Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove is celebrating its eighth consecutive week on The New York Times Best Seller List, this week at No. 8.
The success film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s debut novel A Man Called Ove, has now been seen by over 1,5 million moviegoers in Sweden. This officially makes the film the most seen Swedish film since 1984, and the 5th most popular film in Swedish cinemas of all time.
Asukashinsha co., the Japanese publisher of Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s internationally best selling The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep, has announced that they have now printed 700.000 copies of the book.
Author duo Erik Axl Sund’s The Crow Girl has been hand-picked by The Wall Street Journal as one of five books predicted to become the world’s biggest thriller of 2016. Set to be published June 14 in the US and April 4 in the UK, the novel will consist of all three books in the Victoria Bergman trilogy.
Jo Nesbø’s standalone thriller Midnight Sun and Roslund & Hellström’s international bestseller Three Seconds is No. 1 and No. 2 respectively on the Icelandic bestseller list for the third consecutive week.
Two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer and frequent Steven Spielberg collaborator Janusz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Bridge Of Spies) will direct crime thriller The Postcard Killings, based on Liza Marklund and James Patterson’s 2010 crime novel The Postcard Killers. Liza Marklund and Tove Alsterdal penned the screenplay and the film will shoot in New York, Munich, Stockholm, northern Sweden and possibly Norway.
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Johan Theorin, author of the award-winning Öland Quartet, has been awarded The Finnish Academy of Crime Writers’ Special Commendation for ‘Excellence in Foreign Crime Writing’ 2016. An excerpt from the jury’s motivation reads:
“As a narrator Theorin is both powerful and full of surprises, drawing on elements from folklore and adding a touch of mystique to them. The reader is made to feel the magic of Öland, while at the same time being invited to share in the secrets that the seasonal tourists are unaware of. /…/ Psychological depiction is one of Theorin’s strengths. The Öland Quartet’s characters are unique and complex, and yet in most cases they still remain just ordinary people. Retired caption Gerlof Davidsson who features in all novels is advanced in years and physically weak, but still plays a central role when in the investigations. Even the people behind the misdeeds can be understood as their motives are revealed along as the story progresses.”
Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove has shot to No. 1 on the Chicago Tribune’s bestseller list.
Jo Nesbø’s Midnight Sun and Roslund & Hellström’s Three Seconds currently top the Icelandic bestseller list at No. 1 and No. 2. Both paperbacks went straight to the top positions upon being published.
It has just been announced that Jonas Karlsson will play one of the roles in Universal Pictures’ movie The Snowman based on Jo Nesbø's international bestseller, alongside Michael Fassbender (X-Men, Steve Jobs), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) Charlotte Gainsbourg (Independence Day: Resurgence, Antichrist) and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation, The Girl on the Train).
The film is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Let the Right One In) and is set to premier on October 13th, 2017.
Portugal, Cultura
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Portugal, Quetzal
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Türkiye, Timas
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
UK, Orenda
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Denmark, Modtryk
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
The Netherlands, House of Books
Three-book deal closed by Federico Ambrosini
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