Nina Knag is a Norwegian writer-director known for her bold visual language and emotionally precise storytelling, and has established herself as one of the most daring voices in contemporary Nordic filmmaking.

Her feature debut, Se meg/Don’t Call Me Mama (2025), premiered in the main competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to fantastic reviews. Se meg is an unsettling drama about a teacher who enters a forbidden relationship with a young asylum seeker, and stars Pia Tjelta, whose performance earned her the Best Actress Award at Karlovy Vary.

Before moving into feature filmmaking, Knag built an international reputation through acclaimed short films that have screened and won awards at major international festivals.

Knag also brings experience as an episode director, with credits on three episodes of the NRK youth drama Rykter/Rumours (2023) and two episodes of Aftenposten TV’s web series Ingen Retur/No Return (2018).

She is currently developing a drama series and several feature film projects, both domestically and internationally.

Furthermore, Knag runs her own casting agency and teaches film and acting at various institutions.

Finnish author Satu Rämö (b. 1980) moved to Iceland twenty years ago and has since become one of Finland’s most successful authors. Her fiction debut and the first novel in the internationally bestselling Hildur series, The Clues in the Fjord, was an instant success, following its publication in Finland 2022. The award-winning series has sold over 1.5 million copies across 29 territories. A Finnish-Icelandic TV adaptation based on the series premiered in early 2026.

In addition to her crime fiction, Rämö is celebrated for her nonfiction works, including knitting books inspired by the wool sweaters featured in the Hildur universe, as well as her children’s series The Iceland Adventures. She lives in the small town of Ísafjörður in northwest Iceland with her husband and their two children.

Henrik Ekblom is one of the biggest names in Stockholm’s financial scene and is living the life of his dreams in the city’s picturesque Old Town. But in a matter of days, his entire world is turned on its head. A life-threatening disease and a wild infatuation make him question his life choices. Has he spent his time on the right things, the right people?

Henrik receives a strange message from an H.C. Andersen, asking questions about a dilapidated old property called “Paradise” outside of Helsingborg. The plot thickens as it becomes clear that its owner is Henrik’s elderly mother, who appears to nurse a great anxiety when it comes to the house. Something must have happened there, but she refuses to tell him what.

Henrik decides to help his mother find closure. How did Paradise become such a source of unease for her? And could there be more people like her, haunted by its existence?

With Beyond the Bridges, beloved crime fiction and children’s writer Kristina Ohlsson serves up a story of literary fiction for the very first time, and it’s all about change in the face of death.

In The Achilles Heels of Your Brain, psychiatrist Anders Hansen explores how our own brains can lead us astray. The very organ that enabled nuclear physics, DNA technology, art, and music also tempts us to overestimate ourselves, cling to biases, and spend hours glued to our phones. These gray cells drive us to overindulge, crave junk food, misremember, deceive ourselves, feel empty after success, envy our friends, divide the world too quickly into “us” and “them,” and flare up irrationally at fellow drivers.

Yet none of this is the result of malice—quite the opposite. Traits that today may seem like flaws are, in fact, clever adaptations that once helped our ancestors survive. In this book, internationally bestselling author Anders Hansen takes readers on a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the mind. Drawing on cutting-edge research, personal experiences from clinical practice, and practical advice, he shows how to live with a brain that is both primitive and extraordinary. The better we understand the brain’s Achilles heels, the better we can learn to navigate around them. This is a book that sheds light on both who we are and the world we live in.

Imagine the nicest person in the world. Someone who’s always happy and constantly lends a hand, in an almost self-effacing way. That’s Sandrine.

Sandrine gets coffee for everyone at meetings, constantly bends to her demanding teenager, and paid for her ex-husband’s studies by working two jobs. She unquestioningly agrees to any extra assignment her new boss throws at her, even the time-consuming home sanitation for Solle, a grumpy retiree who has turned his back on the world.

But a cheerful outlook will take you far, and Sandrine is niceness personified. Until one day, she isn’t.

All is Well, Always is a story about smiling widely and biting your tongue. And about what happens when you suddenly stop.

Jørn Lier Horst and Antti Tuomainen are both longlisted for the prestigious 2026 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation. The annual Dagger awards are handed out by the UK-based Crime Writers’ Association.

Jørn Lier Horst is nominated for his The Lake, the seventeenth William Wisting novel. Antti Tuomainen is in the running with the standalone The Winter Job.

Jo Nesbø has been awarded the 2025 Riverton Prize for his standalone thriller Wolf Hour.
The prestigious crime writing award is annually given to the best Norwegian crime story and Nesbø has been the recipient of this award twice previously, in 1997, for the first novel in the Harry Hole series, The Bat and in 2019 for the twelfth installment, Knife, in addition to being awarded the Riverton Honor Prize in 2016.

The jury says: “This is a virtuoso novel – grand, tight, and elegant – it moves with energy and feeling, seamlessly composed with expressive zooms in and out. There are many details and tricks to rejoice over – a true-to-genre hardboiled style, a troubled and wounded investigator with his heart on his sleeve. The novel’s different realities, with the true crime dynamic, invite the reader in, raising and expanding the novel’s pulse and scope in a striking way.”