JON EWO
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

(The following is a very rough and fast translation from Norwegian. It has been written especially for students that wants to write about me and my books. The author apologizes sincerely for all lingual mistakes.)

1. Det sies at oktober er en fin måned (Cappelen, short stories, 1986) A collection of short stories. In the tradition of Hemingway and Graham Greene.

2. Ingen snakker om Marcel (Cappelen, short stories, 1987) More short stories.

3. Langsomt nå, for Matteus' skyld (Gyldendal, novel, 1991) A novella about a crippled boy.

4. Dit gatene går når det blir natt (Gyldendal, novel, 1992) Norways first cyberpunk-novel.

5. Vi tar ham! (Written under the pseudonym "Holger Selmas") (Damm, easy reader for juveniles, 1993) An easy reader for juveniles. About street violence. But the story is told from the viewpoint of one of the offenders. Was remixed and reprinted in 2005 under a new title: The Price to pay.

6. I Satans tid (Skrevet under forfatternavnet "Holger Selmas") (Damm, easy reader for juveniles, 1994) An easy reader for juveniles. About modern Satan worshippers. Was remixed and reprinted in 2006.

7. Min første modembok (IDG, a book about computer communication written together with Robert Wood, 1994) A book for juveniles about connecting and communicating with BBS’es.

8. Kriss Kross (Damm, easy reader for juveniles, 1995) An easy reader for juveniles. About a 15 year old who are involved in a near-crash on a motorcycle. And is very afraid to get back on the bike. This is the first book about a character I called Kriss that also pop up in book nr. 9, 12 and 16. Was remixed and reprinted in 2006.

9. Jeg var 16 da jeg forstod hva en mann må gjøre (Damm, novel for juveniles, 1995) The first novel about Kriss. He falls in love with Mette. This has been translated to German.

10. Ressurser på Internett. World Wide Web (Imago Solis, a book about the internet written together with Robert Wood, 1995) Book about what resources Internet can provide you with.

11. Ingen er redd for Otto Monster (Damm, easy reader for children, 1996) An easy reader for children. About the little monster Otto that is a failure as a monster.

12. Etterpå er du en helt annen mann (Damm, novel for juveniles, 1996) The second novel about Kriss. He is still in love with Mette. But he experiences the strong forces of jealousy. And have to deal with the fact that another girl also is attracted to him.

13. Torpedo (Aventura, novel, 1996) The first novel about the money enforcer Alex Hoel. A story from inside the criminal world.

14. Effektiv søking på World Wide Web (Imago Solis, a book about internet, 1996) About how to find information efficiently on the Web. I am educated as a librarian and use the techniques i learned in that trade on Internet.

15. Du store gauda! (Damm, easy reader for children, 1997) An easy reader for children. About the little rat-boy Guggen, his father and some friends that are prowling the city’s underground in search for the enormous cellar with cheese that they know is out there somewhere. This book has been translated to Danish.

16. Når en mann parkerer hjertet sitt og griner (Damm, novel for juveniles, 1997) The third novel about Kriss. He loses his girlfriend Mette to another boy. And he involves himself with another girl. And makes her pregnant. And then there is even a third girl there…

17. Hevn. Torpedo II (Pantagruel, novel, 1997) The second novel about Alex Hoel.

18. Otto Monster i familietrøbbel (Damm, easy reader for children, 1998) An easy reader for children. The not-so-successful little monster Otto and his family get a visit from his cousin, Beate. A person that even monsters dread!

19. Otto Monster hopper i vulkanen (Damm, easy reader for children, 1998) An easy reader for children. Otto is sent to a summer camp for children. And he falls in love!

20. Gissel. Torpedo III (Pantagruel, novel, 1998) The third and final novel about Alex Hoel.

21. Uten filter (Pax, novel for juveniles, 1998) A novel for juveniles. Three boys, aged 17, is alone at home the last weekend before school starts. They are really going to have a good time. But then a boy called Gene appears. And he has plans. Plans that means big trouble for all of them. A novel about a psychopath.

22. Mysteriet med osteklokken fra Malta. En sak for Guggen og Gine (Damm, easy reader for children, 1999) The second story about the rat-boy Guggen. He and his sister is running a detective-agency. The story is loosely spun around the classic crime novel ”The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett.

23. Sola er en feit gud (Pax, novel for juveniles, 1999) A novel for juveniles. Adam, age 16, was – until a fortnight ago – dating Caroline. But then Caroline told him that he was so childish and broke their relationship. Adam decides that he will really work hard to be a grown-up. As soon as possible! A funny novel that plays around with the way novels usually are written. It mixes reality and fiction and some chapters are parodies of certain genres.

24. Otto Monster vil også bli syk (Damm, easy reader for children, 1999) An easy reader for children. When you are a monster there is nothing better that can happen to you than a real good disease. Then you get a holiday. And in this book little Otto is the only one who don’t get sick. Which makes him very frustrated.

25. Forelska på nettet? Eller bare litt pratesjuk… (Pax, for juveniles, 1999) A book about meeting other juveniles on the net. Explains several forms of digital communication. IRC, ICQ, Voicechat, Chatting, Online gaming, mailing lists and so on. It also includes a short internet-history, some basic knowledge about pc and internet and some interviews with juveniles that surf the net.

26. Otto Monster vil ha søt hevn! (Damm, easy reader for children, 2000). Last year everybody made Otto’s life miserable during the yearly monster festivities. But this year he is ready for revenge!

27. Mysteriet med bukken fra Baskervill. En sak for Guggen og Gine (Damm, easy reader for children, 2000) The third story about the rat-boy Guggen. He and his sister is running a detective-agency. The story is loosely spun around the classic crime novel “The Hound of the Baskerville” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

28. Månen er en diger pudding (Pax, novel for juveniles, 2000) The second novel about Adam from ”Sola er en feit gud”. (Book nr. 23). This time he finds that perhaps this project about becoming an adult went too fast? Perhaps it’s more important to keep in touch with your inner child?

29. En helt blir til. Første bok om Trash Bazooka (Pax, novel for children/juveniles, 2000) Kjell Ivar Hansen is a completely normal boy aged 12. But he has a horrible secret. In reality he is a stuntpilot named Trash Bazooka and has saved the earth a lot of times from dangers from outer space. In this first novel in the series we get to know how he became Trash Bazooka and how he fought against the traiter Grobian Worm.

30. Brødrene Shakespeare. Eller: Vil den virkelig William være så snill å reise seg! (Pantagruel, novel, 2001) This is a novel about four persons with quite different relationships and connections with William Shakespeare. It’s a novel that plays with the myths and legends about the worlds most famous author – a person we know almost nothing about.

31. Jorda er tøff & naken (Pax, novel for juveniles, 2001) In this last novel about Adam he finds out that it’s not important to be a grown-up. It’s not important to keep in touch with your inner child. What life is all about is to become a human, an individual, a person.

32. Den dødelige armada. Andre bok om Trash Bazooka (Pax, novel for children/juveniles, 2001) This second book about Trash deals with the fight against the evil baron of Mars, Kluster Fatbitz, who tries to invade earth.

33. En stor farlig hund og to geniale oppfinnere (Aschehoug, novel for children/juveniles, 2002) Leonardo is the name of the worlds leading inventor. But he also has an ingenious assistant, Petra Propp. Together they try to solve King Harald’s big problem – to rid the king of all the obnoxious rabbits that dig holes in the royal gardens.

34. En og en sammen (Pax, picturebook, 2002) A little boy plants a three in the forest. He becomes a lumberjack and grows up, just as the three he planted grows and get bigger. Several hundrer years pass and still they are one and one together in the forest. Until one day.

35. Jobben min er å tette hullene til tilværelsen (Pax, novel for juveniles 2002) A novel for young adults about Sara, 15 years old, who lives on an island with her father and her little sister. Sara decides to try to find out all she can about her mother who left them seven years ago. Her quest becomes a quest for herself as well.

36. Med jorda som innsats. Tredje bok om Trash Bazooka (Pax, novel for children/juveniles, 2002) In this third book about Trash Bazooka he and his fellow stuntpilots have to fight an intergalactic gambler who has won the earth. He wants to make an enterteinmentplanet out of earth. But then of course almost all humans must be eliminated!

37. Mysteriet med teatervampyren. En sak for Guggen & Gine (Damm, easyreader for children, 2002) One day Guggen and Gine gets a visit from a client, Helmer Pelmer, that asks them to find his wife, Nora Dora, who has vanished. She was the assistant to the famous writer Harry Gipsen. This detective-story is a play with Henrik Ibsens dramatical works.

38. Livet er fullt av overraskelser (Damm, novel for children/juveniles, 2003)
    Jenny Valentine loves mysteries. This is her greatest mystery and ridddle ever: Who is reallly her grand uncle Ido?

39. Vil den virkelige William være så snill å reise seg? (Omnipax, biography for juveniles, 2003) Biography about the famous playwriter from Stratford.

40. I aller siste sekund. Fjerde bok om Trash Bazooka (Omnipax, novel for children/juveniles, 2003) In this fourth book about Trash Bazooka he has to save his friends that are stuck in a black hole.

41. Kometer eller skjærlighet. En fortelling som ikke klarer å bestemme seg (Aschehoug, novel for children/juveniles, 2003) A novel where the famous inventor Leonardo is ill and his assistent Petra tries to bring him back to where he grew up to cure him.

42. Otto Monsters grusomme natt (Damm, easyreader for children, 2004) Otto has to learn that to grow up means to change. But for him change is frightening.

43. Det navnløse landet i nord. Steinalder, bronsealder og jernalder i Norge, cirka 9000 f. Kr. til 793 e. Kr. Damms norgeshistorie – bind 1 (Damm, History of Norway, written for children/juveniles, volume 1, 2004) First volume of Norwegian history. Deals with stone age, bronze age and iron age.

44. Jakten på vikingene. Vikingtid i Norge, år 793 til 1066 e. Kr. Damms norgeshistorie – bind 2 (Damm, History of Norway, written for children/juveniles, volume 2, 2004) Second volume of Norwegian history. Deals with the Vikings.

45. Svart. Og cirka hvitt (Omnipax, novel for juveniles, 2004) A novel about mobbing. A story where the first part ends rather badly. So the author starts the story anew. This time with another outcome.

46. Krigerske konger og farlige fiender. Middelalder i Norge, år 1066 til 1380 e. Kr Damms norgeshistorie – bind 3 (Damm, History of Norway, written for children/juveniles, volume 3, 2005) Third volume of Norwegian history. Deals with the middle age.

47. 434 år og et mirakel. Union med Danmark, år 1380 til 1814 e. Kr. Damms norgeshistorie – bind 4 (Damm, History of Norway, written for children/juveniles, volume 4, 2005) Fourth volume of Norwegian history. Deals with our union with Denmark.

48. Operasjon Sluttspill. Femte bok om Trash Bazooka (Omnipax, novel for children/juveniles, 2005) The fifth and final book about Trash. Here all the threads in the series are woven together.

49. Om det bare ville snø i helvetet. En fortelling om de små sakene i livet (Omnipax, novel for juveniles, 2005) A novel about empathy and about whether our actions really has any meaning.

50. Otto Monster blir superslem (Damm, easyreader for children, 2006) Otto decides that he has been too kind too long. He is going to become a really bad monster now.

51. Historien som ikke ville slutte (Omnipax, picturebook, 2006) A picturebook about a friendship that does not want to end.

52. Den siste unionen. Union med Sverige, år 1814 til 1905 e. Kr. Damms norgeshistorie – bind 5 (Damm, History of Norway, written for children/juveniles, volume 5, 2006) Fifth volume of Norwegian history. Deals with our union with Sweden.

53. Kriger, kriser og svart gull. Moderne tid, år 1905 til 2006 e. Kr. Damms norgeshistorie – bind 6 (Damm, History of Norway, written for children/juveniles, volume 6, 2006) Sixth volume of Norwegian history. Deals with the modern age.

54. Drageblod og blå safir (Omnipax, novel for children/juveniles, 2006) About a little dragon family that has a problem with the knights in the neighborhood.

55. Otto Monster slipper alt løs! (Damm, easyreader for children, 2006) A collection of three short stories with Otto Monster.

in english

1.Short article about my writing

2. An annotated bibliography

3. Some comments regarding the novel "The Sun is a PHAT God"

4. Excerpts from "The Sun is a PHAT God". Translated by Sarah Hails