Archive for year: 2019
SUSANNA ALAKOSKI IS BACK WITH AN EPIC QUARTET
Susanna Alakoski’s highly anticipated novel Cotton Angel is finally here!
Cotton Angel the first novel in a quartet, published by Natur & Kultur, in which we will follow four generations of women – mothers and daughters in both Finland and Sweden. It’s a story about the history of working class women and about the journey a lot of families took to ensure their own survival.
Cotton Angel, tells the story of Hilda, who as a young framer’s daughter gets thrown out by her family for getting pregnant out of wedlock. Hilda has to work hard as a maid on another fram, not far from where she grew up. The cotton becomes the way out, simultaneously a blessing and a new shackle.
Cotton Angel is a powerful novel about the exposure girls endure, female friendship and the constant thirst for knowledge, a story about how the time that we live in can determine our lives far more than the choices we are able to make.
Stieg Larsson’s Archive by Jan Stocklassa #1 at Amazon when pre-launched in USA
We are happy to share the news that Jan Stocklassa’s Stieg Larsson’s Archive was pre-launched on Sunday in the US and immediately hit the number 1 spot at the Amazon Best Sellers list for True Crime Biographies (as the first Swedish book ever). It also went straight to #4 at Amazon Best Sellers list for all genres. A great start for Amazon’s upcoming publication of Stieg Larsson’s Archive on October 1st.
Amazon Best Sellers 
Steve Sem-Sandberg’s The Tempest published in France
Today, August 22nd, is the publication day for the French edition of The Tempest by Steve Sem-Sandberg. Lettres de la pluie is a part of La Rentrée Littéraire for the publisher Robert Laffont.
Steve Sem-Sandberg’s The Tempest is a hypnotic tale of an island, overrun with stories and myths. The Tempest portrays a hatefulness that is inherited generation after generation and a love that will conquer all.
This is a novel about the way historical crimes are written on a landscape, about the manner in which moral decay takes on physical form. What makes The Tempest truly special, though, is the risks that Sem-Sandberg takes with narrative conventions, the way that his prose seems to break every rule in the creative writing handbook, and yet does so joyfully, recklessly and utterly convincingly. That such stylistic complexity is rendered in a manner that feels entirely natural is testimony to the great skill of the translator, Anna Paterson. The prose leaps wilfully between past and present tenses, the voice suddenly breaks into the second person and at one point Johannes takes over Andreas’s first-person narrative. Perspectives telescope in and out, giving us sweeping passages of history or wide-angle landscapes followed by intimately observed and close-up moments in time. It’s as if the book’s most significant borrowing from Shakespeare’s play is not the island setting, but rather Prospero’s total control of narrative, the omnipotence of the author-magician.
The Spectator
Carina Bergfeldt nominated for the Grand Speaker Award 2019
We are happy to announce that Carina Bergfeldt has been nominated for the Grand Speaker Award 2019. She is nominated for her capacity to describe difficult things in an accessible way and for engaging the listener with reports, marked by high topicality and professionalism. Carina contributes in an extraordinary manner to spreading knowledge about our time and is a counterbalance to the contemporary phenomenon of fake news.
The winner will be announced during a ceremony in November 2019. You can read more about the award and the nominees here.
