Jo Nesbø’s Knife, published in the US by Knopf last week, debuts at No. 6 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction, and at No. 5 on the combined print & e-book list.

Johannes Nyholm’s horror film Koko-di Koko-da, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, is set to be released in theatres in Sweden on August 24th.

In Koko-di Koko-da a couple goes on a vacation in order to reconnect following a family tragedy. They are then confronted by their inner demons in the form of a surreal circus company that pulls them into a maelstrom of psychological terror.

Koko-di Koko-da has been nominated for multiple awards including the ‘Grand Jury Prize’ at the Sundance Festival, the ‘Tiger Award’ at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and ‘Best Nordic Film’ at the Gothenburg Film Festival.

The official Swedish bestseller lists for week 27 (the 1st-7th of July) see Jo Nesbø claim multiple top positions. Knife, his twelth Harry Hole installment, comes in at No. 1 on both the hardcover and e-book lists and in addition nabs the No. 3 spot on the audio one. In the hardcover category he is joined by Lars Kepler who claims the No. 4 spot with long-running bestseller Lazarus, the seventh installment in the Joona Linna series.

The official list of the most sold fiction titles in Norway throughout the first six months of 2019 has been announced by the Norwegian Booksellers Association. Jo Nesbø comes in at No. 1 on the domestic fiction list with his twelth Harry Hole novel Knife.

The children's fiction list sees Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes claim the No. 1 spot with Operation Sable Forest, the fifteenth installment in the Detective Agency No. 2 series. Their stand alone The Search for the Magician's Tome meanwhile comes in at No. 7 on the same list, just after Horst's thirteenth Clue book The Smuggler's Shack in the No. 5 spot.

The most sold translated fiction list sees Hjorth & Rosenfeldt nab the No. 6 spot with A Higher Justice.

For the second week running Liza Marklund holds the No. 1 spot on the official Icelandic bestseller list with her stand-alone Black Pearl Farm.

Screenwriter Maja Winkler graduated from the prestigious Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2015. Following her graduation, she has worked with the majority of the leading production companies in Scandinavia. Winkler has a soft spot for melodrama, but loves exploring genres in general, whether they are thriller or dramedy.

Winkler was dramaturge and script consultant for Gösta (2019), the first original Swedish HBO-series, and worked closely with top director Lukas Moodysson. Gösta premiered in July 2019, receiving great praise in the Swedish press, where it was among else described as “a headstrong winner,” “utterly lovely,” and “fascinatingly entertaining.”

At the moment, Winkler is working on the feature film The Idiot together with Måns Herngren, for which they are both writers and directors.

The official monthly bestseller lists for June see Jo Nesbø appear on three lists with the just published twelfth Harry Hole novel, Knife. He is No. 3 in e-book and No. 4 on both the hardcover and audio lists. Kristina Ohlsson’s new Martin Benner title, To Him Who Knocks, comes in just after on the hardcover list, placing No. 5. Fredrik Backman’s stand-alone Anxious People claims the No. 5 spot on the e-book category’s list.

Liza Marklund’s stand-alone Black Pearl Farm is No. 1 on the official Icelandic bestseller list. Following closely behind at No. 2 is Stefan Ahnhem’s Motive X, the fourth Fabian Risk novel.