First trailer for ‘Exit’ season 3 released
The third and final season of Scandinavia’s most watched TV-series of all time, Øystein Karlsen’s mega hit Exit has just had its first trailer released.
Exit season 3 will premiere March 2 on NRK.
The third and final season of Scandinavia’s most watched TV-series of all time, Øystein Karlsen’s mega hit Exit has just had its first trailer released.
Exit season 3 will premiere March 2 on NRK.
The nominees for this year’s Icelandic Storytel Awards have been announced. The Storytel Awards have been bestowed to highlight the best audio books of the year. The awards are granted within six categories: Suspense, Fiction, Non-fiction, Feelgood, YA, and Children’s books.
Among the nominees for suspense are Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones and Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s I See You.
We’re Just Trying to Have Fun by Hálldor Armand Asgeirsson is featured within the non-fiction category.
Simona Ahrnstedt’s High Risk is nominated in the feelgood category, whilst Martin Widmark’s The Saffron Mystery is in the running for the children’s books award.
Readers will be able to vote for their favorite works, after which a jury will pick a winner among the three candidates with the most votes in each category.
The much-esteemed Dagens Nyheter’s Culture Award features both Lina Wolff, in the literary category, and Tarik Saleh, in the film category, among this year’s nominees.
In the literary category, the jury argues that Lina Wolff’s The Devil’s Grip, without any mercy, drags the reader into the darkness. The temperature is at the heights of hell and the madness is eye-opening. It takes a master like Lina Wolff to turn such damage into an irresistible drama adventure.
Lina herself describes the process of writing The Devil’s Grip being “like writing with a razorblade between your teeth”
In the film category, Tarik Saleh is nominated for his film Boy from Heaven, which saw its world premiere at Cannes film festival this year.
The jury argues that Tarek Saleh takes us on a captivating voyage through the Sunni Muslims holy centre of power in Kairo, an isolated world which also becomes the arena for a deadly showdown between religious and secular forces. Boy From Heaven is a spiritual, riveting and profoundly original thriller drama.
The official statistics for the fourth quarter of 2022 have just been published, and Lars Kepler’s The Spider is the clear winner, coming in as No. 1 on both the fiction list and the one for total sales. Kristina Ohlsson’s Dimmed Lights makes a formidable showing at No. 4 on the same two lists.
The star-studded cast has been announced for the much-anticipated thriller series Jana – Marked For Life. Madeleine Martin will portray Jana Berzelius, and is joined by castmates Johan Ulveson, Pernilla August, Moa Gammel, Sigrid Johnson and Suzanne Reuter.
The six episodes are created and directed by Henrik Björn and Felix Herngren. Daniel Sawka is head-writer together with Maria Karlsson.
The series is an adaptation of Emelie Schepp’s bestselling novel of the same name, and it will premiere on Viaplay in the autumn 2023.
Jo Nesbø’s Killing Moon is No. 1 also this week on the official hardcover bestseller list in Sweden. This marks the novel’s third week at the top.
Erik Axl Sund’s Paper Souls, just published in Germany, jumps to No. 5 on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for paperbacks.
C More/TV4 will premiere a second season of the acclaimed series The Congregation in 2024. Fredrik Agetoft will return as head-writer, and Goran Kapetanović as director.
Aliette Opheim will also come back to her role as the charismatic and controlling Eva Skoog.
Shooting will commence at the end of February.
Tarik Saleh’s Cairo Conspiracy (Boy from Heaven) is nominated for a César Award, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, in the ‘Best Foreign Film’ category.
The 48th edition of the César Awards will take place on February 24.
Fredrik Backman’s novel A Man Called Ove climbs the New York Times Best Seller List for paperbacks, reaching No. 7 this week. This also marks the title’s outstanding 91 weeks on the list.
Denmark, Turbine
Two-book deal closed by Linda Andersson
Netherlands, Bruna
Three-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
Netherlands, Bruna
Two-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
Iceland, Forlagid
Closed by Elin Englund
Bulgaria, Emas
Closed by Elin Englund
Denmark, Zentropa
Closed by Federico Ambrosini
The fusion, interaction and conflict of man and machine has always been a pet subject of sci-fi, but the world of Steinar Bragi’s novel isn’t really distant or unlikely today, making it even more horrifying. /…/ Steinar’s approach to sci-fi is direct as well as diagonal…
– Stundin
Dead Empires is exciting sci-fi and then some. /…/ This is a classical dystopian novel; it’s exciting and keeps you turning the pages.
– RÚV (Icelandic National Broadcasting Service)
The psychological realism in the [protagonist’s] reaction pattern is highly nuanced and exceedingly convincing.
– Dag og Tid
Genberg writes clearly and straightforward, condensed into emotions.
– Politiken
A little piece of memory art for all of us who have friends or lovers attached to stories we no longer write about, which we are still affected by.
– Berlingske
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon — the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?