“In the midst of depictions of Dalecarlia’s gorgeous woodsheds and meadows, a woman emerges, a mother, whose portrait is one of the most stone-cold I have ever read. An outstanding book, one of those you never really want to put down.”
“Hats off to Bjørk for his unquestionable talent for writing page-turners. […] I devoured The Bomber, and I’ll probably have to read the sequel too.”
“[…] A masterpiece within Scandinavian crime literature.”
Kyrre Andreassen’s sensation Not People I Can Depend On continues to appear in top positions on several Norwegian bestseller lists.
“A contemporary Agatha Christie.”
Mons and Karolina Kallentoft have been featured in an interview in Swedish daily newspaper Östgöta-Correspondenten, in which they spoke about their debut suspense novel Darkness Walks the Woods and the process of writing the book.
“[An] explosive suspense novel.”
“To me, it is puzzling, and a tragedy, that [Not People I Can Depend On by Kyrre Andreassen] has not been translated into Swedish.”
Karolina Schützer has been highlighted by Swedish national radio P4 in connection with the launch of A Killer’s Symphony.
The Finnish edition of White Angel, the second installment of the Fredrika Storm series, was published on July 24th, 2025, by WSOY.
Today marks the publication day of renowned journalist Emma Bouvin’s warm and humorous family drama Us Against Us.
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The film adaptation of Ingvild H. Rishøi’s internationally bestselling novel Brightly Shining had its world premiere today, July 24th, at the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy.
The Portuguese edition of Samuel Bjørk’s Dead Island, the fifth installment of the bestselling Mia and Munch series, is published today, July 22nd.
Frida Skybäck’s bestselling feel-good novel The Bookshop on Riverside Drive has been highlighted in a recommendations round-up in Danish newspaper Ugeavisen.
The Polish edition of Karolina Schützer’s bestselling novel Beneath the Paris Stars is published in Poland today, July 16th.
Kallentoft & Kallentoft have been featured in an interview by local newspaper Smålands Dagblad.
“[Samuel Bjørk] has never been better than this […] intense suspense with literary qualities.”
The German edition of White Angel, the second installment of Frida Skybäck’s popular crime series featuring Fredrika Storm, is published today, July 10th.
Kyrre Andreassen’s critically acclaimed novel Not People I Can Depend On has surpassed 30 000 copies sold in Norway.
“These beautiful stories from Ingvild H. Rishøi bring out the child in you. […] for a moment, through this careful construction of language, I feel more real than in real life. This book makes me feel like the child I once was […] and the child I ...
The Bomber and Not People I Can Depend On currently places in the top ten on multiple Norwegian betseller lists.
Frida Skybäck’s third feel-good novel, The Book Cabinet’s Secret, is out in Italy today, July 2nd.
“They bring the woods to life and weave myths and creatures from Swedish folklore into a story that is captivating and has a strong momentum.”
Karolina Schützer’s bestselling novel Beneath the Paris Stars is published in Italy today, June 24th, by Garzanti.
Karolina Schützer’s bestselling novel Beneath the Paris Stars is published in Spain today, June 23rd.
“A desolate atmosphere lingers over the novel constantly, and you, as a reader, fear for the lives of the main characters time and time again.”
“[…] five stories that stay with you.”
The Dutch edition of The Bomber makes a first appearance at #3 on the official Dutch bestseller list, within its first week of publication.
Samuel Bjørk and Kyrre Andreassen currently place in the top of multiple Norwegian bestseller lists.
“The narrative style itself, with its almost telegraphically abrupt sentences, rapid descriptions, and even quicker lines, works surprisingly well.”
“The main characters are interesting, and the plot is suspenseful and fast-paced […].”
The first international edition of The Bomber has just been published in the Netherlands.
Today marks the publication day of The Bomber, the highly anticipated sixth installment of the internationally bestselling Mia and Munch series.
Today marks the publication day of Karolina Schützer’s A Killer’s Symphony.
Dead Island, the fifth installment of Samuel Bjørk’s bestselling Mia and Munch series, is published in Croatia today, June 3rd.
We are proud to welcome Eva Tind to Paloma Agency.
Kyrre Andreassen’s bestselling Not People I Can Depend On places at #1 on the Norwegian Booksellers Association’s list of bestselling paperback fiction this week. The novel has placed on the official lists for 41 consecutive weeks.
“The great thing about Rishøi’s storytelling is that she doesn’t psychologize, but records. She simply lets her delicate, worried and anxious characters exist, thereby evoking intense compassion.”
This week, the novel places at #2 on the list of bestselling paperback fiction.
“The five beautiful stories in The Tale of Mrs. Berg by Norwegian author Ingvild H. Rishøi make you reflect on how ‘real’ your life is.”
“[…] Evocative suspense, and not for the faint-hearted.”
Kyrre Andreassen has been awarded the 2025 Tara Magazine Reader’s Prize for his critically acclaimed novel Not People I Can Depend On.
The paperback edition of Kyrre Andreassen’s critically acclaimed novel Not People I Can Depend On has soared to #1 on book retailer Adlibris’s list of bestselling paperback editions.
It has just been announced that Nicolas Lunabba’s bestselling and critically acclaimed book Will You Care If I Die? is currently in production to become a feature film, set to premiere in fall 2026.
“With The Owl Always Hunts at Night, Samuel Bjørk demonstrates his talent for creating sensational crime novels that really keep you on edge.”
A Darker Water has been highlighted in a recommendation round-up by Norwegian weekly magazine Norsk Ukeblad. The book claimed the #2 spot on the list.
Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed short story collection The Tale of Mrs. Berg is published in the Netherlands today, May 8th.
The author duo Kallentoft & Kallentoft’s debut novel Darkness Walks the Woods has just hit the shelves, and on the day of publication, it soared to #1 on book retailer Adlibris’ list of bestselling books.
Kyrre Andreassen’s critically acclaimed novel Not People I Can Depend On has been shortlisted for the 2025 Norwegian Library Literature Award.
Today marks the publication day of Kallentoft & Kallentoft’s debut novel Darkness Walks the Woods, the first installment of the Ormaryd Murders.
We are proud to welcome Kallentoft & Kallentoft to Paloma Agency.
“[Bjørk] has a unique touch and a depth that makes him stand out from the rest.”
The US edition of Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed novel Brightly Shining has been shortlisted for the 2024 Big Other Book Award, in the ‘Translation’ category.
“It took me a while to realize how important religious affiliation actually is here. If someone in Stavanger asks you ‘where do you belong’ they do not mean geographically. They mean what congregation you attend.”
“The author’s directness and terseness of expression […] melted me in the end, like snow left too long in spring.”
“Nygaard unfolds the story with such efficiency that many of her more experienced colleagues might envy her. She also excels at portraying characters, setting scenes and writing dialogues.”
“Birds of Sorrow is a gripping crime novel that takes place in a milieu full of contrasts.”
Kyrre Andreassen’s critically acclaimed novel Not People I Can Depend On claims the #7 spot on the Norwegian Publishers Association’s list of bestselling fiction, maintaining its spot on the list for 34 weeks both in total and consecutively.
“Brightly Shining is without a doubt one of the saddest Christmas stories, but it is also filled with glimpses of hope. […] Brightly Shining is, and remains, a novel that leaves a lasting impression on every reader.”
“[…] praise to Skybäck who characterizes the subjects well, giving each one a personal plot that allows them to live as a character. […] Skybäck did not disappoint me.”
Two of Paloma Agency’s authors, Kyrre Andreassen and Kaja Nygaard, currently place on the Norwegian Publishers Association’s list of bestselling fiction.
We are proud to welcome Jonas Brun to Paloma Agency.
We are proud to welcome Samuel Bjørk to Paloma Agency.
The Norwegian Publisher’s Association released a list of 2024’s bestselling books written by women, where Brightly Shining by Ingvild H. Rishøi was the #1 bestselling fictional title in all of 2024.
Today marks the publication day of Kaja Nygaard’s new book A Stronger Faith, the sequel to the breakout debut A Darker Water, in the series featuring police officers Martha Krogh and Erik Gjerde.
Ingvild H. Rishøi has been honored with the Culture and Equality Ministry’s Prize Prize for her rhyme book Borti Natta.
Not People I Can Depend On continues to shine on the Norwegian Publishers Association’s list of bestselling fiction for the 31st consecutive week.
Karolina Schützer’s bestselling novel Beneath the Paris Stars is published in Germany today, March 17th.
Ingvild H. Rishøi’s rhyme book, Borti natta, has been nominated for the Culture and Equality Ministry’s Prize in the category ‘Picture Book’.
Frida Skybäck’s bestselling novel In the Shadows is published in Denmark today, March 11th.
Kyrre Andreassen’s novel Not People I Can Depend On has been nominated for NRK’s (Norwegian national media) Listeners’ Novel Prize.
Kyrre Andreassen has been honored with the prestigious Critics’ Prize for his critically acclaimed novel Not People I Can Depend On.
Ulrika Rolfsdotter’s bestselling novel Come to Me is published in Denmark today, March 4th.
Rights to Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed novel Brightly Shining has now been sold to thirty territories.
“Very beautiful! […] It is perfect that Greymire is part of a series and that I have more exciting reading sessions to look forward to!”
Frida Skybäck’s bestselling novel Birds of Sorrow is published in the Czech Republic today, February 26th.
“[…] Brightly Shining is a Christmas story of our time, which encourages reflection on poverty, hope and dreams.”
“A lot of people have eagerly awaited Jonas Eika’s new book Open Heavens.”
“It is worth paying attention to.”
Not People I Can Depend On continues to thrive on the Norwegian Publisher’s Association’s list of bestselling fiction for the 27th consecutive week.
“[…] a delightful Christmas story that speaks to all ages.”
“Wow, what a bullseye! A modern Agatha Christie. Well-written, suspenseful and fast-paced.”
“Three short stories about simple goodness that warm the heart on cold days.”
“Ingvild H. Rishøi’s Brightly Shining is a dazzling contemporary fable of hardship and grit about two sisters who refuse to lose hope. Curl up with it for instant hygge and a warming of the heart.”
Karolina Schützer’s bestselling novel Beneath the Paris Stars was published in Norway on the February 4th.
Jonas Eika’s highly praised historical novel Open Heavens has been shortlisted for the Danish Critics’ Prize, one of Denmark’s most prestigious literary awards.
Not People I Can Depend On continues to shine on the Norwegian Publisher’s Association’s list of bestselling fiction for the 25th consecutive week.
“So full of religion and politics. So full of care and indignation.”
“The language is easy and flows well. […] A debutant who deserves to reach many readers.”
Two of Paloma Agency’s authors, Ingvild H. Rishøi and Kyrre Andreassen, have both been shortlisted for the prestigious Critics’ Prize.
We are proud to welcome Kyrre Andreassen to Paloma Agency.
“[The themes are] the sort of toxic parenting that even adult children are burdened by, when the parents won’t let their children go when they need it. And the right to become your own, without feeling liability or guilt.”
“[…] the town’s new ‘feelgood-queen’ Karolina Schützer – with two novels on the list.”
“[…] one of those deceptively simple books that contains deep wells of emotion and meaning.”
“[…] the themes – in Eika’s case: experiments with anti-hierarchical communities and liberating spirituality – are balanced and even undermined by the equally well-researched and imaginatively crafted historical exoticism.”
“Marit has written this year’s [2024] best book to gift for Christmas”
Nicolas Lunabba, author of the critically acclaimed novels Will You Care If I Die? and Diary From the 2020’s, has been awarded the prestigious Klockrike Stipend by the Harry Martinson Society.
Kaja Nygaard’s critically acclaimed debut novel A Darker Water is published in Denmark today, January 16th.
“Rishøi’s poignant novella [is] told in jagged fragments and easily read in a sitting.”
We are proud to welcome Mons Kallentoft to Paloma Agency.
“Ingvild Rishøi’s Brightly Shining is a powerful and heartwarming tale which became a modern classic in its native language. It’s clear why. [This is] one that will linger in your mind for a long while after you’ve finished.”
“Highly tangible and contemporary criminal cases are mixed with inspiration from fairytales and folklore.”
“Jonas Eika’s new masterpiece […] is 700 pages long. But it is a true page-turner.”
“Perhaps people can gain insight into the fact that they are not alone in having a tough time now and then, and show some love for the struggle that life is from time to time [Marit Danielsson says].”
“December is similarly blanketed with snow in the Oslo of Ingvild Rishøi’s Brightly Shining, a winning holiday tale with just the right proportions of hardship and hope.”
“[…] exceptionally elegant. One can hardly leave this cozy crime behind without hoping for a sequel, and soon at that!”
Ingvild H. Rishøi’s novel Brightly Shining has been published in Romania, Hungary and North Macedonia.
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“[Brightly Shining] captivated me from the first page. […] It’s a very tragic book, but it’s also filled with kindness.”
“[…] Eika continues to do what they do best, and uses their sensory profusion and presence to conjure up scents, tastes and sounds.”
“Rishøi’s novel thrives on stage. Maria Drangeid, who has both dramatized and directed the story, has transformed it into something theatrical and magical.”
Frida Skybäck’s novel In the Shadows has been highlighted in Swedish online newspaper Metro Mode’s recommendation round-up of the best novels to gift for Christmas.
“A perfect fairytale to tune into cheerfulness.”
“This small but mighty Norwegian Christmas story is like a modern retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl (spoiler: expect tears). The perfect stocking filler.”
The Unburied, the second novel in Ulrika Rolfsdotter’s Annie Ljung series, is being published in Germany today, December 11th, 2024.
“A beautifully written story about young sisters Ronja and Melissa, whose alcoholic father is unemployed. Set at Christmas, it’s a heart-breaking portrait of a family in crisis. […] Wonderfully festive.”
“The truism that good things come in small packages is affirmed by Ingvild Rishøi’s Brightly Shining, an unexpected emotional force disguised by its small stature.”
Karolina Schützer’s second novel in the Sophia in Paris series, Snowfall Over Paris, has been in the top five on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling paperback fiction for four consecutive weeks.
“Jonas Eika has written a novel, that reminds us that having a community is both difficult and possible, that we can hurt each other, that we can do each other good.”
“Touching and emotional, rediscovering true Christmas spirit.”
“By the end, burned hope hangs over these pages like the scent of smoke after a candle’s been blown out.”
“The sense of place is so strong I could almost smell the pine needles. A beautiful novel about family, community and kindness. Wonderful.”
“A portrait as magnificent as it is ideological. […] Eika’s angle is collective and poetic.”
We are proud to welcome Maxim Grigoriev to Paloma Agency.
“With a sharp gaze, Marit Danielsson explores the depths in relationships between parents and siblings.”
Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed novel Brightly Shining is currently being adapted into a feature film by Motlys, and the trailer has just been released.
“As the story unfolds, your heart aches for the girls — but also for all of us in this world we’ve built, where money too often means more than kindness. […] An emotionally packed little gem.”
“This tender novel does exactly what it promises: shines brightly despite the darkness.”
Marit Danielsson has been featured in an interview with Swedish daily newspaper Falu-Kuriren, where she spoke about the themes in her latest novel Greymire and how her personal experiences and observations have inspired her storytelling.
Ingvild H. Rishøis critically acclaimed novel Brightly Shining is published in the US today, November 19th, 2024.
“[The actors] portray hope and despair, joy, dreams, grief and hardship with power and conviction, transforming Brightly Shining into a vibrant experience.”
Ulrika Rolfsdotter’s critically acclaimed debut novel Heart of Prey has made its way up on Estonian book retailer Apollo’s chart of bestselling fiction, placing at #6 over two years after its publication.
Karolina Schützer’s bestselling novel Snowfall Over Paris places at #1 on book retailer Akademibokhandel’s chart for bestselling novels.
“Eika writes in such a way that things and the world shine in a new, changed light.”
“Brightly Shining has a captivating lightness about it, like snowflakes swirling upwards, with a lovely musicality and a distinct rhythm from the actors that draws us into the story.”
“[Greymire] is a thought-provoking and captivating slow burner of a relationship drama […]. Depictions of the scenery’s beauty and joyful fiddler’s music stand in stark contrast to an inner chaos.”
Brightly Shining, Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed and bestselling novel, is published in the UK today, November 7th.
Today marks the publication day of Marit Danielsson’s new, epic family drama: Greymire.
We are proud to welcome Marit Danielsson to Paloma Agency.
Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed novel Brightly Shining just hit the shelves in Slovenia.
“[…] a potent, epic and progressive narration that brims with sensations, moods, conversations and sacred visions – a transgression of the traditional boundaries for historical novels, not far from being described as a hybrid genre-wise.”
“Deceptively simple, deceptively innocent, told from the perspective of a bright-eyed, too-wise child, Brightly Shining has the power of a classic. You will read it in a single setting, then carry it in your heart.”
“Jonas Eika is apparently not afraid of much.”
Patrik Lundberg has been awarded an honorary doctorate at Malmö University in recognition of his efforts to support students from non-academic backgrounds.
“Open Heavens is a unique novel in new Danish literature: deeply original, ambitious, visionary and bulging with literary abundance.”
After the international success for their short story collection, After the Sun, Jonas Eika now returns with a new, historical novel: Open Heavens.
Italian daily newspaper Il Messaggero has done a recommendation round-up on novels about books, bookstores, booksellers and libraries, featuring Frida Skybäck’s novel The Book Club at the End of the World.
“Brightly Shining feels fresh as spruce needles and ancient as bedrock. The clear and hopeful voice of Ronja slips easily into your heart and takes up residence like a breathless memory, like a song of unbearable beauty.”
“It feels like a dream, that I get to spend my time doing what I love most.”
Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Brightly Shining is published in Italy today, October 16th.
“I have a feeling I’m gonna race through this one!”
“[Karolina Schützer has] succeeded in constructing an almost perfect book in the genre.”
“A heart-wrenching tale of children trying their utmost to take care of each other.”
“This book will pull most readers out of their comfortable lives and show that the other world, the one which you sometimes read about in the newspapers, is really there. And it is harsh and unfair.”
After the success with her Sophia in Paris series, Karolina Schützer now returns with Eden of Death, the first book in an intriguing cozy crime series, set against the backdrop of Sweden’s oldest university town.
The upcoming US edition of Brightly Shining, Ingvild H. Rishøi’s runaway bestselling novel, has been featured in a rave pre-publication review from important literary publication Booklist.
“Frida Skybäck writes on the highest level, it’s well phrased and endlessly suspenseful!”
“It is a captivating story about forbidden dreams, guilt and innocence balancing on the line between passion and madness. Written with great human insight, it is thrilling all the way up to the resolution.”
“[…] when there is a selection of who is allowed to become a member in order to make them feel special, and they take a vow of silence and loyalty to each other, it can become a breeding ground for unhealthy values.”
“Beneath the Paris Stars is a story about a French café and a chance for new love. A Swedish bestseller with a strong Parisian touch. Fun, fragrant and accessible.”
“Ulrika Rolfsdotter tells a more important story after her spectacular introduction. [She] writes skillfully about loneliness and misguided people in a beautiful, sparsely populated river valley.”
“Rishøi offers a charming, Christmas-themed novella about sisterhood and financial hardship in contemporary Oslo. […] This has the feel of a classic holiday tale.”
We are proud to welcome Henrik Hollbox to Paloma Agency.
Ingvild H. Rishøi’s poem Words of Wisdom from her rhyme collection Borti Natta has been featured in the latest issue of literary magazine The Dial, in translation by Caroline Waight.
“Ulrika Rolfsdotter also writes with great insight into human nature, and Annie’s professional role as a social worker […] which provides her own angle in the overpopulated crime genre.”
“A book that speaks clearly about class and, similar to the books by Édouard Louis or Christian Baron, says; yes, yes, there is an underclass and an associated ‘underclass anger’ in the middle of your chic cities […].”
Karolina Schützer’s bestselling novel Beneath the Paris Stars is published in Slovakia today, September 4th.
“It is very well written, touching, captivating and suspenseful all the way to the resolution. […] Ulrika Rolfsdotter is an author very much worth reading.”
Emma Bouvin has received this year’s Nils Horner Prize for her work as Middle East correspondent at Dagens Nyheter.
After the success with Heart of Prey and The Unburied, Ulrika Rolfsdotter returns with the highly anticipated third novel in the series about social worker Annie Ljung.
In the Shadows was published yesterday and went straight to the #3 spot on the bestseller list at Adlibris, one of Sweden’s largest online book retailers.
Today marks the publication day of Frida Skybäck’s third installment in the Fredrika Storm series, In the Shadows.
The SVT documentary Smokey’s Dream: When Formula 1 Came to the Village was released yesterday, August 18th. Anton Berg serves as editor.
“Will You Care If I Die? shows, in a gripping way, what affection can do for a person. […] To love someone means making yourself vulnerable. Nicolas Lunabba’s devastatingly honest book shows us that it is worth taking that risk.”
“In the very personal story of a friendship and of growing up, the author convincingly weaves in issues of class, the desolate state of almost abandoned schools, and the structural violence of a politics that are not based on basic human needs.”
“There is real magic in this charming novel about care, community, and the kindness of strangers. It is a deeply affecting story, beautifully told, that is sure to touch the heart of many readers.”
The Swedish paperback edition of Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed novel Brightly Shining has sold over 26 000 copies, less than a year since its publication.
“It is absurd that young readers in South Korea would not have access to the same knowledge that other young readers around the world have.”
“Compartment No. 6 is on one hand a fierce description of the absurd Soviet everyday life, and on the other hand a thoughtful, sometimes longing, memoir of the Soviet culture.”
Nicolas Lunabba is this year’s recipient of the Stig Sjödin award, granted annually in memory of the Swedish poet Stig Sjödin.
Frida Skybäck’s highly praised novel The Book Club at the End of the World is now out in South Korea.
The month-long ban on Inti Chavez Perez’s bestselling book Respect in South Korea has been canceled, effective immediately.
Rights to Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed novel Brightly Shining has now been sold to twenty-one territories, including forthcoming publications in the UK and the US.
The River, Rosa Liksom’s critically acclaimed novel, has been published in Germany by Penguin Verlag on June 26th, 2024.
Beneath the Paris Stars, Karolina Schützer’s runaway bestselling novel, continues to place in the top ten of Swedish book retailer Pocketshop’s bestseller list. The novel has held a top ten spot throughout 2024 so far.
Frida Skybäck’s highly praised novel The Book Club at the End of the World is published in Italy today, June 19th, 2024.
“Light, with a darkness beneath the surface.”
Karolina Schützer has been nominated for the Feel-Good of the Year Award 2024 for her novel Snowfall Over Paris.
“Who wants to save these young people, and what does it take to do it? Anyone who has a well-grounded or unfounded opinion on this should read this raw report, it is an eye-opener.”
“There is something in the Danish water. It tastes sweet and sick and smells like money and death. It is anarchist, anti-capitalist, and concerned about the end of the world as we know it.”
The upcoming US edition of Ingvild H. Rishøi’s critically acclaimed novel Brightly Shining has been highlighted by Publishers Lunch’s Buzz Book promotion for the 2024 Fall/Winter edition.
“This is fiction that doesn’t hold back, that aspires to a higher, more fascinating mission than a tap on the back for mastering an art.”
“Small stories that give a broad depiction of how people in Sweden truly live today. The entire book is like a single long maltreatment report.”
“Airy-fairy, speculative, sexual, and mystical.”
Ingvild H. Rishøi has been honored with the prestigious Dobloug Prize.
“In a time of skepticism and wariness between people, these stories remind us of the humanity which unites us all.”
“It is precisely this ephemerality that makes the story captivating – it is simultaneously smart and incomprehensible, accessible and distant, light-hearted and heavy.”
Karolina Schützer’s runaway bestselling novel Beneath the Paris Stars has managed to claim the #10 spot on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling paperback fiction for the first quarter of 2024.
Malin Persson Giolito’s critically acclaimed short story collection Still Life is #1 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling hardcover fiction for the month of April.
“The paper-thin line between good and evil is what Rishøi describes incomparably.”
“[…] the novel grows with its characters, they receive life, background and motive to their actions, and the author truly illustrates the problems of the outskirts — a little twisted, but still.”
“Eika’s writing style is original, raw, and physical.”
Patrik Lundberg, author of the poignant novels Butterfly Road, The Wankers and Yellow on the Outside, will be awarded an honorary doctorate at Malmö University.
We are proud to welcome Emma Bouvin to Paloma Agency.
“Computer chips, clones, UFO:s, synthetic drugs, bizarre cults and ceremonies, déjà vu, trips and trips, body horror, oiled tourists and beach boys at your service…”
“Winter Stories is a heartfelt, gripping collection of stories, where each one not only awakens solidarity with our fellow humans with disabilities, but simultaneously holds up a mirror to us […]”
We are proud to welcome Kaja Nygaard to Paloma Agency.
Malin Persson Giolito’s critically acclaimed new short story collection Still Life continues to hold #1 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling hardcover fiction.
“The five short stories that make up this collection are dizzying.”
The film adaptation of Stolen, based on Ann-Helén Laestadius’s award winning novel, has been viewed over seven million times within its first week of premiering. It is already the most viewed commercial Sámi film ever made.
“We get to go on an incredible journey. [Catrin Ormestad] succeeds in writing a book that is topical about the climate and biodiversity […] and there are love stories and fragile family ties.”
“Even reinterpreted as a film, it is a powerful and brutal story, born from rage. […] There is a painful beauty in Stolen.”
The Netflix adaptation of Stolen is released today, April 12th.
Malin Persson Giolito’s new critically praised short-story collection Still Life continues to hold #1 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling hardcover fiction.
“A real page-turner worth many readers. […] the author keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. You constantly want to know how the story unfolds. In this ability pure genius is revealed.”
“Snow, misery, and yet, a ray of light.”
“Ann-Helén Laestadius presents a new strong testimony on the injustices committed toward the Sámi people […]”
Malin Persson Giolito’s new short story collection Still Life has quickly entered the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling hardcover fiction, this week at #1.
We are proud to welcome Patrik Lundberg to Paloma Agency.
Frida Skybäck’s bestselling novel The Bookshop on Riverside Drive has been nominated for the Relay KitKat Paperback Prize 2024 in the Novel category.
“Black and white meet, but they are watercolors, mixed in the ocean’s water, and it is with shades just as grey as the cliffs of the archipelago that Catrin Ormestad paints their lives, with an understanding for both worldviews.”
“Jonas Eika’s dreamlike short stories broaden the reality of the reader and reflects on power and marginality. […] A radically open mind reveals both the social balance of power and the seeds of solidarity.”
“Malin Persson Giolito’s Still Life is a menu of hors d’oevres: short stories and tableaus about several crimes committed in Sweden today. The explicit ambition is realistic.”
“Grab this book, lock yourself inside, turn off all notifications and devices, maybe play some music in the background, and disappear into this author’s merciless world. You will come out broken.”
“After the Sun reveals the profound banality of speculative financial capitalism in action, highlighting how abstract financial derivatives can have tangible consequences on the lives, thoughts, and bodies of individuals.”
Catrin Ormestad’s highly anticipated novel, When the Wolf Came, is out today, March 25th.
Internationally bestselling author Malin Persson Giolito returns in her new short story collection, Still Life, out today, March 22nd.
Beneath the Paris Stars, Karolina Schützer’s bestselling debut novel, continues to take place on Pocket Shop’s bestseller list, ranking at #2.
The success of Frida Skybäck’s critically acclaimed novel White Angel continues. It has soared to #1 on Adlibris’s chart over bestselling paperback fiction.
“Here, a drama unfolds where social control can be fatal, especially for those seeking sustainable change. Catrin Ormestad is a driven writer with a feel for and knowledge about nature and the vulnerable island life.”
We are proud to welcome Catrin Ormestad to Paloma Agency.
“The young Danish author Jonas Eika […] seizes you from the first pages in their collection After the Sun with their almost physical, exciting style. […] Ingenious and intriguing prose which breaks free from its shackles.”
“If you like the atmosphere of the far north, snow and cold, and at the same time want a piece of good literature, this is a book for you.”
“Heartfelt, not too sentimental stories which bathe in the comfort of Christmas spirit.”
“You don’t have to read Birds of Sorrow for long before you realize that despite its ordinary looks, it is quality work by a quality author.”
The Danish edition of Ninni Schulman’s The Way We Played ranks #5 on book retailer Bog & Idé’s list for bestselling crime fiction.
“In the praised collection, Jonas Eika links substantiality and sexuality with spirituality, in a clever plea for unruliness.”
“An epic, multi-generational tale […] Stolen is a clear-eyed, sometimes shocking account of the persecution of a people whose language has been restricted, their culture repressed and land taken from them.”
”This is an author who is brilliant at including the child’s perspective and telling us how she feels, and it is true that in some parental and child roles it is not always the adult who comforts the child, sometimes it is the other way around.”
Karolina Schützer’s critically acclaimed debut novel Beneath the Paris Stars ranks #2 on Pocket Shop’s bestseller list.
The paperback edition of Punished, Ann-Helén Laestadius’s critically acclaimed novel, is #1 on Akademibokhandeln’s chart over bestselling paperback fiction.
“After the Sun is a wild and clever plea for unruliness.”
Ann-Helén Laestadius’s runaway bestseller Punished, continues to climb on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling paperback fiction, this week at #2.
We are proud to welcome Frida Skybäck to Paloma Agency.
“Campaigner Nicolas Lunabba writes movingly about his troubled childhood and difficult work in a book addressed to an unruly teen who changed his life.”
Three of Paloma Agency’s authors have been nominated for the Storytel Awards.
The paperback edition of Malin Persson Giolito’s bestselling novel Deliver Me ranks #3 at the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling paperback fiction in all of 2023.
The UK edition of Ann-Helén Laestadius’s runaway bestselling novel Stolen has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award
“Her name is Mia Kruger, and it is she who makes this superb story very special indeed. Genuinely gripping and with a wonderful heroine, it is sensational.”
The US edition of Christoffer Carlsson’s highly praised novel Blaze Me a Sun has yet again been named one of the best crime novels of the year, this time by CrimeReads.
Ann-Helén Laestadius have been honored by The Swedish Academy with an assigned reward from the Academy’s own funds.
“Written in Bjørk’s habitual cool prose, it’s an absorbing, twisty novel.”
Ingvild H. Rishøi’s Brightly Shining is #2 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling paperback fiction for the month of November.
We are proud to welcome Anton Berg to Paloma Agency.
Ninni Schulman’s The Way We Played is #1 on major Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter’s list of the best crime novels of 2023.
“Well, Norway did just receive a Nobel Prize in literature… That’s a bit of a shame. Because here is a candidate who could probably stand a chance in a couple of years.”
The US edition of Christoffer Carlsson’s critically acclaimed novel Blaze Me a Sun has been named as one of the best crime novels of 2023 by The New York Times.
The award is given each year by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy and is Sweden’s most prominent prize for suspense writing.
The winning titles will be announced on January 25th, 2024.
The Netflix adaptation of A Nearly Normal Family has just had its global release.
The Sins of Our Fathers, Åsa Larsson’s bestselling novel, has been shortlisted for the Crime Fiction Lover Awards for best crime in translation 2023.
We are proud to welcome Karolina Schützer to Ahlander Agency.
“For an authorship, that spans across vast areas, eras and themes. For the journey that traverses the historical and present time landscape made out of emotions, the portrayal of man’s exclusion, inclusion and in-betweenclusion-illusion.”
Stargate. A Christmas Story is #1 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling paperback fiction.
Åsa Larsson’s The Sins of Our Fathers has been selected as one of the best crime titles of 2023 by three major critics.
“A brainy page-turner form a rising star in Scandinavian crime fiction.”
Four of Paloma Agency’s authors have been nominated for the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year Award 2023.
“A very, very elegant and skillfully told passion drama.…] A very intriguing book.”
“Ann-Helén does not shy away from violence or the difficult issues of mental illness, but lets the main character face all the problems that the Sami population has had to endure.”
“Nicolas Lunabba has turned the debate about street violence and exclusion from abstract problematization to finding actual solutions and creating safe spaces for young people in Malmö’s underprivileged areas.”
The first trailer for the Netflix adaptation of A Nearly Normal Family has just been released. The mini series is set for a global launch on November 24th.
The Aleksis Kivi Award is the most important Finnish literary prize and is only given every few years, most recently in three-year intervals.
The world English rights to Asta Olivia Nordenhof’s Money to Burn and The Devil Book have been pre-empted by Jonathan Cape.
The Dutch edition of Happy New Year, Malin Stehn’s debut novel, has been shortlisted for the prestigious MAX Bronzen Vleermuis-award in the category of Best Debut Thriller.
Åsa Avdic has been awarded Natur & Kultur’s working scholarship 2023. Out of 550 applications, 16 were chosen, each winner receiving 100 000 Swedish crowns.
It was just announced that Tina Harnesk has won the prestigious award for Best Book of the Year in Sweden.
Camilla Grebe’s bestselling novel Welcome to Eternity has been shortlisted for the French Prix Cognac award for Best International Novel 2023.
Netflix has just released first look images for the screen adaptation of Mattias Edvardsson’s bestselling novel A Nearly Normal Family.
“To publish the first work in a planned septology, receive wonderful reviews and then clearly face a wall during the work with the next part in the series, and still end up writing a book, volume 2, which is even better than the first.”
Ninni Schulman’s latest novel The Way We Played is #3 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling paperback fiction.
“There’s a lot of societal engagement to this story, and it truly makes Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare a book you need to read.”
Karolina Ramqvist has been awarded the Aniara Prize for her critically acclaimed book Bread and Milk.
The first installment of Ninni Schulman’s Siljan Series, The Way We Played, has sold a landmark 100,000 copies in Sweden – this even before the paperback has been published.
“[A] crafty psychological thriller […] Readers follow with grim fascination as the book’s all-too- human cast stumbles into tragedy.”
“An engaging climate change satire . . . Liljestrand gets in plenty of barbs at the various players as they cling to their old lives amid disaster. It makes for a devilish twist on climate fiction.”
“The plot is great and Christina Wahldén creates a setting rich in details from the 40’s.”
“It is a captivating read with a crawlingly eerie resolution, skillfully evoked by Åsa Avdic’s balancing act between closeness and distance.”
“Jens Liljestrand questions our consumerist and deeply hyper-connected lifestyle and turns a mirror towards a western society confronted with fear, grief, arrogance or anger; so many ways to meet the unknown.”
“The spirit of the time, the characters, and the unimaginable evil that is revealed – everything feels real and terrifying.”
The third installment in Tove Alsterdal’s bestselling High Coast Series, The Deeper You Go, takes place on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction for the fourth consecutive week, placing at #11.
“The writing is poetic, sensible, vibrating […] I am waiting for the other six books with impatience.”
The third installment in Tove Alsterdal’s bestselling High Coast Series, The Deeper You Go, takes place on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction for the third consecutive week, placing at #10.
The UK edition of Dorthe Nors’s critically acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World is one of the finalists for the prestigious Wainwright Prize 2023 in the Nature Writing-category.
Ulrika Rolfsdotter ‘s The Unburied is #1 on Adlibris’s chart over bestselling paperback fiction and Mattias Edvardsson’s Vow of Silence is #3 on the chart over bestselling hardcover fiction.
“A well written page-turner, do not miss this one!”
The third book in Tove Alsterdal’s bestselling High Coast Series, The Deeper You Go, takes place on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction for the second consecutive week, placing at #10.
“Discover this beautiful, very sensitive writing.”
The Deeper You Go, the third book in Tove Alsterdal’s bestselling High Coast Series, enters Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction at #3 in its first week of publication.
“In contrast to this darkness stands Asta Olivia Nordenhof, born in 1988, with her vivid, luminous and very inhabited writing.”
“Well, it’s the fact that she so often writes at the intersection of crime story, historical novel, and relationship novel, and that she pays so much attention to her portrayals of characters and milieu.”
The UK edition of Dorthe Nors’s critically acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World has been longlisted for the prestigious Wainwright Prize 2023 in the Nature Writing-category.
“Christina is always reliable. When I open one of her books I know right from the start that I’m in for a treat, and this is confirmed in the first few pages.”
“The police work goes on, but so does life, which Alsterdal captures with a presence that never leaves the reader. Eira lingers – along with the annual craving for the fantastic landscape of the High Coast.”
“True to her habit, Johanna Mo also lets a real cliff hanger end the whole book and I just want more right away.”
The Trembling Grass has climbed to #4 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling hardcover fiction within its second week of publication.
“Suspense and tragedy is combined with satire in this creation that will challenge the reader and make them reflect on our society.”
“Praised author Christina Wahldén has been inspired by Gotland’s dark history and she seamlessly weaves a thrilling, charming, and heartfelt story.”
We proudly welcome Rosa Liksom to Ahlander Agency.
The Trembling Grass, the highly anticipated fourth installment of Johanna Mo’s bestselling Island Murders Series featuring Hanna Duncker and Erik Lindgren, has just been published.
“Two voices that unite to form this searing social chronicle against a background of nature writing. […] a Nordic tale that is deeply moving.”
Ann-Helén Laestadius’s critically acclaimed novel Stolen, in an easy to read adaptation by Jenny Lindblad, is a finalist for the study association Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan’s literature prize for best Easy to Read book 2023.
“This is where the novel burns the most, in the description of Julia’s unhappy love. Of the madness that can only befall those who, high on oxytocin, are no longer capable of rational thought.”
“It is Mattias Edvardsson’s fifth suspense novel, and he gets more and more skilled at describing the difficult sides of ordinary family life, where new events put cracks in a safe foundation, making everything change.”
Bestselling author Camilla Grebe and Carl-David Pärson’s debut novel The Borrower is out today.
“There is no Swedish writer that better portrays how life turns from the ordinary grey everyday life into something unbearable than Mattias Edvardsson.”
Samuel Bjørk’s lauded latest novel Hitra has just been published in Holland, hitting #1 on the official list for bestselling suspense, one week of publication. Hitra is also #3 on the list for bestselling hardcover fiction.
“Tove Alsterdal ties together all the threads she so cleverly laid out in the previous books. And the result is not only a well-written, highly suspenseful crime novel – but also an insightful story about Sweden.”
“Mattias Edvardsson continues to successfully explore the family as a construction in the suspense novel Vow of Silence, the fourth book in the Lund suite.”
“It could very well have been a long series, because Tove Alsterdal succeeds to weave together politics, history, Sweden’s development, and the beauty of Ådalen in her thrilling crime stories.”
“Stitch by stitch, Edvardsson knits the three narrators’ stories together in an impressive feat of structural engineering.”
Dorthe Nors’s critically acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World has been shortlisted for the prestigious James Tait Black Prize 2023.
The Deeper You Go, the highly anticipated third installment of Tove Alsterdal’s bestselling High Coast Series, is #3 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling hardcover fiction.
“Schulman puts himself heartbreakingly in the shoes of the small, melancholic Harriet, who constantly observes her father and wants to do everything to ‘better’ herself for him.”
Camilla Grebe’s bestselling novel Welcome to Eternity has been nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle in the Crime Fiction category.
“They are the babbling class, and Isabel Nylund knows them inside out, knows everything about every word they say to avoid being present and standing up for who they are.”
The Deeper You Go enters the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s List for bestselling hardcover fiction at #2. Christoffer Carlsson’s latest novel The Living and the Dead takes place on the list at #3.
“What characterizes Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare is the lively and joyful storytelling and an exceptionally well-constructed milieu and historical atmosphere. And in addition; it is incredibly thrilling.”
Elin Cullhed’s critically acclaimed novel Euphoria is one of the finalists for the Catalonian Bookseller’s Award.
Christoffer Carlsson’s critically acclaimed latest novel The Living and the Dead climbs to #2 this week on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fict
The Deeper You Go, the highly anticipated third installment of Tove Alsterdal’s bestselling High Coast Series, is out today.
“More precipitation is expected in the future”, Nors states briefly – but still seems to rest in the fact that things are fundamentally permanent. In this way, this excellent book irretrievably belongs to the world of yesterday.”
International bestselling author Mattias Edvardsson returns in a thrilling new psychological suspense novel: Vow of Silence.
“A media consultant, his daughter, his mistress and a teenager must cast aside their petty concerns in the face of the climate disaster striking this satirical novel’s alternate-present Stockholm. They do, to varying degrees of success.”
The Living and the Dead is this week #5 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction and Welcome to Eternity is #3 on the list for bestselling paperback fiction for the month of April.
The Norwegian edition of Alex Schulman’s critically acclaimed novel Malma Station enters Norway’s official bestseller list for hardcover fiction at #3 in its first week of publication.
“My heart races, I get shortness of breath and chills down my spine. Occasionally, a small laugh escapes me because of an episode that begins tragicomically but quickly ends in pure tragedy.”
Jens Liljestrand’s highly praised novel Even if Everything Ends, translated from Swedish by Eline Jongsma, has been longlisted for the European Literature Prize 2023.
Christoffer Carlsson, Tina Harnesk, and Ann-Helén Laestadius have all been nominated for the Book of the Year Award 2023 for their novels The Living and the Dead, Those Who Sow in Snow, and Punished.
“Once again, Carlsson has accomplished a beautiful and engaging story about grief and loss, about memories and guilt. And it is so incredibly well written!”
“And luckily, Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare is the first part of a suspense series, so we will soon get to know more about the colorful cast of characters.”
The winners of the O. Henry Prize 2023 have been announced and Jonas Eika’s Me, Rory and Aurora, translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, is one of them.
“The unforgettable story of a Sami girl fighting for her lifestyle in a disappearing world. A novel as captivating and enchanting as the vast expanses it is set in.”
Carlsson writes very well, sometimes with an almost poetic sharpness. The tone is earnest, melancholic, and compassionate. […] the author knows his characters well, and he feels for them, even the ones who commit misdeeds.
Camilla Grebe’s highly praised novel Welcome to Eternity continues to hold a tight grip of the bestseller list, and is currently #2 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling paperback fiction.
After the success with Blaze Me a Sun, bestselling author Christoffer Carlsson returns with a new novel: The Living and the Dead.
“Swedish writer Ann-Helén Laestadius’s award-winning bestseller Stolen (Hoffmann and Campe) is the unforgettable story of a Sámi girl fighting for her lifestyle in a disappearing world.”
Camilla Grebe’s latest novel, Welcome to Eternity, is #1 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling paperback fiction for the month of March. The book is also #2 on this week’s list.
Johanna Mo tops the list of the most streamed titles on leading Norwegian streaming platforms Fabel and Nextory for the month of February with two books at the same time: The Night Singer at #1 and The Shadow Lily at #2.
Samuel Bjørk’s latest novel, Hitra, has climbed to #1 on the Norwegian Booksellers’ Association list for bestselling hardcover fiction as well as the list for bestselling e-books.
“A magnificent reading experience, and the film adaptation is highly anticipated.”
Hitra, Samuel Bjørk’s latest novel, ranks high on the Norwegian Booksellers’ Association list for bestselling hardcover fiction as well as the list for bestselling e-books for the second consecutive week, this week at #2.
Elin Kristina Oskal will be playing the leading role of Elsa, alongside Lars-Ánte Wasara as Mattias. They are joined by experienced actor Martin Wallström (Mr. Robot), among others.
Ninni Schulman’s bestselling crime novel The Way We Played has been the #1 most streamed audio book on Storytel, BookBeat and Nextory for the months of January, February and March.
“Schulman creates and shows his characters in a way that leaves the final interpretations to the readers. Thanks to this, Malma Station is a work of literature of the highest order.”
“Sandgren strikes a nice balance between comedy and coming-of-age […] A lovely atmosphere to lose yourself in […] Gorgeous and heightened”
Welcome to Eternity is #1 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling paperback fiction. Deliver Me is #3 on the same list as well as on Akademibokhandeln’s chart over bestselling paperback fiction.
Johanna Mo’s critically acclaimed novel, The Dark Elm, takes place on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction for the third consecutive week, this week at #6.
Christina Wahldén is an award-winning Swedish author and journalist who has written more than 70 books for children and young adults to date, and a number of books for an adult audience.
“It deserves to sit on a great many bookshelves, offering a trapdoor back into the moment of its reading. Who knows where the time goes? Fragments of it are saved and stored in novels such as this one.”
Punished tops Svenska Dagbladet’s list of “the best bestsellers”, which compiles books that have received critical praise while at the same time being in the top of the bestseller lists, for the fourth consecutive week.
“The novel has the feel of one of Gustav’s magnificent oils; layer upon layer of careful brush strokes and colour that amount to something close to photorealism. […] Sandgren has a sly eye for comedy […] A novel to savour”
The Dark Elm, takes place on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction for the second consecutive week, this week climbing to #2.
Alex Schulman has been highlighted by Euroman and Heartbeats as “One of Sweden’s best”, in two reviews about his latest novel Malma Station.
Malin Persson Giolito had the great honor of being one of the keynote speakers at the RISE Bookselling Conference this week, on March 19th and 20th in Prague.
“In this moving crime novel Laestadius helps us comprehend what a terrible trauma for the Sami people this clash of cultures represents, and to bear witness to the erosion of their cherished way of life.”
“As always, Alex Schulman is an absolute master at portraying both parts, so that you sit super engaged holding your breath. A moving reading experience with a complex cast of characters.”
Samuel Bjørk‘s long-awaited fifth book about Mia Krüger and Holger Munch, Hitra, is out in Norway today!
Johanna Mo’s critically acclaimed novel, The Dark Elm, enters Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction at #6 in its first week of publication.
“It is strong and moving, and Malma Station is a novel that touches you deeply. […] Malma Station is an intense and urgent reading experience, and Schulman is an author you can only look forward to reading more from.”
“The Danish novelist and poet explores power relations on all scales, pushing the couple to the height of unreason, while orchestrating a bloody political battle between a fearsome capitalism and its victims.”
“A sense of apocalyptic doom throws the relatively petty concerns of the characters into sharp relief even as their humanity is affirmed by the author’s careful attention to their quirks and unique perspectives.”
“The fragile Rebecka Martinsson is an indelible figure, and we are reminded that the distaff Larsson is one of the best current practitioners of Scandinavian crime fiction.”
“Poised at the intersection of life and art, reality and imagination, [Collected Works] blends the thrill of mystery with the curiosity and depth of philosophical inquiry.”
“Asta Olivia Nordenhof fragments and superimposes the mercantile insensitivity and the heartbreaking and fatal destiny of a couple, the better to convey a form of social criticism.”
“It hurts to read Punished. At the same time, it’s incredibly hard to let go off. As the book nears its end, I notice how I take more and more pauses, just to make the book last a little bit longer.”
Ninni Schulman’s bestselling latest novel, The Way We Played, has been the #1 most streamed book on BookBeat during both January and February.
“Author Malin Stehn has once again written a suspense novel of the highest class – Happily Ever After is just as good as the former A Happy New Year.”
Malma Station is #2 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction. Malin Persson Giolito’s Deliver Me, is #1 on the list for bestselling paperback fiction for the fourth consecutive week.
“It may be a cliché, but it is and remains one of the most important things that literature can offer: to show us what lies beyond our own horizon of experience, beyond our categories of what is familiar, simple and safe.”
Ann-Helén Laestadius’s latest novel Punished is #1 on Svenska Dagbladet’s list of “the best bestsellers”.
“There’s no need to fawn with superlatives: Alex Schulman has done it again with his razor-sharp portrayal of vulnerable family relationships […] Schulman is possibly better than ever!”
Johanna Mo tops the list of the most streamed titles on leading Norwegian streaming platform Fabel for the past week with no less than two books at the same time: The Night Singer is #1 and The Shadow Lily #2.
Punished is #1 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction for the fourth consecutive week. Deliver Me, is #1 on the list for bestselling paperback fiction for the third consecutive week.
“Adeptly written and plotted, with in-depth characterizations and rich topography, You Will Never Be Found is yet another fine contribution to the redoubtable genre.”
“When this duo switches from each side of the Atlantic, no one is safe. A bad snail can hold a whole world and a playlist can hide a soul. Every week we camp at their observatory hill – and what we hear is the cultural pages of the new era.”
Punished, Ann-Helén Laestadius‘s latest novel, tops the Swedish Publisher’s Association list for bestselling hardcover fiction at #1 for the third consecutive week.
The finalists for the PEN Translation Prize have been announced, and Caroline Waight, the English language translator of Dorthe Nors’s critically acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World is one of them.
“The merit of the Rebecka Martinsson series is further its perfect consistency: each novel captures the reader’s heart, and the theme and plot hold together excellently all the way to the end”
The Way We Played is #2 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s bestseller list for bestselling hardcover fiction for the month of January. The Sins of Our Fathers is #1 on the list for bestselling paperback fiction for January.
Ann-Helén Laestadius’s latest novel Punished takes place on Svenska Dagbladet’s list of “the best bestsellers”, this week climbing to #1.
Last week, The Way We Played soared to #1 on online retailer Adlibris’s bestseller list, after an incredibly enthusiastic review in the literary segment of the tv show Go’kväll.
Punished tops the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction at #1. Malin Persson Giolito’s Deliver Me takes place on the list for bestselling paperback fiction at #1.
Ann-Helén Laestadius’s new novel Punished takes place on Svenska Dagbladet’s list of “the best bestsellers”.
“By highlighting the local nuances and the many detailed character portrayals, Blaze Me a Sun winds through a Swedish landscape of desolated homesteads, uncultivated fields, forest lakes, lonely destinies, and well-hidden secrets.”
“The heart, and the great appeal, of this novel is its empathetic portrait of a young woman who flourishes in this harsh, but beautiful, landscape.”
“Schulman is a skilled storyteller who through her language gives every scene a strong presence.”
Punished, Ann-Helén Laestadius’s latest novel, tops the Swedish Publisher’s Association list for bestselling hardcover fiction at #1 within its first week of publication.
“A gripping psychological study of the perils of forcing facts into preconceived patterns, and a reminder of how devasting learning the truth can be.”
After the success with Stolen, bestselling author Ann-Helén Laestadius returns with a new novel: Punished.
“The story reads like a page-turner, and Liljestrand’s ironic humor calls to mind Ruben Östlund’s satires on the Swedish bourgeoisie and Don DeLillo’s postmodern classic White Noise.”
Dorthe Nors’s critically acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World is one of the finalists for The National Book Critics Circle Awards, in the Autobiography category.
Ann-Helén Laestadius is interviewed in The New York Times about her critically acclaimed novel Stolen.
We are proud to welcome Ingvild H. Rishøi to Ahlander Agency.
Caroline Waight, the English language translator of Dorthe Nors’s critically acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World has been longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Dorthe’s work.
The paperback edition of Karolina Ramqvist’s critically acclaimed memoir Bread and Milk takes place on the Swedish Publisher’s Association list for bestselling paperback fiction at #3 for the third consecutive week.
“Ninni Schulman’s Hagfors Series was good, but in this new series she has become even better.”
“Deliver Me leaves its mark and provokes more than one thought, which is due to Giolito’s liberating outlook on issues that otherwise would be on the verge of drowning in a pool full of more or less stigmatized stereotypes.”
“Ninni Schulman gives us a splendid start to the crime fiction year with her crime novel The Way We Played. […] The series about Ingrid Wolt has top tier potential.”
Five of Paloma Agency’s authors have been nominated for the Storytel Awards.
The Way We Played, Ninni Schulman’s latest novel, enters the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction at #2 in its first week of publication.
It has just announced in that film & TV-rights for Christoffer Carlsson’s bestselling novels Blaze Me a Sun and Under the Storm have been sold to Range Media Partners in a competitive auction.
Ninni Schulman’s latest novel The Way We Played is the #1 most streamed book on Storytel and BookBeat right now.
“A thumbs up for Tove Alsterdal’s You Will Never Be Found. It’s an adroitly plotted slice of Scandicrime.”
“That’s what is interesting, in a literary way as well: not in it being perfect, but in it being alive.”
“An astonishingly gifted introduction to something new.”
The US edition of Christoffer Carlsson’s bestselling novel, Blaze Me a Sun, is Good Morning America’s “Buzz Pick” of the week.
The Sins of Our Fathers, the concluding installment of Åsa Larsson’s Rebecka Martinsson Series, ranks #1 at the Swedish Publisher’s Association list for bestselling paperback fiction for the month of December.
“Sandgren hooks the reader with an absorbing, multilayered plot that shifts between past and present, building slowly towards the emotional and narrative mystery at its heart.”
“Schulman takes her time portraying both teenagers and adults as thinking, sentient people. Slowly she gives her characters both flesh and spirit, and as a reader I find it increasingly difficult to put the book down.”
US daily literary website Literary Hub recently published an extensive radio interview with Dorthe Nors for their segment ’Otherppl’.
Bestselling writer Ninni Schulman, master of slow-building suspense and delicately wrought characters, takes readers back to the 1980’s in this first installment of a new crime series.
“When Eira’s boss GG disappears without a trace, You Will Never Be Found kicks into higher gear and races with tremendous velocity toward a euphoric resolution.”
“Nors has written a powerful, authoritative masterpiece. A sometimes stern work, A Line in the World introduces North American readers to a surprising new world and a new way of seeing things.”
The US edition of Ann-Helén Laestadius bestselling novel Stolen has been named one of the most anticipated books of January 2023 by independent book retailer Book Culture.
”A dark, tightly plotted, and satisfying thriller”
The Sins of Our Fathers, the concluding installment of Åsa Larsson’s Rebecka Martinsson Series, ranks #1 at the Swedish Publisher’s Association list for bestselling paperback fiction this week.
Malin Persson Giolito’s episode of Vinter i P1, a popular segment where well-known Swedes host their own hour of music and discussion on Swedish national radio, aired on December 27th.
Åsa Larsson’s The Sins of Our Fathers has been the most popular choice among adult readers at libraries in six of Sweden’s biggest cities in 2022, making it #1 on the combined loan list.
“The first great crime novel of 2023 is Blaze Me a Sun by the decorated Swedish crime writer Christoffer Carlsson, who twines together national and personal traumas to devastating effect.”
The literary critics of Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter have named Karolina Ramqvist’s Bread and Milk the best book of 2022.
Dorthe Nors’s essay Wandering Houses from her critically acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World has been nominated by World Literature Today for the Pushcart Prize.
Christoffer Carlsson and Åsa Larsson have both taken place on the German Krimibestenlist for best crime fiction 2022.
Dorthe Nors’s essay collection A Line in the World is an editors’ pick in The New York Times Book Review this week.
The association of independent bookshops in western Paris has released their 11th rendition of the Prix Libraires de Seine, an award highlighting the best titles published during 2022.
“Cullhed succeeds in showing the miraculousness of creation.”
“I read it during my last trip to Öland and I barely dared to step outside at night. Love, violence, and drama in what is normally considered a pastoral and friendly environment. Well worth a read.”
“The beginning is brilliant […] I’m very fond of this second book from Ulrika Rolfsdotter.”
“This is a book that very few could have written as compelling, harsh, and tender as Nicolas Lunabba has done. /…/ There isn’t anyone who shouldn’t read this book. Or: everyone should read it.”
British newspaper The Guardian has asked authors and critics to recommend books to give as presents this Christmas and one of them is Dorthe Nors’s critically acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World.
“[An] audacious mix of procedural and psychological thriller … Carlsson teases readers with the slow unraveling of what happened when.”
Malin Persson Giolito has been chosen as one of the radio hosts of this year’s Vinter i P1 – a popular segment where current profiles host their own day of music and discussion on Swedish national radio.
“I suspect that this book – already a prize-winning bestseller in Europe, will speak to those young women who even today feel relationship equality faltering once babies come along.”
“At the same time, her essays provoke reflection on one’s own personal geography and how memories map onto specific landscapes and bodies of water.”
“The silenced ethnical group that are the Sami is the focus for Ann-Helén Laestadius’ book Stolen. It is a subtle, profound and exceptional read that can only be highly recommended.”
“The language is bombastic and lyrical, but above all filled with ruthless humour. […] An impressive debut.”
“The plot unfolds slowly but masterfully, with serial surprises. […] A brainy page-turner form a rising star in Scandinavian crime fiction.”
It has just been announced that rights to Alex Schulman’s international bestselling novel The Survivors have been optioned by Yellow Bird UK, who are planning on adapting the book into a major English-language feature film.
“Camilla Grebe both continues and renews the best of the Swedish crime tradition in a story that keeps the reader gasping for breath.”
“Her novel is burlesque and daring, populated by colorful, unforgettable characters. But underneath the cheerful exterior rests a grief over the traditional reindeer herding life that was lost.”
Lydia Sandgren’s Collected Works a has received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews, calling it “A richly evocative work from a major new talent.”
“He alternates his reflections, analyzes and expressions of emotion with depictions of scenes and snapshots, and thus creates – through uncomplicated, straightforward language – a varied and vivid whole.”
“With Welcome to Eternity, she once again shows a level that is far above the average of the genre, and here with an everyday tale of fate that makes this seemingly simple story feel especially sophisticated and present.”
“In a thorough but unsystematic fashion, the writing encompasses the nature, history and provincial customs of this harsh and highly romanticized corner of the country.”
Alex Schulman has been awarded the Jean Monnet Des Jeunes Européennes Award for The Survivors
“The Swedish author breathes new life into the American poet in a dazzling novel. /…/ It is one of the most beautiful and moving books you will read this year.”
Last week, Those Who Sow in Snow soared to #1 on online retailer Adlibris’s bestseller list, after an incredibly enthusiastic review in the literary segment of the tv show Go’kväll.
Four of Paloma Agency’s authors have been shortlisted for the Adlibris Awards 2022.
“[A] sweeping and complex drama of family, art, and sacrifice . . . Readers will be captivated.”
“A revelatory account of not-well-known assaults on the rights of an Indigenous group.”
“The hum of impending destruction is audible in each essay, magnified by Nors’ aching attention to the world as we know it and have known it.”
“Laestadius’s nuanced English-language debut […] [is] a solid story of a family torn apart by cultural tensions. […] the sense of place and character development make for an affecting portrait of the Sámi’s disenfranchisement.”
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“Stehn’s pacy narrative taps into every family’s worst nightmare. /…/Atmospheric flashbacks and alternate narrators add depth. This slow-burning mystery is Nordic noir via American Beauty with a dash of Big Little Lies.”
“This is not only a generational novel, it is a truly enjoyable reading experience. /…/ The book of the year, many people say. Read it and find out for yourself.”
“Karolina Ramqvist succeeds: without ever having to resort to strained constructions, through a delicate detailed painting and an admirable honesty, she gives the kingdom of food a personal, life-shaping depth.”
“Those Who Sow in Snow is an important book in the midst of all noise. A beating heart from Sápmi.”
“She also has an eye for the human being behind the image of the loathed poacher, and her portrayal of the dementia-stricken grandmother is bitter-sweet and beautiful.”
You Will Never Be Found, the second installment of Tove Alsterdal’s bestselling High Coast Series, takes place on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction for the second consecutive week, placing at #10.
“Those Who Sow in Snow is a beautiful novel about two generations who are steeped in the northern Sami experience.”
“In prose that is as sparse and quiet as the marshy Jutland peninsula itself, the book provides a snapshot of life in a location that is full of history and at the same time ever-shifting, its future uncertain.”
“Sympathetically, Laestadius tells us what it means to live in a community where everyone is tied to everyone so that everybody knows each other, and in which, when in doubt, the individual counts less than tradition.”
Elin Cullhed has written an article for UK newspaper The Guardian and their ’Where to start with’-series. The series is a guide into beloved authors and their work, where Cullhed’s article revolves around the works of Sylvia Plath.
You Will Never Be Found, the second installment of Tove Alsterdal’s bestselling High Coast Series, enters Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction at #4 in its first week of publication.
Nicolas Lunabba, author the blazingly topical memoir Will You Care If I Die?, has been awarded an honorary doctorate at Malmö University for his tireless and inspirational work for children and youths in socially vulnerable areas.
“Nors, known primarily as a fiction writer, here embarks on a languorous and evocative tour of her native Denmark.”
“Nicolas Lunabba has a language that never tries to be sensationalist and his reflections flow between references from Dead Prez to Vilhelm Moberg and Kristian Lundberg.”
Deliver Me by Malin Persson Giolito has been nominated for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy.
“It is strong and thought-provoking, moving and sometimes even comical.”
“In his own way, romantic and irreconcilable, the Swedish writer appeals to our common sense as much as to our lost innocence – to save what can still be saved.”
“These questions are more than answered by Dorthe Nors, an exceptional chronicler of the character, stories and sheer unashamed presence of the Jutland coast.”
“It’s very rare that a book enthralls me that much starting with its very first page. /…/ The novel is also a glowing counterpart to the increasing number of novels that treat the salvation of nature in a romanticizing way.”
Ann-Helén Laestadius’s critically acclaimed novel Stolen enters Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction at #21 in its second week of publication.
It was just announced that Lina Nordquist has won the prestigious award for Book of the Year in Sweden for her critically acclaimed novel Hunger.
Today it is official that A Nearly Normal Family by Mattias Edvardsson is currently in production to become a major Netflix Original Series, set to premiere globally in 2023.
“The depiction of the girl’s powerlessness, loyalty and insistent attempts at reaching her mother is deeply moving. As is the portrait of the incapable Mona. The depiction of their complicated relationship is remarkably convincing.”
You Will Never Be Found, the second installment of Tove Alsterdal’s High Coast Series, ranks #1 at the Swedish Publisher’s Association list for bestselling paperback fiction in September, climbing from #2 for the previous month.
Malma Station by Alex Schulman ranks #2 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction for the second consecutive month.
The Unburied, the second installment in Ulrika Rolfsdotter’s Annie Ljung Series, enters the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction at #15, only 4 days after publication.
“What is original is the vivid, highly dramatic treatment of the intimate details of Plath’s troubled life and marriage. /…/ A superb portrait of an essential life.”
“When she’s writing about nature she has a pleasing knack for engaging all the senses, and when she turns to some aspect of her family history, her candor is seasoned with a pinch of Scandinavian reserve.”
“Tina Harnesk plays with language and lets the details speak; like when a half-eaten box of raisins found underneath a reindeer pelt gets to symbolize the heart wrenching loss of a child.”
UK Booksellers Association has just announced that Elin Cullhed’s critically acclaimed novel Euphoria is their Fiction Book of the Month.
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde’s latest novel Natural Behavior was lauded in this recent review from Swedish magazine ETC.
“Or one can do as Ulrika Rolfsdotter and with small nuances create a character that adds something new but still remains with both feet firmly planted in the plausible.”
Åsa Larsson has been awarded the prestigious German Radio Bremen Crime Prize for The Sins of Our Fathers, the latest and final installment of her Rebecka Martinsson Series.
The Unburied is the sequel to Ulrika Rolfsdotter’s breakout debut Heart of Prey about social worker Annie Ljung. Inspired by local crimes and folklore, The Unburied is a suggestive suspense novel about vulnerable children, ...
Linda Segtnan is a writer in the subject of history. Her debut novel The Eighth House – In Memory of a Young Girl was published by Albert Bonniers Förlag in September 2022.
“Åsa Larsson has, since her debut in 2003, spellbound both critics and readers with her novels.”
Malma Station, Alex Schulman’s latest novel, tops the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction for the third consecutive week– this week at #2.
We Know You Remember, the first installment in Tove Alsterdal’s High Coast Series, ranked as the #1 listened to book during the month of August at Fabel.
With Those Who Sow in Snow debut writer Tina Harnesk spins a tall tale that shifts seamlessly between laugh-out loud humor and profound depictions of what it means to love and lose within a family.
”One of the most important books of the year! An unusually well-written, but above all touching, memoir.”
Tröstrapporter, marking Alex Schulman’s debut as a playwright and director, premiered on Friday September 16th at the Swedish national stage for theater, Dramaten.
You Will Never Be Found, the second installment in Tove Alsterdal’s High Coast Series, is #1 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling paperback fiction for the fourth consecutive week.
Malma Station, Alex Schulman’s latest novel, tops the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction at #1 for the second consecutive week.
Nicolas Lunabba has received numerous awards for his tireless work as a youth counsellor and is a critical voice in the public debate in Sweden. His memoir Will You Care If I Die? is a blazingly topical and universal story.
“Åsa Larsson has, since her debut in 2003, she has spellbound both critics and readers with her novels.”
Camilla Grebe has been nominated for Bookbeat’s Suspense Writer of the Year-award. Bookbeat, one of Sweden’s leading book streaming services.
The shortlist will be revealed on October 11th and the winners of 2022 Year’s Prix Médicis will be announced on November 8th.
The Night Singer, Johanna Mo’s first installment in her Island Murder Series, was the best-selling translated book in Norwegian bookstores in August.
Malma Station, Alex Schulman’s latest novel, tops the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction for the second consecutive week– this week at #1.
“There is no way out of Schulman’s meticulous novel-building, I am heading towards Malma station as inescapably as everyone else in this book.”
“All the stories available about motherhood and equality were false. I couldn’t find any truthful accounts. That’s why I wanted to write about this, because I knew that Sylvia also wrote about motherhood, frustration, and despair.”
“The new novel by Christoffer Carlsson tells with epic power a story of guilt, accountability and entanglement, about the meaninglessness and upheaval of good intentions.”
The Sins of Our Fathers, the concluding installment of Åsa Larsson’s Rebecka Martinsson Series, enters the list of the 100 bestselling titles in Spain at #12 in its first week of publication.
Tina Harnesk is a librarian who moonlights as a writer. Her debut novel Those Who Sow in Snow will be published by Bokfabriken on September 21st.
Malma Station, Alex Schulman’s latest novel, takes place on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction, covering the dates August 22nd-28th, at #4 2 days after its publication.
Christoffer Carlsson’s latest novel Blaze Me a Sun is #1 on German Krimibestenliste for the second consecutive month.
Ann-Helén Laestadius’ critically acclaimed novel Stolen will be adapted into a feature film for Netflix.
“Tove Alsterdal introduces the Eira Sjödin-triology with this subdued Nordic Noir, where she puts emphasis on the characters and their social environment.”
“Liljestrand’s feverish, oftentimes elliptic writing, combined with a fragmented composition, distinguished by its leaps through time and space, results in the effect of a gigantic collage of moments in time. (…...
Master storyteller and international bestselling author Alex Schulman returns in a new novel that is as emotionally powerful as it is stylistically elegant.
Paloma Agency authors continue to take place on Der Spiegel’s bestseller lists.
“As thrilling and contemporary as Jens Liljestrand’s accounts on the impending catastrophe are, the masterstroke of the author, cultural journalist and literary critic lies, above all, in the choice of his antiheroes. Liljestrand succeeds, with sensitiv...
“The Shadow Lily is a perfect crime novel for rainy days, one of those books that does well together with a cup of tea, a blanket and lazy days in the summer house.”
“A thrilling, densely narrated and masterfully composed crime novel that approaches its characters with psychological sensitivity.”
Bread and Milk, Karolina Ramqvist’s latest book, is on Svenska Dagbladet’s list of bestselling novels, 23 weeks after publication – this week on #3.
Astra House just revealed their cover for the US edition of Lydia Sandgren’s award-winning novel Collected Works on their social media.
Paloma Agency authors continue to take place on German newspaper Der Spiegel’s bestseller lists.
“Johanna Mo’s new novel, The Shadow Lily, is a solid police procedural that brims with twists, turns and surprising revelations. […] The mark of a promising series is that each installment can stand alone, and readers can begin with any book....
July 25th marked the ten-year anniversary of the publication of Karolina Ramqvist’s cult-status novel The Beginning. The novel, read by a generation of young women, was highlighted in an article from Dagens Nyheter in relation to its...
“I often write about Sami identity, on the right to identify yourself and the strength you find in Sami society. I have a strong sense of what is right and wrong, and I am driven towards injustice and getting justice done. And often that doesn’t work ou...
We Know You Remember is on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling trade paperback fiction for the third consecutive week – this week climbing to #5.
Several authors have taken place this week on Der Spiegel’s lists for bestselling paperback and hardcover fiction, Germany’s most notable bestseller lists.
“[Even if Everything Ends] spans one apocalyptic week […], offers convincing characters and a compelling narrative and is incredibly topical. An outstanding and unsettling novel.”
“The rugged and ever-shifting coastline, which Nors paints as harsh and unforgiving but not without beauty. […] Norsʼs portrait of her connection to a landscape both ‘harsh and mild’ enchants.”
Christoffer Carlsson’s latest novel Blaze Me a Sun is #1 on German Krimi-Bestenlist in August.
“[We Know You Remember] whets the appetite for the two upcoming books. With detective Eira Sjödin [Alsterdal] has introduced a multifaceted character whose development is as exciting as the next case.”
We Know You Remember climbs to #7 this week on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling trade paperback fiction. White as Snow is also, for the third consecutive week, on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling trade pap...
”The best Swedish crime novel of the year […]. This is not only of enormous sophistication, but also of an emotional impact that is rarely experienced in a crime novel.”
Johanna Mo’s The Shadow Lily, the second book in her Island Murders Series, is published in the US and UK today.
“I wanted to tell a story about the climate crisis as a part of our everyday lives, not as something that is a sudden chock. A story about the abnormal as something normal.”
White as Snow climbs to #6 this week on Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction.
Today, Sommar i P1 aired the episode that Lydia Sandgren hosts. In her episode, Lydia discusses her ongoing educational journey; from being a child and going to the library in her with her grandmother, attending music school and later on university...
We Know You Remember enters Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction at #10 in its second week of publication.
“Giolito wanted to portray the effects of gang violence, but she, at the same time, effectively reminds the reader that the awful crimes are sometimes committed by children.”
“The third part about Öland-police Hanna Duncker who is haunted by her past while trying to solve a 20-year-old crime. The story takes place during a week in December, but with many threads leading back in time. The skillfully told story, about carrying ...
White as Snow, the fourth installment in Samuel Bjørk’s bestselling Mia & Munch Series, enters Der Spiegel’s list for bestselling paperback fiction at #16 in its first week of publication.
“Motherhood and food. It is around these two subjects that Karolina Ramqvist creates a novel so appetizing that I can’t help but devour it in one sitting. The mandarins, the toasted bread, the rice pudding.”
“It was the thriller of the year last year, according to the Swedish Academy of Crime Fiction and almost everyone else. It is the 6th and last installation of Åsa Larsson’s Kiruna Series and is as usual a loving tangled mess of shame and guilt...
Swedish national television SVT has listed three must-read books this summer, Malin Persson Giolito’s Deliver Me was highlighted with the motivation: “[…] It is one of the truest books that have been written about contemporary Sweden...
Johanna Mo’s The Dark Elm was highlighted among the bestselling books of the month of June according to the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction – a great achievement!
“The four main stories about Didrik, Melissa, André and Vilja, in a choir of well-constructed mutual references, composes a mosaic where one dominant figure is brought to life: the climate crisis.”
“The true stroke of genius in Cullhed’s book is the honest writing, which is so straight forward, so raw about the female mind. What if the real Sylvia Plath had read Euphoria, then she possibly wouldn’t have felt so lonely.”
It has just been announced that Åsa Larsson is the winner of the prestigious German Radio Bremen Crime Prize for The Sins of Our Fathers, the latest and final novel of her Rebecka Martinsson Series.
White as Snow is back on the Dutch National Bestseller 60- list, 32 weeks after publication. The book has been on the list for 30 weeks in total.
“Nors connects everything to everything, jumping back and forth in place and time. A Line in the World is yet another wonderful collection of stories by Nors.”
Swedish daily newspaper Göteborgsposten has listed the best previous episodes of Sommar i P1, the most prestigious individual long-format radio program in Sweden. Karolina Ramqvist’s episode from 1999 was highlighted as one of them.
Upsala Nya Tidning has listed the best audiobooks of the summer, and one of them is Karolina Ramqvist’s Bread and Milk.
Johanna Mo’s The Dark Elm has climbed even higher on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction this week: to #2 – an amazing feat!
Joakim Zander’s An Honest Life is being published as a serial in one of Sweden’s biggest newspapers, Sydsvenskan.
“Ramqvist’s excavation of the process of creation and research, delay and anxiety, is both multi-layered and intriguing.”
“It is thrilling from start to finish, with beautiful scenery and a whole bunch of interesting characters, and an ending that leaves me wanting for more. Right away.”
“Her writing is meandering, poetic, and apt. Nature evokes childhood memories, which she interweaves with observations about the coastal dwellers, their language and their history.”
The Dark Elm takes place on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction for the second consecutive week, this week climbing to #3!
“Jens Liljestrand’s climate novel Even if Everything Ends is a page turner. The story surprises with many twists and turns, but is so well constructed that it captivates the reader to the very last page. All in roughly 500 pages that leads us d...
The first trailer for Burn All My Letters (Original title: Bränn alla mina brev) was released today, June 27th. The feature film, based on the bestselling book by Alex Schulman with the same title, is set for a theatrical release in the fall of ...
Nordstedt’s Juridik recently did a big interview with Joakim Zander regarding his background in law, working with the EU, and his experience as an author.
Bread and Milk has now spent fourteen consecutive weeks on Dagens Nyheter’s Critics’ List, this week climbing to #3.
“Stolen is a brilliantly thrilling, glowing story, in which this sharp-eyed writer brings a whole new world to the reader.”
The Dark Elm has climbed to #5 on the Swedish Publisher’s Association’s list for bestselling hardcover fiction.
Dorthe Nors has been awarded the prestigious Blixen Prize in the category “Book of the Year”, for A Line in the World.
“Liljestrand is immensely skilled in laying bare the growing sense of panic. A climate thriller about spoiled Northern Europeans who thought themselves spared but who suddenly must save their own skin.”
Bread and Milk is #5 on Akademibokhandeln’s chart of bestselling novels.
Hunger is above all a warm and moving story, skillfully chiseled out, with complex and authentic characters.
“Even if Everything Ends is relevant, a story for and about our time. Recommended.”
Heart of Prey is #6 on Akademibokhandeln’s chart of bestselling paperback books.
Johanna Mo is back with The Dark Elm, the third book in the bestselling Island Murders Series.
“Zander problematizes different ways of thinking and ideals. ”
Lydia Sandgren has been selected as one of the hosts for Sommar i P1.
Stolen is the #1 bestselling book on PocketShop’s chart for the third consecutive month.
Netflix announces a TV-series adaptation of Giolito’s newest novel, Deliver Me (Original titel: I dina händer).
“It is dark and existential, well thought out and brilliantly executed.”
“During the entirety of the novel’s soot-stained song from the abyss, fetid with the smell of burning rubber, resounds a mild morale about the life we once lived. About the choices we are faced with. Or as Vilja puts it: ‘Fucking live with it....
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“Fans of realistic, detail-oriented police procedurals will appreciate this one.”
The Literary Stockholm-initiative has awarded Karolina Ramqvist an honorary plaque in recognition of her literary contributions to the city. The plaque holds a quote from her novel The Beginning and can be seen in Kungsträdgården in central Stock...
“In her debut novel, the Swedish author Lydia Sandgren creates a complex plot that obeys only the primary objective of contemplating art, of understanding the ins and outs of artistic creation and the way it connects with life. (…) A text that celeb...
“In this genre-defying work that combines fiction, investigation, and essay, Ramqvist seems most at ease when playing with formal constraints. […] a beautiful book, reflective, nuanced, deep, sharp.”
High praise for Alex Schulman’s Burn All My Letters from Weekendavisen‘s critic:
“Rarely have I read something in this genre that has caught my attention and interest so intensely.”
Karolina Ramqvist’s text A Small, Embarrassing Triumph was published as part of the international supplement to Shelly Oria’s book I Know What’s Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom.
“There is a momentum that makes the novel difficult to put down. The suspense is particularly present in our protagonist’s reflections, choices and insecurity. His desperate hunt for identity and community determines his existence and it is a breath...
Welcome to Eternity by Camilla Grebe was the #1 bestselling hardcover fiction title in Sweden during the month of April.
Hufvudstadsbladet’s critic is captivated by Karolina Ramqvist’s fascinating world, “… a book so full of wisdom and warmth […] that I am both grateful and moved.”
Lina Nordquist and Malin Persson Giolito have both been nominated for the Book of the Year Award 2022 for their novels Hunger and Deliver Me.
Welcome to Eternity by Camilla Grebe was the #1 bestselling hardcover fiction title in Sweden last week, according to the official bestseller list compiled by the Swedish Publishers’ Association.
Welcome to Eternity was publis...
The award is given annually to an author who is ”of great importance to the cultural life in Stockholm”. Congratulations to Karolina!
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten praises Alex Schulman’s novel Burn All My Letters in a six-star review:
“It [the novel] centers around loneliness and a longing for fellowship. About a meaning in – with – life. It is also about being taken advantage of, both by the upperclass brats the young law-student lives with, but by the new friends as well. A g...
Ann-Helén Laestadius has been awarded the prestigious prize “Your Book – Our Choice” for Stolen.
“A fantastic ending, well written – you simply cannot stop reading. The book is as fabulous as the cover, an incredible novel.”
“In the newly published divorce narrative Opt Out, the gaze is as relentlessly direct, heart-rending, and searching as in the debut. (…) As an observant guide through the human psyche and relationships Setterwall is astonishing.”
“As a writer, Zander moves in the same territory as Stieg Larsson, or rather David Lagercrantz, who picked up the ’Millennium’-flag after Larsson’s death. Not only because Lisbet Salander is so clearly reflected in Max as a character, but because of...
“Ramqvist writes hypnotically and with utter rhetorical control. The brilliance lies in the inconsolable ambivalence that the text conjures.”
“I’m impressed by Carolina Setterwall’s portrayal of Mary and John, but what impresses me even more is her completely stylistically pure prose. Carolina Setterwall doesn’t move a centimeter away from the dry and factual, and leaves it up to the read...
Joakim Zander has gotten a great early review for his latest novel An Honest Life, from Dagens Bok:
“An Honest Life is an intensely relatable story of the boredom of youth and the longing to feel alive. The hunt for magic...
“Karolina Ramqvist’s book has actually changed my view of life. The reason for that is her suggestive, utterly original language. To be able to write states of crisis and emotional deprivation from grain and dairy products – that demands a great write...
Åsa Larsson’s latest book has been crowned the winner of the Swedish audio book prize Storytel Awards 2022 in the crime/suspense category.
“The language is as close to real life as it gets, as is the dialogue and descriptions of place. (…) Surely one must become a worse person in several ways during a difficult divorce; meaner, vindictive and hurt. All of this is thoroughly mapped out by ...
Elin Cullhed’s nationally acclaimed novel Euphoria has been nominated for the Italian literature prize Premio Strega Europeo 2022.
Joakim Zander, author of the international bestseller The Swimmer, returns with a new literary suspense novel: An Honest Life.
Bread and Milk by Karolina Ramqvist has received a remarkable review in Expressen. Critic Martina Montelius writes: “Karolina Ramqvist’s book has actually changed my view of life.”
Dorthe Nors’s essay collection A Line in the World was praised in a review from Klassekampen in Norway: “It is hard to imagine a Danish writer who could have portrayed the region in a more fascinating way.”
Samuel Bjørk’s latest book White as Snow has been shortlisted for the 2022 Riverton Prize, the award for the best Norwegian crime novel of the year.
Johanna Mo’s The Shadow Lily was just released in Germany and it is already #4 on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list.
Bestselling writer Camilla Grebe’s new book Welcome to Eternity is now out in Sweden.
Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren has been longlisted for the 2022 Dutch European Literature Prize.
Bread and Milk is at once wholly original and a natural extension of the brazenly intelligent and personal writing that has come to define Karolina Ramqvist’s authorship.
“With irrepressible urgency, Eika’s astonishing fiction juxtaposes startling beauty with grotesquery, and balances the hyper-realistic with the fantastical. Translated by Sherilyn Hellberg.”
“Euphoria is a glowing work of art that gives a collective voice to all women around the world who live with one foot in domestic life and the other in an artistic lifestyle.”
Samuel Bjørk’s latest book White as Snow is once again #1 in The Netherlands.
The first reviews for Malin Persson Giolito’s new novel Deliver Me are in and they are fantastic!
Six years after the enormous success with Quicksand, Malin Persson Giolito is back with a new novel: Deliver Me.
Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius is the #1 bestselling paperback book in Sweden, according to the official list compiled by the Swedish Publishers’ Association.
Stolen is published in Sweden by Romanus & Selling.
“An elegantly constructed novel. (…) The story is driven forward at a high pace. (…) Even if Everything Ends suggest that the climate crisis is a symptom of a more profound flaw in our society; a greedy desire for profit and selfishness tha...
“A distinct Swedish flavor permeates the setting, but the emotions of childhood – the joy, the secrecy and fear, the enthusiasms and the drama – are universal.”
After the Sun by Jonas Eika is longlisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize.
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Heart of Prey by Ulrika Rolfsdotter was published in Denmark just last week and has already climbed to #3 on Bog & Idé’s bestseller list for crime fiction.
“Alex Schulman distills a poison in the heart of a flawed paradise, throwing the reader into this climate of instability, between the joy of the proposed games – and their perversity.”
“Rolfsdotter possesses an enthralling language that really comes into its own, and the intrigue she has created builds true suspense. Ulrika Rolfsdotter has put a lot of love into the minute details which adds depth to the story.”
Åsa Larsson’s The Sins of Our Fathers is out in Norway today and she is praised in a six-star review from Adresseavisen.
Tove Alsterdal’s We Know You Remember has gotten great praise in a review in The Sunday Timres:
“Strong characters, a great sense of place and plot twists galore leave you delighted that this is the first novel in a new seri...
“Moody, gripping and unpredictable, and with an incisive and sophisticated exploration of grief, guilt, memory and family, We Know You Remember brims with all the tension, intrigue and atmospherics that we have come to expect from classic Swe...
“Everything he touches turns into gold. Swedish bestselling author Alex Schulman has turned his pain into a novel with a therapeutic effect, also for his readers.”
“The process of making a film of my novel has been a very special journey for me,” said Schulman. “Besides the fact that the elite of Swedish actors has joined the project, I am also thrilled and excited that Sverrir will portray me in the film. He is...
“The author manages to keep the reader hooked in the second installment of the Island Murder series. She successfully creates suspense through complicated family relationships and the tension between people who live in small communities. It’s splendidly...
“Sophisticated in its labyrinthian construction, yet easily accessible as a whole, The Survivors – which shows how ‘no one escapes childhood unscathed’ – should be placed alongside the great stories that teach us that from ...
“Grebe knows how to spin multiple threads to follow through the perspectives of different characters. The intrigue lasts to the very end. Keeping the investigator as a secondary character is a smart solution that brings something new to the genre, which G...
A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors has been shortlisted for the The Montana Literature Award.
“A superb Swedish novel, in which every (nearly) normal family can see themselves. Complete with a shattering end to the friendship between girls, the kind that moves mountains.”
The winners of 2021 year’s Adlibris Award have been announced and Åsa Larsson’s The Sins of Our Fathers was crowned Best Crime Novel, while and Ann Helén-Laestadius’ Stolen was elected Best Fiction Novel of the Year.
“I love how the sharp strokes of the type cut through the painterly image, subtly referencing the juxtaposition of man and machine. In short: Wow. This is a cover I can’t stop looking at.”
– Anne Jordan, book cover designer
“It is not difficult to understand why the book has received such hype before publication, it’s successful in honing in on pretty much all the great contemporary discussion topics.”
“Delicately and with precise style Schulman portrays what happens to children who are defenseless against their parents and this world. And how the absence of love creates a black hole that grows until it devours everything.”
Camilla Grebe and Johanna Mo are both nominated for the Danish Mofibo Awards 2022 in the Best Translated Fiction category.
“The novel should be read by any one who enjoys a great literary story that sheds light on an important subject.”
Wall Street Journal featured After the Sun by Jonas Eika on their list “Who Read What: Writers Share Their Favorite Books of 2021”. The author Katie Kitamura highlights After the Sun as a short story collection that continues ...
“Sweden’s master of crime once again succeeds in writing a detective story that is so much more than that.”
The Swedish Publisher’s association has released their list of the Bestselling titles of 2021, which featured Tove Alsterdal, Christoffer Carlsson, Camilla Grebe, Åsa Larsson, and Johanna Mo.
A Family Tragedy by Mattias Edvardsson placed at #2 on the bestseller list for Denmark’s major audio-book streaming service Mofibo and held the spot for two weeks.
“Even if Everything Ends is a page turner. You’re hunted through scorching heat, through soot flakes, through the pathetic remains of the castle in the sky that was once the society in which we lived.”
“Brilliant. […] Yes, this is a dark Scandinavian novel. And yet it has its brighter moments, until the surprising end, because love is a tough plant that can also survive the Nordic winter.”
“Laestadius’s strong message about the injustice experienced by an indigenous minority gives this novel a universality extending far beyond Sápmi, the lands inhabited by the Sámi people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and north-western Russia.”...
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Tove Alsterdal’s We Know You Remember is published in Norway by Gyldendal and The Night Singer by Johanna Mo is published in Norway by Aschehoug.
“Liljestrand writes with an admirable prose which flows, and in its best moments it’s both poetic and psychologically sharp.”
“Camilla Grebe is one of those authors who demonstrate the continuing inventiveness of Scandinavian crime fiction. […] Grebe brings them together in a plot of dazzling originality.”
“Åsa Larsson’s writing is propulsive, and her language is among the very best in the Swedish suspense genre.”
Dagens Nyheter’s roundup of the 30 Best Crime Novels of 2021 featured The Sins of Our Fathers, Blaze Me a Sun, You Will Never Be Found, The Lies We Tell, and Heart of Prey.
“Setterwall allows the reader an insight into their deeply personal grief, without compromise, and without embellishment. It creates monumental impact.”
“In the future Jens Liljestrand’s novel is probably going to be regarded as the first Swedish climate fiction of any considerable measure.”
The Publicist Association’s motivation reads: “With her personality and originality Hanna Hellquist crafts narratives for print, radio, and television – narratives about the human experience. She both touches and fascinates.”
“Page turner is an overused word by now, but sometimes it covers everything. As in the case of Malin Stehn’s A Happy New Year.”
“It has been nine years, and Åsa Larsson is still in impeccable shape.”
“Even if Everything Ends is not a classic dystopia, more like a typical realistic novel that happens to take place in a dystopian time: our own.”
The Dutch edition of Samuel Bjørk’s White as Snow was just launched and it is already #1 on the official suspense list.
“Stehn truly succeeds in evoking sympathy for the main characters and puts the puzzle pieces of the story together in a gratifying way.”
The rights to Tove Alsterdal’s The High Coast Series have been optioned by John Wells Productions with plans to adapt it into a major television series.
Euphoria by Elin Cullhed was awarded the August Prize for Fiction. The August Prize is Sweden’s most prestigious literary award.
This is the third time that Larsson wins the award – she previously won in 2004 for The Blood Spilt and in 2012 for The Second Deadly Sin. She also won the award for Best Debut Suspense Novel for her first novel about Rebecka ...
“There has been a plethora of beautiful illustrations over the past few years, and yet this photographic illustration is distinctive. The type overwhelms the cover, but there is such subtle refinement to the use of aqua highlights on the letterforms, givi...
“The plot is so intricately woven, that we, the readers, can’t help but be drawn in and impressed when the crimes are ultimately solved.”
Four of Ahlander Agency’s authors have been chosen for the shortlist of Adlibris Awards 2021: Lina Nordquist, Åsa Larsson, Camilla Grebe, and Ann-Helén Laestadius.
“Setterwall tells her story mercilessly. Brilliant – and at times boundlessly melancholic.”
Let’s Hope for the Best is published in Germany by Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
Renowned writer Lauren Groff has written an in-depth essay about the significant authorship of Dorthe Nors in the latest issue of The New York Review of Books.
“[This] is a multifaceted, utterly brilliant crime novel. It is also a read that creates an insatiable urge to move north; Åsa writes about a landscape that she loves, a Norrbotten with mountains so beautiful they seem to be out of this world, and s...
“A powerful, evocative redemption story whose blend of psychological suspense and unsettling supernatural atmosphere is heightened by human obsessions and ghostly threats.”
“The book has a lingual awareness and integrity that skillfully avoids any amateur psychologizing (…) Sylvia Plath is depicted as realistic and complex: annoying, charming, brilliant, superficial, deep. ”
“Bjørk once again delivers tight, dense, and thrilling suspense in a fashion mastered by few Norwegian writers.”
“Setterwall shows a will to create unconditional accuracy, in addition to her desire to understand and explain – even in the midst of her sorrow.”
“A darker image of the likeable couple emerges – and a number of potential perpetrators crystalize. What Edvardsson portrays is the psychological game that takes place between individuals, the desperation leading to tragic crime. He does so masterfully....
“What starts off as titillating becomes ever more thrilling as Stehn skillfully reveals one family secret after another.”
“A new suspense novel that draws me in.”
“At the moment, there is a certain masochistic urge for texts about the end of the world, and Jens Liljestrand delivers.”
“The Sins of Our Fathers holds multitudes, high pace, and human tragedy galore, extreme Laestadians as well as bloody knock-out fights.”
“…this is a book that is hard to get out of your head, like an extravagant dream.”
“Setterwall manages to put into words the darkest of thoughts in an attempt to revive strong romantic feelings, without ever turning cheesy.”
“I was very close to taking the day off last minute – that’s how hooked I was by Malin Stehn’s debut novel.”
“This disquieting tale of loss, grief, and rekindling of hope from Jansson (The Forbidden Place) hooks the reader from the start.”
Tove Alsterdal has been awarded the Prix Cognac for Best International Novel 2021 by Le Festival Polar de Cognac for Erasure.
You Will Never Be Found by Tove Alsterdal has just been published in Sweden by Lind & Co. It is the second book in the The High Coast Series which features police officer Eira Sjödin, and the sequel to We Know You Remember, which was ...
The Sins of Our Fathers by Åsa Larsson has been nominated for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy.
Euphoria by Elin Cullhed has been shortlisted for the August Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious literary award.
“Mattias Edvardsson is phenomenal at creating psychologically twisted novels about everyday life.”
“After the Sun confronts modernity and alienation in hypnotic prose… These stories are compelling, haunted, even radiant.”
Alex Schulman’s The Survivors has received a rave review by The Wall Street Journal.
Oprah’s roundup of the 21 Best translated Books of 2021 features After the Sun by Jonas Eika, We Know You Remember by...
A Happy New Year is an addictive debut novel with relationships in focus where allegiances and expectations unravel in a shattering twist.
Ann-Helén Laestadius wins the award for Best Book of the Year in Sweden for Stolen.
“Liljestrand’s writing is to the point and in style. He follows close behind his characters and let their different personalities bleed into the prose. Even if Everything Ends is written with devastating skill: simultaneously nerve-wracking, as...
Swedish writer Malin Stehn has written over 40 middle grade and young adult novels and she is a frequent educational lecturer. Stehn holds a master’s degree in comparative literature and humanities and has worked for many years as a freelance editor.
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Lotta Olsson at Dagens Nyheter praised The Sins of Our Fathers in a rave full-page review:
“No other Swedish crime writer has been lauded to the extent Åsa has; her stories are something out of the ordinary. […] [The] langua...
“This compelling and expertly constructed procedural, the winner of the Glass Key Award for Nordic crime fiction, makes a winning recommendation for fans of Helene Tursten’s Embla Nyström and Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series.”
“The Swedish author plays with our emotions gliding through the three protagonists’ perspectives, challenging the reader to lay a complex puzzle. An extraordinarily well-composed thriller.”
We are proud to welcome Jens Liljestrand to Ahlander Agency.
Seasoned writer Jens Liljestrand’s latest novel, Even if Everything Ends, paints a picture of a very near future that is at once extraordinary and entirely realistic– while n...
The Sins of Our Fathers is the sixth and final book in the beloved Rebecka Martinsson series by Åsa Larsson and it brings the story of fragile yet fierce heroine Rebecka Martinsson to a spellbinding end.
The Sins of Our Fathers is...
Karolina Ramqvist’s The Bear Woman has received another rave review in France, this time in Le Figaro.
“What is most fascinating about this hybrid story at the intersection of essay and novel is the freedom with which Ramqvist m...
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