Lunde, Maja
Entry updated 15 September 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1975- ) Norwegian screenwriter and author, whose first novel, the Young Adult Over grensen ["Across the Border"] (2012) was nonfantastic. She is of interest for the Klimakvartetten ["Climate Quartet"] series beginning with Bienes historie (2015; trans Diane Oatley as The History of Bees 2017) and followed by Blå ["Blue"] (2017; trans Diane Oatley as The End of the Ocean 2019) and Przewalskis hest ["Przewalski's Horse"] (2019; trans Diane Oatley as The Last Wild Horses 2022), which focuses intensely on Ecological cruces, like the ongoing extermination of bees and its consequences, or the radical impoverishment of the oceans of the world, with the overall crisis of Climate Change framing the enterprise as the tale moves onward into the Near Future. An ongoing thrust towards possible solutions is warm-hearted. [JC]
Maja Lunde
born Oslo, Norway: 30 July 1975
works (selected)
series
Climate Quartet
- Bienes historie (Oslo, Norway: Aschehoug, 2015) [Climate Quartet: hb/]
- The History of Bees (New York: Simon and Schuster/Touchstone, 2017) [trans by Diane Oatley of the above: Climate Quartet: hb/Kai and Sunny]
- Blå ["Blue"] (Oslo, Norway: Aschehoug, 2017) [Climate Quartet: hb/]
- The End of the Ocean (London: Scribner UK, 2019) [trans by Diane Oatley of the above: Climate Quartet: hb/Jack Smyth]
- Przewalskis hest ["Przewalski's Horse"] (Oslo, Norway: Aschehoug, 2019) [Climate Quartet: hb/]
- The Last Wild Horses (New York: HarperVia, 2022) [trans by Diane Oatley of the above: Climate Quartet: hb/]
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