Jørn Lier Horst’s The Inner Darkness is No. 1 on the biggest online bookstore and second biggest physical retailer in Slovakia, Martinus’, e-book list. The Inner Darkness also comes in at No. 4 on Martinus’ Top 100 list for printed titles, across all genres.
Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune have been announced as the recipients of the Fritt Ord Tribute for their TV series 22 July. The Fritt Ord Tribute acknowledges remarkable efforts to promote free speech, often in connection with current affairs.
22 July has received great praise in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and earlier this year Johnsen was awarded the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award for her outstanding writing on the series.
Erik Axl Sund’s Porcelain Dolls, the second installment in the Melancholia series, is No. 10 on this week’s Der Spiegel bestseller list for trade paperbacks in Germany.
In City at the End: The Resistance we return to Enger’s thought-provoking and acclaimed dystopian universe.
Stella Staerk has made her fateful choice: she’ll stay with the Women’s Battalion, a clandestine resistance movement based out of an abandoned powerplant just outside of Widowton. She is plagued by the terrible realization that her long lost brother Sirius has all along been a central figure within the Janus group. In a world where everything is now running scarce, the Janus members have taken to culling the population by killing fertile young women – the future mothers of the next generation.
In City at the End: The Resistance, Stella becomes a key player in a guerrilla movement operating within Widowton, which ultimately forces her to confront the question of whether the end actually justifies the means. Meanwhile she struggles to adapt to the strict routines inside the Women’s Battalion and desperately longs for her family and friends.
City at the End: The Resistance is the much anticipated second installment in the YA-series about Stella Staerk and her struggle to survive in a Nordic war-ton, dystopian future where young women are being targeted.
Photo: Elise Risnes Eikevik
Rolf-Magne Golten Andersen started his screenwriting career at NRK (The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), where he also worked as radio producer and project leader. After ten years, Andersen decided to focus whole-heartedly on his screenwriting and relocated from Oslo to the small Norwegian village of Dale. He has since written among else the acclaimed and innovative TV series Magnus (2019) together with creator Vidar Magnussen. The successful comedy drama series was nominated for ‘Best Comedy’ at the Golden Screen Awards, and selected for the official competition at Cannes Series, where its nominations included ‘Best TV Series’ and ‘Best Script’.
Andersen’s other works include the comedy series Hytteliv (2017), Superkrim 2020, and Førstegangstjenesten, of which the latter two are scheduled to premiere this year.
Currently, Andersen is working on two projects for Yellow Bird.
The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dag’s debut novel, nabs the No. 9 spot on the Spanish bestseller list this week. This means the novel has now accomplished the feat of appearing in the country’s top ten for fifteen consecutive weeks.
Stina Jackson’s The Last Snow features at the top of the monthly bestseller lists for April, coming in at No. 1 in audio and e-book, and No. 2 in hardcover. Anders de la Motte appears right beside her, his Rites of Spring appearing at No. 2 in audio and e-book and at No. 3 in hardcover.
Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1794 meanwhile claims the No. 5 spot in hardcover, and Arne Dahl’s Freedom is No. 3 in audio and No. 4 in e-book. Katrine Engberg’s long-running bestseller The Tenant is No. 8 in paperback.
Jens Lapidus makes his debut on the monthly bestseller list for children’s books, coming in at No. 5 with The Dillsta Gang and the Art Heist.
The lists of week 18 see Stina Jackson claim multiple bestseller placements with her latest novel The Last Snow, coming in at No. 1 in e-book and No. 2 in hardback and audio respectively. Arne Dahl also makes several appearances, nabbing the No. 4 spot in e-book and No. 5 in audio with his recently published Freedom – the fourth installment in the Berger & Blom series.
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Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1794 claims the No. 10 spot on the official bestseller list for fiction in Finland for the month of April.
This week’s official lists from Norway see Jørn Lier Horst’s The Inner Darkness come in at No. 3 in hardcover and No. 2 in e-book. Sharing the No. 2 spot on the e-book list is Smoke Screen, the second collaborative novel from Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger. Smoke Screen is also No. 5 in paperback. Returning to the hardcover list, Jørn Lier Horst makes a second appearance at No. 6 with his and Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ children’s book, Operation Sable Forest. Hedvig Montgomery meanwhile features at No. 6 on the nonfiction list with The Adolescent Years.
Norway, Cappelen Damm
Three-book deal closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Croatia, Ibis Grafika
Closed by Ida Schabbauer
Latvia, Zvaigzne ABC
Two-book deal closed by Ida Schabbauer
Netherlands, Bruna
Three-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
Czech Republic, Host
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Slovakia, Ikar
Closed by Emma Granberg
[The Devil’s Trick is] claustrophobically thrilling from the very first page. /…/ [T]his is a brilliant combination of thrilling entertainment and a gripping portrayal from inside forensic psychiatry.
– Skånska Dagbladet
The characters and their challenges are portrayed with great empathy, and they vividly come to life before the reader in a way that makes it impossible to do anything but grow fond of their somewhat quirky personalities.
– Danish Library Report
Between the threads of this tightly woven narrative, Engman manages to bring to life a whole gallery of characters who are very likable yet no less complex—all of them memorable, even the minor ones.
– Télérama
The reason for [Ahnhem’s] success is simple: he writes like a god and keeps us on the torture rack until the very last page. /…/ Generation Zero has all the ingredients to be this summer’s big crime novel. It is thrilling, realistic, and impossible to put down.
– Nettavisen
This novel explores the different facets of a divorce in order to examine all the little things that extinguish love. Fascinating.
– Version Femina
A touching and poignant tale of an aging father and his middle-aged daughter, exploring themes of nurturing and reconciliation, and the profound layers of life often hidden from those closest to us – a story about love, and about making things right, before it’s too late.