Oslo swelters in the summer heat when a series of shootings shakes the city. An unknown assailant opens fire in crowded areas, and fear spreads quickly. The capital turns into a city under siege. In the middle of the chaos, Emma Ramm’s sister becomes an apparently random victim.

Together with Alexander Blix, a former police investigator, Emma throws herself into the hunt for a killer the police can’t understand. To Blix, it looks like more than random violence. He senses a pattern—a hidden plan with a personal motive for revenge.

As the death toll rises and panic spreads, Blix and Ramm try to stop a man who has lost everything—and has nothing left to lose.

Outcast is the sixth installment in the Blix & Ramm series by Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger.

Actor Rebecka Harper is an exciting new star to emerge on the Swedish Film and TV scene.

Harper felt drawn to the theatre world already at an early age, but it was at the age of 17, when she landed a role at Folkteatern, that she fell completely in love with it and decided to wholeheartedly pursue an acting career. Harper studied acting at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and then moved on to live in Berlin for a couple of years. Once she returned Stockholm, she attended the esteemed Stockholm University of the Arts, from which she graduated in 2025.

Harper is set to star in a much-anticipated TV series, soon to be made official.

Lise Villadsen’s lauded YA-novel The Supermassive Black Hole Club has been shortlisted for ‘Book of the Year’ at the Danish School Libraries Author Award 2025.

The award is one of Denmark’s biggest accolades for children’s- and young adult literature and has been bestowed since 1981 to a writer that through their authorship has made an exceptional literary or non-fictional contribution to the experiences and/or knowledge of children and young adults. The award aims to celebrate the literature that truly makes a difference in schools. The recipient of the award is selected by the school library association’s board of directors and the winner will be announced at an award ceremony in October.

Along with eight other books, Sofi Oksanen’s Same River, Twice – Putin’s War on Women has been longlisted for the 2025 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. Oksanen’s powerful essay has been translated into English by Owen F. Witesman.

The Moore Prize is awarded to a work of non-fiction published in English that promotes the values consistent with the advancement of human rights and dignity. The Moore Prize is given by the Christopher G. Moore Foundation, a charity founded to support literary excellence in non-fiction and provide a platform to current and important human rights issues.

A jury is reading the eight longlisted books and will announce the shortlist on November 12, 2025.

Anders Rydell has been awarded HM The King’s Medal of the 8th size with a bright blue ribbon, for his outstanding contributions as an author. Along with Rydell, a number of other prominent Swedes within varying fields of expertise were awarded medals.

HM The King’s Medal has been awarded since the year 1800 in recognition of exceptional efforts. Medals were presented by the King and Queen during a ceremony at the Royal Palace on June 9^th.