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.
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
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.
Once again Steve Sem-Sandberg receives the highest praise for his authorship. His last novel The Chosen Ones (Les Elus in French) was just named one out of 11 translated novels in the running for the prestigious Prix Médicis in France http://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/le-medicis-livre-ses-premieres-selections-2016. Congratulations!
We are thrilled to announce that Norwegian author Gard Sveen is the winner of The Palle Rosenkrantz Prize awarded by The Danish Crime Academy for his debut work THE LAST PILGRIM. The prize is given to the best crime fiction published in Danish during the year.
Congratulations, Gard!
Motivation: One year. The year when Ester and Isak meet. The year when Isak’s brother, Anton, is lured into a world of hate, swastikas and violence. The year when a boy is murdered. Jessica Schiefauer’s novel explains how easy it is to be influenced, the desire to belong. But it is just as much a story about love, a love so immersive that it becomes destructive. The prose is poetic, condensed and flows like the water that becomes a spectator to the tragedy unfolding. It is a carefully polished prose – to document this horrific chain of events.
Her previous novel THE BOYS (Pojkarna) also received the August Prize (2011) and Jessica Schiefauer is now among a small exclusive group of authors (all categories) that have received the prize twice since the award was first given in 1989.
This summer Ester and Isaac fall madly in love. This summer their love will be tarnished, crumbled and resurrected. This summer a young boy is killed and Isaac’s brother was there when it happened.