Jessica Schiefauer winner of Stora Ljudbokspriset 2017!
Last night, Jessica Schiefauer was awarded Stora Ljudbokspriset 2017 for her amazing YA novel Pojkarna. The jury’s motivation in the YA category was as follows:
“The winner of this year’s Stora Ljudbokspris in the YA category goes to a book in which the author takes us listeners on a hike in a unique environment unlike any other. With a captivating language we’re taken into a world embedded in a dreamlike sheen with a dark undertone. The author has succeeded in writing a hybrid between fantasy and reality. There, the young characters goes against society’s conventions and allows listeners to reflect on stereotypical and gender-specific approaches.
The reading seems credible to us listeners, with an ear pleasing rhythm – perhaps because it is the author herself who is reading it to us.”
Stora Ljudbokspriset is arranged by Storytel and Synskadades Riksförbund.
Jessica Scheifauer’s Pojkarna shortlisted for The Guldbagge Awards 2017
Nordin Agency are very proud to announce that the movie adaptation of Jessica Sheifauer’s Pojkarna (Girls Lost) has been shortlisted for The Guldbagge Awards 2017 in two categories: Best Female Actress and Best Director!
The Guldbagge Awards are Sweden’s leading film awards and have been presented since 1964 for outstanding contributions to Swedish film over the past year. In total around 450 Guldbagge Awards have been handed out over the years, and 19 Guldbagge Awards are now presented annually in the various categories.
For further reading and the rest of the nominees, follow the link below:
Steve Sem-Sandberg awarded the Gerard Bonnier Prize
The Swedish Academy has awarded Steve Sem-Sandberg the Gerard Bonnier Prize. The prize was established in 1988 and is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors who are active in the Academy’s interest. The price is based on Gerhard Bonnier’s testamentary fund.
Emelie Schepp and Jessica Schiefauer shortlisted for Stora Ljudbokspriset
The nominees for the 2016 Stora Ljudbokspriset were announced yesterday. Nordin Agency are happy to congratulate Emelie Schepp, nominated in the Suspense category for Prio ett, and Jessica Scheifauer, nominated in the Young Adult category for Pojkarna.
The winners will be announced march 6th, 2017. Stora Ljudbokspriset is arranged by Storytel.
See the full list of nominees here: http://svb.se/nyheter/de-nomineras-till-ljudbokspriset
Gard Sveen and THE LAST PILGRIM shortlisted for best translated crime 2016!
Nordin Agency is incredibly pleased to be congratulating Gard Sveen on a well-deserved nomination for the Swedish Crime Academy’s Award for best translated crime fiction in 2016. His novel The Last Pilgrim won the Glass Key Award for best Scandinavian crime fiction in 2014 and has been published to great acclaim in 12 territories already, in Sweden with Lind & Co.
The Last Pilgrim is Gard Sveen’s debut novel. The first book in a compelling series starring the complex character of inspector Tommy Bergmann, whose unwavering sense of duty drives him to find solutions to the most difficult of cases.
Steve Sem-Sandberg’s THE CHOSEN ONES wins the Prix Médicis Étranger 2016!
Amazing news today!
Steve Sem-Sandberg and his powerful novel The Chosen Ones is the winner of this years Prix Médicis Étranger for best translated fiction in France.
Published by Editions Robert Laffont under the tile Les Elus, the novel is written in Steve Sem-Sandberg’s recognizable style allowing for a myriad of voices and combining the best of historical realism with the surrealism of everyday atrocities. His work rests on extremely rigorous research and is animated by the authors poetic narrative and the attention he pays to the depths of his characters.
Congratulations to Steve, who joins the illustrious ranks of other Médicis Prize winners such as Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Philip Roth, Umberto Ecco and many more.
