria Turtschaninoff, Colleen Hoover, Richard Osman, Maggie O’Farrell and many others.
Curious to find our more about this award-winning title?
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Otava, March 2023, 162 pp.
Age group: 13+
Rights sold:
FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
DENMARK: ABC Forlag
NORWAY: Gursli Berg
Reading materials:
English sample and synopsis
Magdalena Hai
Magdalena Hai is an award-winning author, lover of cross-genre fiction and all things strange. Her fiction often combines elements of sci-fi, fantasy and horror.
Her Little Shop of Nightmares series has been sold to 30 territories around the world. Among Hai's many accolades are winning the Finlandia Prize for children's and YA literature and the Finnish Literary Export Prize, and being nominated the Nordic Council Children & Young People's Literature Prize.
Besides being an author, Hai teaches writing and is an active member and editor in the publishing co-operative Osuuskumma.
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