The Sleepwalker, the latest installment in Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna series, ranks No. 1 in the crime genre this week.
Series Mania has unveiled its selection of titles which will be competing this year. A Life’s Worth, written by Mona Masri and Oliver Dixon, has been selected for International Panorama.
A Life’s Worth, which is inspired by Magnus Ernström’s autobiographical novel, explores the challenges facing the first Swedish UN battalion in Bosnia, as four young soldiers go on their first mission in 1993. The show stars Edvin Ryding, Johan Rheborg and is directed by Ahmed Abdullahi.
Series Mania takes place in Lille, France, from March 21 to 28.
Pascal Engman’s No One, the seventh installment in the bestselling series about detective Vanessa Frank, ranks No. 1 on both the hardcover and e-book lists this week.
Less than a week after its release, the Russo brothers’ adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s narrative art book, has become the No. 1 film on Netflix worldwide, with more than 25.2 million views.
The Electric State follows a young woman (played by Millie Bobby Brown) who embarks on a perilous journey across the robot-ravaged US, accompanied by a mysterious toy robot and a roguish smuggler (Chris Pratt). Together, they’ll unravel a mechanical conspiracy at the center of the American heartland.
Lisa Ridzen’s bestselling debut, When the Cranes Fly South, ranks No. 5 in the fiction category on Bog og Idé, Denmark’s largest book retailer, this week.
Lars Kepler’s The Sleepwalker, the tenth novel about detective Joona Linna, holds the No. 2 spot on the hardcover list for the second consecutive week.
The highly anticipated The Electric State, the Russo brothers’ adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s international bestselling narrative art book, premieres globally on Netflix today, March 14.
Set in a retro-futuristic past, this epic adventure from filmmakers Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame), written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, follows Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown), an orphaned teenager journeying across the American West in search of her younger brother. Accompanying her is a mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter named Keats, played by Chris Pratt.
The film also features Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci. Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk join the cast in voice roles.
The Ria Awards is initiated by the Swedish Film & TV Producers’ Association to promote the best creators in Swedish television.
Daniel Espinosa is nominated for Best Storyteller of the Year, for The Helicopter Heist. The series, produced by B-Reel, is also nominated for Best Scripted Program of the Year and Best Scripted Original Idea.
The 1 Minute Film Short Film Competition at Stockholm Film Festival Junior is one of Sweden’s largest short film competitions for children and young people between the ages of 6-19. Entries from all over the country have been submitted to the festival and amongst these, three winning films will be selected in this year’s edition of 1 Minute Film.
This year’s exciting jury for the competition consists of actor Erik Svedberg-Zelman, actor Philip Oros and screenwriter Lisa Ambjörn.
The winners will be presented during the Stockholm Film Festival Junior awards ceremony on Friday April 11.
Registration is still open for competition entries with a deadline of March 25.
Pascal Engman’s newly published No One, the latest installment in the Vanessa Frank series, enters the official Norwegian bestseller list at No. 1 on both the hardcover and e-book list.
Welsh, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Estonia, Helios
Two-book deal closed by Ida Schabbauer
Netherlands, Bruna
Three-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
Türkiye, Dogan Egmont
Closed by Emma Granberg
Norway, Cappelen Damm
Closed by Tor Jonasson
Ukraine, Publishing House RM
Two-book deal closed by Linda Andersson
The book is guaranteed to be a good read for many kids, and pure entertainment has a great value in itself.
– Barnebokkritikk
With SON, Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger deliver a solid, tense, and profoundly human psychological thriller. By exploring the fallibility of memory, the subjectivity of testimonies, and the weight of trauma, the duo crafts a dark and masterful novel, driven by a charismatic heroine whom we eagerly await to encounter again in a new investigation.
– Culturellement Vôtre
Moa Herngren is a master at sub-text. /…/ All three children have the right to their unhappy childhood, but the author’s perspective-shifts skilfully achieves to alter the picture.
– Dagens Nyheter
The Swedish Fay Weldon 2.0 is entertaining pleasure reading. Simona Ahrnstedt carries the epithet ‘Sweden’s Queen of Romance’ with distinction. The first installment in the series about Charlie Anderson has got both substance and tongue-in-cheek.
– Dagens Nyheter
Ridzén’s debut novel is delightful, surprisingly funny and incredibly moving.
– London Evening Standard
Cecilie Olin never returns home after a night out. Two days later, she is found strangled. Her body is mutilated. The violence was inflicted post mortem and appears deeply personal. Her husband soon appears on the investigators’ radar, but then a new woman is reported missing.