In 2015, the historical novel Grandma Danced in the Rain was published and cemented Trude Teige among international bestselling authors. The novel tells the story of Juni who returns to the house of her deceased grandparents on a small Norwegian island where she discovers a photograph: it shows her grandmother Tekla as a young woman with a German soldier. Juni can no longer ask anyone so the search for the truth takes her to Berlin and to the small town of Demmin in eastern Germany where hundreds of families committed suicide in May 1945. Juni realizes that this is about much more than a secret love. Inspired by actual people and events, the book was nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and has sold over 70,000 copies in Norway alone. It became one of the bestselling books in Germany in 2023 and remained on the bestseller lists for over a year.
In the fall of 2021, Teige followed up with a new, epic novel about an unknown piece of history. Grandpa Breathed With the Sea takes us to detention camps on Java where the Japanese held thousands of people under WWII including hundreds of women and children. The novel was published in German in the spring of 2024 and also went straight onto the German bestseller list. In the fall of 2024, Teige published the novel Grandma’s Incredible Friends, completing the popular Grandma trilogy with a moving story that makes the history of female forced laborers in Norway visible for the very first time on this scale.
Trude Teige is well known from the Norwegian TV channel TV2, where she was a presenter, news anchor and political reporter for 22 years. Since her writing debut, The Ocean Sang, which was published in Norway in 2002 and its sequel, Lean Against the Wind, Trude Teige has published twelve novels and two non-fiction books. Several of Teige’s books have been nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize, and they have been translated into many languages.
Trude Teige’s crime series about TV journalist Kajsa Coren counts among the most popular series in Norway not least because the author masterfully and in best Nordic Noir tradition weaves deep current social issues into her crime cases. The seven books about Kajsa Coren have together sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway alone and have been translated into German, Swedish, Danish, Russian and Turkish.
In the fall of 2020, the documentary book At the Scene was published in collaboration with forensic scientist Eva B. Ragde. Ragde counts among most experienced forensic scientists in Norway. At the Scene is about cases that Ragde has helped to solve through the forensic investigation, and the authors tell what happened before, during and after serious crimes.
Trude Teige is currently president of the Riverton Club.
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