Swedish newspaper SVENSKA DAGBLADET asked its readers to choose three books (out of ten) that they would like to read about in the newspaper.
Top five choices below will be reviewed in the coming weeks.
Camilla did it again! Her latest title LEJONTÄMJAREN (THE LION TAMER) has reached the top of the Swedish bookseller list from March. Congratulations, Camilla!
Nordin Agency is proud to announce that, yesterday, author and journalist Carina Bergfeldt, together with photographer Andreas Bardell, was nominated for the Red Cross Journalism Award for their article series Kriserna vi glömde (The Crises we Forgot).
– I am so damned proud of our newspaper, says nominee Carina Bergfeldt in an interview with Aftonbladet. She then goes on to say how much she enjoys this particular award and how happy she is to have been nominated.
Carina Bergfeldt is the recipient of the Swedish Grand Journalism Award for “Storyteller of the Year” (2012) and for “Best Writing Style” (2013). Her article series A Week With Death was read by 2.2 million Swedes and is the newspapers most successful to date. She is living proof that journalism can be both engaging and well written.
TJOCKARE ÄN VATTEN (THICKER THAN WATER) by Carin Gerhardsen won the Grand Audiobook Prize as the “Best Crime” yesterday. Jury’s motivation is:
“Carin Gerhardsen applies the novel structure to the detective genre and manages to captivate the listener right from the beginning. Stefan Sauk’s reading is both passionate and nuanced, with a nerve that lingers throughout the book”
Congratulations, Carin!!
Don’t miss as author and journalist Carina Bergfeldt tells Resumé Magazine about her upcoming book Seven Days to Live and how it came about. The project is developed from a series of articles that Carina wrote for Aftonbladet in 2013. With 2.2 million readers, the series turned out to be the Swedish news papers biggest success to date and a story that Carina just had develop further. So look out Swedish readers because on May 6 this gripping story will be in book stores near you.
Conversation between Vaughn Ross and Carina Bergfeldt, Photo: Aftonbladet
Yesterday it was revealed that ”THE OTHER WOMAN” is one of the shortlisted titles for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. This is the second award nomination as the book has previously been shortlisted for the Swedish Radio’s Literature Prize.
”THE OTHER WOMAN” describes the forbidden passion between a young woman and a married middle-aged man against a small-town backdrop. Therese Bohman skillfully portrays boredom and intellectual alienation from the viewpoint of her young female narrator: a university drop-out who works in the canteen of the local hospital and who finds excitement and purpose through her burgeoning affair with the married physician Carl Malmberg. Just like in her debut, Therese Bohman’s tone is very intimate and sincere, which is also enhanced by her protagonist’s sharp observations and reflections.
“The Other Woman” is a powerful, urgent, continuously alarming novel that highlights vital issues about the context of existence, that touches and raises questions about the fundamental and crucial meanings that most of us want to find in our lives.
Crister Enander, Helsingborgs Dagblad
“The Other Woman” can be read as an enthralling love story but underneath lies an original and profound discussion about the terms and conditions of the serious game in a society that comes across as completely contemporary and present.
Christian Swalander, Borås Tidning
Therese Bohman’s thoughts on class and femininity will most probably cause a stir. No matter how one interprets this, “Den andra kvinnan” is still a both well-written and well-narrated novel. The main protagonist’s combination of ocassionally irksome elitism and fathomless vulnerability becomes, in Bohman’s hands, both genuine and plausible.
Paulina Helgeson, Svenska Dagbladet
Amazing, although not surprising, that over 1.5 million French viewers tuned in to watch season 1 of Viveca Sten‘s “Meurtres à Sandhamn: La reine de la Baltique“. The books have been doing very well with Les Editions Albin Michel and we are looking forward to seeing more of the series on ARTE.
It was a theatre premier of EN STACKARS LITEN HAJ (A POOR LITTLE SHARK) by Mårten Sandén, illustrations by Per Gustavsson today in Malmö, Sweden. Tickets were sold out and the theatre was full of laughs and applause. Congratulations on a big success, Mårten and Per!
You’ll find more photos at Nordin Agency’s facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=828987277163119&id=144922352236285
Åsa Foster is shortlisted for Borås Tidning’s Debutant Prize with story collection MAN MÅSTE INTE ALLTID TALA OM DET (YOU DON’T ALWAYS HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT). The jury’s comment: “For short stories that through precision and dramaturgical skill explore human turmoil.”
http://www.bt.se/kultur-noje/jag-skulle-skapa-en-fantastisk-plats/
Camilla Läckberg‘s THE LION TAMER and Carin Gerhardsen‘s THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE are two of the best selling books of 2014 in Iceland. Congratulations, Camilla and Carin!
http://www.visir.is/jolabokaflod-uppgjor–arnaldur-er-konungurinn/article/2015150119420
