Photo: Kiefer Lee
On this week’s official Spanish bestseller list, Niklas Natt och Dag’s debut novel The Wolf and the Watchman nabs the No. 10 spot. The novel has now featured in the country’s top 10 for fourteen weeks in succession.
Jo Nesbø has been awarded the 2019 Riverton Prize for his twelfth installment in the Harry Hole series, Knife. The very prestigious crime writing award is annually given to the best Norwegian crime story. Nesbø has been the recipient of this award previously, in 1997, for the first novel in the Harry Hole series, The Bat.
“Knife is a dark, compelling and sorrowful novel with great solemnity and with a superb conduction of a complicated investigation. It is elegantly crafted with constant surprises and several twists and turns, and with many brilliant individual stories about past events.” said jury member Hans H. Skei during the award ceremony that took place outside the House of Literature in Oslo earlier today.
The television series and the feature film about the characters Eva and Adam became iconic works of popular culture in late 90s’ and early 2000s’ Sweden. Now, a new film about the young couple is in the making.
Adam is new to the class and Eva has made a no-boys pact with her best friend – boys are just too childish. But when a kissing party game brings Eva and Adam together, it’s simply too difficult to put a brake on their feelings. Perhaps even impossible.
Eva och Adam marks Caroline Cowan’s debut as a feature film director. Johan Unenge and Måns Gahrton are the writers, and Francy Suntinger will produce for Filmlance.
Stina Jackson’s The Last Snow scores three No. 2 placements on the official Swedish weekly bestseller lists for week 17. The Last Snow comes in second in hardcover, audio, and e-book. It is joined in the last category by Jackson’s debut novel, The Silver Road, which features at No. 3 also this week. The No. 1 spots on the audio and e-book lists go to Arne Dahl’s Freedom, the just published fourth title in the Berger & Blom series. Freedom also comes in at No. 3 on the hardcover list. Making a three-list appearance is also Anders de la Motte, whose Rites of Spring is No. 3 in audio, No. 4 in e-book and No. 9 in hardcover.
The official bestseller lists for week 17 in Norway see Hedvig Montgomery’s just published The Adolescent Years land the No. 3 spot in the nonfiction category. The Adolescent Years is the fifth installment in the Parental Magic series. Smoke Screen, the second title in Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Blix & Ramm series, meanwhile nabs the No. 3 spot on the paperback lit, and the No. 2 one on the e-book list.
Erik Axl Sund’s Porcelain Dolls comes in at No. 7 on this week’s Der Spiegel bestseller list for trade paperbacks in Germany. This marks the novel’s eighth week on the German list.
Maj Sjöwall, our dear friend and beloved author, has passed away. Maj fought a lung disease for many years before losing the battle yesterday. The greatest pioneer of Scandinavian crime fiction and loved by readers across the globe, the world has lost a legend and a wonderful person. Our thoughts go out to her family and friends.
We will miss you so much, Maj. Your memory shall live forever.
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Jasper Lake has close to 20 years of experience from the TV industry, working mainly as producer and director. On the list of his numerous TV projects you will find Pluras Kök, Lyckliga gatan, Så mycket bättre and Klass 9A. He has won several awards including the RIA Producer Award for Lyckliga gatan and the Kristallen Award for Pluras kök.
In recent years, Lake has started moving more towards writing, building on and incorporating his aptitude for concepts and characters. In 2019, he graduated from the renowned Alma Löv Script Academy. As a screenwriter, Lake is especially drawn to drama and thriller, and stories about the friction that’s born between individuals and the collective.
Currently, Lake is working on his feature film Drakpojken and a TV series for Meter and Viaplay.
Fredrik Backman has honorably been selected as a recipient of the Helsingborg medal – the author’s hometown’s most prestigious award which is bestowed upon individuals who have contributed greatly towards the city. Previous winners include some well-known actors, journalists and politicians amongst others.
Stina Jackson and Anders Roslund have both been shortlisted for Bonnier’s Book Clubs’ Book of the Year Award 2020. Jackson is nominated for The Last Snow, and Roslund for Knock Knock.
Also known as the “People’s Choice Award,” the Book of the Year award is arranged annually by Bonnier’s Book Clubs, the home of Sweden’s five biggest book clubs. The winning title and author will be announced during the Gothenburg Book Fair, on September 25.
To see the list of the nominees and vote for your favorite, click “Read more” below.
Croatia, Egmont
Closed by Emma Granberg
Brazil, Companhia das Letras
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Sri Lanka, Sunera Publishers
Closed by Emma Granberg
Spain, RBA
Closed by Tor Jonasson
Lithuania, Lectio Divinia
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Tango, a love of cinema, the charm of the everyday, the value of dreams, and the importance of shoes are all interwoven in this magical realism narrative by Danish writer Annette Bjergfeldt, a story that captivates you from the first page to the last.
– Clara
Nordic Noir at its best – tough, fast-paced and with an ice-cold plot in the middle of the summer heat.
– Dynamite
I loved The Isle of a Thousand Stars because it reached a deep, hidden part of my soul – a place where emotions need no name. /…/ As for a seventh-grader like me, The Isle of a Thousand Stars may simply be the saddest yet most beautiful dream I’ve ever experienced.
– VnExpress
Johana Gustawsson and the Norwegian Thomas Enger form a unique duo, delivering a successful thriller where the city of Oslo isn’t there for exoticism, but becomes, as the pages turn, a character in its own right—cold, silent, and terribly human.
– GAEL
[E]ven though it’s all very sad, reading this book is incredibly comforting.
– Bayern1 Radio
What does it really mean to be in debt to someone? How does our financial worth permeate the ways we think and feel? And what do we lose when we supposedly win? ‘Small Comfort’ skewers its characters, slyly implicating the reader along the way.