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.

Stina Jackson and Anders Roslund have both been shortlisted for Bonnier’s Book Clubs’ Book of the Year Award 2020. Jackson is nominated for The Last Snow, and Roslund for Knock Knock.

Also known as the “People’s Choice Award,” the Book of the Year award is arranged annually by Bonnier’s Book Clubs, the home of Sweden’s five biggest book clubs. The winning title and author will be announced during the Gothenburg Book Fair, on September 25.

To see the list of the nominees and vote for your favorite, click “Read more” below.

The Times and the Sunday Times Crime Club have listed the forty best books of the past five years, and Antti Tuomainen and Yrsa Sigurdardóttir each grab a spot on the list. Sigurdardóttir (“The queen of Nordic crime”) does so with The Legacy, the novel that starts off her Freyja & Huldar series. The UK newspaper calls this first installment “an introductory murder that hikes the tension to cardiac-arrest levels. […] Icelandic noir at its reliably gripping best.” Tuomainen (“Scandi noir’s leading chucklemeister”) meanwhile receives an accolade for his humorous Little Siberia, populated by “a splendid cast of characters. /…/ Nordic lols.”

The second season of the successful TV series Rebecka Martinsson premieres today on C More and May 6 on TV4. Karin Arrhenius and Oskar Söderlund are head writers of this season, which is freely based on Åsa Larssons’s novels, and directed by Fredrik Edfeldt and Andrea Östlund.

Stina Jackson’s The Last Snow scores three No. 1 placements on the official Swedish bestseller lists for week 16. The Last Snow comes in first in hardcover, audio, and e-book. Jackson’s debut title The Silver Road also nabs a spot on the e-book list, coming in at No. 3. Anders de la Motte’s Rites of Spring can likewise be seen on three lists – the final installment in the Skåne Quartet is No. 2 in e-book, No. 3 in audio, and No. 5 in hardcover. Niklas Natt och Dag meanwhile features at No. 3 on the hardcover list with 1794. Finally, Katrine Engberg grabs No. 5 on the paperback list with The Tenant.

Netflix is making a new Swedish original film based on Mats Wahl’s novel Vinterviken, which was adapted into a successful feature film also in 1996.

Vinterviken 2021 is set in Stockholm, 2021, and focuses on the love story between two young people raised in the same city yet living light years apart, separated by economic, social, and cultural differences until they enter the same high school class.

The feature film will be produced by Filmlance International, with Teresa Alldén as producer and Alexis Almström as director. Dunja Vujovic serves as the screenwriter. The trio previously collaborated on Top Dog, a TV series based on the Jens Lapidus trilogy.

The Swedish bestseller lists for week 15 see Stina Jackson claim the No. 1 spot in hardback fiction with her recently published novel The Last Snow. The book also comes in at No. 2 in e-book and in the audiobook category the novel nabs the No. 2 spot (physical edition) and the No. 4 spot (digital edition). Anders de la Motte meanwhile comes in at No. 1 in both e-book and audio (physical edition) with his latest installment in the Skåne Quartet, Rites of Spring. He also features at No. 2 on the hardback list and No. 5 in audio with the digital edition. Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1794 nabs the No. 5 spot on the hardback list. Leif GW Persson’s Pig Party makes an appearance in the audio list at No. 6.

The paperback list sees Katrine Engberg grab the No. 4 position with her debut novel The Tenant. Finally, the children’s fiction bestseller list features Jens Lapidus’ first installment in his new series for young readers, The Dillsta Gang and the Art Heist, at No. 4.