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Frode Grytten

Biography

Frode Grytten

Frode Grytten had his big breakthrough in 1999 with the Brage Prize-winning novel, BEEHIVE SONG. He is known throughout Norway for his short stories, but has returned to the novel form after over a decade with THE FERRYMAN AND HIS WIFE, which was also awarded the Brage Prize, Norway’s most important literary award, and his first book to be translated widely around the world. 

Frode Grytten

Books by Frode Grytten

The Ferryman and His Wife
by Frode Grytten - Fiction

Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat. His dog, dead these many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge --- from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions. The people from the past accompany him now, prodding him, showing him what he might have missed before, as he waits for his Marta, his late, remarkable wife, to finally join him on the boat again.