‘The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep’ still No. 1 in Denmark

Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep still rules supreme on the Danish bestseller list, remaining a steady No. 1 in the category of Family & Lifestyle. The Danish edition was published by Alvilda in early October.

Special honorary award to Liza Marklund

The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers has awarded Liza Marklund with a special honorary award. Marklund completed her Annika Bengtzon-series earlier this year with The Final Word as the concluding installment, and has now been awarded by the Academy for her “pioneering contribution to the modern female crime wave.”

Anders de la Motte winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award

Anders de la Motte’s latest novel UltiMatum was yesterday chosen as the winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for ‘Best Swedish Crime Novel of 2015’. Hailed as a novel of international class also by Swedish press, the Academy praised the book as a “thrilling and intricately crafted modern yarn.” UltiMatum, the second stand-alone in the series about David Sarac, is Anders de la Motte’s fifth novel to date.

‘Stockholm Delete’ published in Sweden

Emelie Jansson: a newly minted lawyer at a polished law firm. Teddy: an ex-con trying to stay on the right side of the law as he goes about his job as the firm’s fixer and special investigator. In Stockholm Delete the two are entangled in a snarly web with deep connections to Stockholm’s many worlds, where history is never a thing of the past, and always ready to threaten those who lived it.

When an alarm is triggered, a security guard is called to a house out on Värmdö. What awaits him isn’t a regular break-in, but an unidentifiable body: someone has been slaughtered in the house. A severely wounded young man is discovered near the crime scene. He is arrested on suspicion of having committed the murder. Emelie secretly takes on the task of acting as his defence lawyer, despite her employer’s disapproval. Who is the murder victim? And why do all the trails lead to Mats Emanuelsson, the man Teddy once kidnapped? As Emilie begins to investigate the case, Teddy is forced to confront his past, and all the while his wayward nephew Nikola is about to make the very same mistakes he once did. Soon the three have been caught up in a high stakes game promising dire consequences for them all.

The Finnish State Award for Foreign Translators to Janina Orlov

It has just been announced that Sofi Oksanen’s Swedish translator Janina Orlov has been awarded the 2015 Finnish State Award for Foreign Translators. The annual award is given to an experienced translator of the Finnish language, and this year the chosen recipient is Janina Orlov, who thus far has translated more than 30 works into the Swedish language. Orlov’s critically acclaimed translations have helped make Finnish contemporary literature known among Swedish readers of all generations, and she speaks enthusiastically about the high quality of Finnish literature, as well as the increased interest for it among publishers that she sees. Currently, she is working on Sofi Oksanen’s latest novel Norma.

‘The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep’ No. 1 in Japan

Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep has shot to No. 1 on Japanese Amazon’s bestseller lists of children’s picture books and books on psychology. In addition to this, the only just published Japanese edition is also the overall No. 1 on Amazon’s biggest competitor Rakuten’s bestseller list.

Jo Nesbø’s ‘The Son’ shortlisted for LovelyBooks’ Der Leserpreis

Jo Nesbø’s stand-alone thriller The Son has been shortlisted for LovelyBooks’ Der Leserpreis (Readers’ Choice Award) for ‘Best Crime & Thriller of 2015’. Der Leserpreis is the biggest people’s choice book award in Germany, and the winner will be announced on November 26th. The public can vote here until November 24th.

‘Midnight Sun’ and ‘The Son’ by Jo Nesbø are dominating the Czech bestseller lists

Jo Nesbø’s The Son was a steady No. 1 on the official Czech bestseller list for an entire month, only to be replaced by the author’s own new novel Midnight Sun two weeks ago. Midnight Sun is the highly anticipated follow-up to Nesbø’s Blood on Snow.