Katrine Engberg continues to top the paperback bestseller list in Sweden, coming in at No. 1 with The Tenant for the second week in a row. Niklas Natt och Dag repeats his top placement also, featuring at No. 1 on the hardcover list with 1794. Anders Roslund grabs the last No. 1 placement in this roundup, coming in first on the e-book list with Knock Knock. Anne Holt’s A Grave For Two is not far behind at No. 3.
Niklas Natt och Dag and Jo Nesbø each grab a No. 1 placement of the official bestseller list for the month of February. Natt och Dag’s 1794 is the most sold Hardcover in Sweden, while Nesbø’s Knife is the most sold paperback. Katrine Engberg also features on the paperback list, where her The Tenant is No. 5.
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.
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.”
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.
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
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.
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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 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, 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.
Arab World, Al Arabi
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Arab World, Al Arabi
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Estonia, Eesti Raamat
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Croatia, Indigo
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Iran, Shegarf Publishing House
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Greece, Patakis
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Engman skillfully weaves together multiple seemingly disconnected narrative threads.
– Canberra City News
Lisa Ridzén’s successful debut is a tribute to the dedication of home care, and a book about three generations of men.
– Trouw
In her debut novel When the Cranes Fly South, Swedish author Lisa Ridzén sketches the story in a meticulous and loving way.
– Noordhollands Dagblad
Beautiful, credible portrait of a shaky father-son relationship.
– Zin Magazine
If you are looking for a novel with endless plot twists, [The Final Nail] is your ideal read!
– Biba Magazine
In Wolf Hour, Jo Nesbø sets the action in the American Midwest in 2016. A hard-boiled police novel in the best Nesbø style – from an America that’s on the edge of a precipice.
