Daniel Sawka’s ‘Kärlek och andra diagnoser’ to premiere in Swedish cinemas

Daniel Sawka’s romantic dramedy Kärlek och andra diagnoser premieres in Swedish cinemas tomorrow, Friday, October 30. At the heart of the story are two young people on the autism spectrum who unexpectedly find love in each other. Blending humour, warmth, and relatable situations, Kärlek och andra diagnoser offers a fresh and heartfelt take on modern romance.

The film stars Carl Kristofferson and Tuva Beckman as Hans and Sophie. Both lead actors have been nominated for the prestigious TV4 Rising Star Award. The supporting cast includes Jonas Karlsson, Filip Berg, Nina Mårshagen, Shima Niavarani, Grynet Molvig, Angela Kovács, and Malte Hallgren.

Lars Kepler No. 1 in Denmark

This week, Lars Kepler’s latest Joona Linna installment, Medusa, takes the No. 1 spot on the crime bestseller list at Bog og Idé, Denmark’s largest book retailer. It also tops Saxo, Denmark’s largest online bookseller, in the e-book category and ranks No. 4 on its fiction bestseller list.

Jo Nesbø tops both hardcover and paperback bestseller lists

Jo Nesbø continues to dominate the bestseller charts in Norway. Kill Shot, the latest installment in the Harry Hole series, has held the No. 1 spot on the hardcover list for 10 consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, his standalone novel Wolf Hour has claimed the No. 1 spot on the paperback list.

Pascal Engman No. 1 in Sweden

The Love, the third installment in Pascal Engman’s the Clan trilogy, rockets to No. 1 on the official hardcover fiction bestseller list in Sweden. Kristina Ohlsson’s latest title debuts on the same list, placing at No. 5 with Midwinter Deeds, a Christmas novella in the August Strindberg series.

New title: ‘The Remarkable Reinvention of Sofia Meucci’

The year is 1910 and the world is electric.

The great inventors are experimenting beneath the stars and Sofia from Cophenhagen’s Kattesundet is no exception. Her ancestors fatefully lost out on one of the greatest inventions of all time and ever since Sofia has kept a vigilant eye on her patents.

Sofia is a passionate soul who dreams of The Nobel Prize, yet she struggles to decipher the young men of the neighborhood. Could she invent a device to detect the perfect wavelength between people and save herself from the worst of heartbreaks – as well as her family from financial ruin?

The Remarkable Reinvention of Sofia Meucci is an intoxicating journey through the 1910s, with Sofia’s eccentric family at the center of the solar system; An Italian boar of a father, two work-shy aunts, a flying older brother, the brusque matriarch Mrs Thor and a sculptor mother who tosses mermaids into the canals of Copenhagen. It’s a beautiful celebration of ingenuity, breakdowns, radiologists and girls with hearts that soar faster than hot air balloons.

Lars Kepler and Martin Widmark No. 1 in Sweden during Q3

The official data for the third quarter of 2026 has been compiled, and Sweden’s most sold fiction title across all formats is Lars Kepler’s Medusa. Martin Widmark also comes in at No. 1, topping the children’s books list with The Kidnapping Mystery.

Anders Hansen’s The Achilles Heels of Your Brain meanwhile features at No. 3 on the nonfiction list, and Pascal Engman’s The Clan continues to make a showing on the paperback list for the second quarter running, placing at No. 5.

Moa Herngren’s new title, The Fallout, debuts on the quarterly lists and claims No. 5 in e-books and No. 6 in audio.

Satu Rämö and Lars Kepler shortlisted for the 2026 Finnish Adlibris Awards

The nominees for this year’s Adlibris Awards in Finland have been announced. A jury of Adlibris employees has selected five contenders in each of seven categories, based on sales, popularity, and potential.

Satu Rämö’s Dísa has been shortlisted for Best Crime Novel of the Year, while Lars Kepler’s Medusa is nominated in the Best Translated Fiction of the Year category.

Winners will be decided by a public vote and will be announced in February 2027.

‘Kill Shot’ No. 1 in Norway for the 9th consecutive week

Jo Nesbø’s Kill Shot, the fourteenth installment in the international bestselling Harry Hole series, has now remained No. 1 on the hardcover fiction list for 9 consecutive weeks. 

Anders Baasmo wins Best Actor in Seoul

Norwegian actor Anders Baasmo has won Best Actor at the 2026 Seoul International Drama Awards for his leading performance in A Better Man. The acclaimed drama series also took home the Grand Prize in the International Competition, and the series creator Thomas Seeberg Torjussen was honoured with the Best Screenwriter award.

The series previously swept three prizes at Canneseries 2025, including Best Series and Best Performance for Baasmo. The SDA jury praised A Better Man as being “at the highest level in nearly every aspect, from writing and direction to performance,” calling it fully deserving of the Grand Prize.

‘Visions, Digressions, and Massive Erections’ published in Norway

Rock music has been my school.

Most of what I know about life and the world I have learned by listening to rock—and playing rock. My classroom has been the rehearsal space, the tour bus, and the stage, from Bodø, Berlin, Brisbane, Buenos Aires, Boston, to Bergen*.

Among other things, I have realized that people who take rock seriously haven’t understood a single thing.

And that people who don’t understand that rock is one of the most important things in the whole universe haven’t understood anything either.

This book was written with both of those thoughts working simultaneously.

Now it is your turn to learn these things. You swine.

*unfortunately

In Visions, Digressions, and Massive Erections, Thomas Seltzer lets his readers in on memorable blackouts from a rock musician’s life.

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