Lars Kepler is nominated for Bookbeat’s Crime Author of the Year 2021, an award that is completely data-driven and is based on how popular, listened to and liked the three latest novels from current Swedish crime authors have been during the past year.
The winner will be announced on September 25th at this year’s CrimeTime Festival in Gothenburg.
Photo: Linnéa Jonasson Bernholm
Klas Ekman’s novel Capable People has been shortlisted for the 2021 Crimetime Award in the category ‘Crime Debut of the Year.’ The jury had the following motivation:
“Just like Max von Sydow played a game of chess with death in Bergman’s cult movie, the main characters in this debut play a game of dominoes with fate. A highly human slip turns into the catalyst for a series of events, and soon they’re trapped in a web of lies and schemes where only the adept can prevail. /…/ Social realism combines with wit in a thriller format we barely thought was possible, but is executed with elegance.”
The Crimetime Award was founded in 2015 by the crime festival Crimetime in Sweden. The winner will be revealed on 21 September. Click the “Read me” button below to vote before 19 September.
A wintery spring has just given way to early summer. Sam Berger, Molly Blom and Deer, their contact at the police office, who is just learning how to walk again after the attack that brutally changed her life, sense an ambiguous connection between the bodies that are being found one by one in the thawing archipelago. Someone is going to murder again. Could Sam, Molly and Deer intervene, or is the truth far worse than what they could ever imagine?
Meltdown is the stand-alone fifth installment in the lauded Berger & Blom series. It’s a raging thriller coming together in a ghastly crescendo masterfully orchestrated as only Arne Dahl knows how.
SAS: Rise of the Black Swan, the action film directed by Magnus Martens based on Andy McNab’s novel Red Notice, premiered on Netflix on this Friday and is the second most watched movie in the US this weekend.
The film stars Sam Heughan (Outlander), Ruby Rose (Batwoman), Andy Serkis (Planet of the Apes), Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) and Hannah John-Kamen (Ready Player One) and follows a band of criminals as they hijack the Eurostar train with 400 hostages on board, deep beneath the English Channel where they plan to detonate an explosion, ushering in an economic war on the government. Unbeknownst to the criminals, injured Special Air Service off-duty officer Tom Buckingham is on board the train as well, and he will stop at nothing to thwart the terrorist attack.
Liza Marklund’s just published The Polar Circle goes straight to No. 1 on the official list for hardcovers in Sweden. The paperback list’s No. 1 spot meanwhile goes to Jo Nesbø and The Kingdom, just out in paperback.
Ahead of its publication, Marvin Mellow and Peas on Earth has garnered Bobbie Peers his second nomination for Ark’s Children’s Book Award 2021. Peers previously won the sought-after award in 2015 for William Wenton and the Luridium Thief. The annual literary prize is bestowed upon the children’s book of the year and the ultimate winner is selected by over 10,000 children in grades 5-7. The award ceremony will be held in Oslo in November.
Marvin Mellow is a strikingly ordinary boy. He gets pushed around by nasty bullies at school and dreams of becoming a YouTube star. Then one day his life takes an unexpected turn when he discovers a peculiar metal egg in his garden and befriends the alien Peas. From then on, nothing is ordinary!
A wild and laugh-out-loud funny story for middle grade readers, featuring Marvin Mellow, Fred, Principal Tor, the bullies Irmeline and Fluffy, action heroes, stunt men, dating, aliens, fame, bagpipe music and friendship. Ahead of its release Marvin Mellow and Peas on Earth has landed Bobbie Peers his second nomination for the sought-after Ark’s Children’s Book Award for children’s book of the year.
Jørn Lier Horst’s long-running bestseller A Question of Guilt is No. 1 on week 33’s paperback list. Horst is joined by Kristina Ohlsson, whose just published Storm Watch debuts at No. 4 on the e-book list.
On Tuesday, Jo Nesbø and climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared together in an exclusive conversation at the Edinburgh TV Festival, in the fest’s Worldview Address slot, to discuss the climate crisis and the creative industry’s responsibility towards sustainability and a greener future and how writers and producers need to tackle it through storytelling.
The Edinburgh TV Festival is the largest media event of its kind in the UK, attracting several thousand delegates from the UK, rest of Europe and the US.
The festival’s creative director Stewart Clarke says about the event:
“It really was a long-term goal to get Greta Thunberg and get her to talk about what the responsibility is of the TV world of storytelling, for storytellers, and more than that, to frame things in a positive way in terms of how positive change can be effected, and what was great was to be able to pair her up with Jo Nesbo, the author who has spoken about this before. That’s an amazing matchup.”
Please click “read more” below to watch the event.
Furia, the original crime thriller created by Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen and directed by Magnus Martens, is in the running for the Grand Prize for ‘Best Series’ at Series Mania’s International Competition.
Furia: On the run from his past and with a new identity, the cop Asgeir moves with his daughter to an idyllic small town in western Norway. A conflict at the local refugee center leads Asgeir to encounter the mysterious Ragna, the owner of a dire secret. She is Furia, a far-right writer spreading dark and sinister opinions to a global audience. A tragic murder puts both Asgeir and Ragna in danger, revealing forces in Norway and Europe far more dangerous than a small-town murder.
Taking place in Lille, France, on August 26 – September 2, Series Mania will also be where Furia has its world premiere.
Estonia, Varrak
Three-book-deal closed by Ida Schabbauer
Estonia, Päike ja Pilv
Closed by Ida Schabbauer
Faroe Islands, BFL
Closed by Ida Schabbauer
Iceland, Forlagid
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Lithuania, Baltos Lankos
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Albania, Shkupi
Three-book deal closed by Ida Schabbauer
Firstly, the characters (and not only they) are believably depicted. Secondly, the chain of events is convincing. Third, the setting is mid-1990’s. /…/ [The Road of Ill Repute] brings back memories from the atmosphere around this time.
– Postimees
The sinfully sexy TV series version of Faithless outshines the original feature film. /…/ It is incredible to see how Tomas Alfredson and the Norwegian screenwriter Sara Johnsen make this old story their own.
– DN
A beautiful monument to the consequences of infidelity. /…/ It’s elegant, glossy, and, just like a good flirt, utterly impossible to look away from.
– SvD
Brilliant Bergman remake. /…/ A drama that hits all the perfect notes.
– SR P1
Heartbreaking and piercing /…/ Beautiful, well-acted, poignant and emotionally charged – Faithless is a Swedish TV series treasure which moves you deeply and challenges our ideas about love, power, and betrayal.
– Moviezine
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.
