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Margaret, Are You Grieving

Margaret is six years old when her mother takes her own life. She gets help from her father, her imagination, and various children’s games to push away the grief and shock, but the pain doesn’t disappear. It’s just hidden away.

As an adult, Maria begins to study medicine, and faced with illness and death, her childhood trauma is revived. She has always been able to rely on her childhood fantasies to help her cope, but now they change form and become more unpredictable. They no longer lead her away from, but straight into the pain, and things start to crack.

Margaret, Are You Grieving is an honest and fearless portrait of a young woman who is drawn towards life and death simultaneously. The book won the Riksmål Prize, an award given to a literary work with outstanding prose.

Winner of the 2024 Riksmål Prize
Nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature 2025

'A powerful novel about suicide, grief, and guilt, and the path into madness. In a crystal-clear, elegant prose, the novel revolves around losing oneself […] It is strong, it is eerie and captivating, the language vibrates both elastically and tensely, making the serious text soar. [Fonn’s] eye for human imperfection and strength is sharp and investigative. […] Young Maria Kjos Fonn is well on her way into an important literary career with her novels about addiction, outsiders, and now about death and life in a deeply probing manner.'

Adresseavisen, 6/6 stars

'Maria Kjos Fonn is on her way to becoming a significant figure in Norwegian literature.'

Stavanger Aftenblad, 5/6 stars

Maria Kjos Fonn

Maria Kjos Fonn
Agnete Brun

Maria Kjos Fonn (b. 1990) is one of the most powerful young literary voices in Norway. Her first novel Kinderwhore was nominated for the Norwegian Book Prize (the Brage Prize). Her first children’s book, Memoria, was published in 2022.

Kjos Fonn is also a frequent op-ed writer on issues like politics, feminism and society. She lives in Oslo.

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Other titles

Memoria, 2022 (Children's novel, ill. by Skinkeape)
Heroin Chic, 2020
Kinderwhore, 2018

Foreign rights

Oslo Literary Agency
Henrik Francke
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Awards

Nominated for the Brage Prize 2018
Nominated for the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize 2018 & 2020
Aschehoug Debut Grant 2014
Winner of the Tarjei Vesaas’ Debut Prize 2014

Edited March 11, 2025 by Oslo Literary Agency