Anja Gatu and Anna Nilsson are the winners of the Swedish 2024 Children’s Crime Fiction Award for The Cat Who Loved Me, the sixth book in The Cat Spies of Rosengard series.

The award is presented to an author who writes crime or suspense for children in the age 6-12, whose work has contributed to the development of the genre and inspired a greater interest in books and reading among children.

Motivation from the Crimetime jury:

“For a thrilling children’s detective series of the highest quality, with vibrant illustrations that enhance the joy of reading. It addresses current, and sometimes frightening, topics, but in a disarming and entertaining way. Its reflection of contemporary issues makes it stand out and hopefully reach a broader audience. The characters are clever, smart, cute, and absolutely irresistible. We love our spies in Rosengård – because after all, everybody wants to be a cat”.

Anja Gatu is shortlisted for the 2024 Crimetime Award in the “Children’s Crime Fiction of the Year” category for The Cat Who Loved Me, the sixth book in The Cat Spies of Rosengard series. The jury had the following motivation:

“A children’s detective series of the highest quality that raises both topical and scary issues, but in a disarming and entertaining way. We love that it takes place in the suburbs and is so richly and colorfully illustrated. A returning favorite, but we can’t get enough of the cat spies of Rosengård!”.

The winner will be announced during the Crimetime Awards ceremony at the Gothenburg Book Fair on September 28.

Click the “Read more” button below to vote before September 19.

It’s spring in Rosengard, and the big Eid party is getting closer. Everything seems calm, but strange things are happening in the neighborhoods. Salome, the kitten who Samira Karlsson doesn’t really dare to trust, suddenly shows up with the news that something shady is going on in Old Rosengard. Two cats have gone missing, and their humans are devastated. Meanwhile, at Salome’s house, someone is stealing the cat food!

Elsa of Purrendelle and Samira Karlsson are given the task of investigating the neighborhood, and they have barely had time to dig their claws into the case when they find a nasty cat trap. Once they see what’s inside, they manage to escape, just in time…

In Anja Gatu’s sixth installment of The Cat Spies of Rosengard, Samira Karlsson witnesses what can happen when humans get desperate with worry for their beloved cats.

Samira Karlsson and Elsa of Purrendelle have been entrusted with a new, exciting mission. Shu the rat has asked the cat spies for help in catching a venomous snake threatening Shu’s terrified relatives.

Elsa of Purrendelle and Samira Karlsson look up an agent going under the code name Prawn Cocktail, since he might have important information about the sinister snake. But when they meet Prawn Cocktail at the salsa club Havana, they become suspicious – he is not acting the way a real spy would. Something is not right.

Samira Karlsson and the other cats are once again embroiled in a sweat-inducing drama set to the beat of a luscious salsa. Who is lying, and why?

Our Cat in Havana is the fifth installment in Anja Gatu’s bestselling series The Cat Spies of Rosengard.

It’s autumn and the animals at Rosengård are preparing a fun Halloween party. But what’s happened to Atlas the dog? Samira Karlsson has not seen her friend for several days and is worried. At the dog park, she learns that Atlas has been injured, but strange rumors are buzzing about what really happened to him, and why.

The cat spies have to face the facts: one of their sub-agents has been seriously injured. But is it a threat against the dogs, or the cat spies themselves? The mystery thickens when more dogs get hurt at dog parks around town.

In Tinker, Tailor, Cat, Spy, we once again get to meet all the wonderful characters from Rosengård, such as Elsa of Purrendelle, Kitty, Leroux and Salome, who is now a new (and nervous) double agent, and the rat Shu, who realizes that she must once more help the cats solve their mystery. At the center is, of course, Samira Karlsson, cat spy extraordinaire in a world hidden from the humans.

The children’s book series The Cat Spies of Rosengard is one of Sweden’s best selling series.

Anja Gatu’s The Cat Who Came In From The Cold features at No. 1 on the official list for children’s fiction in Sweden, followed by Jonas Gardell’s The Story of the Little Sparrow  which comes in at No. 2.