It was just announced that Stina Jackson’s The Silver Road is the winner of the 2019 Book of the Year Award, presented by Bonnier’s Book Clubs. The announcement was made today, on the second day of the Gothenburg Book Fair.
Niklas Natt och Dag’s just published 1794 goes straight to No. 1 on both the official Swedish bestseller list for hardcovers and for e-books. The novel is also No. 2 in audio. Lars Kepler’s long-running bestseller Lazarus meanwhile claims the No. 1 spot on the paperback list. Jørn Lier Horst’s The Cabin is No. 5 in e-books.
Jørn Lier Horst’s Ill Will dominates the Norwegian bestseller lists of week 38, coming in at No. 1 both in hardcover and e-book. Also on the e-book list is Anne Holt’s A Necessary Death, featuring at No. 4. Hedvig Montgomery meanwhile climbs on the non-fiction list, coming in at No. 4 with The Elementary School Age.
Photo: Pål Laukli/TV 2
The brilliant screenwriter duo, Siv Rajendram Eliassen and Anna Bache-Wiig, behind the highly successful TV series Acquitted (2015-2016) and the praised feature film U -July 22 (2018), are now further establishing their position as storytellers with a strong and societally engaging voice.
Their new TV series Witch Hunt is the story of how one single action can trigger a scandal of national proportions with consequences affecting all the way up to Norway’s elite society. With a focus on power struggles and corruption, Rajendram Eliassen and Bache-Wiig delve deep into the psychological, relational and political consequences of whistleblowing.
Witch Hunt is produced by Miso Film Norway and will premiere on TV 2 Norway in early 2020.
NRK’s new series For Life and 22 July will both make their debut at the Cannes fall content market, the largest TV market in the world.
For Life, created by Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen, is a highly innovative crime series set in two timelines: in present day, as we follow investigator Victoria Woll, solving cases and putting criminals behind bars, and in the future, when she herself has been incarcerated. For Life will premiere on NRK in spring 2020.
NRK’s other anticipated series, 22 July, created by Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune, explores how ordinary people responded to the tragedy of July 22nd, 2011, when a heavily armed right-wing terrorist attacked a summer camp full of youths. 22 July will premiere on NRK January 2020.
The monthly Icelandic bestseller list for August sees Liza Marklund’s Black Pearl Farm land the No. 3 spot. The No. 4 position is claimed by Lina Bengtsdotter’s Annabelle.
Maja Säfström’s The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts has reached the No. 2 spot on the official Czech bestseller list for week 38 in the children’s and YA books category.
Jo Nesbø’s Knife, published in Italy just last week, has gone straight to the No. 1 spot for e-books and to No. 2 for hardcover fiction on Italy’s official bestseller list.
The journalistic thriller Quick, which is based on Hannes Råstam’s book Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer, premiered last week and has received great reviews in the Swedish press.
“An intense cinematic experience without a single dull moment.”
–Aftonbladet
“So thrilling it will undoubtedly have you twisting and turning in your seat.”
–Filmeye
“Visually stunning.”
–Göteborgs-Posten
“A thrilling and well-performed crime drama. /…/ Quick stands out from the crowd.”
–Filmtopp.se
“Dark, dazzling, top-level acting.”
–SVT Kulturnyheter
Katrine Engberg’s thrilling novel Stray Bullets is No. 1 on the combined list for fiction and crime fiction at Arnold Busck, one of Denmark’s biggest book retailers. The novel also makes an appearance at No. 3 on Bog & idé’s list for crime fiction.
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
In every way, this is a generous, warmly friendly, funny, and thoroughly delightful series of books.
– BTJ
A brilliant novel that – without false pathos – beautifully addresses aging, saying goodbye, and reflecting on one’s own successes and failures. A highly recommended debut novel!
– Belletristik Couch
I’m impressed. Moved. Feeling speechless and struggling to put my experience into words. You’re the One I Write About is a strong, beautiful and exhilarating read.
– Agneta Norrgård, literary critic
Two giants of Nordic thrillers are here joining forces to launch a series. (…) Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger orchestrate a formidable mechanism where everyone seems to be concealing a piece of the truth.
– Envols
[I]t’s an unconditionally truthful book about our time and its excesses. Kristín Eiríksdottir has captured this atmosphere perfectly in her novel.
– NDR
Nowhere Land/Women in Revolt is the first part of a trilogy. It is about being so young that life is a horizon of possibilities and resistance, about what it takes to become an artist, and what stories one tells when nothing has yet happened.