Born in 1978 in Norway, Aslak Nore grew up in Oslo. After studying at the New School for Social Research in New York, he joined the elite Norwegian Telemark battalion in Bosnia. An adventurer at heart, he has lived in Latin America and worked as a journalist in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The one who now lives in Marseille is winner of the Riverton Prize, for the best detective novel in Norway in 2018, with “Ulvefellen”.
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In “The Heirs of the Arctic”, he paints a portrait of the Falcks, one of the most powerful families in Norway. After making their fortune in the commercial operation of boats, they created the Saga Foundation, which ensures the proper conservation of their country's archives and offers them a strategic place on the geopolitical scene. If the clan is divided between those from Oslo and those from Bergen, the reappearance of Connie Knarvick, a distant cousin, will aggravate the existing conflicts.
This year, after more than twenty years of existence, the itinerant festival Lettres du monde is organizing around 70 meetings in the space of ten days, spread throughout New Aquitaine. From November 16 to 23, the festival will stop in five towns in Greater Villeneuvois: initially in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, then at the Salle Valois in Laroque-Timbaut with Quebecois Virginie DeChamplain, at the Casseneuil media library with the Icelandic Thora Hjörleifsdóttir, at the Utopia cinema in Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot with the Portuguese José Vieira, and finally at the Salle des Noisetiers in Pujols with the Italian Valerio Varesi.
