Encirclement: David has lost his memory. A newspaper advertisement encourages old and new acquaintances to write him letters, in order to revive his past. The letters create a network of texts where the biography of David, the writers, and other people, are rewritten and put at stake.
The letters were written in 2006, but evolve around the past. This way, false views are created – adolescent dreams, the ambitions of artists and plans for the future. What is a life, how is a life story created under the influence of other people's story?
In Encirclement II three new voices write to David, illuminate another phase of his life and encircling him further – while at the same time encircling their own lives. These are intensely glowing and dark stories that ruthlessly display the feebleness of both the close relations and the cultural and social conditions we all are subject to.
In Encirclement III we meet Marius, who was accidentally swapped with David at the maternity ward. And with David’s story, the last piece falls into place in the picture which Tiller has constructed through three books.
Rights sold to
Titles in the series so far sold to: Albanian, American English, British English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Georgian, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish
Other titles
Bipersonar (Minor Characters), novel 2003
Skråninga (The Slope), novel 2001
Foreign rights
Oslo Literary Agency
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Awards
European Union Prize for Literature 2009
Gyldendal’s Hunger Prize (Sultprisen) 2008
Brage Prize 2007 (for Encirclement)
Literary Critics' Prize 2007 (for Encirclement)
Tarjei Vesaas’ Debut Fiction Prize 2001 (for The Slope)
P2 Listeners' Best Novel Prize 2001 (for The Slope)