Hanne Ørstavik is one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her novel Love was voted one of Norway’s Top Ten books of the last twenty-five years. Her penultimate novel Ti Amo was published in English by And Other Stories in 2022. Stay with Me is her latest and sixteenth novel. Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature have appeared on the shortlists of the DUBLIN Literary Award (2017) and the US National Book Awards (2018), as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize. For his translation of Ørstavik's Love he received the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize.

‘Soul-searching on speed. Ørstavik writes with such distressing courage that as a reader, you become sweaty-palmed. Stay with Me is Hanne Ørstavik at her very best; so intense and profound that the unease becomes contagious . . . Above all, she conveys a spiritual openness that feels naked and vibrantly intense.’ Dagbladet

Hanne Ørstavik is one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her novel Love was voted one of Norway’s Top Ten books of the last twenty-five years. Her penultimate novel Ti Amo was published in English by And Other Stories in 2022. Stay with Me is her latest and sixteenth novel. Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature have appeared on the shortlists of the DUBLIN Literary Award (2017) and the US National Book Awards (2018), as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize. For his translation of Ørstavik's Love he received the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize.

‘Soul-searching on speed. Ørstavik writes with such distressing courage that as a reader, you become sweaty-palmed. Stay with Me is Hanne Ørstavik at her very best; so intense and profound that the unease becomes contagious . . . Above all, she conveys a spiritual openness that feels naked and vibrantly intense.’ Dagbladet