Why are the leaves suddenly falling off the trees in Sable Forest? Soon all that’s left are dead trees, naked branches reaching for the sky. Even the birds have fallen strangely silent. Why aren’t they singing like in other forests? And where have the last cookies gone? This time Detective Agency No. 2 has to solve not one but three mysteries!

Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Operation Sable Forest is the fifteenth installment in their Detective Agency No. 2 series – crime fiction for the youngest!

The official Norwegian bestseller list for the last week of January sees the just published paperback of Ingar Johnsrud’s The Cross I Bear shoot to No. 5. On the e-book list, Lars Kepler’s long-running bestseller Lazarus is No. 2.

Tom Malmquist’s In Every Moment We Are Still Alive has been chosen as an official Action Book Club title in the US.

The Action Book Club is a program by the Little Free Library, a nonprofit organization that aims to inspire a love of reading, build community, and spark creativity by fostering neighborhood book exchanges around the world. In a twist on the traditional book club, the Action Book Club invites participants to read books on a particular theme, engage in discussions, and take part in group projects to benefit their communities.

The Action Book Club offers book recommendations for all ages, announcing a new theme twice a year. In Every Moment We Are Still Alive will be part of the reading list for the upcoming theme “moving forward,” which celebrates growth, resilience, and well-being.

Click “Read more” below to read a New York Times article about the program.

An adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s international bestseller Beartown has been green-lit by HBO Europe. The adaptation will be produced by Filmlance International (Bron/The Bridge) and award-winning screenwriter and director Peter Grönlund (Drifters, Goliath) will direct all episodes of the five-part one-hour series, written by Anders Weidemann, Antonia Pyk and Linn Gottfridsson.

Beartown will be filmed on location in the north of Sweden, starting soon. The series will premiere on HBO Nordic and across HBO Europe territories at the same time.

For more info, please click on “Read more” below.

Anders Rydell has received a scholarship for his work in helping to spread knowledge about the Holocaust. The scholarship, which is handed out by Micael Bindefeld’s Foundation in Memory of the Holocaust, aims to support those who communicate, provide information, illustrate or otherwise convey knowledge about the Holocaust to a wider audience in Sweden.

During his research, Anders has found stories by survivors of the Holocaust that never been published in Swedish before and in collaboration with the Swedish publisher Novellix, they have chosen four of these stories and published them in a collection of short stories. Each scholar receives SEK 200 000 to enable the distribution of these short stories to schoolchildren.

This marks the first time that the Foundation’s scholarship is handed out to a literary project. The board’s motivation is the following:

2019’s scholarship is awarded to author Anders Rydell and publisher Novellix for their efforts to spread previously untranslated stories by surviving authors of the Holocaust. The texts are given life in an innovative way, offering snapshots of an otherwise almost immeasurable historical event. For the new generation of youths, these short stories will become a shortcut to knowledge, empathy, and a continued living history.

The scholarship was handed out yesterday on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day by Archbishop Antje Jackelén at a ceremony at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Among the attendees were the Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven, and other ministers.