Carina Bergfeldt nominated for the Grand Speaker Award 2019
We are happy to announce that Carina Bergfeldt has been nominated for the Grand Speaker Award 2019. She is nominated for her capacity to describe difficult things in an accessible way and for engaging the listener with reports, marked by high topicality and professionalism. Carina contributes in an extraordinary manner to spreading knowledge about our time and is a counterbalance to the contemporary phenomenon of fake news.
The winner will be announced during a ceremony in November 2019. You can read more about the award and the nominees here.
Ola Larsmo is awarded Literary Society The Nine’s grand prize
Founded back in 1913, The Nine is a literary society based in Stockholm and each year they give out a number of awards to prominent literary abilities in Sweden. Their most prestigious award, the Grand Prize, is given annually with the purpose “to promote Swedish fiction” and “to give recognition to deserved writers.” This year we are happy to congratulate Ola Larsmo on winning the Grand Prize for providing an authorship that is “carried by a passion for truth, forceful depictions and the pursuit of justice.”
To read more about The Nine or the award click here
The Göran Palm Award of 2019 goes to Susanna Alakoski
We are happy to announce that Susanna Alakoski is granted the Göran Palm Award! She is granted the award for her ability to flip the perspective on society and dissect the darker side of the Swedish model through her writing.
Congratulations Susanna Alakoski and Mats Söderlund to the Örjan Lindberger Award!
The award is given to authors, researchers or educators who have made important advancements in increasing the public interest and/or understanding of poetry, storytelling and drama.
The most commonly associated fields of work related to such efforts are those who predominantly see writing and and other media as their main craft such as books, essays, articles, study guides, radio, tv and internet forums – which directly or indirectly can be of use in educating the public.
The Örjan Lindberger-Award 2019 goes to Susanna Alakoski and Mats Söderlund for their many years of work with literary writing courses and literary writing education in book and magazine-form as well as their individual highly significant authorship.
Mats Söderlund’s critically acclaimed YA novel The Threat nominated for Norrlands Litteraturpris 2019
We are happy to share the news that The Threat, the first book in the Descendants trilogy by Mats Söderlund, has been nominated for Norrlands Litteraturpris 2019. The winner will be announced in the beginning of July.
