‘Back in the Day’ nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award

Oliver Lovrenski’s debut novel Back in the Day has been nominated for the prestigious 2026 Dublin Literary Award. Translated into English by Nichola Smalley, Back in the Day has been lauded by critics everywhere and received a number of awards and nominations since its publication in Norway in 2023.

The nominations for this year’s Dublin Literary Award have been submitted by 80 libraries in 36 countries and feature a total of 69 titles. A jury will select a longlist of 20 titles, to be revealed on February 17, 2026.

Anders de la Motte on the Swedish bestseller lists

Anders de la Motte makes a double appearance on the official Swedish bestseller lists with his Leo Asker series. The recently published The Night Hunter climbs to No. 2 in hardcover, while The Rust Forest is No. 3 in paperback.

‘A Fall From Grace’ published in Iceland

Tinna is a young artist who lost her hearing as a child after contracting meningitis. Twenty years later, she decides to get a cochlear implant, only to start hearing things that aren’t really there.

Steinn is an author whose career began with a bang but has since gone silent. When his banker wife suffers a severe burnout, he’s forced to shake off his writer’s block and get back to work. Searching for inspiration, he takes his family to an Airbnb in remote northern Iceland, where an odd relative lives. An impulsive decision he soon comes to regret.

Lena is a single mother raising a teenage daughter. As a teenager herself, she was raped. One night, while picking up her daughter from her first high school party, Lena encounters her rapist and, in an attempt to seek justice, she hits him with her car, leaving him to die in the street.

Although these three strangers have never met, they are hurtling toward one another on a fateful collision course that will change their lives forever.

A Fall From Grace is Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s new stand-alone thriller.

‘Egghead Republic’ wins Stockholm Film Festival Audience Award

Hugo Lilja och Pella Kågerman’s Swedish sci-fi feature Egghead Republic emerged as the winner of the Peroni Audience Award 2025 among the 135 films shown at the festival.

TV4 Rising Star nominee Ella Rae Rappaport plays the young club girl and aspiring illustrator Sonja, who’s hired by the hyped magazine Kalamazoo Herald to investigate rumors about centaurs in a futuristic, nuclear bombed Kazakhstan. The cast also includes Tyler Labine and Arvin Kananian.

Movie adaptation of ‘When the Cranes Fly South’ announced

A movie adaptation of Lisa Ridzén’s No.1 internationally bestselling debut When the Cranes Fly South, to be produced by B-reel Films, has been announced by Deadline. The award-winning and much acclaimed screenwriter Oskar Söderlund (Snabba Cash, Cry Wolf, The Breakthrough) is attached as writer.

Ulf Synnerholm, Managing Partner and Head of Drama at B-Reel Films, said the following about the novel to Deadline: “I cried and laughed my way through the book. It is about death somehow, but it’s also about warmth, and there is love, and there is the need for family, and there’s a fascination with what life could have been; all these universal questions that occupy most of us at various stages.”

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‘The Night Hunter’ No. 5 in Sweden

The Night Hunter, the just published fourth installment in Anders de la Motte’s Leo Asker Series, debuts at No. 5 on the official Swedish hardcover list.

‘A Better Man’ premieres on NRK

The acclaimed four-part Norwegian drama series A Better Man (Ølhunden Berit) premiered on NRK on November 9.

Created by Thomas Seeberg Torjussen, A Better Man stars Anders Baasmo in a standout performance as the lead. The show has already garnered international attention. At the 2025 Canneseries, it won Best Series, Best Actor (Anders Baasmo), and most recently, it took home both the Serielizados’ Best Series Award and the Audience Award.

‘The Lake’ received the Norwegian Beech Noir Award

Jørn Lier Horst’s The Lake, the seventeenth installment in the internationally bestselling Wisting series, has received the Norwegian Beech Noir Award for Best Norwegian Crime Novel of 2023/2024.

The jury’s motivation read: “This is a Wisting story of fine quality. A good plot where the threads come together in the end. As usual, a solid resolution.”

The award was presented at Larvik Library on the 11th of November.

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Sofi Oksanen shortlisted for the Minna Canth Award

Sofi Oksanen has been shortlisted for the Minna Canth Award 2026.

In the spirit of Finnish writer, journalist, and social activist Minna Canth, the award seeks to highlight activities or actions that strengthen democracy and promote the future in a fair and sustainable manner towards equality, learning, and freedom of expression. The winner shall have made “exceptionally meritorious contributions”, either at the national level or above.

Minna Canth was active during the late 1800s in Finland and was especially involved in rights for women and girls and equal rights to education. Her life’s work is honored in Finland every year on Minna Canth Day, March 19. A jury will announce the winner of the award on Minna Canth Day 2026.

‘Wolf Hour’ No. 3 in Czech Republic

Jo Nesbø’s latest standalone novel, Wolf Hour, has reached No. 3 on the official fiction bestseller list in the Czech Republic.

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