Colin Nutley’s new TV series Saknad has released its first trailer on broadcaster C More. The series, which centers on the mystery of a girl gone missing in a Swedish small town, stars the talented Johan Widerberg among others.
Saknad will premiere on C More on January 1st, 2017.
The Rabbit Hunter, Lars Kepler’s sixth installment in the Joona Linna series, is No. 1 on the official bestseller list for both hardcover fiction, as well as the e-book format in Norway this week.
The final nine contenders for best foreign-language film at the 89th Academy Awards have been announced, and the film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove is on the list. A Man Called Ove, directed by Hannes Holm, was chosen by the Swedish Film Institute as Sweden’s candidate for the Oscars earlier this September. The official screening of all 85 international contenders then began in mid-October, when approximately 300 members of the Academy started viewing the nominated works.
The Academy Awards’ shortlist of the final five films competing for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ will be announced on January 24th.
In its 50th consecutive week on The New York Times Best Seller List, A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman’s internationally bestselling debut novel, comes in at No. 2. On the combined ebook and print list the novel climbs again, this time to No. 5.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry comes in at No. 6 in its 34th week on the list.
The feature film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s international bestseller A Man Called Ove is the winner of the 2016 European Film Awards’ Best European Comedy Award. The film received the award this weekend at the gala held in Wroclaw, Poland.
In addition to taking home the award for best comedy, leading actor Rolf Lassgård was also nominated for the Best European Actor Award for his performance as the lovable curmudgeon Ove, and the film for the People’s Choice Award for Best European Film.
The daily newspaper The Boston Globe has chosen Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s The Silence of the Sea as one of their Best Books of 2016. The Silence of the Sea is the sixth installment in the series about Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, and has previously won the Petrona Award. It is the only translated title to enter The Boston Globe’s list of Best Books of 2016 in the Mystery category.
Roslund & Thunberg’s The Father is the winner of 2017’s Konomys Award in Japan. The Konomys Award – the shortened version of the full name Kono Mystery ga Sugoi (“This Mystery is Amazing”) – is an annual award given to the most popular international and national suspense novel of the year. Roslund & Thunberg’s The Father takes home 2017’s award in the international category.
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s The Absolution has been shortlisted for 2017’s The Blood Drop, the Icelandic award for best crime fiction novel of the year. The Absolution is the third installment in the Freyja & Huldar series and was just published in Iceland to rave reviews.
The two previous installments in the Freyja & Huldar series have also been shortlisted for The Blood Drop: The Legacy was shortlisted and won in 2015, and The Vortex was shortlisted in 2016.
Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep is once again at the top of the international bestseller lists. This time it is Amazon Japan and Oricon, the largest sales ranking company in Japan, that has announced that The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep became the second most sold book, across all categories, in Japan in 2016.
Fredrik Backman’s debut novel A Man Called Ove is No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for the third week in a row. This marks the 49th consecutive week on the list for the novel, where it also appears at No. 6 in the combined print and ebook category.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry continues to make a strong showing as well, staying at its No. 4 spot in its 33rd consecutive week on the list.
Germany, HarperCollins
Two-book deal closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Serbia, Treći Trg
Closed by Emma Granberg
Norway, Trøndelag Fylkeskommune
Closed by Linda Andersson
Albania, Shkupi
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Croatia, Znanje
Closed by Emma Granberg
Serbia, Dokaz
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Quietly, poignantly, and in a deeply moving way, Ridzén tells a story of aging, of tender farewells and life reckonings. Yes, it is sad – and at the same time serenely hopeful.
– Emotion Magazin
There aren’t many writers on the planet capable of combining the grit of crime noir with the thrills of following a police investigation that is also anchored in the cultural and historical settings of the territory in which it is grounded. Wolf Hour will surprise and unsettle readers as Jo Nesbø once again regales us with his literary prowess.
– Bookreporter
[Wolf Hour is] a fair-play mystery, with breadcrumbs scattered strategically along the way /…/ The violence and macabre elements that are Nesbø’s trademarks emerge gradually and organically, building to a chilling conclusion.
– AirMail
It’s very powerful, both on the surface and between the lines, a very beautiful portrayal.
– TV4 Nyhetsmorgon
Just like in a truly gripping, suspense-driven novel, you are drawn into the story and read on to find out what happens.
– Västerbottens-Kuriren
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.