Nordisk Film & TV Fond and the Göteborg Film Festival have announced the nominees for the Nordic Series Script Award, an accolade recognizing the main writer(s) of a Nordic drama series that premiered in the previous year. Five drama series from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have been nominated for the prize.

Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen are nominated for Quisling, a five-part series about Vidkun Quisling, the man responsible for one of the greatest betrayals during World War II.

The Quisling project includes both a feature film and a TV series for TV2, with the TV series delving deeper into the stories surrounding Quisling. The film Quisling: The Final Days premiered in 2024 to outstanding reviews and was shortlisted as Norway’s entry for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

The winners of the Nordic Series Script Award will be announced at an awards ceremony on the evening of January 28, 2025.

The complete Norwegian bestseller lists of 2024 have been released, and Pascal Engman dominates the paperback list. Tierra del Fuego takes the top spot, while The Widows comes in at No. 3, closely followed by Femicide and Cocaine taking the No. 4 and No. 5 spot, respectively. Meanwhile, Jo Nesbø’s The Kingdom, secures the No. 2 position on the same list.

Jørn Lier Horst’s Dry Land claims the No. 1 spot on both the crime and fiction bestseller lists. Jo Nesbø’s Blood Ties follows closely, taking the No. 2 and No. 3 positions in the same categories. Meanwhile, Lars Kepler’s The Sleepwalker ranks No. 3 in the crime category and No. 5 in fiction. The Scream by newly formed duo Jørn Lier Horst and Jan-Erik Fjell lands at No. 4 on the crime list.

When you neither have looks, money nor charm, you must work harder than the competition. It isn’t more complicated than that. So that’s what Bob Oz does. Both as a detective at the Minneapolis police force, and when he’s picking up women.

Bob Oz never gives up. Not even when he’s suspended for violence on the job. When arms dealer Marco Dante is the victim of an assassination attempt, Bob refuses to follow the police chief’s guidelines. There’s something about it that reminds Bob of the case he’d rather forget.

In Jo Nesbø’s new standalone, Wolf Hour, he 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.

The Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad listed Conny Palmkvist among their favorites, naming Four Minutes Past Midnight as one of the past year’s best children’s books in the Netherlands. Their nomination reads:

“A magic realism story that, with its poetic and reflective language, portrays how a child tries to grasp the fleeting nature of time.”

The Swedish newspaper Barometern has also included Conny Palmkvist’s work, selecting Fifty-five Meters Below the Surface one of their favorite children’s books of the year 2024. The newspaper offers the following review of the book:

“Conny Palmkvist is a master at writing with ease and humor about difficult and hard-hitting subjects.”

Though Cry Wolf already saw its world premiere at the Stockholm Film Festival, it is now time for its long-awaited local premiere on TV4 Play, on December 25.

One of the largest newspapers in Sweden, Svenska Dagbladet, has already described it as “This Christmas’ best Swedish crime drama” and “A series that breathes quality in every detail”. Cry Wolf isn’t just a nerve-wracking thriller; it is also full of mystery – and a large dose of dark comedy that sets the show apart from other Swedish crime dramas.

Cry Wolf is written by Oskar Söderlund, directed by Jesper Ganslandt and is based on Hans Rosenfeldt’s acclaimed novel of the same name.

The six-part series stars Eliot Sumner (No Time to Die), Eva Melander (Border) and Henrik Dorsin (Triangle of Sadness).