Erik Axl Sund’s Paper Souls, just published in Germany, jumps to No. 5 on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for paperbacks.
C More/TV4 will premiere a second season of the acclaimed series The Congregation in 2024. Fredrik Agetoft will return as head-writer, and Goran Kapetanović as director.
Aliette Opheim will also come back to her role as the charismatic and controlling Eva Skoog.
Shooting will commence at the end of February.
Tarik Saleh’s Cairo Conspiracy (Boy from Heaven) is nominated for a César Award, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, in the ‘Best Foreign Film’ category.
The 48th edition of the César Awards will take place on February 24.
Fredrik Backman’s novel A Man Called Ove climbs the New York Times Best Seller List for paperbacks, reaching No. 7 this week. This also marks the title’s outstanding 91 weeks on the list.
The winning titles of the 2022’s Adlibris Awards have been announced. Lars Kepler’s The Spider wins ‘Crime Novel of the Year’, Anders Hansen & Mats Wänblad’s The Happiness Cure for Teens wins ‘Young Adult of the Year’ and Martin Widmark takes home ‘Children’s book 6-12 of the Year’ with his The Masquerade Mystery.
Adlibris is the leading book retailer in the Nordics and the Adlibris Award was founded in 2019 to celebrate the site’s greatest titles.
Jo Nesbø’s standalone novel The Kingdom is No. 1 on the official bestseller list for paperbacks in France.
Isabella Carbonell’s Dogborn is one of the official features at Göteborg Film Festival 2023, where it will also compete for the Dragon Award – ‘Best Nordic Film.’
The thriller Dogborn saw its world premiere at Venice International Film Critics’ Week, and it stars Philip Oros and Silvana Imam.
Homeless and invisible – the twins in Dogborn are constantly struggling to survive. Sister is a ticking time bomb; her screams are loud. Brother, on the other hand, doesn’t speak at all, but rather screams internally. Their dream of a real home leads to an unexpected job opportunity.
Tarik Saleh’s lauded Boy from Heaven, the political thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque about the fisherman boy Adam who is thrown into a brutal power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite, was awarded Best Screenplay at the Swedish Guldbagge Awards last night.
Zentropa film has acquired the film rights for Katrine Engberg’s new crime series. Together with the author, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, is planning a series of three to five films.
“After 20 pages of Katrine Engberg’s new novel, The Writing on the Wall, I knew that this was the film project with which I must end my long and conflicted career. This book series will be my epitaph! I am deeply captivated by the characters and the exotic stories, weaved together in a clever way in a magnificent drama. Genuinely excited to turn the next page. Read the book, look forward to the movie!” says Peter.
For the first time, Katrine Engberg writes a story rooted in her own family history. The Writing on the Wall questions what a good person is, and what it is that we are running from. The need for escape is the overarching theme which both our main character Liv, and two supporting characters Nima and Hannah tackle. They are all running from something, or from their selves. And this does not exclude the murderer!
For Katrine, the film adaptation is a dream come true: “I was standing in my study looking out at a snowy Copenhagen when Peter Aalbæk called, and I knew immediately that we were ‘meant to be’. Seeing my own family history rewritten into a movie script and played by actors was a wild thought. I couldn’t imagine leaving it to anyone but him.”
The Writing on the Wall is the first installment in Katrine Engberg’s new crime series about private detective Liv Jensen.
The nominees for this year’s Swedish Storytel Awards have been announced. The Storytel Awards have been bestowed since 2007 in Sweden to highlight the best audio books of the year. The awards are granted within six categories: Suspense, Fiction, Non-fiction, Feelgood, YA, and Children’s books.
Among the nominees for suspense are Lars Kepler’s The Spider, Anders de la Motte’s The Mountain King, Kristina Ohlsson’s Dimmed Lights, Anders de la Motte and Måns Nilsson’s Death Goes Antiquing, and Liza Marklund’s The Mire.
The Details by Ia Genberg is featured within the fiction category.
Meanwhile, Anders Hansen and Mats Wänblad’s The Happiness Cure for Teens and Elaf Ali’s Who Said Anything About Love? feature on the YA list, whilst Martin Widmark’s The Masquerade Mystery and Stories from Valleby: The mysterious letter are in the running for the children’s books award.
Readers will be able to vote for their favorite works until February 5, after which a jury will pick a winner among the three candidates with the most votes in each category.
To cast your vote, click “Read more” below.
Finland, Otava
Closed by Linda Andersson
Taiwan, Sun Color
Closed by Emma Granberg
North Macedonia, Bata Press
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Estonia, Eesti Raamat
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
The Russos make the most of their enormous budget, with a boatload of impressive visual effects, faithful recreations of Stålenhag’s epic vistas, and some nicely analogue art direction.
– Empire
The Stranger Things star, Chris Pratt and the Russo Brothers have made a Spielbergian treat. /…/ (…) what fun it is to watch a film this expensive and not be able to quite work out where it’s going – or even if it might just stay put for a bit, and soak up the dustily poetic death-of-the-American century vibe.
– The Telegraph
The Electric State is good. (…) [It’s] entertaining, stylish, and lavish. /…/ The 90s had little to nothing to do with the book, but it is the focus here, and in more ways than one, I think it works… and really well too. /…/ I had fun, from start to finish.
– Gamereactor
(…) you can certainly take away one thing from The Electric State, a strong message celebrating our differences and the fact that despite the technological advancements our world faces every day, nothing will ever replace human connection.
– GamesRadar
I liked the film’s great visuals, solid VFX, the world building and loved how it captured the dystopian atmosphere while remaining family friendly. I also absolutely adored the star cast, especially the incredible voice actors and the underlying message of inclusivity in today’s world that is highly polarised.
– MensXP
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.
