The official Norwegian bestseller list for the last week of January sees the just published paperback of Ingar Johnsrud’s The Cross I Bear shoot to No. 5. On the e-book list, Lars Kepler’s long-running bestseller Lazarus is No. 2.

Tom Malmquist’s In Every Moment We Are Still Alive has been chosen as an official Action Book Club title in the US.

The Action Book Club is a program by the Little Free Library, a nonprofit organization that aims to inspire a love of reading, build community, and spark creativity by fostering neighborhood book exchanges around the world. In a twist on the traditional book club, the Action Book Club invites participants to read books on a particular theme, engage in discussions, and take part in group projects to benefit their communities.

The Action Book Club offers book recommendations for all ages, announcing a new theme twice a year. In Every Moment We Are Still Alive will be part of the reading list for the upcoming theme “moving forward,” which celebrates growth, resilience, and well-being.

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An adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s international bestseller Beartown has been green-lit by HBO Europe. The adaptation will be produced by Filmlance International (Bron/The Bridge) and award-winning screenwriter and director Peter Grönlund (Drifters, Goliath) will direct all episodes of the five-part one-hour series, written by Anders Weidemann, Antonia Pyk and Linn Gottfridsson.

Beartown will be filmed on location in the north of Sweden, starting soon. The series will premiere on HBO Nordic and across HBO Europe territories at the same time.

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Anders Rydell has received a scholarship for his work in helping to spread knowledge about the Holocaust. The scholarship, which is handed out by Micael Bindefeld’s Foundation in Memory of the Holocaust, aims to support those who communicate, provide information, illustrate or otherwise convey knowledge about the Holocaust to a wider audience in Sweden.

During his research, Anders has found stories by survivors of the Holocaust that never been published in Swedish before and in collaboration with the Swedish publisher Novellix, they have chosen four of these stories and published them in a collection of short stories. Each scholar receives SEK 200 000 to enable the distribution of these short stories to schoolchildren.

This marks the first time that the Foundation’s scholarship is handed out to a literary project. The board’s motivation is the following:

2019’s scholarship is awarded to author Anders Rydell and publisher Novellix for their efforts to spread previously untranslated stories by surviving authors of the Holocaust. The texts are given life in an innovative way, offering snapshots of an otherwise almost immeasurable historical event. For the new generation of youths, these short stories will become a shortcut to knowledge, empathy, and a continued living history.

The scholarship was handed out yesterday on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day by Archbishop Antje Jackelén at a ceremony at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Among the attendees were the Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven, and other ministers.

Julie Andem’s SKAM Season 2: Noora is No. 2 on Bog & idé’s YA bestseller list. Bog & idé is Denmark’s largest book retailer.

It was recently announced that CBS All Access has ordered the true crime drama Interrogation, created by Anders Weidemann and John Mankiewicz. CBS has now revealed that Peter Sarsgaard will play the detective on the case. Sarsgaard most recently starred in Hulu’s 9/11 series The Looming Tower.

Interrogation is based on the true story of a young man who was charged with and convicted of the brutal murder of his mother. Each episode centers on an interrogation taken directly from the real police case files. The series has an original format and will be experimenting with its release pattern. The first nine episodes of the series will be available to watch in any order, and the conclusive season finale will be released at a later date.

Weidemann is the first Swedish screenwriter to write and produce an American TV series based on his own original idea, and this news has garnered great attention in Swedish media.

Jo Nesbø and Stina Jackson each claim one No. 1 position on the official weekly bestseller lists in Sweden. Nesbø is No. 1 on the paperback list with Macbeth, and Jackson on the e-book list with The Silver Road. Jackson’s debut novel also claims two No. 2 spots on the paperback and audio lists. Lars Kepler continues to feature on the hardcover list with Lazarus, which is No. 4 this week.

Lars Kepler’s Lazarus, the seventh Joona Linna novel, appears at No. 5 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for hardcover fiction in week 2 (January 7-13th). The book is also No. 2 in e-book. This marks the novel’s twelfth week on the hardcover and e-book lists.