Bård Isdahl and Lars Mæhle -- two important Norwegian cli-fi novelists

Bård Isdahl and Lars Mæhle -- two  important Norwegian cli-fi novelists

 

Bård Isdahl is a Norwegian architect and author. In ''Havari: en roman om luft'' (2013) (can be translated into “Breakdown: a novel about air”) we meet Irina who has to take care of a neighbour’s son in Oslo, where people die from dehydration. Irina digs into her late father’s Soviet background while the Norwegian Government decides to close the border for climate refugees. A Norwegian critic has described the book as follows: “[…] the story about how our society will be in 20-30 years is so realistic it feels unpleasant already […]”. Isdahl has been engaged in Norwegian Writer’s Climate Campaign founded in 2013.

Lars Mæhle is a Norwegian author of books for children and young adults. In 2015 he released the science fiction novel ''Bouvetøya 2052'' (Bouvet Island 2052). He is a Norwegian author of books for children and young adults. In 2015 he released the climate fiction novel Bouvetøya 2052 (Bouvet Island 2052). He describes a climate competition on the Bouvet Island in the Southern Ocean. Five teenagers from different continents are participants in this online reality show, the purpose of which to make the viewers aware of the great climate crisis the world faces. Mæhle used four years researching the book and has spent a lot of time talking with Norwegian pupils about his novel and climate change.