Monika Fagerholm No.1 in Germany

Monika Fagerholm’s highly praised and award-winning novel Who Killed Bambi? claims the No.1 spot on the most prestigious critics list in Germany, SWR.

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Ia Genberg the winner of the August Prize 2022

Ia Genberg is the winner of the 2022 August Prize for ‘Best Fiction’. Her hauntingly beautiful novel The Details is praised by the jury with the motivation: “In The Details a burning fever becomes a portal to the past and those relationships that once meant everything – in a life that no longer exists. With melancholy, precision and humorous undertones, Ia Genberg conjures the fragments that make up a person, and allows her voice to resonate with its distinctive tonality. In this highly perceptive feel for the small details, an entire world comes alive.”

The August Prize is an annual Swedish literary prize awarded each year since 1989 by the Swedish Publishers’ Association. The prize is awarded to the best Swedish book of the year.

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Oskar Söderlund to write TV version of John Le Carré’s ‘A Most Wanted Man’

It’s now official that Oskar Söderlund will be the showrunner of the upcoming TV adaptation of John Le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man. Produced by The Ink Factory (The Night Manager) almost a decade after making a feature film version, Söderlund’s rendition will be updated to a modern day European context.

One of Le Carré’s best known works, A Most Wanted Man follows a young Chechen ex-prisoner who arrives illegally in Germany with a claim to a fortune held in a private bank. It was written to the backdrop of George W. Bush’s policy of ‘extraordinary rendition’ and inspired by the real-life story of Murat Kurnaz.

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Thriller series ’Jana – Marked For Life’ to premiere on Viaplay 2023

It is now official that the new thriller series Jana – Marked For Life will premiere on Viaplay in autumn 2023. The six episodes are created and will be directed by Henrik Björn (Jordskott) and Felix Herngren, and Daniel Sawka (Icebox) is head writer together with Maria Karlsson.

The story will revolve around the prosecutor Jana who we encounter during an investigation into the murder of a high-ranking official at the Swedish Migration Agency. But when the main suspect is found dead, Jana recognizes something familiar on his scarred body from her own past. In order to understand and deal with her troubled past, Jana must find the killer before the police does.

The series is an adaptation of Emelie Schepp’s bestselling novel Jana – Marked For Life and will be produced by FLX.

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Thomas Seltzer No. 1 in Norway

Thomas Seltzer’s American Karmageddon comes in at No. 1 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for non-fiction for the second consecutive week.

Kristina Ohlsson No. 1 in Sweden

The just published paperback edition of Kristina Ohlsson’s Icebreaker enters the official Swedish bestseller list for paperbacks at No. 1 this week, while Dimmed Lights, the latest installment in her August Strindberg-series, climbs back up to No. 3 on the hardcover fiction list.

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‘The Man Who Died’ nominated for best drama in Finland

The Finnish series The Man Who Died, based on Antti Tuomainen’s humoristic suspence novel with the same name, is nominated for ‘Best drama of the year 2022’ in Finland.

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Jens Lien to direct film version of crime novel ‘The Nation’s Gambit’

Action thriller The Nation’s Gambit is about to mark Norwegian director Jens Lien’s comeback to feature films after 10 years of directing TV series, including the HBO hit series Beforeigners.

The film is an adaptation of Johan Høst’s bestselling debut novel Delta: En nasjon i sjakk. In this story, the Prime Minister of Norway is kidnapped by a terrorist making a single demand: that the politicians in power join in on a game of chess over the Prime Minister’s life. With each chess piece representing various state employees and leaders of society, the Prime Minister will survive if the politicians win – but every piece lost to the terrorist means the loss of a human life. The politicians and their appointed rescue team, the Delta Squad, are faced with an impossible dilemma with only 24 hours to save the prime minister.

“I have long been a fan of Jens Lien, and the fact that he is going to make a film of my book is a surreal out-of-body experience for me,” Høst says.

The Nation’s Gambit is produced by the Norwegian production company Stig og Stein Studio with producers Stig Hjerkinn Haug, Fredrik Støbakk and Tale Bryn Teigene. SF Studios will distribute the film in the Nordics, while Reinvent Studios handles international sales.

‘The Spider’ the most-listened-to audio book of 2022

BookBeat has now announced their most-listened-to titles of 2022 and Lars Kepler’s The Spider comes in at No. 1 – an astonishing feat since it was published just over four weeks ago.
Furthermore, during the very first days following its publication, The Spider accounted for a whooping 12% of Swedish BookBeat users’ listening time and has thus been an unchallenged No. 1 on the bestseller lists since.

“We are so happy and grateful that so many have listened to The Spider on BookBeat. We also want to take the opportunity to highlight Jonas Malmsjö, who with his unique, fiery energy has given voice to our story” says Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, the authors behind the pseudonym Lars Kepler, in a press release.

BookBeat is one of the leading streaming services for audio books in Sweden.

‘The Mountain King’ No. 4 in Norway

Anders de la Motte’s The Mountain King comes in at No. 4 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for e-books week 46. The Mountain King is the first installment in the Leo Asker series.