Swedish DJ, producer and artist Rudolf Nordström, artist name Mr. Tophat, is the uncrowned king of the club scene. Wedding underground and mainstream in a heady mix of the lushly experimental and dancefloor beats, Mr. Tophat absorbs genres and makes them his own.

Mr. Tophat has played at festivals like the Governor’s Ball in New York, teaming up with Swedish pop queen Robyn. In 2017, the pair released an EP, Trust Me, to great acclaim. Mr. Tophat also lent his producer’s talent to Robyn’s 2018 album, Honey.

In 2019, the two reunited again on Mr. Tophat’s own epic debut album, Dusk to Dawn, a three LP dark-disco odyssey which was instantly lauded by the international music press. Dusk to Dawn’s sprawling and compelling neo-romantic soundscape was called “dark, luxuriously twisted” by Mojo in the UK and “boundlessly artistically ambitious” by Sweden’s biggest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter.

X-Men’s Famke Janssen has joined the cast of The Postcard Killings, the movie adaptation of Liza Marklund’s and James Patterson’s bestselling crime thriller novel The Postcard Killers. The film is a chilling crime story following the hardened New York Detective Jacob Kanon, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead, Watchmen) who is intent on capturing his daughter’s murderer. Janssen will play Valerie Kanon, the mother of their now deceased daughter. Across Europe, newlywed couples are being targeted in a string of bizarre killings that leave the young victims’ bodies looking like the murders have been staged.
Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovic, who won an Oscar for No Man’s Land directs the pic.
Screenplay is written by Liza Marklund and Andrew Stern.
The film, produced by Good Films Collective, began shooting in March, working across London, Norway and Stockholm.

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In 2009, Lars Kepler’s The Hypnotist became the start of one of Scandinavia’s most successful authorships in history. To celebrate the novel’s 10-year anniversary, Alexandra and Alexander have rewritten the labyrinthine thriller, which has to date been published in sixty countries. The Hypnotist – The Black Edition will reflect how much Lars Kepler have grown as thriller writers since their debut. The pace has been ramped up, the chapters tightened, the dialogue rewritten, new scenes have been added, and Joona Linna has been given a bigger role.

The Black Edition is the new official The Hypnotist and will replace the original book. It will be published in Sweden on June 11th, in trade paperback as well as audio and e-book.

Fredrik Backman is the recipient of the 2019 Piraten Award, a prestigious Swedish culture and arts award handed out by the Fritiof Nilsson Piraten Society. Backman is the youngest author to have received the prize. The jury motivates their choice thusly:

“Since his triumphant debut, a work whose echoes still reverberate worldwide, this year’s winner has become one of our most beloved storytellers. He portrays the ordinary person and all of her hardships with warmth and empathy. He mixes humor with gravity in true Piraten spirit, and is always on the side of the weak in his depictions of our time.”

The Fritiof Nilsson Piraten Society was founded in honor of author Fritiof Nilsson Piraten and is Sweden’s largest literary society. Previous winners of the award include Peter Englund, Kristina Lugn, Leif GW Persson and Gösta Ekman. The award will be handed out in July in Kivik in southern Sweden.