The Fallout, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s sixth novel about Freyja & Huldar, is No. 3 on the official Icelandic bestseller list this month.
Katrine Engberg’s thrilling novel Stray Bullets is nominated for the Great Audiobook Award – Mofibo Awards in the category ‘Best Crime and Suspense’. Mofibo Awards is the first ever audiobook award in Denmark. The winners will be presented on February 26, 2020. To vote, click “Read more” below.
Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1794, the sequel to The Wolf and the Watchman, is No. 2 on the hardcover bestseller list in Sweden. The novel also comes in at No. 4 in e-book.
The official bestseller list for week 47 (November 18th – 24th) reprise the previous week’s placements on the e-book list. Stefan Ahnhem’s X Ways to Die is once again No. 4, and Jørn Lier Horst’s Ill Will is No. 5. Meanwhile, Horst and Thomas Enger’s Death Deserved appears at No. 4 on the paperback list.
Sofi Oksanen’s The Dog Park has now been sold to 20 territories!
In Sofi Oksanen’s The Dog Park, modern-day Helsinki intertwines with the past of Ukraine’s post-Soviet independence. The corruption of the East meets and feeds the greed of the West, and at this intersection stand two women. Their story of loyalty, love and broken trust play out against a backdrop of power struggles – between influential families, and between the sexes as the lifegiving ability of the female body becomes a lucrative commodity.
This week, Anders de la Motte’s Dead of Winter celebrates its fourth consecutive week at No. 1 on the official Swedish paperback bestseller list. Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1794 makes a repeat showing as well, coming in at No. 5 in hardcover also this week, and climbing the e-book list to No. 3.
Stefan Ahnhem and Jørn Lier Horst continue to feature on the official Norwegian bestseller lists. They each grab a spot on week 46’s e-book list, Ahnhem’s X Ways to Die coming in at No. 4, and Horst’s Ill Will at No. 5.
Matias Faldbakken’s We Are Five has been shortlisted for one of the most prestigious literary awards in Norway, the Norwegian Radio’s Literary Award. The prize is awarded by NRK and the winner will be announced in February, 2020.
Previous winners include Linn Ullmann and Karl Ove Knausgård.
We Are Five has already been lauded by NRK in a recent review:
“We Are Five can be read straight off as an entertaining, gruesome and, a quarter in, grim story. It is also possible to reflect on how fragile the normality is, and how easy it is to go from an uncomplicated everyday-life into the completely uncontrollable. /…/ [Matias Faldbakken] is a master at slowly building the tension. /…/ The analytic [reader] will find pleasure in studying how seamlessly and elegantly the author moves between rural realism and familiar Norwegian family dynamics, into a set of completely different genres. It’s so good it hurts.”
Simona Ahrnstedt’s gripping novel The Scandalous is nominated for Der Lovelybooks Leserpreis 2019 in the category ‘Historical Novels’. The award is the biggest readers’ choice book award in the German speaking world and is awarded to the readers’ favorite author of the past 12 months.
The voting will close on 26th of November. To vote, click “Read more” below.
Bobbie Peers’ short film To Plant a Flag, starring Jake Johnson and Jason Schwartzman, is the winner of the prestigious Grand Prix at Brest European Short Film Festival. The festival showcases the creativity and dynamism of European filmmaking and is known as one of the two top short film festivals in France.
Serbia, Dokaz
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Lithuania, Alma Littera
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Finland, Otava
Two-book deal closed by Ida Schabbauer
Azerbaijan, Alatoran
Closed by Emma Granberg
Romania, Editura Trei
Closed by Emma Granberg
France, Gallimard
Two-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
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– Belletristik Couch
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