Matias Faldbakken is one of four authors to receive this year’s Dobloug Prize from The Swedish Academy. The Dobloug Prize has been awarded annually since 1951 to Swedish and Norwegian authors who have significantly supported fiction or literary studies in their respective language. The Norwegian winners are selected by the Norwegian Dobloug committee, while The Academy selects the Swedish winners.

The committee has the following to say about Matias Faldbakken:
“With an infallible sense of language as artistic material, Faldbakken lets elements of saga and rural romanticism mix with contemporary civilization critique, and combines dark humor with tenderness.”

SVT has announced a new original drama series, Poly, a relationship drama that explores love, identity and polyamorous relationships.

Poly challenges traditional ideas of monogamy and follows a group of friends as they navigate love, intimacy and the complexities of polyamorous relationships. The story centers on John and Hedda, who decide to open up their relationship and soon find themselves immersed in a world of passion, jealousy and emotional discovery. Their journey takes an unexpected turn when they become part of a queer friendship circle that pushes them to rethink love, loyalty and identity.

Poly is directed by Angelika Abramovitch and written by Mårten Gisby.

The eight-part series is currently filming in Malmö and is scheduled to premiere on SVT Play in 2027.

The highly anticipated Swedish drama series Trion premieres today 1 June on SkyShowtime. Based on the bestselling novel by Johanna Hedman, the six-part series tells a powerful story of love, friendship, desire and the lasting impact of the choices we make.

The series features a strong cast including Rebecka Harper, Felix Sandman, Seth Manteus and August Wittgenstein with supporting performances from Eva Röse, Nina Zanjani, Adam Pålsson and Celie Sparre.

Trion has already received glowing reviews from Swedish critics, with some calling it one of the best Swedish TV dramas of the year.

Aslak Nore (b. 1978) is an author and editor who grew up in Oslo. He has studied in New York, served in Norway’s elite Telemark Battalion in Bosnia, lived in Latin America, and worked as a journalist in the Middle East. Nore resides in Provence with his family.

Since his debut in 2007, Nore has established himself as one of his generation’s most interesting authors of both fiction and non-fiction, most recently with the epic literary thrillers in The Falck Saga. He has received numerous awards, including the Riverton Prize and been shortlisted for a number of others, among those the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and the Petrona Award.

Food, glamour, history – and a rivalry with deadly consequences.

A Swedish director and his stars travel to Rome to seek inspiration from the legendary life of Queen Christina ahead of an upcoming major motion picture. But after tours of Roman ruins, the treasures of the Vatican, and the film sets of Cinecittà, it becomes clear that the group harbors both tensions and secrets, and the glamour is abruptly shattered when a body is discovered in one of Rome’s most magnificent palazzos.

In the Eternal City, shaped over millennia by rivalry and power struggles, tour guide Lara Belmonte and history teacher Hugo Lind are once again drawn into a deadly mystery. Somewhere beneath the Italian sun, a murderer is hiding.

Rivals in Rome is the third book in the bestselling Murders Under the Sun series, featuring sun-drenched settings, great food, and intriguing murder mysteries.

Josef has served his sentence but outside the prison walls life is not what it once was. He’s determined not to return to a life of crime, but reality hits him hard. Can you really make up for your crimes in a society that has judged you for all eternity?

On the opposite side of the planet, Antonia is trying to escape her past. When she suddenly finds herself all alone she realizes it’s time to return to the Stockholm suburb where she grew up. A whole other battle awaits there, and Antonia needs to create a new life for herself while drugs are still controlling her every thought.

The Mansour family protects their territories with all their might, but they must also find new ways to expand. Josef is pulled into the clan’s plans and Antonia risks getting caught in their web. Soon, the war is on.

The War is the second installment in The Clan trilogy and a stirring portrayal of gang criminality’s reckless violence and effect on our society, a violence designed to uphold a power balance that is constantly challenged by the ongoing gang wars.