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Crown Princess Mette-Marit says she put her husband to the test by reading aloud little sex scenes from Geir Gulliksen’s new book. Photo: Fredrik Hagen / NTB
Crown Princess Mette-Marit put her husband to the test by reading Geir Gulliksen’s new book aloud.
On Monday, Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Geir Gulliksen met for an author’s talk at Oslo’s new main library, Deichman Bjørvika.
There he recounted something that had happened the night before.
– We were on our way home from the cabin, Haakon and I. And then I said, “I’m a little scared to talk about that book.” “Why?” “No, it has been written, among other things … Geir, as always, has written some of his cruel sex scenes,” I said. “It can not be so bad?” in Haakon. And then I said, “Should I read?” And then I started reading.
According to the crown princess, it was “quite cruel” for the crown prince.
– I finally saw Haakon’s face just twisted. It was fun.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon arrive at Deichman Bjørvika, where the Crown Princess will have a conversation with author Geir Gulliksen about the novel “Be kind again” on Monday night. Photo: Fredrik Hagen / NTB
“Please again”
In the new book “Be Nice Again”, Gulliksen writes about the character in the novel Henning, who decides that he is done with women and will become gay.
– It really brings us to the room that is most vulnerable for all of us. Sexuality is what allows us to get close to other people, and then it’s incredibly difficult to talk about that, Mette-Marit said of the sex scenes in the book.
– But you always do so innmari small! I don’t understand why you have to get it so bad, continued the crown princess, who repeatedly emphasized how good she thinks the book is.
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The sight of women
In the author’s interview, Gulliksen himself explained that he had wanted to write a novel about women from the perspective of an angry man.
– The male is very fragile. Being a man is a very vulnerable subject. It doesn’t take anything to make a man feel helpless. And a man who feels powerless is a man who has seriously lost his self-esteem, he said.
The crown princess then attacked him for expressing a reductive and “distorted” view of the women in the book, something Gulliksen defended himself by emphasizing that he himself did not necessarily have the same attitudes as the characters in the novel.
– My novels are not equipped with such “Warning, this is not the author’s opinion”. Because I don’t bother. I don’t think I need that, Gulliksen said.
– But then you have to run the risk that people sometimes say something like this: “You, that vision of women …”
Crown Princess Mette-Marit in conversation with author Geir Gulliksen about the novel “Be Kind Again” on Deichman Bjørvika on Monday night. Photo: Fredrik Hagen / NTB
More time with the children
In the conversation, Gulliksen also shared how he wrote the book while the country was closed and how much he appreciated the time he spent with his family during the pandemic.
– My husband experienced it that way too, he thought it was absolutely fantastic to be home, said Mette-Marit.
He noted that society has developed in such a way that many are away from their children and spend more time with their co-workers.
– It was as if we retired it, that now it was completely abnormal not to be so much with his children. I think it’s been good for many who have struggled with it, he said.
