The weekly Norwegian bestseller lists
Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger dominate the paperback bestseller list for week 9 in Norway, grabbing the No. 1 spot with Smoke Screen. The crime fiction title is the second installment in the author duo’s Blix & Ramm series.
‘We Are Five’ awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize
During today’s award ceremony at the House of Literature in Oslo, it was announced that Faldbakken’s We Are Five is the recipient of the 2019 Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. The jury's motivation is as follows:
“This year’s winner has since his first publication continued to distinguish himself as a particularly uncompromising and unpredictable author, who in a unique way succeeds in mirroring our times. The exploration of how transcendence is closely linked to the power of creativity and identity is a frequently recurring theme in his authorship. In his latest novel, this is merged into in a story that captivates from the very first page, and continues to transform as the story progresses. /…/ In this year’s winning novel, We Are Five, the aggressive, extreme and arbitrary have been replaced with playfulness with a capital P. The novel is full of richness. The satire is still edgy, but the mocking gaze has been replaced with an honed humor. The characters have a warmth to them, and the narrative a great momentum. /…/ With his supreme sense of pop-cultural and historical literary references, Faldbakken has crafted a novel that constantly remolds itself: from kitchen sink realism and adventures, to Frankenstein’s, no sorry, Blystad’s monster.”
Jo Nesbø shortlisted for the Riverton Prize
The shortlist for the 2019 Riverton Prize has just been announced in Norway, and Jo Nesbø’s twelfth Harry Hole installment, Knife, is one of the five novels nominated for the prestigious crime writing award that is annually given to the best Norwegian crime story. Nesbø has been the recipient of this award previously, in 1997, for the first novel in the Harry Hole series, The Bat.
The winner will be announced on March 26.
‘The Wolf and the Watchman’ No. 4 in Spain
For the sixth consecutive week, Niklas Natt och Dag features on the official Spanish bestseller list. His acclaimed debut novel The Wolf and the Watchman places at No. 4.
Photo: Peter Nørby
Katrine Engberg shortlisted for the 2020 People’s Choice Award at Horsens Crime Fiction festival
The annual Crime Fiction festival in Horsens, Denmark, will take place March 28-29, and Katrine Engberg is one of this year’s nominees for the festival’s People's Choice Award.
The festival in Horsens is the largest crime fiction festival in Northern Europe. From March 3, readers can vote online for their favorite title among the nominees. The winner will be announced on stage, March 29.
To cast your vote, click the ‘Read more’ button below.
Photo: Kiefer Lee
Farima Karimi joins Salomonsson Agency
Farima Karimi is a Swedish-Iranian screenwriter and producer based in Stockholm.
Karimi holds a master’s degree in film production from the renowned Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, and has during her career as a producer worked with documentaries as well as fiction. While working as a producer, Karimi pursued her passion for screenwriting. In 2019, she graduated from the esteemed Alma Löv Script Academy and is currently working on several projects for both film and TV, including a drama series for Yellow Bird and her own feature film.
Karimi was selected for the 2020 networking forum Nordic Film Lab, an exclusive program for up and coming Scandinavian filmmakers, focusing on the artistic processes in filmmaking.
As a producer, Karimi’s latest project is a feature thriller titled Dogborn, which she produces together with Momento Film, and entered with in the talent program STHLM Debut.
Lina Bengtsdotter and Sofia Lundberg nominated for 2020 Prix des Lecteurs
Lina Bengtsdotter and Sofia Lundberg are both nominated for a 2020 Prix des Lecteurs du Livre de Poche in France. Bengtsdotter’s For the Missing is one of three books in the running for the ‘crime & thriller’ category’s award, while Lundberg’s novel The Red Address Book is nominated in the ‘literary’ category. Readers will have until the end of the month to vote for a finalist that will then compete in the grand finale in September.
Click the “Read more” button below to visit the ‘Prix des Lecteurs’ website.
‘Tales From the Loop’ to premiere April 3
Tales From the Loop, the TV series based on Simon Stålenhag’s debut work of the same title, along with its sequel Things From the Flood, will premiere worldwide on Amazon Prime April 3.
Accompanying the announcement of the official release date is the above series trailer, as well as key art created by Simon Stålenhag himself.
The series Tales From the Loop will explore the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical mysterious town poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling.
The show stars Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation), Daniel Zolghadri (Eighth Grade), Duncan Joiner (Waco) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Game of Thrones).
To read more about the series, visit IndieWire.com here, or Deadline Hollywood here.
The weekly Swedish bestseller lists
Katrine Engberg’s The Tenant debuts on the official Swedish bestseller lists for paperbacks this week, claiming the No. 1 spot right from the start. Engberg is joined on the list by Jo Nesbø, whose long-running bestseller Knife is No. 3 this time.
Niklas Natt och Dag meanwhile comes in at No. 1 on the hardcover list with 1794, which is also No. 4 on the e-book list. The first book in his Cardell & Winge series, The Wolf and the Watchman, is No. 2 in e-book.
Concluding the round-up with the children’s books list, we find Kristina Ohlsson’s The Mystery of the Haunted Fortress featuring at No. 4.
Photo: Kiefer Lee
Niklas Natt och Dag No. 2 in Spain
For the fifth week in a row, Niklas Natt och Dag’s The Wolf and the Watchman features on the Spanish bestseller list for fiction. The title once again claims the No. 2 spot.