Beskrivelse
Fugl er en roman om håp. Håp om å finne en ny natur å være menneske i, håp om en ny heim. Skåden skriver fram et klaustrofobisk portrett av en menneskekoloni i det ytre rom, på en planet hvor landskapet sakte eter seg inn i mennesket, fortærer det innenfra.
«Su, du må våkne. Jeg skal fortelle deg en historie. Om noen som fant en fremmed planet. Hører du, Su, mammas lille jente? Det var noen mennesker som dro ut i et skip oppkalt etter en fugl, de reiste langt og de reiste lenge til de til slutt kom fram til en storm. De reiste inn i stormen, selv om de visste at de aldri kunne vende tilbake, bort fra alt som var kjent. Våkne Su, du må høre. Du må høre hva mamma forteller. På den andre siden fant de en planet, de kalte den Sedes fordi den skulle bli deres nye heim. Etter ei tid ble et jentebarn født på denne planeten. Og det var du, Su. Det var du.»
Sigbjørn Skåden
Sigbjørn Skåden (b. 1976) is from Skånland in Sør-Troms, Northern Norway. He has previously published two poetry collections and one novel in Sámi, and in 2007 he was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize as the nominee from the Sámi language area.
In 2014, he published the critically acclaimed novel Watch Over Those Who Sleep, for which he received the Havmann Prize for the best book from Northern Norway. The novel was also nominated for the NRK P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize. His novel Bird was published in 2019, followed by Planterhaug in 2025, which was simultaneously published in Sámi under the title Láŋtdievvá. Skåden was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize for the novel. Planterhaug was also nominated for the Brage Prize and the Havmann Prize.
In addition to his literary work, Sigbjørn Skåden has written texts for a wide range of interdisciplinary and performance-based projects. Among other distinctions, he has been named Young Artist of the Year at the Indigenous festival Riddu Riđđu, served as prologue writer for the Arctic Arts Festival (Festspillene i Nord-Norge), and was selected as an author for the European poetry platform Versopolis.