LISTS OF POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE TEXTS FOUND IN 99 ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR NORWEGIAN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL USE FOR THE ACADEMIC BRANCH FROM 1977 ONWARDS


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CONTENTS
LIST OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS SINCE 1977
LITERATURE FROM SPECIFIC COUNTRIES/REGIONS:
CANADA
AFRICA
THE CARIBBEAN
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND
THE  INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
IRELAND


THE FOLLOWING TEXTBOOKS AND TEACHER'S BOOKS HAVE BEEN BROWSED THROUGH TO FIND FICTIONAL POST COLONIAL TEXTS FROM  COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES

I do not guarantee that I have recorded all the texts in all the books I have flipped through, but I believe I have recorded most of them, and if there are any omissions, please let me know about it on this e-mail address.

The initial lists are organized according to the publishing houses in alphabethical order and and within each publishing house according to the textbook writers in alphabetical and chronologial order for each authorship. The regional lists that follow have references to the textbook writers and the year of publication for each entry referring to the books listed below these lines.

Aslaksrud and Bårtvedt (eds.): Challenge, Aschehoug 1978a
Aslaksrud and Bårtvedt (eds.): Crossroads, Aschehoug 1978b
Aslaksrud and Bårtvedt (eds.): Encounters, Aschehoug 1978c
Alf Bårtvedt (ed.): Perspectives, Aschehoug 1982
Bårtvedt et al (eds.): Scope, Aschehoug 1986
Bårtvedt et al (eds.): Scope, 2nd edition R-94, Aschehoug 1993
Alf Bårtvedt (ed.): Echoes, Aschehoug 1988
Bårtvedt et al (eds.): Reaching Out, Aschehoug 1990
Bårtvedt et al (eds.): Impressions, Aschehoug 1996
Bårtvedt et al (eds.): Impressions, Aschehoug 2003
Berntzen and Stenersen (eds.): Voices, Aschehoug 1994
Berntzen et al (eds.): Visions 1, Aschehoug 1995
Berntzen and Leigh (eds.): Values, Aschehoug 1996
Berntzen et al (eds.): Targets, Aschehoug 1998
Despard and Ibsen: Impressions, Aschehoug 2008
Hasselgård et al (eds.): New Perspectives, Aschehoug 1996
Hasselgård et al (eds.): Visions 1, Aschehoug 2002
Haugen et al (eds.): Targets, 2nd edition, Aschehoug 2005
Haugen et al (eds.): Targets, 3rd edition, Aschehoug 2009
Haugen et al (eds.): Reflections, Aschehoug 2008
Haugum et al (eds.): Worldwide, Aschehoug 2007
Elisabeth Ibsen (ed.): Words and Lies, Aschehoug 1989
Jägfeldt and Jägfeldt (eds.): Action 1, Aschehoug 1981a
Jägfeldt and Talberg (eds.): Action 2, Aschehoug 1981b
Hellstrøm Groth and Jägfeldt (eds.): English in Action, Aschehoug 1989
Brevik Wangsness et al (eds.): Prospects, Aschehoug 2003
Selected Short Stories, Aschehoug, Samlaget, Gyldendal 1984


Andersen and Hals (eds.): Imagine, Cappelen 1989
Andersen and Hals (eds.): Imagine, 2nd edition R-94, Cappelen 1994
Andersen et al (eds.): Imagine, 3rd edition, Cappelen 2000
Andersen et al (eds.): Consider, Cappelen 1991a
Andersen et al (eds.): Consider, Teacher's Book, Cappelen 1991b
Andersen et al (eds.): Patterns, Cappelen 1995a
Andersen et al (eds.): Projects, Cappelen 1995b
Andersen et al (eds.): Tapestry, Cappelen 1996a
Andersen et al (eds.): Venture, Cappelen 1996b
Anthony et al (eds.): Tapestry, Cappelen 2003a
Anthony et al (eds.): Venture, Cappelen 2003b
Anthony and Mikkelsen (eds.): Access to International English, Cappelen 2007
Anthony et al (eds.): Access to English: Literature, Cappelen 2008a
Anthony et al (eds.): Access to English: Social Studies, Cappelen 2008b
Anvik et al (eds.): Passage, Cappelen 2000
Anvik et al (eds.): Passage, Cappelen 2003
Arnell et al (eds.): That's Life 1, Cappelen 1977
Bergman et al (eds.): Twenty 20th Century Women Writers, Cappelen 1985
Berntsen and Svenkerud (eds.): That's Life 2, Cappelen 1979
Burgess and Bowles Sørhus (eds.): Passage 2009
Hals and Mikkelsen (eds.): Discover, Cappelen 1993a
Hals and Mikkelsen (eds.): Discover, Teacher's Book, Cappelen 1993b
Hals et al (eds.): Departures, Cappelen 2002
Richard Peel (ed.): Connect, Cappelen 1993
Therese Bowles Sørhus et al (eds): Passage, Cappelen 2006

Rodgers et al (eds.): @cross, Damm 2004
Rodgers et al (eds.): @cross, Damm 2. edition 2006
Skifjeld et al (eds): Global Paths, Damm 2007

Desmond McGarrighan (ed): Mind the Gap, Fagbokforlaget 2006

Clausen et al (eds.): Victory, Gyldendal 1993
Clausen et al (eds.): Kaleidoscope, Gyldendal 1996
Gorseth et al (eds.): Speak Your Mind, Gyldendal 1988
Gorseth et al (eds.): First Class! Gyldendal 1994
Gorseth and Heian (eds.): Flying Colours, Gyldendal 2000
Heian and Talberg (eds.): On the Move, Gyldendal 1994
Heian et al (eds.): Headline, Gyldendal 1995
Heian and Fretheim (eds.):Focus, Gyldendal 2002
Heian and Fretheim (eds.): Bookmarks, Gyldendal 2003
Heian et al (eds): eXperience, Gyldendal 2006
Heian et al (eds): new eXperience, Gyldendal 2009
Heian and Haidri Sjøvoll (eds.): International Focus, Gyldendal 2007
Lausund and Øverland (eds.): Worlds of English 1, Gyldendal 1979
Lausund and Øverland (eds.): Worlds of English 2, Gyldendal 1980
Olav Lausund (ed.): Worlds of English 3, Gyldendal 1982
Raaum et al (eds.): Stepping-Stones, Gyldendal 1989
Sager et al (eds.): See How They Tick, Gyldendal 1982
Knut Skifjeld et al (eds): Societies in Focus, Gyldendal 2008

Finn Bergskaug (ed.): Engelsk for naturfaglinja, NKI-Forlaget 1982

Blom and Hammerstad (eds.): Outlook 1, NKS-Forlaget 1980
Blom andHammerstad (eds.): Outlook 2, NKS-Forlaget 1981a
Blom et al (eds.): Outlook 3, NKS-Forlaget 1981b
Dahl et al (eds.): Adult Worlds, NKS-Forlaget 1996
Karl Erik Hedstrøm (ed.): Free Choice 1, NKS-Forlaget 1980
Watkinson et al (eds.): Windows, NKS-Forlaget 1991
Ellen Watkinson (ed.): Facts and Feelings, R-94, NKS-Forlaget 1994

Areklett et al (eds.): Stunt, Samlagt 2009
Hagéus and Aadal (eds.): As you like it 1, Samlaget 1984
Hagéus and Aadal (eds.): As you like it 2, Samlaget 1985a
Mildred Hagéus (ed.): As you like it (for 5 periods a week), Samlaget 1985b
Harbo et al (eds.): Gaining Ground, Samlaget 1995
Thomas Nielsen (ed.): On the Way 1, Samlaget 1977
Thomas Nielsen (ed.): On the Way 2, Samlaget 1978
Thomas Nielsen (ed.): To the Point 1, Samlaget 1979
Thomas Nielsen (ed.): To the Point 2, Samlaget 1981

Bogen et al (eds.): Aspects, Universitetsforlaget 1995a
Bogen et al (eds.): Profiles, Universitetsforlaget 1995b
Arve Fretheim (ed.): Literature in Focus, Universitetsforlaget 1992
Arve Fretheim (ed.): Anglo-American Agenda, Universitetsforlaget 1993
Arve Fretheim (ed.): Life and Literature, Universitetsforlaget 1996
Desmond McGarrighan (ed.): Human Touch, Universitetsforlaget 1993
Halvor Thesen (ed.): Communication, Universitetsforlaget 1993
Halvor Thesen (ed.): Perceptions, Universitetsforlaget 1995

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LIST OF WRITERS FROM CANADA WHO ARE  REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORWAY

Margaret Atwood: excerpt from Bodily Harm, Bårtvedt 1988 and Bergman 1985
Margaret Atwood: "The Man from Mars", Watkinson 1991 and 1994
Margaret Atwood: "The Whirlpool Rapids", Bårtvedt 1993
Margaret Atwood: "This is a Photograph of Me", Andersen 1994
Margaret Atwood: "Dancing", Andersen 1996a and Heian 2007
Margaret Atwood: "Charivari", Fretheim 1996 and Heian 2002
Margaret Atwood: "Happy Endings", Despard 2008

Leonard Cohen: "For Anne " and "Warning", Andersen 1989
Leonard Cohen: "All There Is to Know About Adolph Eichman", Blom 1981b
Leonard Cohen: "I'm your Man", Hellstrøm Groth 1989
Leonard Cohen: "The Future", Dahl 1996

Roch Carrier: "The Hockey Sweather", Haugen 2008

Nancy and Benedict Freedman: "Mrs Mike", Berntzen 1994

Hugh Garner: "The Moose and the Sparrow", Raaum 1989,  Heian 1994, Haugen 2005 og 2009

Eva Hoffman: excerpt from Lost in Translation, Despard 2008

Alootook Ipellie: "How Noisy They Seem", Haugen 2009

Anne Jew: "Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown", Haugum 2007

Rita Joe: "I Lost My Talk", Areklett 2009

E. Pauline Johnson  (Mohawk father, English mother): "As It Was In The Beginning", Hals 1993a

William P. Kinsella: "Goldie", Bårtvedt 1990
William P. Kinsella: "The Bottle Queen", Bårtvedt 1988
William P. Kinsella: "Panache", Heian 2002 and Anthony 2008b

Stephen Leacock: "My Financial Career", Bårtvedt 1990

Margaret Laurence:"The Loons", Andersen 1991a and 1995a, Anthony 2007

Hugh MacLennan: "The Rivers That Made a Nation" essay from Seven Rivers of Canada, Clausen 1993

Maurice Metayer: "The Magic Drum" an Inuit story, Harbo 1995

Joni Mitchell: "Big Yellow Taxi", Anthony 2008a

Alice Munro: "The Found Boat", Blom 1981b
Alice Munro: excerpt from "The Flats Road", Hellstrøm Groth 1989
Alice Munro: "An Ounce of Cure", Harbo 1995 and Heian 2007
Alice Munro: excerpt from the short story "An Ounce of Cure" under the title:" The Night I went to the Berrymans", Watkinson 1991 and 1994
Alice Munro: "The Moons of Jupiter" excerpt from the title short story in the collection with the same name, Clausen 1993
Alice Munro: "Red Dress", Bårtvedt 1996

Alden Nowlan: "One September Afternoon", Fretheim 1992 and Andersen 2000
Alden Nowlan: "Canadian Love Song", Clausen 1993, Anthony 2003a and Fretheim 2003
Alden Nowlan: "Canadian January Night", Clausen 1993, Andersen 2000 and Gorseth 2000
Alden Nowlan: "The Bull Moose", Bogen 1995a and b
Alden Nowlan: "It is Good to Be Here", Gorseth 2000

Charlie Patsauq: "The Custom", Haugen 2009

Buffy Sainte-Marie: "Now that the Buffalo's Gone", Aslaksrud 1978b
Buffy Sainte-Marie: "The Universal Soldier", Aslaksrud 1978a, Watkinson 1991 and Berntzen 1996
Buffy Sainte-Marie: "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", Dahl 1996

Carol Shields: "Scenes", Andersen 1996a
Carol Shields: "Mrs Turner Cutting the Grass", Berntzen 1998 and Skifjeld 2008

Drew Hayden Taylor: "Strawberries", Bårtvedt 2003 and Brevik Wangsness 2003

William Dempsey Valgardson: "God is Not a Fish Inspector", Clausen 1993

Budge Wilson: "The Metaphor", Andersen 1994
Budge Wilson: "The Leaving", Andersen 1995a
Budge Wilson: "The Pen Pal", Andersen 1995b
Budge Wilson: "The Reunion", Anthony 2003a
Budge Wilson: "Be-ers and Doers", Anvik 2003

Ethel Wilson: "I just love dogs", Rogers 2004, Skifjeld 2007

Neil Young: "Pocahontas", Areklett 2009

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LIST OF AFRICAN WRITERS WHO ARE  REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORWAY

SOUTH AFRICA

Peter Abrahams: "The Slave Masters", Nielsen 1977
Peter Abrahams: "One Day", Lausund 1979
Peter Abrahams: "The Insult", Raaum 1989

André Brink: "A Story of Soweto",  Gorseth 1988

Dennis Brutus: "Nightsong: City", Berntsen 1979

Johnny Clegg: "When the System has Fallen", Heian 1994

David Evans: "Dead Man's Shoes", Hasselgård 2002 and Haugum 2007

Nadine Gordimer: "The Train from Rhodesia", Lausund 1980
Nadine Gordimer: "Country Lovers", Andersen 1989, 1994 and 2000, Clausen 1993, and a dramatized version in Thesen 1993 and Heian 1994
Nadine Gordimer: "The Soft Voice of the Serpent", Bergman 1985, Fretheim 1992 and Dahl 1996
Nadine Gordimer: "Terminal", Andersen 1995a
Nadine Gordimer: "The Moment the Gun Went Off", Bårtvedt 1996 and 2003, Brevik Wangsness 2003 og Despard 2008
Nadine Gordimer: "Once Upon a Time", Berntzen 1996, Fretheim 2003 og Areklett 2009
Nadine Gordimer: "Amnesty", Heian 2002
Nadine Gordimer: "The Ultimate Safari", Heian 2007

Alex La Guma: excerpt from "Where are you Walking Around Man", Hagéus 1984

Dan Jacobson:  "Beggar my Neighbour", Lausund 1980 and Selected short stories 1984

A.N.C. Kumalo (pseudonym): "Red our Colour", Gorseth 1988

Jabulile Kunene: "You Can't", Andersen 1989 and 1994

Obed Kunene: "Apartheid Falling", Gorseth 1988

Mzi Mahola: "What I remember", Haugum 2007

Zindziswa Mandela: "My Country", Areklett 2009

Gcina Mhlophe: "The Toilet", Bårtvedt 1993, Berntzen 1998,  Haugen 2005 og 2009

Casey Motsisi: "Riot", Aslaksrud 1978a and Berntsen 1979

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali: "Boy on a Swing", Nielsen 1977
Oswald Mtshali: "Walls", Haugen 2005

Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane: "Entry into Soweto", Thesen 1995

Alan Paton: excerpt from Cry the Beloved Country,  Nielsen 1977
Alan Paton: "Ha'penny", Nielsen 1979
Alan Paton: "Hate in the Beloved Country", Nielsen 1979

Abel Phelps: "Head work", Hals 2002

F.C.Slater: "Lament for a Dead Cow". (Chant by Xhosa family on the death of Wetu, their only cow), Blom 1981b

Can Themba: "The Suit", Hagéus 1984

Teaching unit with literature from South-Africa

NIGERIA

Chinua Achebe: excerpt from Things fall apart, Nielsen 1979
Chinua Achebe: "Dead Men's Path", excerpt in Hagéus 1984, the whole story in Harbo 1995, Heian 2006and 2009
Chinua Achebe: "The Voter", Bårtvedt 1986
Chinua Achebe: "Marriage is a Private Affair", Bårtvedt 1988, Lausund 1980, Bårtvedt 1996 and 2003, Despard 2008
Chinua Achebe: "Uncle Ben's Choice", Fretheim 1996

Yusuf M Adamu: "They can speak English", Heian 2006 and 2009

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: excerpt from Half a Yellow Sun, Haugen 2008
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, article about her from Guardian unlimited 2007, Haugen 2008

Unigwe C. Emmanuel: "One Man's Terrorist",  Haugen 2009

I.N.C. Aniebe: "Sign of the Times", Clausen 1993

Cyprian Ekwensi: "Night of Freedom", Aslaksrud 1978c

Chike Emenike: "A Soldier's Bride", Hellstrøm Groth 1989 og Haugen 2009

Uzodinma Iweala: "A Close Encounter", Haugum 2007

Karen King-Aribisala: "The Carpet Engagement", Berntzen 1995 and Haugum 2007

Omololá Ijeoma Ògúnyemi: "Presumed Guilty: Passport Green", Despard 2008

Ben Okri: "In the Shadow of War", Fretheim 2003
Ben Okri: "A Prayer from the Living", Areklett 2009

Gabriel Okara: "The Crooks", Berntsen 1979
Gabriel Okara: "Piano and Drum", Aslaksrud 1978c and Lausund 1980

Mabel Segun: "Conflict", Lausund 1980 and Clausen 1996

Wole Soyinka: "Telephone Conversation", Hagéus 1984, Aslaksrud 1978c, Bårtveit 1987, Lausund 1980, Bogen 1995a and 1995b, Hasselgård 2002, McGarrighan 2006
Wole Soyinka: "A Political Prisoner", Lausund 1980

Teaching unit with literature from Nigeria

GHANA

G. Adali- Mortty: "Belonging", Clausen 1996

James E.K. Aggrey: "Parable of the Eagle", Raaum 1989
 

SIERRA LEONE

Iyamide Hazeley: "When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes", Bårtvedt 1990

Ishmael Beah: Excerpt from A Long Way Gone, Haugen 2008

SENEGAL

Birago Diop: "Omen", Berntsen 1979
Birago Diop: "Whispering Voices", Hellstrøm Groth 1989

CAMEROON

Mutia Ba'bila: "The Miracle", Peel 1993

MALI

Issa Bagayogo: "Going Abroad", Haugum 2007

MALAWI

Steve Chimombo: "The Rubbish Dump", Andersen 1995a

SOUTH RHODESIA/ZIMBABWE

Alexander Kanengoni: "EffortlessTears", Haugum 2007

Doris Lessing: "No Witchcraft for Sale", Aslaksrud 1978c, Harbo 1995, Fretheim 1996, Anthony 2008a, Skifjeld 2008 and Areklett 2009
Doris Lessing: "A Mild Attack of Locust", Bårtvedt 1982
Doris Lessing: "The Nuisance", Bergman 1985
Doris Lessing: "Get Back to Work", excerpt from The Grass is Singing, Watkinson 1991 and 1994
Doris Lessing: "Flight", Thesen 1993

Charles Mungoshi: "Waiting for the Rain", Andersen, 1991b

Teaching unit with literature from Zimbabwe

BOTSWANA

Bessie Head: "Snapshots at a Wedding", Bårtvedt 1990
Bessie Head: "Property", Fretheim 1992 and Heian 2007
Bessie Head: "Looking for a Rain God", Clausen 1993

UGANDA

Okot p'Bitek: excerpt from Song of Lawino, Bårtvedt 1990,
Okot p'Bitek: excerpt from Song of Lawino, Jägfeldt, 1981b
Okot p'Bitek: excerpt from Song of Lawino, Clausen 1993
Okot p'Bitek: "I Do Not Know the Dances of White People" excerpt from Song of Lawino, Heian 2007

Barbara Kimenye: "The Winner", Hedström 1980

Teaching unit with literature from Uganda | Article on East-African literature

TANZANIA

Anthony M. Hokororo: "A Day Off", Jägfeldt, 1981a

KENYA

Karen Blixen: "A Lion Hunt" frå Out of Africa, Gorseth 1994

Jomo Kenyatta: "The Gentleman of the Jungle", Lausund 1980

Grace Ogot: "The Rain Came", Fretheim 1992

Leteipa Ole Sunkuli: "They Sold My Sister", Gorseth 2000,  Rodgers 2004 and 2006, Haugum 2007

Ngugi wa Thiong'o: excerpt from Petals of Blood, Fretheim 1992

SUDAN

Tayed Salih: "Handful of Dates", Sørhus 2006 and Burgess and Sørhus 2009
 

Teaching unit with literature from Kenya | Article on East-African literature

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LIST OF CARIBBEAN WRITERS WHO ARE  REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORWAY


ANTIGUA

Jamaica Kincaid: "Girl", Fretheim 1992
Jamaica Kincaid: "Columbus in Chains", Skifjeld 2007

BARBADOS

Edward Kamau Brathwaite: "The Emigrants", Bårtvedt 1988

DOMINICA

Jean Rhys: "On Not Shooting Sitting Birds", Hals 1993a
Jean Rhys: "I Used to Live Here Once", Fretheim 1996 and 2003, Anthony 2008a

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (Spanish)

Julia Alvarez: "Snow", Berntzen 1996,  Haugum 2007and Heian 2009

GUYANA

John Agard: "Finders Keeper", Fretheim 2003, Rodgers 2004 and Rodgers 2006
John Agard: "Pan Recipe", Anthony 2007
John Agard: "Mek Four", Areklett 2009

E.R. Braithwaite: "The West Indian" excerpt from To Sir with Love, Clausen 1996

Martin Carter: "That we build", Harbo 1995

Karen King-Aribisala: "The Carpet Engagement", Berntzen 1995 and Haugum 2007

Grace Nichols: "Wherever I Hang", Bogen 1995a and 1995b, Clausen 1996, Hals 2002 and Anthony 2007
Grace Nichols: "I Have Crossed an Ocean", Berntzen 1998

JAMAICA

Edward Baugh: "Nigger Sweat", Clausen 1996

Louise Bennett-Coverley: "No Lickle Twang", Skifjeld 2007

Valerie Bloom: "Yuh Hear Bout", Clausen 1993
Valerie Bloom: "A Soh Dem Sey/That's What They Say", Clausen 1996
Valerie Bloom: "Language Barrier", Areklett 2009

Lorna Goodison: "Shilling", Andersen 1994

Donald Hinds: "Busman's Blues", Blom 1980

Evan Jones: "The Song of the Banana Man", Anthony 2007

Linton Kwesi Johnson: "Sonny's Lettah", Sørhus 2006 and Burgess and Sørhus 2009

Bob Marley: "Redemption Song", Berntzen 1998
Bob Marley: "No Woman, No Cry", Gorseth 2000

Mutabaruka: "Dis Poem", Berntzen 1995 and Hasselgård 2002

Joan Riley: excerpt from The Unbelonging, Gorseth 1988

Olive Senior: "Colonial Girls' School", Clausen 1996

Mikey Smith: "Mi Cyaan believe it", Gorseth 1994

Zadie Smith: excerpt from White Teeth, Hals 2002 and Anthony 2007
Zadie Smith: "I'm the Only One", Fretheim 2003

Elean Thomas: "Black Woman's Love Song", Heian 1995a

Benjamin Zephaniah: "Dis Poetry", Heian 2002
Benjamin Zephaniah: "The Sun", Anvik 2003
Benjamin Zephaniah: "Talking Turkeys", Heian 2006 and 2009
Benjamin Zephaniah: "Reaggie Head", Heian 2007

Teaching unit with literature from Jamaica

ST LUCIA

Derek Walcott: "Earth", Fretheim 1996
Derek Walcott: "The Bounty - Homecoming", Anthony 2008a

TRINIDAD

Merle Hodge: "Inez", Berntzen 1995
Merle Hodge: "Gran-Gran", Andersen 1996a and 1996b, Anthony 2003a

Shiva Naipaul: excerpt from "Living in Earl's Court", Andersen 1996

V.S. Naipaul: excerpt from India a Million Mutinies Now, Clausen 1993

Sam(uel) Selvon: "The Village Washer", Hedstrøm 1980
Sam Selvon: "A Drink of Water", Jägfeldt 1981b
Sam Selvon: "Brackley and the Bed", Haugen 2005,  Anthony 2007 and Haugen 2009

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LIST OF WRITERS FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND WHO ARE  REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORWAY

AUSTRALIA

Glenda Adams: "Lies", Hasselgård 2002

Chas Adlard: "Beyona", Rogers 2004 and Skifjeld 2007

Murray Bail: "The Silence", Bårtvedt 1990
Murray Bail:  "Foecunda", Haugen 2008

Carmel Bird: "The Quince Tree" Heian 2007

Eric Bogle: "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", Berntzen 1996

Peter Carey: "Wrong about Japan", Haugum 2007

Maurice Corlett: "Reunion in Gunyah Creek", Andersen 1994

Rosemary Dobson: "Folding the Sheets"

Mary Gilmore: "Nationality", Lausund 1980, Andersen 1995a, Berntzen 1995, Thesen 1995, Hasselgård 2002 and Heian 2007

Anne Gambling: "The Drover's De Facto", Berntzen 1995a

Peter Goldsworthy: "One of My Best Friends", Heian 2002 and Haugum 2007

John Hepworth: "Will you walk a little faster" and "What's more, you pay money", Clausen 1993

Rob Hirst and James Moginie: "Truganini" (song lyrics) , Dahl 1996

Alec Derwent Hope: "Australia", Lausund 1980

Elizabeth Jolley: "A Gentleman's Agreement", Thesen 1995

Henry Lawson:"Two Men", Aslaksrud 1978c
Henry Lawson: "The Drover's Wife", Lausund 1980, Heian 1994, Bårtvedt 2003,  Rodgers 2004 and 2006, Areklett 2009
See painting of the Drover's Wife
Henry Lawson: "On the Edge of a Plain", Raaum 1989
Henry Lawson: "The Ghostly Door", Watkinson 1991
Henry Lawson: "The Union Buries Its Dead", Clausen 1993

Morris Lurie: "The Larder"

Peter Dodds McCormick: "Advance Australia Fair", Raaum 1989 and Andersen 1989

John Shaw Neilson: "Love's Coming", Lausund 1979

Reginald Ottley: "Brownie", Hagéus 1985a and b

Andrew Barton Paterson: "Walzing Matilda", Aslaksrud 1978c, Hagéus 1985a, Bårtvedt 1988, Watkinson 1991 and Andersen 2000

Peter Porter: "Your attention, Please", Aslaksrud 1978c
Peter Porter: "Mort aux Chats", Bårtvedt 1988

Katharine Prichard: "The Cooboo", Bårtvedt 1982
Katharine Susannah Prichard: "N'goola", Hals 1993a

Patricia Rolfe: "Simple Faith", Aslaksrud 1978c

Lesley Rowlands: "A Really Splendid Evening", Bårtvedt 1988 and Clausen 1996

Nevil Shute: "Pied Piper", Blom 1981b
Nevil Shute: "A Town Like Alice", Harbo 1995

Mattew O'Sullivan: "Acting Up", McGarrighan 2006

Patrick White: "The Letters", excerpt from the novel Voss, Lausund 1980 and Dahl 1996

Tim Winton: "Neighbours", Bårtvedt 1993, Anthony 2003a,  2003b and 2007
Tim Winton: "Secrets", Bårtvedt 2003

By Aborigines:

K. Langloh Parker: "Gayardaree the Platypus" from More Australian Legendary Tales, London 1898,
Hagéus 1985a and b

"The Bat and the Rainbow", legend told by Anastasia Kelantumame, Raaum 1989

Gerry Bostock: "Black Children", Skifjeld 2007

Jim Everett (Aboriginal name: Mawbana Pleregannana): "The White Man Problem" , Hals 1993b

Doris Pilkington Garimaras: "Rabbit - Proof Fence, Film Script, Areklett 2009

Eva Johnson: "A Letter to My Mother", Hals 1993b

Sally Morgan: My Place, excerpt from her autobiography from 1987, Clausen 1993 and Andersen 2000

Archie Roach: "Took the children Away", Sørhus 2006 and Burgess and Sørhus 2009
Links:
YouTube version of the song

Kath Walker, (from 1988 Oodgero Noonuccal): "Son of Mine", Fretheim 1992 and 1996, Andersen 2000, Heian 2006 and 2009
Kath Walker (Oodgeroo): "No more Boomerang", Clausen 1993, Gorseth 2000 and Areklett 2009
Oodgeroo Noonuccal: "The Past", Andersen 1996a and 1996b
Oodgeroo Noonuccal: "Municipal Gum", Areklett 2009

Robert Walker: "Okay, Let's Be Honest", Andersen 1994

Glenyse Ward: excerpt from her autobiography Wandering Girl, Berntzen 1994 and 1998, Haugen 2005

Judith Wright: "Rainforest", Areklett 2009

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NEW ZEALAND

Fleur Adcock: "For Heidi with Blue Hair", Fretheim 2003and Haugum 2007

Amelia Batistich: "A Dalmatian Woman", Heian 1994

Janet Frame: "Miss Gibson and the Lumber-Room", Bårtvedt 1996

Patricia Grace: "Butterflies", Hals 2002 and Anthony 2007
Patricia Grace: "A Way of Talking", Bårtvedt 2003 and Brevik Wangsness 2003

Witi Ihimaera: "A Game of Cards", Clausen 1993
Witi Ihimaera: "Beginning of the Tournament", Gorseth 2000
Witi Ihimaera: excerpt from The Whale Rider, Rodgers 2004, Sørhus 2006,  Rodgers 2006 and Burgess and Sørhus 2009
Wiri Ihimaera: "Wiwi", Areklett 2009

Betty Johnston: "Never the Right Time", Fretheim 1992

Katherine Mansfield: "Miss Brill", Nielsen 1978 and Selected Short Stories 1984
Katherine Mansfield: "Life of Ma Parker", Aslaksrud 1978c and Bårtvedt 1988
Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party", Clausen 1993
Katherine Mansfield: "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped", Thesen 1993
Katherine Mansfield: "The Fly", Bårtvedt 2003
Katherine Mansfield: "Sixpence", Fretheim 2003
Katherine Mansfield: "Her First Ball", Heian 2006 and 2009
Katherine Mansfield: "Leves Amores", Haugen 2008e

Frank Sargeson: "A Great Day", Heian 2006 and 2009

Margareth Sutherland: "On the Scrap Heap", Blom 1981

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LIST OF WRITERS FROM  THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT WHO ARE  REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORWAY

BRITISH WRITERS:

Dorothy Black: excerpts from Letters of an Indian Judge, Blom 1981b, Ibsen 1989, Fretheim 1992 and Clausen 1993. It is now proved beyond doubt that these letters are not authentical, but written by Dorothy Black

E.M. Forster: excerpt from  A Passage to India, Andersen 1991a and Fretheim 1996

Rudyard Kipling: "The White Man's Burden", Andersen 1991a, Clausen 1993 and 1996,  Anthony 2007 and excerpt in  Berntzen 1996
Rudyard Kipling: "Mandalay", Aslaksrud 1978c and Bårtvedt 1988
Rudyard Kipling: "Lisbeth", Fretheim 1992, 1996 and 2003, Anthony 2008a
Rudyard Kipling: "The Gardener", Peel 1993
Rudyard Kipling: "The Elephant's Child", Clausen 1993
Rudyard Kipling: "We and They", Hasselgård 1996 and Hasselgård 2002
Rudyard Kipling: "Ballad of the East and West" (excerpt),  Heian 2002 and Areklett 2009
Rudyard Kipling:  excerpt from The Junglebook, Sørhus 2006

INDIAN WRITERS:

G.S. Sharat Chandra: "Still Kicking in America", Bogen 1995a and 1995b

Farouk Dhondy: "KBW", Clausen 1993 AND Heian 1994

Anita Desai: "The Pigeons at Daybreak", Bergman 1985

Mohandas K. Gandhi: "The Story of my Experiments with Truth", Hals 1993b and 1995a

Shekhar Joshi: "Big Brother", Andersen 1994

Charan Jit Kaur: "The Green Frock", Haugum 2007

Jyoti Lanjewar: "Mother", Haugen 2008

Suketu Mehta: "Distelleries of Pleasures", Skifjord 2007

R. K. Narayan: "The Watchman", Bårtvedt 1990
R. K. Narayan: "The Evening Gift", Bårtvedt 1988 and Clausen 1993
R. K. Narayan: "Lawley Road", Lausund 1980
R. K. Narayan: "Like the Sun", Harbo 1995
R. K. Narayan: "A Horse and Two Goats", Anthony 2003a, 2003b and 2007

V.S. Naipaul:  (3. generation Indian from Trinidad): excerpt from India a Million Mutinies Now, Clausen 1993

Smita Patel: "Between Two Cultures", travel fiction, Bogen 1995a and 1995b

Amrita Pritam: "The Stench of Kerosene", Hals 1993a and Andersen 2000

Ravinder Randhawa: "India", Berntzen 1994

Santha Rama Rau: "By Any Other Name", Areklett 2009

A.K. Ramanujan: "Self-Portrait", Andersen 1996a and 1996b

Arundhati Roy: excerpt from The God of Small Things, Bårtvedt 2003

Salman Rushdie: "Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies", Bårtvedt 1993, Berntzen 1998,  Haugen 2005 and 2009

Vikram Seth: "The Crocodile and the Monkey", Anvik 2003

Kushwant Singh: "Karma", Blom 1981a, Andersen 1991b, Fretheim 1993 and Gorseth 1994

Arjay Singh: Give'em Hell Hari, Anthony 2008b

Anya Sitaram: "Naukar", Clausen 1996

Vikas Swarup: excerpt from Q &A, Heian 2007 and Skifjeld 2008

Rabindranath Tagore: "Death Belongs to Life", Jägfeldt 1981a

Krishnan Varma: "The Grass-Eaters", Anthony 2008b

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PAKISTAN

Ayub Khan-Din: "East is East" excerpt from a drama, Heian 2002 and Haugum 2007

Hanif Kureishi: excerpt from Buddha of Suburbia, Andersen 1994
Hanif Kureishi: "My Son the Fanatic", Bårtvedt 1996 and 2003, Heian 2002 og 2007, Brevik Wangsness 2003 og Despard 2008

Maki Kureishi: "Kittens", Andersen 2000

BANGLADESH

Kaiser Haq: "Master Babu", Andersen 1994

Monica Ali: excerpt from Brick Lane, Areklett 2009

SRI LANKA

Nirmali Hettiarachchi: "The Lost One", Andersen 1996a and 1996b

AFGHANISTAN

Khaled Hosseini: excerpt from The Kite Runner, Sørhus 2006,  Heian 2007 and  Burgess and Sørhus 2009
Khaled Hosseini: excerpt from A Thousand Splendid Suns, Haugen 2009

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LIST OF IRISH WRITERS WHO ARE  REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORWAY

Det irske eventyret, "Clever Oonagh", Blom 1981b

Brendan Behan: "The Confirmation Suit", Blom 1980
Brendan Behan: "The Execution", Andersen 1991a and 1995b

Maeve Binchy: "Brixton", Bårtvedt 1990
Maeve Binchy: excerpt from Flat in Ringsend, Hellstrøm Groth 1989
Maeve Binchy: "The Return Journey", Bårtvedt 2003
Maeve Binchy: "Georgia Hann", Heian 2007

Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover", Bårtvedt 1996

Phil Coulter: "The Town I Loved So Well", Bårtvedt 1986 and 1993, Andersen 1991a, Clausen 1993 and Heian 1994

Bernadette Devlin: "An Irish Patriot", excerpt from her autobiography, Lausund 1979

Paul Durcan: "Stellar Manipulators", Haugen 2008

Roddy Doyle: excerpt from A Star Called Henry, Rodgers 2004 and 2006
Roddy Doyle: excerpt from The Snapper, Heian 2006
Roddy Doyle: excerpt from The Van, Anthony 2008b

Seamus Heaney: "Mid-Term Break", Lausund 1979,  Fretheim 1996, Heian 2002, Hasselgård 2002 and Heian 2007
Seamus Heaney: "Dedicatory Poem", Clausen 1993
Seamus Heaney: "Scaffolding", Berntzen 1994 and 1998
Seamus Heaney: "Digging", Andersen 1996a and 1996b, Bårtvedt 2003, Anthony 2003a and 2003b, Despard 2008
Seamus Heaney: "The Railway Children", Berntzen 1996
Seamus Heaney: "Limbo", Dahl 1996

James Joyce: "Eveline", Aslaksrud 1978c,  Fretheim 1996, Heian 2002 and Anthony 2008a
James Joyce: "Counterparts", Ibsen 1989, Fretheim 1992 and Clausen 1993

Marian Keyes: "Himselfas a Holigan" (essay), Heian 2006

Joan Lingard: excerpt from Across the Barricades, Bårtvedt 1990 and Raaum 1989

Patrick Macdonough: "She Walked Unaware", Blom 1981b

Walter Macken: "Barney's Maggie", Blom 1981a
Walter Macken: "The Coll Doll", Andersen 1994 and 2000

Bernard Mac Laverty: "Father and Son", Fretheim 1992 and 1996, Bårtvedt 1993, Berntzen 1998, Haugen 2005 and 2009
Bernard Mac Laverty: "Secrets", Hals 1993a, Andersen 1996a and 1996b, Anthony 2003a, 2003b and 2008a
Bernard Mac Laverty: excerpt from Cal, Dahl 1996
Bernard Mac Laverty: "The Miraculous Candidate", Anvik 2000
Bernard Mas Laverty: "Walking the Dog", Hals 2002, Skifjeld 2007and Anthony 2008b

Frank McCourt: excerpt from  Angela's Ashes, Anvik 2000 and Andersen 2000
Frank McCourt excerpt from Angela's Ashes, Hals 2002
Frank McCourt: "Geometry Lesson" excerpt from Angela's Ashes, Heian 2006 and 2009
Frank McCourt  excerpt from Teacher Man, Skifjeld 2008

John McGahern: "Like All Other Men", Bårtvedt 1996

Brian Moore: excerpt from Lies of Silence,  McGarrighan 1993 and Gorseth 1994

Sinéad Morrissey: "Genetics", Despard 2008

Paul Muldoon: "Anseo", Haugen 2008

Edna O'Brien: "The Rug", Lausund 1980, Thesen 1993, Andersen 1996a and 1996b
Edna O'Brien: "Cords", Aslaksrud 1978 c and Bårtvedt 1988
Edna O'Brien: "Irish Revel", Hagéus 1985a
Edna O'Brien: excerpt from The Country Girls, Berntsen 1979
Edna O'Brien: excerpt from Girl With Green Eyes, Bergman 1985
Edna O'Brien: excerpt from Mother Ireland, (dokumentar) Fretheim 1992

Frank O'Connor:"My Oedipus Complex", Andersen 1989 and 1994
Frank O'Connor: "The Drunkard", Hellstrøm Groth 1989
Frank O'Connor: "Famine", artikkel, Clausen 1993
Frank O'Connor: "First Confession", Clausen 1993

Sinead O'Connor: "Three Babies", Dahl 1996
Sinead O'Connor: "This is a Rebel song", Sørhus 2006
Sinead O'Connor: "Famine", Areklett 2009

Elizabeth O'Driscoll: "Jack's Mother and the Beanstalk", Berntzen 1996

Sean O'Faolan: "The Trout", Bårtvedt 1990

Liam O'Flaherty: "Mother and Son", Hedstrøm 1980
Liam O'Flaherty: "The Sniper", Clausen 1993, Fretheim 1993, Heian 1994, Bårtvedt 2003, Brevik Wangsness 2003, Anvik 2003, Sørhus 2006, Haugen 2009  and Burgess and Sørhus 2009

Bobby Sands: Thoughts from the Shadows, excerpt from his prison diary, Clausen 1993

Tommy Sands: "There Were Roses", Sørhus 2006

Bernard Shaw: excerpt from Major Barbara, Peel 1993

James Stephens: "The Shell", Blom 1981b

U2: "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", Fretheim 2003

Sinead de Valeria: "The Spoiled Child", Andersen 1994

Oscar Wilde: "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", Blom 1981b
Oscar Wilde: "The Canterville Ghost", Arnell 1977 and Gorseth 2000
Oscar Wilde: "The Selfish Giant", Raaum 1989,  Hasselgård 2002 and Areklett 2009
Oscar Wilde: "An Interview with a Prospective Mother-in Law" from The Importance of Being Earnest, Fretheim 1992 and 1996
Oscar Wilde: "A Suitable Match" from The Importance of Being Earnest, Berntzen 1994 and 1998
Oscar Wilde:  The Importance of Being Earnest as listening comprehension, Anthony 2008a

Jane Williams: "My Land", Aslaksrud 1978a

W.B. Yeats: "Down By the Salley Gardens", Lausund 1979, Andersen 1996a and Fretheim 1996
W.B. Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", Lausund 1979, Nielsen 1981, Hagéus 1985a, Clausen 1993 and Dahl 1996
W.B. Yeats: "The Song of Wandering Aengus", Clausen 1993 and Anthony 2008a
W.B. Yeats: "When You are Old", Arnell 1977 and Nielsen 1981
W.B. Yeats: "For Anne Gregory", Bårtvedt 1996
W.B. Yeats: "The Fiddler of Dooney", Heian 2002
W.B. Yeats: "Never Give All the Heart", Fretheim 2003

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