Today marks the release of the teaser trailer for The Truth Will Out season 2. The crime drama series is based on an original idea by the award-winning author and criminologist Leif GW Persson, and is written and created by Aron Levander and Hans Jörnlind. They are joined by episode writer Anna Platt.
Ingeborg Topsøe (b. 1985) is an award-winning Danish screenwriter. Her latest feature Wildland, a female-led mafia drama, received great praise as it premiered at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival and was released in both the UK and US. The feature also earned Topsøe a nomination for ‘Best Original Screenplay’ at the Robert Awards, the Danish Film Academy’s equivalent to the Oscars. Topsøe has always worked in both Scandinavia and abroad, and has written for the Emmy-nominated Amazon show HANNA.
Topsøe graduated from the National Film & Television School in London in 2012, and her graduation work Volume went on to win the British Independent Film Award. It was additionally nominated for a Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival the following year. Topsøe’s feature film debut took place in 2017 with the psychological drama The Charmer, which premiered at San Sebastian. The film earned twelve wins and thirteen nominations in festivals world wide, and was nominated for the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the Gothenburg Film Festival.
NPR, America’s National Public Radio, raises Simon Stålenhag as one of seven authors who’ve changed and elevated the sci-fi genre during the last decade, exploring the new format of bite-sized yet profound fiction.
Jason Sheehan, the journalist behind the article, goes on to write the following about Stålenhag and his debut title, Tales from the Loop:
“I love [Stålenhag] for his words. The art is cool, no doubt. But the reason I keep three of his books on my desk at all times is because no other writer […] is better at telling huge stories in small spaces than Stalenhag. Tales From The Loop worldbuilds visually, but it comes alive for me in the small vignettes written into the margins. /…/ 143 words. A complete story, beautiful and haunting. And Stalenhag does this over and over and over again, on nearly every page. His work is both grounded and fantastical, perfectly suited to our modern tastes of ideas served in appetizer-sized portions. What’s more, Loop […] upended things both by proving the viability of crowd-funding in the increasingly siloed world of traditional publishing and presaged the boom we’re now seeing in genre flash and micro fiction.”
To read the full article and list on NPR’s website, just click “read more” below.
Hjorth & Rosenfeldt’s As You Sow performs a hat trick on the monthly bestseller list of July, coming in at No. 1 in the hardcover, audio and e-book. Anders Roslund’s Trust Me likewise grabs three top placements, coming in at No. 2 on the same three lists.
Kristina Ohlsson’s Storm Watch is No. 1 also this week on the official paperback bestseller list in Sweden.
HBO’s Beartown, based on the novel of the New York Times No. 1 bestselling author Fredrik Backman and adapted for television by Anders Weidemann, is nominated for a Swedish Emmy – a Kristallen award – for ‘Best Drama’. Also in the running for the award is Netflix’s Snabba Cash, written by Oskar Söderlund and directed by Jesper Ganslandt, both creators and show runners of the series. Jens Lapidus is the author behind the internationally bestselling novel that inspired the series, also titled Snabba Cash.
The Kristallen Gala will take place on August 27th in Stockholm, Sweden.
Kristina Ohlsson’s Storm Watch, the first installment in her new series set on the Swedish west coast, stays firmly put at No. 1 on the official paperback bestseller list in Sweden.
A Question of Guilt, the fourth novel in Jørn Lier Horst’s Cold Case Quartet, is No. 1 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for paperbacks. The novel is the overall No. 1 for the month of June as well as on the most recent weekly list.
Week 29’s lists see Hjorth & Rosenfeldt’s As You Sow stay put at No. 1 in hardcover, while Kristina Ohlsson’s Storm Watch shoots to No. 1 in the paperback category. As You Sow also climbs the audio and e-book lists, coming in at No. 1 on both.
Katrine Engberg’s international bestseller The Tenant continues to charm readers. The novel is now the second most sold translated title of the first half of 2021 in Norway.
Germany, HarperCollins
Closed by Senka Hasanovic
Denmark, Turbine
Closed by Senka Hasanovic
Hungary, Animus
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Taiwan, Delight Culture
Closed by The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Ida Schabbauer
Slovakia, Verbarium
Closed by Ida Schabbauer
Finland, Otava
Closed by Linda Andersson
A novel that begins this way truly promises an entertaining story, and Mr Saito’s Traveling Cinema lives up to these expectations and exceeds them. This is an utterly fascinating read and so wonderfully interwoven and written that is draws you right in and keep you completely captivated.
– Lifdu nuna
Lisa Ridzén have us moved in this novel about growing old. /…/ A captivating and credible novel, highly awarded in Sweden. Warmly recommended.
– Reformatorisch Dagblad
The illustrations in the book are created in vibrant colors. They are humorous, rich in detail, and spark the child’s curiosity and interest.
– BTJ
Erik Axl Sund, have successfully created an international success that was bound to make the leap from page to screen sooner or later. /…/ Now that The Crow Girl has been adapted into a TV series, the excitement is at its peak.
– Gefle Dagblad
The Crow Girl is a pitch-black crime thriller with a cleverly contrived twist.
– Dagens Nyheter
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.