Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Detective Agency No. 2 series continued to charm young readers during the month of April, claiming three spots in the top five of the children’s books bestseller list. First up is Operation Trickster at No. 3, followed by Operation Radius at No. 4, and Operation Sable Forest at No. 5.
Porcelain Dolls, the second installment in Erik Axl Sund’s Melancholia series, comes in at No. 8 on this week’s Der Spiegel bestseller list for trade paperbacks in Germany.
Photo: Kiefer Lee
On this week’s official Spanish bestseller list, Niklas Natt och Dag’s debut novel The Wolf and the Watchman nabs the No. 10 spot. The novel has now featured in the country’s top 10 for fourteen weeks in succession.
Jo Nesbø has been awarded the 2019 Riverton Prize for his twelfth installment in the Harry Hole series, Knife. The very prestigious crime writing award 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.
“Knife is a dark, compelling and sorrowful novel with great solemnity and with a superb conduction of a complicated investigation. It is elegantly crafted with constant surprises and several twists and turns, and with many brilliant individual stories about past events.” said jury member Hans H. Skei during the award ceremony that took place outside the House of Literature in Oslo earlier today.
The television series and the feature film about the characters Eva and Adam became iconic works of popular culture in late 90s’ and early 2000s’ Sweden. Now, a new film about the young couple is in the making.
Adam is new to the class and Eva has made a no-boys pact with her best friend – boys are just too childish. But when a kissing party game brings Eva and Adam together, it’s simply too difficult to put a brake on their feelings. Perhaps even impossible.
Eva och Adam marks Caroline Cowan’s debut as a feature film director. Johan Unenge and Måns Gahrton are the writers, and Francy Suntinger will produce for Filmlance.
Stina Jackson’s The Last Snow scores three No. 2 placements on the official Swedish weekly bestseller lists for week 17. The Last Snow comes in second in hardcover, audio, and e-book. It is joined in the last category by Jackson’s debut novel, The Silver Road, which features at No. 3 also this week. The No. 1 spots on the audio and e-book lists go to Arne Dahl’s Freedom, the just published fourth title in the Berger & Blom series. Freedom also comes in at No. 3 on the hardcover list. Making a three-list appearance is also Anders de la Motte, whose Rites of Spring is No. 3 in audio, No. 4 in e-book and No. 9 in hardcover.
The official bestseller lists for week 17 in Norway see Hedvig Montgomery’s just published The Adolescent Years land the No. 3 spot in the nonfiction category. The Adolescent Years is the fifth installment in the Parental Magic series. Smoke Screen, the second title in Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Blix & Ramm series, meanwhile nabs the No. 3 spot on the paperback lit, and the No. 2 one on the e-book list.
Erik Axl Sund’s Porcelain Dolls comes in at No. 7 on this week’s Der Spiegel bestseller list for trade paperbacks in Germany. This marks the novel’s eighth week on the German list.
Maj Sjöwall, our dear friend and beloved author, has passed away. Maj fought a lung disease for many years before losing the battle yesterday. The greatest pioneer of Scandinavian crime fiction and loved by readers across the globe, the world has lost a legend and a wonderful person. Our thoughts go out to her family and friends.
We will miss you so much, Maj. Your memory shall live forever.
Photo: Kiefer Lee
Jasper Lake has close to 20 years of experience from the TV industry, working mainly as producer and director. On the list of his numerous TV projects you will find Pluras Kök, Lyckliga gatan, Så mycket bättre and Klass 9A. He has won several awards including the RIA Producer Award for Lyckliga gatan and the Kristallen Award for Pluras kök.
In recent years, Lake has started moving more towards writing, building on and incorporating his aptitude for concepts and characters. In 2019, he graduated from the renowned Alma Löv Script Academy. As a screenwriter, Lake is especially drawn to drama and thriller, and stories about the friction that’s born between individuals and the collective.
Currently, Lake is working on his feature film Drakpojken and a TV series for Meter and Viaplay.
Netherlands, House of Books
Two-book deal closed by Tor Jonasson
Albania, Dudaj
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Denmark, Bogoo Books
Two-book deal closed by Linda Andersson
Lithuania, Baltos Lankos
Closed by Emma Granberg
Bulgaria, Enthusiast
Closed by Emma Granberg
Taiwan, Azoth
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
To some extent this is an exercise in literary adrenaline (you can gulp it down in one sitting) but its immersive brio is also hard to shake off.
– Daily Mail
SON is a triumph and should be sought out by anybody who enjoys intelligent, hauntingly memorable thrillers.
– Alfred FM Radio
Swedish author Lisa Ridzén’s debut novel has been a huge success. When the Cranes Fly South is a touching story about the lonely life of an old man in the northern Swedish countryside.
– Yle
Oliver Lovrenski is a gifted author.
– Sunday Telegraph
[Tool] is a novel you keep propulsively reading. Eiriksdóttir has me undividedly interested at once and throughout the entire read. /…/ Eiríksdóttir is an assured author in control of her language, her narrational technique and dramaturgy. (…) I have discovered an author whose books I will be longing for.
– Dagens Nyheter
Psychologist Kari Voss is grieving for her dead husband when she is thrust into a shocking local investigation, when two teenage girls are violently murdered in a family summer home in the nearby village of Son.
