Fredrik Backman’s The Winners is a nominee in the running for the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for “Best Fiction.”
The Goodreads Choice Awards is the only major US book award decided by readers. In the coming months, readers will get to participate in three rounds of voting in each of the seventeen categories. The opening round will take place between November 15 and November 27.
The nominees for 2022’s Adlibris Awards have been announced. Adlibris is the leading book retailer in the Nordics and the Adlibris Award was founded in 2019 to celebrate the site’s greatest titles. The 10 nominated titles in the 9 respective categories have been selected by a jury of Adlibris employees from all works published in 2022.
Ia Genberg’s The Details is shortlisted in the ’Fiction’ category.
Amongst the nominated titles in the ‘Crime Fiction’ category are Lars Kepler’s The Spider, Anders de la Motte & Måns Nilsson’s Death Goes Antiquing and Liza Marklund’s The Mire.
In the ‘Childrens’ category – Jonas Gardell’s The Story of the Little Sparrow is shortlisted for ‘Children’s 0-6’ and Martin Widmark’s The Masquerade Mystery is nominated for ‘Children’s 6-12’. Anders Hansen’s Brain Blues for Teens is nominated for the ‘Young Adult’ category.
The winners will be announced on January 25, 2023.
The Petrona Award’s jury has just presented its shortlist for the 2022 Petrona Award for ‘Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.’ The list of six nominees include Anders Roslund with Knock Knock and Antti Tuomainen with The Rabbit Factor.
The Judges have the following to say about each title:
“Another fine example of Roslund’s talent for seamlessly blending together a solid police procedural with a high octane thriller, leading to a gritty and fast-paced read set against his astute observations on the societal and political issues of contemporary Sweden.” – on Anders Roslund’s Knock Knock.
“[It] puts at its heart an ordinary man drawing on his previously undiscovered and extraordinary resolve, to carve out and keep his place in a hostile world, with often darkly funny results.” – on Antti Tuomainen’s The Rabbit Factor.
The winning title will be announced on Thursday 8 December 2022.
The official bestseller lists for the month of October are out, and Lars Kepler’s The Spider grabs the top spot on the hardcover list for fiction, coming in at No. 1 followed by Anders Roslund’s 100 percent at No. 5.
Martin Widmark’s The Masquerade Mystery comes in at No. 3 on the bestseller list for children’s, and Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones is No. 2 on the list for paperback.
Photo: Nicolas Tobias Følsgaard
Eva Aagaard (b.1988) is a Copenhagen-born writer, translator and journalist. She attended journalist school in Aarhus and prestigious writer’s programs in Norway and Sweden. Having written for numerous Danish medias, she has also been a prominent voice in the national debates surrounding the treatment of sexual assault victims. In her novel I Don’t Want This she grippingly explores the emotional turmoil that follows in the wake of a sexual assault, our perceptions of victimhood and the pitfalls of motherhood.
The Danish edition of Jo Nesbø’s Killing Moon, the 13th installment in the Harry Hole series, has gone straight to No. 1 on Saxo’s bestseller list. Saxo is Denmark’s biggest online retailer.
The Swedish bestseller list this week have Lars Keplers’ The Spider claiming the No. 1 spot followed by Kristina Ohlsson’s Dimmed Lights coming in at No. 3 and Jens Lapdius’ Mr One sailing to the No. 5 spot on the official bestseller list for hardcover fiction.
Amina, written by Mona Masri and directed by Ahmed Abdullahi, will have its world premiere at the 2022 Marrakech Film Festival on November 17. This is the anticipated feature debut for both the writer and director.
The star-packed jury consists of Paolo Sorrentino, Susanne Bier, Oscar Isaac, Vanessa Kirby, Diane Kruger, Justin Kurzel, Nadine Labaki, Laïla Marrakchi and Tahar Rahim.
Amina, a young and talented mixed martial arts fighter, is striving to get back to her passion. With no support from her parents, she struggles to raise her seven-year-old daughter. Against all odds, she gets a shot at the MMA world championships. Now, she is forced to make the toughest choice of her life: whether to be a world-class fighter or the mother she is expected to be.
After the success of the best-selling The Interior Design Handbook, interior designer Frida Ramstedt is back with a new book that teaches you which furniture suits you and your home.
What is important to think about when buying furniture, or to furnishing your home? Which details do the furniture designers and furniture manufacturers themselves pay extra attention to? What distinguishes good quality from bad and which common complaints should you watch out for – if you want to avoid expensive wrong purchases?
This book contains furniture knowledge that everyone should know, regardless of your personal style. It provides concrete advice to help you understand which furniture is right for you and your home – whether you’re buying new, used or just want to make the most of what you already have.
The Furniture Handbook is a perfect complement to Frida Ramstedt’s international bestseller The Interior Design Handbook, which has been translated into 29 languages and has sold over 200 000 copies worldwide.
This week’s bestseller lists in Norway have Lars Keplers’ The Spider claiming the No. 1 spot on the official ebook list and Liza Marklund’s The Polar Circle sailing to the No. 2 spot for paperback.
Slovakia, Verbarium
Closed by Ida Schabbauer
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
Paradis City has thrilling ambitions worthy of applause. Prime Video (…) may very well have a hit on their hands.
– Aftonbladet
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
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.