Jeg fikk anbefalt en norsk forfatter av frisøren, og nå vil jeg låne flere noveller.

Fikk anbefalt is a very common Norwegian pattern. Literally, it is something like got recommended or was given a recommendation of.

In this sentence:

• Jeg fikk anbefalt en norsk forfatter = I was recommended a Norwegian author = more literally, I got a Norwegian author recommended to me

Here:

• fikk is the past tense of å få = to get
• anbefalt is the past participle of å anbefale = to recommend

So the structure is:

• få + past participle

This often means that something happened to you, or that you received the result of an action:

• Jeg fikk servert kaffe = I was served coffee
• Hun fikk sendt pakken = She got the package sent
• Vi fikk anbefalt en restaurant = We were recommended a restaurant

It is a very natural way to express this in Norwegian.

Not really, at least not with the same meaning.

• Jeg fikk anbefalt en norsk forfatter means someone recommended a Norwegian author to me
• Jeg ble anbefalt usually means I was recommended

So ble anbefalt makes you the thing being recommended, while fikk anbefalt makes the author the thing recommended to you.

Compare:

• Jeg fikk anbefalt en norsk forfatter
  = Someone recommended a Norwegian author to me.

• Jeg ble anbefalt til jobben
  = I was recommended for the job.

That is why fikk anbefalt is the right choice here.

Here av means something like by in the sense of by the hairdresser / from the hairdresser.

So:

• av frisøren = by the hairdresser / from the hairdresser

In English, both can sound natural depending on how you phrase it:

• I was recommended a Norwegian author by my hairdresser
• I got a recommendation for a Norwegian author from my hairdresser

In Norwegian, av is the normal preposition for the person who performs the action in this kind of passive-like construction.

Because frisøren is the definite singular form: the hairdresser.

For many common-gender nouns, the pattern is:

• en frisør = a hairdresser
• frisøren = the hairdresser

So the ending -en marks definiteness.

Other examples:

• en forfatter = an author

• forfatteren = the author

• en bil = a car
• bilen = the car

In this sentence, the speaker means a specific hairdresser, so frisøren is definite.

Because after an indefinite article like en, the adjective usually takes its basic common-gender form.

So:

• en norsk forfatter = a Norwegian author

Here:

• en = indefinite article for a common-gender noun
• norsk = adjective agreeing with forfatter
• forfatter = common-gender singular noun

You would use norske in some other situations, for example:

• den norske forfatteren = the Norwegian author
• norske forfattere = Norwegian authors

So compare:

• en norsk forfatter = indefinite singular
• den norske forfatteren = definite singular
• norske forfattere = plural

In Norwegian, words for nationalities, languages, and related adjectives are normally not capitalized.

So Norwegian writes:

• norsk
• engelsk
• amerikansk
• fransk

This is different from English, where you write:

• Norwegian
• English
• American
• French

So en norsk forfatter is correct Norwegian spelling.

Because Norwegian follows the verb-second rule in main clauses.

That means the finite verb usually comes in the second position.

In this part of the sentence:

• og nå vil jeg låne flere noveller

the first element is:

• nå = now

So the finite verb must come next:

• vil

Then comes the subject:

• jeg

So the order is:

• nå + vil + jeg

not:

• nå + jeg + vil

This is very typical in Norwegian:

• Nå vil jeg dra. = Now I want to leave.
• I dag skal vi jobbe. = Today we will work.
• Der bor han. = He lives there.

Even though og is at the beginning, it does not count as the first element in the same way. The real sentence element in first position is nå.

Vil usually expresses want to or wish to, while skal often expresses will / going to / must, depending on context.

So:

• nå vil jeg låne flere noveller = now I want to borrow more/several short stories

This focuses on the speaker’s desire or intention.

If you said:

• nå skal jeg låne flere noveller

that would sound more like:

• now I’m going to borrow more short stories
• now I will borrow more short stories

That is more about plan or future action than desire.

So vil is the natural choice if the point is I now want to borrow...

By itself, låne often means borrow in sentences like this:

• Jeg vil låne flere noveller = I want to borrow more short stories

But Norwegian can use låne in ways that cover both sides of the idea, so context matters. To make lend clearer, people often say:

• låne bort
• låne ut

For example:

• Kan jeg låne boka? = Can I borrow the book?
• Kan du låne meg boka? = Can you lend me the book?
• Kan du låne ut boka? = Can you lend out the book?

In your sentence, låne clearly means borrow, probably from a library.

Flere means more or several, depending on context.

In this sentence:

• nå vil jeg låne flere noveller

the most natural understanding is:

• now I want to borrow more short stories

That means the speaker already has one or some in mind and wants additional ones.

But flere can also simply mean several in other contexts.

For example:

• Jeg har lest flere noveller av henne. = I have read several short stories by her.

So here it is best understood as more.

Because after flere, you normally use an indefinite plural noun.

So:

• flere noveller = more/several short stories

This is the normal pattern:

• flere bøker = more books
• flere filmer = more films
• flere noveller = more short stories

Using the definite plural, like novellene, would usually need a more specific context, such as referring to a particular known set:

• Jeg vil låne flere av novellene = I want to borrow more of the short stories
• Jeg vil lese de flere novellene du nevnte would be unusual and context-heavy

So flere noveller is the simple, natural choice.

Noveller is the indefinite plural of en novelle.

The forms are:

• en novelle = a short story
• novellen = the short story
• noveller = short stories
• novellene = the short stories

So in the sentence:

• låne flere noveller

you have:

• flere
  • indefinite plural noun

This is a very common combination in Norwegian.

Yes. The sentence sounds very natural Norwegian.

A few especially idiomatic features are:

• fikk anbefalt instead of translating English too literally
• av frisøren to show who made the recommendation
• nå vil jeg with correct verb-second word order
• flere noveller as a natural indefinite plural phrase

A learner might be tempted to build it more directly from English, but the original sentence already uses very normal Norwegian patterns. That makes it a good model sentence to learn from.