‘Another Time, Another Life’ nominated for a Prix Europa 2015
The TV series Another Time, Another Life (2014), written by Sara Heldt and Johan Widerberg, has been nominated at the Prix Europa 2015 in the category ‘TV Fiction’. The series is based on the second installment in Leif GW Persson’s Story of a Crime trilogy.
Death of a Pilgrim (2013), the first part of the popular series, was also nominated for a prestigious Prix Europa in 2014. This too was written by Heldt and Widerberg, and was based on the best-selling novels by Leif GW Persson.
The award ceremony of this year’s Prix Europa will take place 23 October in Berlin, Germany.
SVT’s new comedy series ‘Vårdgården’ starts filming
SVT’s new comedy Vårdgården began filming this week. Created by Daniel Ottosson and Alexander Kantsjö and written by Daniella Mendel-Enk and Sara Young, the series centers on a private hospital owned by the severely dysfunctional family Leijon. The lead roles are played by Swedish stars like Loa Falkman, Jonas Malmsjö and Therese Andersson Lewis. The series will premiere in spring 2016 on SVT.
‘The Book Thieves’
Anders Rydell’s The Book Thieves is the gripping examination of how the Nazis plundered thousands of private libraries on their march across Europe, effectively erasing the emotional and cultural heritage of an entire people. It is also the chilling story of how these books were turned on their former owners, and used by the Nazis to justify the planned genocide of Europe’s Jewish population.
‘The Book Thieves’ published in Sweden
The night of 10 May 1933, the squares and streets of Germany are illuminated by the flames of innumerable bonfires. At Berlin’s Opernplatz 40,000 people have gathered to listen to the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. In front of his audience he declares the end of the Weimar Republic’s decadent cultural lifestyle. Books by Marx, Mann, Brecht and Hemingway all fall victim to the flames.
In the shadows of the book burnings lies another, less known story – the story of how the Nazis plundered thousands of libraries on their march across Europe. The Book Thieves is Anders Rydell’s gripping examination of this methodical looting and its tragic consequence: the erasure of an entire people’s emotional and cultural heritage.
‘Offline’ published in Norway
A bomb goes off in the Islamic Council’s building in Oslo, killing several of the Council’s members. The Police and Security Service suspect an Islamist organization to be behind the attack; a feeling that only grows stronger when yet another, bigger explosion rocks the capital.
Offline is the ninth and penultimate book in Anne Holt’s series about Hanne Wilhelmsen.
‘The Blue Star’ published in Sweden
The new generation of the Lauritzen family takes centre stage. At the fore stands the oldest daughter, Johanne. Already at the start of the war she worked as a courier for the Norwegian resistance. Now, she finds herself in the midst of Stockholm’s criminal world of espionage, deceit and betrayal, recruited by the British espionage organisation SOE. By her British employers Johanne is given a code name: the Blue Star.
The Blue Star is the fifth installment in The Great Century series.
‘Every Thing Will Be Fine’ to have its North American premiere in Toronto
IFC Films has acquired the 3D car crash drama Every Thing Will Be Fine, written by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen and directed by Wim Wenders. The film will have its North American premiere in Toronto and stars James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rachel McAdams and Marie-Josée Croze.
TrustNordisk to represent the anticipated feature drama ‘Pyromaniac’
Scandinavia’s biggest sales company TrustNordisk has come on board to represent Erik Skjoldbjærgs’ anticipated chilly drama Pyromaniac in international markets.
Penned by critically-acclaimed screenwriter Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, who also wrote Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine, Pyromaniac is based on a true story depicted in Gaute Heivoll’s best-selling novel Before I Burn.
Photo: Elin Carlholt
New Author – Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin
Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin (b. 1978) of Huskvarna, Sweden, began his career as a behavioral scientist and linguist before turning his talents to writing. His major breakthrough came in the form of the children’s book The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep, a literary phenomenon hailed by parents all over the world as a lifesaver. Written to help young children fall asleep, the book uses a unique blend of soothing tones and pedagogic techniques. The self-published The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep made history when it became a No. 1 international bestseller.
Photo: Peter Knutson
New Author – Fredrik Reinfeldt
Fredrik Reinfeldt (b. 1965) has been active in Swedish and international politics for 25 years, and is regarded as the most popular party leader of the past three decades in Sweden. As the prime minister of Sweden during the years 2006-2014, and the chairman of the New Moderate Party (centre-right) 2003-2015, Fredrik Reinfeldt transformed Swedish politics. He helped unite the country’s centre-right parties and create the Alliance – a unique collaboration between Sweden’s most prominent centre-right parties. In September 2006, Reinfeldt was elected prime minister. Together with the Alliance parties Reinfeldt went on to win two successive elections, serving for eight consecutive years – the longest any non-socialist government has sat in modern times in Sweden.