We are absolutely thrilled to welcome the author Trude Teige to Nordin Ringhof Agency! Trude Teige was Norway’s 6th bestselling author in 2024!
Trude Teige
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 author debut, she 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 300.000 copies in Norway alone and have been translated into German, Swedish, Danish, Russian and Turkish.
In 2015, the historical novel Grandma Danced in the Rain was published and cemented Trude Teige among international bestselling authors. Inspired by actual people and events, the book was nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and has sold over 130.000 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. When Grandpa Breathed With the Sea was published in German in the spring of 2024 and went straight onto the German bestseller list.
In the fall of 2024, Teige published 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. The novel was among the Top Ten Bestselling Novels in 2024 in Norway.
