Therese Bohman’s DEN ANDRA KVINNAN (THE OTHER WOMAN) is one of six novels nominated for the Swedish Radio’s Literary Prize. Each book will be read, discussed and assessed by a jury consisting of avid readers and listeners. You can follow their discussions on SR P1, starting 2 March 2015. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=499&artikel=6036927
Words Without Borders, who promotes the finest contemporary international literature, is featuring Jessica Schiefauer’s “The Boys” on their website. http://wordswithoutborders.org/current-issue/ You can read extract from the book in English here: http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/from-the-boys
Congratulations Dan Josefsson – winner of the Grand Prize for Journalism! Last night his book and TV documentary MANNEN SOM SLUTADE LJUGA (THE MAN WHO STOPPED LYING) as named “Scoop of the Year” at the annual awards ceremony.
POJKARNA (THE BOYS) by Jessica Schiefaur has been praised in our neighbor country, Denmark! http://www.information.dk/514905 (in Danish) POJKARNA was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize in 2013. Praising for the book will be continuing even to the next year, when the film version of POJKARNA will come out in Sweden.
OPERATION – SELVMORDSBOMBE OPERATION – BLOOD DIAMOND by Benni Bødker was nominated for the Orla Prize again this year! The Orla Prize is a literary prize named after Orla Frøsnapper (Orla frog-eater)–the protagonist in Ole Lund Kirkegaard’s children’s book with the same name. It’s a prize for and by children–children nominate, vote and select the winner every year. […]
Five years ago Steve Sem-Sandberg won the prestigious August Prize for his novel The Emperor of Lies. Although the author had long been one of the pillars of the Swedish literary scene this catapulted him into national and international fame. As The Emperor of Lies went on to be published in over to 25 territories Steve started writing […]
Our Norwegian authors, Unni Lindell and Jan-Erik Fjell have been nominated for this year’s Booksellers’ Award!! http://www.bokhandlerforeningen.no/Markedsaktiviteter_og_bokpriser/Bokhandlerprisen/9341 Unni Lindell BURDEKISTEN (THE ANGEL IS A DEVIL) http://www.nordinagency.se/portfolio-item/brudekisten-the-angel-is-a-devil-by-unni-lindell/ Jan-Erik Fjell ROVDYRET (THE PREDATOR) http://www.nordinagency.se/portfolio-item/rovdyret-the-predator/ The winner will be announced on the 25th November. Congratulations, Unni and Jan-Erik!
Therese Bohman’s “DEN ANDRA KVINNAN” (The Other Woman) is one of three novels shortlisted for Magazine Vi:s Literature Prize. The winner will be revealed at the end of November. Den Andra Kvinnan – The Other Woman Norstedts.se
As far back as we can remember romance and love have had a strong presence in literature. With her lates novel Only One Night Simona Ahrnstedt shows us why romance is the largest literary genre in the Western world. What is romance? That is the most frequently asked question we get from friends, other authors and journalists. Simona Ahrnstedt usually compares the […]
Swedish book critic Lotta Olsson (Dagens Nyheter) has read half of Olle Lönnaeus’ “Johnny Lilja’s Dilemma” and says that “the book is so good that it took my breath away!” http://blogg.dn.se/boktips/2014/09/29/2014-ars-basta-deckare/