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.
Photo: Kiefer Lee
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.
The Times and the Sunday Times Crime Club have listed the forty best books of the past five years, and Antti Tuomainen and Yrsa Sigurdardóttir each grab a spot on the list. Sigurdardóttir (“The queen of Nordic crime”) does so with The Legacy, the novel that starts off her Freyja & Huldar series. The UK newspaper calls this first installment “an introductory murder that hikes the tension to cardiac-arrest levels. […] Icelandic noir at its reliably gripping best.” Tuomainen (“Scandi noir’s leading chucklemeister”) meanwhile receives an accolade for his humorous Little Siberia, populated by “a splendid cast of characters. /…/ Nordic lols.”
The second season of the successful TV series Rebecka Martinsson premieres today on C More and May 6 on TV4. Karin Arrhenius and Oskar Söderlund are head writers of this season, which is freely based on Åsa Larssons’s novels, and directed by Fredrik Edfeldt and Andrea Östlund.
Stina Jackson’s The Last Snow scores three No. 1 placements on the official Swedish bestseller lists for week 16. The Last Snow comes in first in hardcover, audio, and e-book. Jackson’s debut title The Silver Road also nabs a spot on the e-book list, coming in at No. 3. Anders de la Motte’s Rites of Spring can likewise be seen on three lists – the final installment in the Skåne Quartet is No. 2 in e-book, No. 3 in audio, and No. 5 in hardcover. Niklas Natt och Dag meanwhile features at No. 3 on the hardcover list with 1794. Finally, Katrine Engberg grabs No. 5 on the paperback list with The Tenant.
Smoke Screen, the second novel from the author duo Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger, is No. 1 in e-book on week 16’s official bestseller list for Norway. The title is also No. 3 in paperback. On the hardcover list, Jørn Lier Horst reprises his appearance, coming in at No. 7 with Operation Trickster, the seventeenth book in his and Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Detective Agency No. 2 series. Not far behind at No. 9 is Anders de la Motte, with Rites of Spring. Lastly, Katrine Engberg features twice on the e-book list, first at No. 5 with The Tenant, and then at No. 10 with Blood Moon.
Slovenia, Mladinska knjiga
Closed by Emma Granberg
North Macedonia, Antolog
Closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Norway, Cappelen Damm
Two-book deal closed by Federico Ambrosini
Slovakia, IKAR
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Norway, Cappelen Damm
Closed by Tor Jonasson
A firework of a novel. (…) Reading Annette Bjergfeldt’s third novel The Remarkable Re-Invention of Sofia Meucci is like diving into an ocean of sparkling intellectual vitality. /…/ The novel is voracious by nature – hungry for knowledge, too. (…) With solid research Annette Bjergfeldt thus embraces both the scientific and the passionate. /…/ Five dazzling shooting stars for Annette’s wonderful arrival in the literary solar system.
– Kristeligt Dagblad
Engman’s novel is more than just a thriller; it portrays a society in which laws have been replaced by arbitrary rule.
– Bremer Nachrichten
[Seltzer’s] Visions is a tribute to life, energy, and music, a superhero of a book with enough stories to keep the conversation going for a few more extended adolescences.
– Klassekampen
The plot surrounding these murders and assaults has plenty of sordid surprises in store. Satu Rämö skilfully unravels the tangled threads of this story.
– Le Figaro Magazine
The pace never falters and Tuomainen has a unique skill in raising sympathy for low brow characters and turning Finland into a bizarre version of the Wild West. One to savour slowly.
– Crime Time
An epic tale stretching across a whole century, multiple lives, and an entire world.