Transcript With Burning Rage and Courage

NORSTEDTs
agency
2012
Literary fiction
EIJA HETEKIVI OLSSON
Eija Hetekivi Olsson was born in 1973 and
grew up in the Gothenburg suburbs Gårdsten
and Bergsjön. She has worked as a cleaner and
as a waitress, before studying to become a
teacher. Ingenbarnsland is her debut.
Ingenbarnsland / No Child’s Land
Januari 2012, 324 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
Rights sold to: Schildts & Söderströms, Finland
With Burning Rage and Courage
The parks are littered with trash; the streets are covered with cigarette butts. The litterbins outside the
school are on fire, and so is the rage inside Miira.
Asphalt court yards, concrete buildings and faces hard as
stone. The place is called Gårdsten, a suburb outside Gothenburg, just like any other working-class suburb outside
any other town. Bored teenagers, junkies and alcoholics
share the semi-empty squares and staircases. The litterbins
outside the school are on fire, and so is the rage inside Miira.
Miira is not like the others in the class; shoved together
with these kids with similar backgrounds, pre-determined
by the school as future cleaners and industrial workers. But
Miira wants to become a prime minister or a brain surgeon
when she grows up. She alone chooses advanced math in
school and shoplifts medical books to study at home. She
is the kind of girl who never ducks for a fight, who won’t
giggle when guys grope her, who won’t accept any injustices around her. But she is also heavily weighed down by
the burden of her own class—she wants to be better, to do
better, but the society won’t always let her. This is a “no
child’s land”, cemented by blunt bureaucracy and suppressed dreams.
Eija Hetekivi Olsson’s eye-opening debut novel Ingenbarnsland / No Child’s Land is set in the Gothenburg suburbs
in the eighties, and we follow the girl Miira from her preadolescence to her becoming a young woman. Hetekivi
Olsson writes expressively and with rarely seen intensity;
like a welding flame the novel depicts Sweden after the
Welfare State. The portray of Miira is one of the strongest
in recent years’ fiction.
Press voices:
“This is a ferociously strong debut /…/ seldom have I read such a
translucent, acute and contemporary description of the extreme
vulnerability of children who live an unprotected life” Dagens Nyheter
”Reading Ingenbarnsland is like being flung round in a centrifuge.
The world is not the same afterwards.” Norrköpings Tidningar
”Ingenbarnsland with its grim realism is a wonderful debut novel,
filled with extreme linguistic fantasy and with an intelligently executed street view of Swedish class-based society of 25 years ago. I
doubt it looks any different today. In an interview I read that Eija
Hetekivi Olsson is burning with the desire to write more books.
Good! I really want to read more of her work!” Skånska Dagbladet
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Literary fiction
Helena Thorfinn
Helena Thorfinn was born in 1964 and worked for many years
as a journalist for newspapers as well as for TV before making
a career change to work as a social analyst for Save the Children and the Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency (SIDA). After three years at the Swedish Embassy in
Dhaka she and her family returned to Sweden and settled in
Lund. Innan floden tar oss is her debut novel.
Innan floden tar oss / Sisters by the River
March 2012, 432 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
Lead title in major book club
Sample translation in English available
Rights sold to: Silke Forlag, Norway
Gripping Depiction of Women in Bangladesh
“On Saturdays throughout the spring he had sat in
countless Södermalm cafés along with other fathers
of young children, sipped latte and eaten sourdough
bread rolls with brie, crunched on the red pepper that
came with the brie and explained: ‘I’ve been a teacher
now for almost 15 years. It’s time to try something else
for a while. Sometimes you’ve got to have the courage
to make a change. This is Sofia’s big chance.’”
Sofia has high expectations of her new job as head of development co-operation at the Swedish embassy in Dhaka,
the capital of Bangladesh, and Janne grudgingly accepts
that going with her means he will have to assume the role
of stay-at-home dad for their two young children.
At the same time a young woman, Mukta, is murdered by
her husband in a small village deep in the countryside. Her
little sisters Mina and Nazrin decide to take their destiny
into their own hands and flee to Dhaka.
Confronting the reality of Dhaka is equally as overwhelming for Swedish Sofia and Janne as it is for the young sisters
from the village, and despite the different circumstances
their lives soon become linked. The story reveals a world
of grand embassy receptions, exploited textile workers and
Swedish family life. Careerists and idealists gather around
the same swimming pool, and tennis matches and terrorism impact everyday life.
Innan floden tar oss / Sisters by the River is a novel vibrant
with colour and teeming with life and it takes us to places
and events at whirlwind speed. With immediacy and humour Thorfinn describes the Swedes’ attempts to do good
while being politically correct, and she movingly narrates
the dreams and misfortunes of the Bangla girls. A sweeping,
powerful and exciting portrayal touching on the urgent,
difficult issues as well as the everyday ones.
Press voices:
”Sisters by the River” is an unusually mature and well-written
debut, as sharp in its depiction of contemporary customs as in
the analysis of a failure of development policies. It will surely get
many readers. ” Sydsvenskan
”Exciting and enlightening novel of the Swedish development aid
industry ” Aftonbladet
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Literary fiction
GUNNAR ARDELIUS
Gunnar Ardelius was born in 1981 and made his debut
with his YA novel Jag behöver dig mer än jag älskar dig...
/ I Need You More Than I Love You... (Rabén & Sjögren).
The book has been translated into many languages including English, French and German. It was nominated
for the August Prize and won the Slangbellan Prize for
best debut. The book has also been made into a short
film.
Friheten förde oss hit is Gunnar Ardelius’ fourth book
and his first aimed at adult readers.
Friheten förde oss hit
The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here
March 2012, 208 pages
Senior Editor: Håkan Bravinger
A Family Drama in 1960s Liberia
“The sweat ran down their backs. The long journey
from an icy and chilly Stockholm was over; they
had arrived in Yekepa. The powerful sun beat down
on patches of unprotected skin and the dust settled
quickly again on the ground. Like a herd of frightened animals they clung close together.”
Hektor, Margret and their teenage son Mårten have just
landed in Liberia. It is the end of the 1960s and Hektor is
about to start his new job with the Swedish mining company LAMCO. The journey carried with it the promise of a
new start but he soon realises that his career at the mine will
not be straightforward. He is alarmed by the management’s
attitude towards the local inhabitants and unofficial strike
action is looming.
His wife Margret is unhappy in her new environment and
finds the Liberians both frightening and exasperating.
The heat is oppressive, her nerves are in shreds and she is
missing her lover Axel back in Sweden.
The only member of the family to feel at home in the new
country is seventeen year-old Mårten. He soon befriends
the Snake Boy, the family’s unconventional gardener, and
meets red-haired Ingela who loves Hitchcock and The
Saint. Mårten is living in a new era: he believes in change
and in the international solidarity of the proletariat, and he
sides with the Liberians against the colonialists. However,
his conviction and naiveté inevitably drive events to the
edge of catastrophe and place the whole family – and the
Snake Boy – in danger.
Friheten förde oss hit / The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here,
the story of a Swedish family’s destiny in 1960s Liberia, is
intensely gripping with its sense of foreboding and is a fascinating documentation of an often overlooked part of contemporary Swedish history.
Press voices:
“The novel is a quiet gem, continuously moving, very melancholy.”
Göteborgs-Posten
“an exciting novel, vividly formed with a drive which also gives a
realistic picture of how it could actually be for a Swedish family
in Africa in the 1960s. And he writes a precise, nuanced Swedish
with at times original metaphors, without any hint of cliché or
repetition. ” Helsinborgs Dagblad
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Literary fiction
Robert ÅSBACKA
Robert Åsbacka was born in 1961 in Terjärv, Finland, but now lives in Sweden. He made his debut
in 1988 with the poetry collection Med tungorna
hängande but his breakthrough came with Döbelns Gränd in 2000. Åsbacka has been shortlisted and awarded numerous prestigious awards,
among them the Runeberg Prize (shortlisted
2005 and 2008), the Finlandia Prize (shortlisted
2006) and the Nordic Council’s prize for literature (shortlisted 2008). His latest novel, Orgelbyggaren, 2008, has been published in Sweden and
translated into Finnish and German.
Samlaren / The Collector
September 2012, 240 pages
Senior Editor: Mari Koli, Schildts & Söderströms
Orgelbyggaren /
The Organ Builder
August 2008, 300 pages
Senior Editor: Mari Koli, Schildts & Söderströms
Rights sold to: Hanser, Germany
An Unnerving Tale of Coincidence and Chance
“It was my first record ever. I was thinking that I just
have to have a record player. It was about time. If only
I had a record player I could sit by myself at home, in
bed and listen and bob my foot just like Bo and Viola
were doing now. If I had a record player and a room.”
It is winter 1969. Twelve year-old Tom lives with his mother
and older sister Karin in a small flat. He keeps his possessions and collections in boxes under the sofa in the living
room where he sleeps, looking forward to the day his sister
will finally move out. His best friend Mats moved a couple
of months earlier, without him there is not much to do in
this dull small town. Sometimes he goes out looking for
things for his collection, but when he does he has to be careful so that The Brothers don’t find him and beat him up.
around her as much as he can.
Robert Åsbacka’s tone is unsentimental and precise, loaded
with meaning and feeling. Through Tom’s recollections
and matter-of-fact police protocols, Samlaren / The Collector tells the unnerving story of a young boy and the traumatic chain of events that came to affect his life.
Press voices for Robert Åsbacka’s previous work:
”The most vivid, intense and provoking novel I’ve read in a long
time. Read! ” Huvudstadsbladet
”The Organ Builder is really an impressive novel creation that captivates its reader from the first moment.” Vasabladet
”A hopeful expression of the possibilities in the art of making a
novel.” Svenska Dagbladet
Outside his window Tom can see his neighbour Bo’s big
fancy American cars parked in the backyard. Bo is also a
collector; he is handsome, quiet and secretive. Tom knows
that Bo writes strange letters to Karin, even though he has
a girlfriend, Viola. Tom loves watching Viola and tries to be
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Literary fiction
Aleksander Motturi
Aleksander Motturi, born 1970, has worked at Åbo Academy in Finland, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, on the cultural journal Glänta and is one of the
driving forces behind the Clandestino Institute in Göteborg.
He has translated and written a PhD thesis about Ludwig
Wittgenstein’s remarks on Frazer, written drama and is the
author of the book Etnicism dealing with the contemporary
metamorphosis of racism. Svindlarprästen is Motturi’s second
novel.
Svindlarprästen / The Swindling Priest
September 2012, 282 pages
Senior Editor: Håkan Bravinger
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He Swindled Everyone and Everything
Women fell for his charm and lost all they owned.
Bishops and chief executives were swindled out of
millions. Someone called John Peter Daniels is deported from Hong Kong to India, his assumed country of
origin.
He is ill, with not long to live. In a way he is at home everywhere and nowhere. He speaks many languages: Gujarati,
Kutchi, English, Swahili, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish and
German, but he has no genuine passport. He seems equally
acquainted with Christianity and Islam as he is with world
politics, but he has no formal education. No-one attends his
funeral at the St James cemetery in Baroda.
In this novel Aleksander Motturi traces the life of his
father, the man who one day abandoned his wife and children and quite simply went up in smoke. He disappeared,
only to return enmeshed in a web of deceit, making front
page news in all the Swedish evening papers. So who was
the man said to be buried in St James cemetery? The man
who was known by many names but died as John Peter Daniels? Is he even dead? Or is his death feigned, to allow him
to continue with his frauds?
Aleksander Motturi’s multilayered novel is partly about a
man whose whole existence was built on a remarkable combination of total honesty and deception, and partly about
those who were close to him, the family who, throughout
the years, have swung between trying to understand, putting it behind them, forgiving, starting again, and finally,
once and for all, distancing themselves from him.
Svindlarprästen / The Swindling Priest is based on the
author’s father who lived as a conman. The case was reported in every newspaper and the Swindling Priest became
part of 1980s vernacular.
Press voices for Alexander Motturi’s previous work:
”Among the best things about Aleksander Motturis fictional debut Diabetikern is that it so irresistibly strange./.../ The identity
political reasonings are some of the funniest parts of this novel
along with the cutting satirical depiction of the art world that the
protagonist’s girlfriend Natacha moves in.” Svenska Dagbladet
“a solid novel, as screamingly funny as it is moving, sugar sick but
never ingratiating nor sweet.” Göteborgs-Posten
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Literary fiction
Karolina Ramqvist
Karolina Ramqvist, born in 1976, is a journalist and author. For a long time
she has been a powerful voice in social debate. She has written for Swedish
national daily Dagens Nyheter and the magazine Bang. She was also editor
in chief of Arena magazine. Her latest book Flickvännen / The Girlfriend,
2009, was nominated for Sveriges Radio’s Novel Prize and awarded Vi
Magazine’s literature prize. It has been translated into several languages.
Karolina Ramqvist
Alltingsbörjan
ROMAN
Alltings början
The Beginning of Everything
ROMAN
June 2012, 389 pages
Senior Editor: Eva Gedin
Option publishers:
Tiderne Skifter, Denmark
Helsinki Books, Finland
BBNC, Netherlands
Gyldendal, Norway
Alltings
början
Karolina Ramqvist
Daughter of a Modern Generation
Saga remembers only too well the moment of her arrival. It would be strange if she didn’t; every birthday her mother shows her the film of her birth, the
moment when the tiny child who would become
Saga was pushed into the world.
sights. He is older, knows everyone and more to the point
everyone wants to know him. They begin a relationship. Or
rather, he allows her to have sex with him. He commands,
she obeys. Their relationship is secret, destructive and degrading. There are other men in her life but the only one
she really wants to be with is Viktor.
Saga has longed for everything adult life has to offer. Her
mother is an artist and a radical feminist and as the daughter of such a woman she is expected to be independent and
take advantage of everything life has to offer.
Karolina Ramqvist’s new novel Alltings början / The Beginning of Everything is the story of a young woman’s passage
through the stages of her youth, as she takes her first steps
away from childhood and hurtles into an independent
adult life. Written with boldness and clarity this is about
a generation trapped between spoken and unspoken demands, and marked by a feeling of abandonment.
This is Stockholm in the 90s and Saga starts a new school
and quickly makes friends. They spend their days drinking
coffee and smoking cigarettes and whenever they can get
in, they go to clubs. But Saga is plagued by a nagging sense
of futility and the feeling that she ought to be doing something, like her mother’s generation with their feminist
movement, demonstrating for free abortion and nursery
care. They had a goal and a purpose; Saga feels her generation is lacking exactly that.
Saga and her friend Pauline spend a lot of time getting to
know the right people; they sleep around, they party, they
are free. For some time Saga has had Vikor Schantz in her
Press voices for Karolina Ramqvist’s previous work:
”A strong and important book about a woman who is held hostage in her own life. A definite four stars!” Gomorron Sverige,
Swedish Television
”Karolina Ramqvist wipes out the boundary between the ’normal’
majority and society’s outsiders and the result is completely dazzling, I don’t want her book to end.” Amelia Magazine *5 out of 5*
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Crime Fiction
Hjorth & Rosenfeldt
Michael Hjorth was born in 1963 in Visby. He is one
of Scandinavia’s most accomplished screenwriters and
producers, and one of the founders of the internationally successful production company Tre Vänner.
Hans Rosenfeldt was born in 1964 in Borås. He has written screenplays for twenty drama series and has hosted
both radio and television shows.
The Sebastian Bergman Series:
1. Det fördolda / Dark Secrets
August 2010, 423 pages
2. Lärjungen / The Disciple
August 2011, 417 pages
3. Fjällgraven / The Mountain Grave
August 2012, 487 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
Full English translation of Det fördolda available
The Sebastian Bergman Series
Scandinavia’s hottest new crime writing duo Michael
Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt got off to a flying start with
the publication of their debut Det fördolda / Dark Secrets
in 2010. With psychologist and profiler Sebastian Bergman
– an arrogant and narcissistic womanizer with a personal
trauma – in the lead role, Hjorth & Rosenfeldt had created
an instant success.
Months before Det fördolda was published in Sweden,
translation rights were sold to nine countries. After the
Swedish publication in August 2010, to great reviews, the
novel could soon be found on the hardcover bestseller list,
where it remained for eight months. So far Det fördolda
has sold 163.000 copies in Sweden.
Lärjungen / The Disciple was published in August 2011.
This second part in the series reveals to the readers even
more about Sebastian Bergman, in a breath-taking roller
coaster ride where Sebastian is confronted with his past,
and with his nemesis. Since publication, Lärjungen has
sold more than 42.000 copies.
The third part of the series, Fjällgraven / The Mountain
Grave, will be published in August 2012.
Rights to the Sebastian Bergman series have been sold to 19
countries to this date.
Norway / Aschehoug
Danmark / Hr Ferdinand
Finland / Bazaar
Iceland / Bjartur
Germany / Rowohlt
the Netherlands / De Bezige Bij
France / Serpent à Plumes
Italy / Einaudi
Greece / Psichogios
Poland / Czarna Owca
Czech Republic / Host
Russia / Corpus
Romania / Editura Trei
Hungary / Animus
Turkey / Pegasus
Brazil / Intrinseca
Australia & New Zealand / Murdoch
UK / Trapdoor/Little, Brown
US / Grand Central
”The best Swedish crime export of 2011.” Die Welt
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Crime Fiction
ROBERT KVIBY
Robert Kviby, born 1976, lives in Stockholm and
works as a market manager in a media company.
De korrupta is his litterary debut and the first
title in the series about Annie and Max Lander.
De korrupta / The Corrupt
Februari 2012, 311 pages
Senior Editor: Annika Seward-Jensen, Telegram
Sample translation and extensive summary in
English available
Rights sold to: Rowohlt, Germany
Smart, Driven and Exciting to the Very Last Page
”They were all prostitutes. All under thirty. Found in
wooded areas and parks. Naked. They had been killed elsewhere and dumped where their bodies were
discovered. She was convinced it was systematic. All
four of them had met the same man, and it had led to
their deaths. ”
Friday night, January 1989, criminal reporter Annie Lander
is the last one left in the editorial office as usual. For some
time she has been working on a story about four murdered prostitutes, convinced that there is a pattern between
them. The talk of the town is that a private club hosts parties filled with prostitutes and that there might be connections to the murders. Then she is ordered by the newspaper
to seize with her investigations.
Annie continues on her own and is starting to get close,
both to the real story about the women, as well as to the
truth about her own life and the unsolved murder of her
mother. And then suddenly she is gone.
Annie’s husband Max soon realizes that the police won’t
exert themselves to find her, that it is all up to him. He follows her investigation to a country manor owned by a powerful corporate magnate, close to where her mother had
been found dead thirty years earlier. But nothing has prepared him for what he will find.
De korrupta / The Corrupt is a thrilling read from the first
page to the last. This impressive debut novel introduces Annie and Max Lander, and their crusade against the corrupt.
Press voices:
“To the true conspiracy theorist, MTG-director Robert Kviby’s
hard-boiled detective story is a pleasure. To gather research Kviby
has tiptoed around the Wanted editorial team and got inside info
from various gentlemen’s clubs. Well done! “ Metro
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Press voices for Kommer aldrig mer igen / Never Coming Back:
”Naturally Hans Koppel, alias Petter Lidbeck, should use his swift-minded punchy stile to write crime novels.” Dagens Nyheter
“Koppel is a very fine writer but it’s as a machine perfectly designed to provoke compulsive page-turning
that makes this book so sensational. I read it in two long sessions and if you’re the sort of person who
doesn’t need much sleep, you’ll do it in one.” Morning Star
”A supremely professional piece of work with a palpable sense of tension, and couched in unvarnished
prose.” The Independent
”crisp and simple yet devastatingly effective, this is an unrelenting, terrifying slab of a psychological thriller
which ticks all the right boxes.” Daily Mirror
“There are some fine stories out there and this is probably one of the best.” 612 ABC Brisbane Radio
“It is exciting and there aren’t many superfluous scenes here. It reminds me of Hitchcock’s devilishly effective paranoia films /.../ Lidbeck/Koppel has a sure sense of style, not least when it comes to a genre where
most Swedish thriller-writers fail: to write entertaining and hard-hitting dialogue which also moves the
plot along.” Helsingborgs Dagblad
“An icecold and cleverly composed thriller on guilt and revenge.” Sydsvenskan
“Lidbeck is a skilled writer.” Expressen
”If you like your books on the gritty and violent side – it really isn’t pretty in that cellar – then why not try
this harrowing tale of bitter revenge.” Peterborough Evening Telegraph
”It is exciting form the first page to the last. The author builds up an infernal and nail-biting dramatic situation.” DAST Magazine
The Book of the Month (March 2011, Your Life Magazine):
”Hans Koppel’s crime thriller is skilfully construed and sometimes really, really scary /.../ you are pushed
along at a furious pace, curious as to how it will end.”
”[Hans Koppel] writes refreshingly direct/.../ he touches upon loneliness and male friendship with sensitivity. Delightfully unpleasant read-in-one-go material, the plot is just bloody disgusting.”
”Revenge is not just sweet; it can also be very, very raw – which Hans Koppel proves to me in his new thriller. /.../ and although I have a suspicion how it will all end, I am sucked into the exciting plot and can’t stop
reading. I want more, more, more.”
”A dense thriller of the suspenseful type with an unexpected ending.” BTJ
”Hans Koppel’s thriller debut is not for the faint of heart, because the Swedish author understands superbly
how to spread fear and terror. He plays perfectly on the instruments of the genre and keeps up the tension
literally until the last page.” buchjournal
”Just 24 hours with a break of six hours sleep - that’s all I needed to read Kommer aldrig mer igen. Despite
it being a 350-page thick novel. But as soon as I had grabbed hold of Hans Koppel’s debut novel, stopping was no longer an option. The Scandinavian author has achieved an incredibly engrossing thriller
that is selling like hot cakes in ten countries already.” Berliner Kurier
”The detective novel is strongly reminiscent of the fate of Natascha Kampusch, who was also kidnapped and held prisoner in a small basement room for more than 3069 days by her tormentors /.../ Hans
Koppel presents in his debut thriller a psychological novel that skilfully mixes reality and fantasy into a
dense fabric. ” Siegener Zeitung
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Crime Fiction
Hans Koppel
Petter Lidbeck, born 1964, lives in Stockholm. Under the
pseudonym ‘Hans Koppel’ he has previously published three
satirical novels about the Swedish middle class of today. Kommer aldrig mer igen / Never coming back is his first thriller in a
planned trilogy, with an international touch and a fast-paced
tempo.
Kommer aldrig mer igen
Never Coming Back
January 2011, 251 pages
Senior Editor: Annika Seward Jensen, Telegram
English translation available
Tidigare titlar av
om Vi i villa (2008)
»vårens bästa samtidsskildring«
Expressen
»Norénkänsla och humor i skön mix«
Aftonbladet
»stilren och effektiv«
Svenska Dagbladet
––––––
om Medicinen (2009)
»synnerligen underhållande«
Tidningen Kulturen
»humor och sanningar i en skruvad roman«
Tidningen Vi
»ett riktigt lyckopiller«
Bibliotekstipset
––––––
om Kungens födelsedag (2010)
»Ett stycke lysande samtidssatir.«
Kristianstadsbladet
»osviklig känsla för skenbart banala detaljer, distinktioner och tecken i tiden«
Dalarnas Tidning
»dags att kliva ut på scenen och tacka för de väl
förtjänta applåderna«
Sydsvenskan
Sharp, Claustrophobic Page-Turner!
A woman is held imprisoned just a stone’s throw
from her own home and she knows why: her past has
caught up with her. The revenge that strikes her is cruel, drawn out and meticulously served.
Mike Zetterberg, his wife Ylva and their daughter Sanna
live in a house in Helsingborg in Southern Sweden. One
Friday evening, Ylva doesn’t come home after work as expected. Mike passes it off as a drink with a colleague, but
when she’s still missing the next day, he starts to worry.
As Mike battles suspicion from the police and his own
despair, he is unaware that Ylva is still alive, just a stone’s
throw from their own home. On a TV screen in the cellar
where Ylva is kept, she can see what happens outside her
own home. She can catch glimpses of Mike and Sanna, how
their everyday life goes on in her absence but Ylva’s abductors make it clear that she will never speak to them again.
Through degrading treatment and rape she is going to be
taught, just like a girl Ylva knew many years ago, that her
life is not worth living. And just like her, Ylva’s only way
out of this hell is to take her own life...
In Kommer aldrig mer igen / Never Coming Back Hans Koppel paints, in his characteristically sharp prose, a claustrophobic nightmare where evil deeds – even those seemingly
buried in the dust of time – never go unpunished.
Rights sold to:
Little, Brown, UK
Pegasus, US
Front Forlag, Norway
Bruna, the Netherlands
Heyne, Germany
Presses de la Cité, France
Piemme, Italy
Ayrinti, Turkey
Eurasian, Taiwan
Weltbild/Swiat Ksiazki, Poland
Verus/ Record Publishing Group, Brazil
58 000 copies have been sold in the UK and 50 000 in Sweden. The second novel is scheduled for publication in 2013.
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Literary fiction
Mikael Bergstrand
Mikael Bergstrand is a journalist and author from Malmö,
in the south of Sweden. For the last few years, he has lived
with his family in New Delhi but has now moved back to
Sweden.
Delhis vackraste händer
The most beautiful hands in Delhi
September 2011, 329 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
Sample translation in English available
Sold in 15 000 copies
Rights sold to:
Modtryk, Denmark
Aschehoug, Norway
Bazar, Finland
Signatuur, the Netherlands
btb, Germany
Piemme, Italy
La Campana, Spain (Catalan)
Gaïa, France
Alfaguara, Spain (Spanish)
Humour, Warmth and Unexpected Meetings
In Delhis vackraste händer / The Most Beautiful
Hands in Delhi, a middle-aged Swedish man meets
the bustling and colourful life in India and encounters unexpected passion where he least expected to
find it. Mikael Bergstrand describes this meeting
with warmth and with a large portion of humour.
Göran Borg is what you might call a “loser”: middle-aged,
increasingly chubby, and without ambitions. His waking
hours are mostly spent on reading a fan blog for football
and thinking about his ex-wife, who left him 8 years, 4
months and 3 days ago. This is his every-day life until one
day when he suddenly gets fired (due to extensive surfing
on said fan blog for football) and is given a year’s worth of
salary in compensation.
When Göran has processed the worst of his bitterness, he
decides to join his best friend Erik on a group trip to India.
But the trip doesn’t at all turn out the way Göran expected; already at the airport Erik abandons him for the company of a hot, young girl in the group, and once they have
arrived Göran is struck with a horrible case of the “Delhi
Belly”. Sick, alone and deserted at a shabby hotel in Jaipur,
Göran awaits his inevitable death.
But then Yogendra “Yogi” Singh Thakur walks through
the door, a spirited textile merchant armed to the teeth
with inexhaustible optimism. With Yogi by his side, Göran is taken on an inner and outer journey through India,
filled with adventure, strong friendship and intense love.
Press voices:
“Bridget Jones goes 52-year old flabby football nerd”
Tara
”Yogendra Singh Thakur, I would gladly meet him again.”
Sydsvenskan
”It is impossible to write a reflection on India better than Shantaram, but Mikael Bergstrand succeeds in bringing the readers along
to filthy backyards, spicy smells and brightly coloured saris” Metro
”Incredibly funny book. I appoint it the next ‘Centenarian-success’.” Radio P4, Värmland
“It is so joyful and entertaining to read. You are coming along
on a delightful journey /.../ With a smile on your face you join
Göran on his adventures.” Radio P4, Halland
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Literary fiction
sigrid combüchen
Sigrid Combüchen lives in Lund. She has written several
novels that have been widely praised by the critics, and
made a major breakthrough in 1988 with Byron. Honoured
with a number of awards, she has also been nominated for
the August Prize several times before winning it for Spill
in 2010.
Spill – En damroman
Waste – A ladies novel
August 2010, 450 pages, Senior Editor: Eva Gedin
Awarded The August Prize 2010
More than 140 000 copies sold
Full German and Italian translations and sample translation in English available
Rights sold to:
Antje Kunstman, Germany
Agora, Norway
Tiderne Skifter, Denmark
Ponte alle Grazie, Italy
De Geus, the Netherlands
Gondolat Kiadó, Hungary
BCC Publishing, Romania
MIS Publishing, Slovenia
A Ladies Novel
An author receives a letter from an observant reader.
The letter is written by an elderly lady on the sunny
Spanish coast who recognises herself on a family photograph – described in one of the author’s novels.
The picture of the Carlsson family – in which Hedda is the
only daughter – becomes more complex through the letters of the old Hedda and what the author reads from other
sources. Parallel to this, a story of Hedda comes into being.
About how her entire life came to be formed by chance occurrences and spontaneous decisions when she was nineteen years old. Circumstances, or fate, blew her off the calm
course that seemed to be taken for granted for a girl from
the upper middle classes. And we know now that she ended
up a housewife and now a pensioner in southern Spain.
Between the author and the old Hedda, a tug of war develops over how this should be interpreted. The author falls in
love with the past and that which never came to be; Hedda
is interested in the present as it is, and she protests against
the idea that her life might have been wasted.
Press voices:
“With the distracted elegance of a master, such that needs long
experience and hard work to achieve, Sigrid Combüchen captivates the reader /…/ With her new novel Spill, Combüchen has
as usual made a revolutionary literary achievement and I find the
book, as you will have understood, a success down to the last detail.” Sydsvenskan
“Sigrid Combüchen is, without a doubt one of the most sophisticated of contemporary authors – stylistically, technically and
thematically. This she exhibits with amazing emphasis in her
new novel Spill, which is formally perfect and one can more or
less say that it overtakes all the prose writing of today. /.../ It is
quite simply a completely priceless novel about the deepest of
human concerns, despite all the differences we share. It must be
read.” Svenska Dagbladet
“With Spill, Sigrid Combüchen has written her most outstanding and challenging novel.” Magazine Kulturen
“Sigrid Combüchen has perfect pitch in her writing and this makes Spill a joy to read.” Femina
“Secret trysts that give you goose bumps” Tidningen VI
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Anneli Jordahl
Anneli Jordahl, born 1960, is an author and
literary critic. Her first novel, published in
2009, was highly appreciated by the media
and also took its starting point from a historical period and described a few years of the
life of author Ellen Key.
Augustenbad en sommar
Augustenbad, One Summer
August 2011, 227 pages
Senior Editor: Håkan Bravinger
Rights sold to:
Vega, Norway
Suhrkamp, Germany
A Summer of Spa
June early 1890s, poet Andreas Öman arrives in
the small provincial spa town of Augustenbad. It
soon becomes evident that he has not journeyed here
out of his own free will, rather he is obeying orders
from his wealthy wife and her family.
Reluctantly, Andreas steps into the consulting room of
the renowned Dr Arvid Liljedahl. Andreas is given information about ‘the chronic toxic illness’ that is poisoning
his brain and should therefor be treated with daily baths
in water at 6 degree Celsius and by following the doctor’s
ninety-nine rules down to the last detail.
Andreas is not impressed and he continuously tries to avoid or break the doctor’s advice and rules. Trying to handle
the effects of his abstinence, he takes long nightly walks
and encounters sleepless Amanda Eggerts, the severely
syphilis-strucken wife of a Justice Counsellor, who keeps
herself out at nights and out of sight. Andreas is captivated by her beauty and is attracted to her despite her face
being covered with nasty boils.
Andreas also gets to know a young girl with bright eyes
who irons the first-class-residents’ attire. In a drunken
haze during the traditional Midsummer Festivities, he seduces her with tragic results.
In Augustenbad en sommar / Augustenbad, One Summer, people from different social classes meet – in an age marked
by syphilis, morphine addiction and large class dividends.
Press voices:
“‘A book you read slowly to make it last for a long time.”
Ystads Allehanda
“Anneli Jordahl manages to include a lot in her novel; class structure, quackery, love, betrayal. But nowhere does she get lost or
loses her grip on the story. Instead it becomes a poetic tale.” Tara
“Anneli Jordahl’s prose rests solidly on nicely carved 1890s legs,
and contributes to making Augustenbad en sommar a well realized
novel, which makes me grateful that I was not a woman alive
just over a hundred years ago.” Svenska Dagbladet
“What a wonderful novel” Västerbottens-Kuriren
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Amanda svensson
Amanda Svensson is 24 years old and lives in Malmö.
She has studied creative writing at Fridhem’s College
and works as a journalist at Sydsvenska Dagbladet
and Expressen. Hey Dolly, published in 2008, was
her much acclaimed debut.
Välkommen till den här världen
Welcome to This World
September 2011, 208 pages
Senior Editor: Håkan Bravinger
Sample translation in English available
Rights sold to: Actes Sud, France
Welcome to This World
Amanda Svensson is back after her much-praised
debut Hey Dolly, this time with a love triangle set in
Malmö and Copenhagen.
Greta works in a hip wok house, but dreams of becoming
a DJ. She lives in a communal household with two selfcentred, pretentious boys using her as a muse. All the more
desperate, she needs a change in her life. Then one day she
meets Simon who is the best triangle drawer in Copenhagen. He is not like anyone she has ever met before. With
Simon comes Claus. It soon becomes clear that this is not a
golden triangle, but one that inevitably must break. One of
them must go – the question is who?
Amanda Svensson’s longed-for second novel is a story of three people who all feel increasingly lost in their social context. Three people all in need to be understood.
Press voices:
”Amanda Svensson’s language is reminiscent of nothing short of
contemporary poetry. It is constantly flexible and sensitive, with
an unpredictability often verging on the lyrical. /…/an absolute
pleasure to read someone who has so totally understood and exploited the full potential of language.” Sydsvenskan
“An experimental and playful story, characterized by both suffering and humour.” Kristianstadsbladet.
“Masterly, to say the least.” Smålandsposten
“‘Fiercly skillful’ and ‘brilliantly clever’, yes, but I’m not sure what
I can say about Amanda Svensson’s world without coming across
like a salesperson making a pitch for the latest miracle medicine.
Here’s the point - if all authors were endowed with her literary
energy and whimsy, then every book would be worth reading./…/
The story itself has excellent structure, but what you really take
away from the book is the language - one moment low, the next
moment high, over-the-top then precise, and at no point does the
writing feel anything other than just right.” Svenska Dagbladet
“The style is exuberant, energetic and poetic. /…/ Amanda means
‘someone worthy of love’. I love this Svensson.” Hudiksvalls Tidning
“I’m in love with a book. /…/ Amanda Svensson’s language is both
playful and endlessly energetic, skillfully contained within the
bounding limits of pure genius.” Norrköpings Tidningar
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lena einhorn
Lena Einhorn is an author and a successful filmmaker and director. She received the prestigious August Prize (2005) for her
book Ninas resa / Nina’s Journey and the film with the same
name was awarded two Guldbagge for best film and best manuscript. Siri is her much longed-for literary debut.
Siri
August 2011, 350 pages, Senior Editor: Eva Gedin
25 000 copies sold
Lead title in major book club
”I Need Battles to be Happy!”
Siri wants to become an actress, it has always been
her burning passion, ever since she was a little child.
But as a baroness, and particularly one married to
a captain of the guards, she can of course under no
circumstances enter the stage.
Siri von Essen really does leave everything behind in order to fulfill her dreams; she leaves her husband and child
and everything common convention demands to lead her
new life with August Strindberg. She is welcomed into the
circle of authors, artists and actors around Strindberg, and
manages, despite the social conventions, to establish an
acting career within the national royal theatre, Dramaten.
But life doesn’t turn out as happily as she had hoped, and
as far as ‘battles’ are concerned, Siri would soon have more
than she bargained for.
Lena Einhorn describes a strong woman with an appetite
for life, a woman who dares to break the social rules of her
time, and especially those of her own class.
“A powerful drama /…/ Lena Einhorn skillfully builds a convincing psychological study of two people who seem to be made
for each other, but she naturally reserves her sympathies for Siri,
who exchanges a prison for a lunatic asylum.” Dagens Nyheter
“Well-known drama elegantly told /.../ Einhorn gives new life
and a new approach to these two personalities, strained to the
point of breaking. We are familiar with the story, but her psychological interpretation and the reader are held in a firm grip.”
Sundsvalls Tidning
“Einhorn has written a sad, beautiful story” Smålandsposten
”the novel about Siri von Essen is so gripping and well written
that I want to bang my fist on the table. ”
Helsingborgs Dagblad
”Siri is such a captivating story that you devour the book in one
sitting. I am convinced that Einhorn’s fictional debut will recieve a large readership.” Norrköpings Tidningar
“Love that stings” Folkbladet
”the book speaks straight to my heart.” Tara
Press voices:
“Einhorn convinces and brings to life” Aftonbladet
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narrative non-fiction
Ingrid Carlberg
Ingrid Carlberg is a journalist and author. She worked for
the major Swedish daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, for
the last 20 years. Her latest book, Pillret / The Pill, was
awarded no less than three prizes among them Guldspaden, for best investigative journalism 2008.
Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig
- Berättelsen om Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg - a Biography
May 2012, 750 pages
Senior Editor: Stefan Hilding
Sample translation in English available
“A truly fascinating, subtle and revelatory portrait of this enigmatic character and
perhaps the closest any historian has got to the real man and the truth of his fate.”
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
Raoul Wallenberg had envisioned a different life. He
sought no hero role and no real adventure. In the spring
of 1944, he would turn 32 years old and he worked for a
small trading company that imported geese, turkeys and
egg powder from Hungary. He was trained as an architect,
went for a career in business but found it difficult to find
his ways.
Then the Holocaust came to Hungary. An American-Swedish Rescue Action for the last remnants of Europe’s Jewish population was discussed. Swedish Government was
urged to send someone. But who? A series of coincidences
meant that all eyes fell on the food retailer Raoul Wallenberg.
Six months later, thousands of Hungarian Jews had the
young Swede to thank for their lives. In January 1945
Raoul Wallenberg voluntarily went to meet the Soviet
troops in a bombed out Budapest. He would never return
to Sweden.
Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig is not only a great
story that will take your breath away. It is also the result
of an historical research effort in up until now unknown
and unexploited archives. For the first time ever, the full
story of Raoul Wallenberg is presented, using all the sources available today - his childhood and early career in
Stockholm during the War, the dramatic short six months
in Budapest, the circumstances surrounding his arrest
and imprisonment in the Soviet Union, and the lengthy
political game about his fate until this day. For the first
time we get to follow Raoul Wallenberg’s family through
the entire series of tragic diplomatic failures, which led to
him never coming back.
The story sheds new light on why it was that Raoul Wallenberg in the late seventies was highlighted as an American hero and became a high priority in the White House.
The author Ingrid Carlberg has with scientific precision
produced a shattering reading experience, where famous
characters in history come to life. The person Raoul Wallenberg emerges from the shadows, as well as his life in
Moscow prisons. Recurrent connections to recent history
creates a deeper understanding of what really happened
and why.
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narrative non-fiction
Daniel Goldberg &
Linus Larsson
Daniel Goldberg och Linus Larsson are
two of Sweden’s most well known techand IT journalists. Their articles have
been published in among others, Washington Post and quoted in BBC News,
The New York Times och The Sydney
Morning Herald.
Svenska hackare /
Swedish Hackers
316 pages, Published in April 2011
Senior Editor: Stefan Skog
Swedish Hackers
This is a book about people, not about machines. A story
about the motley crew of people who are lumped together
under the name ‘hackers’, and a look into one of the most
mythical sub-cultures of our time.
In this book you will meet several of them. Sixteen-yearold Philip from Uppsala, who fooled both the FBI and the
most important IT-experts in the American universities for
several years while a world-wide IT-security affair was unravelled around him. Vuxna Förbannade Hackare – Adult
Angry Hackers – the mysterious hacker group who led a
wave of comprehensive attacks against Swedish companies
and web sites during the winter of 2007 and spring of 2008.
The Swedish net activists who played a role in everything
from file-sharing debates to votes in the European Parliament and the ‘Green revolution’ in Iran.
The book is an attempt at putting these stories in a larger
context, at letting you get a look inside a world that can
best be described as the digital underground. They are true
stories, taken from a contemporary Sweden where the established power finds it all the harder to retain control of
technology and information. On the way, we get to meet
the people behind many of the most spectacular cases of
unauthorized access to computer systems in our days.
Press voices:
”Goldberg and Larsson are gifted with a stylistic ability to
make the technical arguments understandable.” Folkbladet
”Swedish Hackers is the story of how advanced technology
quickly fell into the hands of the public and the strange
effects it had. Everything written in a prose that gives people with a brand new computer license an actual chance
to keep up.
And yes, it ends with some good safety tips. Don’t forget to
update your virus protection now.” Aftonbladet
”Some are idealists, other criminals. The thing they all have
in common is that they know everything about computers and they use anonymous aliases. In the book ”Swedish
hackers” Linus Larsson and Daniel Goldberg describe a
mythical subculture where only one thing counts - who’s
the best.” Dagens Nyheter
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narrative non-fiction
Daniel Goldberg &
Linus Larsson
Minecraft
October 2012, 236 pages,
Senior Editor: Stefan Skog
Minecraft - A Success Story
Markus Persson, to most of his fans know as ”Notch”,
has become a legend. He is an inspiration and a beacon for thousands of small-scale game developers all
over the world. But outside the video game industry,
pretty much nobody has heard of him.
Three years ago, Markus Persson was a bored it-developer
in Stockholm, spending his days at a mundane software development firm. In the evenings, he toiled away on a labour
of love: an obscure game to be played online. The game was
called Minecraft. Markus released it to the world in early
2009. At first hardly anyone cared, but the rumour of the
ingeniously simple game quickly spread.
Today, Minecraft (named one of the top 50 inventions of
2011 by Time Magazine) is a global phenomenon and Markus Persson is a multi millionaire and in the world of computer games, he is a superstar - over half a million people
follow his movements on twitter.
Minecraft is more than a game, more like doing something
together with others, it’s quite similar to a digital Lego box
and a Minecraft-Lego is actually being produced. Almost
anything can be built into the game’s block-and pixel world,
to fill it with construction together with other players is the
aim.
Minecraft is an unparalleled success, with twenty million
registered users and thousands of fans who gather at Minecraft conventions, dressed up as their favourite characters
from the game. In hundreds of schools throughout Europe
and the US, Minecraft is being introduced as a teachers’
tool in helping young children understand concepts such as
teamwork, social codes, engineering and computer science
skills.
Minecraft is one of the fastest growing cultural phenomena
of the internet age. In 2012 Norstedts will publish the first
book on Minecraft, for which the authors have interviewed creator and online legend ”Notch”. It is a gripping and
heartwarming tale that has never been told in full before,
of one man’s unlikely rise from rags to riches. It is also an
in-depth case study of a phenomenon that is changing
global youth culture and challenging established billiondollar business models through the disruptive power of the
internet.
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narrative non-fiction
Jesper Bengtson
Jesper Bengtsson is a journalist and author. He has followed
developments in Burma for more than ten years. Jesper is the
chairman of the Swedish section of Reporters sans frontières
[Reporters Without Borders].
Aung San Suu Kyi – En kamp för frihet
Aung San Suu Kyi – A biography
New updated edition!
November 2011, 263 pages
Senior Editor: Stefan Skog
Rights sold to:
Spartacus, Norway
Minerva, Finland
HarperCollins, Australia
Potomac Books, USA
Amaryllis, India
De Geus, The Netherlands
Morning Star, Taiwan
Aung San Suu Kyi – A Biography
In May 2010, Norstedts published Jesper Bengtsson’s biography on Burma opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, Aung San Suu Kyi
was released from house arrest in November 2010 and in
February 2011 Jesper Bengtsson managed to interview her.
In November 2011, the revised and updated version of this
celebrated biography was released.
“We sit down in a sofa a few feet away from each other. She
seems relaxed and perfectly composed. I ask her about her
energy and apparently good mood.
’It´s not strange at all’, she says with an ironic glimpse in her
eyes. ’The military gave me seven years of rest, so now I´m
full of energy to continue my work.’
That´s mildly spoken an interesting approach to time, that
someone with a less optimistic view on life would define as
wasted. But that´s how she seems to be, this Nobel Prize laureate and democratic icon. She has survived all these years
of isolation by embracing it and pick out the up sides rather
than the obvious down sides.”
Press voices:
“To anyone who wants to try to understand why, I highly
recommended Burma scholar Jesper Bengtsson’s initiated,
highly readable biography.” Östgöta Correspondenten
”An excellent biography” Tidningen Ångermanland
”An engaging and believable portrait of a remarkable woman who stands out against the harrowing backdrop of
Burma’s sad story, that Bengtsson know better than most.
I confess: my admiration is endless.” Dagens Nyheter
”Read this book. Not to get an objective analysis of Aung
San Suu Kyi’s political achievements, but to get a background and understanding of why she has been under house
arrest for 14 of the last 20 years and why she chose not to travel to her husband’s deathbed in March 1999.” Norra Skåne
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Niklas Zetterling & Dan Öberg
Niklas Zetterling, born 1963, is an author and military historian
working at the Swedish Military Academy in Stockholm. His first
book Avgörandets ögonblick written together with Michael Tamelander was followed by a number of books on military history.
Dan Öberg is a military historian, he speaks Japanese and took his
doctor’s degree in Japan.
Kampen om Stilla havet / The Battle of the
Pacific
Niklas ZetterliNg
& Da N Ö b e r g
Kampen om
Stilla havet
D e n k e j s e r l i g a j a pa n s k a
f l o t ta n s h a n g a r fa r t yg
September 2012, 318 pages
Senior Editor: Stefan Hilding
Option publishers:
Spartacus, Norway
Casemate Publishers, USA
Informations Forlag, Denmark
The Battle of the Pacific
The Pacific War was the most extensive and costly naval
campaign ever fought. Initially the Imperial Japanese Navy
attained its strategic goals, but over time they met with increasingly powerful American resistance.
The Battle of Midway is the best known confrontation and
is often called the turning point of the Pacific, but several
other very dramatic naval battles feature in this book, in
which the two Japanese aircraft carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku take centre stage. The men who found themselves in
the Pacific war zone fought a battle in which they often
lacked reliable information. In the Coral Sea, north east of
Australia, the first fleet action in history involving the engagement of aircraft carriers took place. Japanese carriers
Shokaku and Zuikaku took on the US fleet carriers Lexicon
and Yorktown.
battle before. The Pacific war saw rapid escalation with no
time for full training, and the book describes the combatants’ attempts to adapt to changing circumstances.
The war at sea, involving aircraft carriers operating with
the latest aircraft and newly-developed radar, was dependent on the most advanced technology of the day. Despite
this, military personnel played a significant role. The book
portrays human destinies on the aircraft carriers, based on
diaries, letters, interviews with war veterans, archive material, and includes medical officers, pilots, radio engineers
and many other individuals. The authors introduce characters in the wider context of war, with a discussion of issues
such as the arrival of the kamikaze units, the willingness to
fight against the American super power, field brothels and
strategic planning.
We read about the Japanese pilots who searched in vain for
their opponent’s main striking force, and the men onboard
the carriers who witnessed the air attacks and experienced
the bombings. Many mistakes and errors of judgment were
made because no-one had been involved in this type of
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ANYURU, Om jag skulle dö under andra himlar / If I Were to Die under other Skies
Håkan Bravinger, Bära bud / The messenger of Peace
sold to: Gyldendal, Denmark / Arneberg, Norway / Btb, Germany / JC Lattès, France / Czarna Owca, Poland
STIG DAGERMAN – with newly written prefaces by PO Enquist, JM Le Clezio, Siri Hustvedt and Elfride Jelinek, Ormen / The Snake, Bränt barn / A burnt Child, De dömdas ö / The Island of the Doomed,
Tysk höst / German Autumn
sold to: Iperborea, Italy / Actes Sud, France / University of Minesota Press, US / amongst others
Per Olov Enquist, Ett annat liv / Another Kind of Life
sold to: MacLehose, world English / Actes Sud, France / Carl Hanser, Germany / Ambo Anthos, the Netherlands / Gyldendal, Norway / Rosinante, Denmark / Iperborea, Italy / Host, Czech republic / Europa, Hungary / Destino, Spain
Torbjörn Flygt, Underdog, Outsider
Ninni Holmqvist, Enhet / The Unit
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English / RIPOL, Russia / Telemaque, France / Carobna Knijga, Serbia / Commonwealth, Taiwan / Hunan
People’s Publishing House, China
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Montecore sold to: Piper, Germany / Gyldendal, Norway / Gyldendal, Denmark / Johnny Kniga, Finland /
De Geus, Holland / Le Serpent à Plumes, France / Ugo Guanda, Italy / Gondolat, Hungary
/ Knopf, USA / Hayakawa Shobo, Japan / Roca, Spain
TORGNY LINDGREN, Minnen / Reminiscences
sold to: Gyldendal, Norway / Rosinante, Denmark / De Geus, the Netherlands / Tammi, Finland / Loomingu
Raamatukogu, Estonia / Actes Sud, France
KRISTINA SANDBERG, Att föda ett barn / Giving Birth
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MARIA SVELAND, Bitterfittan / Bitter Bitch
sold to: Versal, Norway / Modtryk, Denmark / Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Germany / De Geus, the Netherlands
/ Constable & Robinson, World English / Jota, Czech Republic / Czarna Owca, Poland
hELENA VON ZWEIGBERGK, Anna och Mats bor inte här längre / Anna and Mats Don’t Live Here Anymore
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THOMAS BODSTRÖM, Rymmaren / The Escapee, Idealisten / The Idealist, Lobbyisten / The Lobbyist
sold to: Heyne, Germany / Pegasus, Turkey / Empik, Poland / Urdur, Iceland
ÅKE EDWARDSON - the Inspector Winter Series
Dans med en ängel / Dance With an Angel, Rop från långt avstånd / A Distant Cry, Sol och skugga / Sun and
Shade, Låt det aldrig ta slut / Never End et al
sold to: Ullstein, Germany / Lattes, France / Simon & Schuster US, world English / Rosinante, Denmark / Tiden, Norway
/ Like, Finland / Bruna, the Netherlands / among others
Denise Rudberg - The Marianne Jidhoff Series:
Ett litet snedsprång / Stepping out of Line, Två gånger är en vana / Twice is a Habit
sold to: Cappelen Damm, Norway
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HENRIK BERGGREN, Underbara dagar framför oss / Wonderful Days Ahead
sold to: Versal, Norway / Politikens Forlag, Denmark / Otava, Finland / Btb, Germany/ Türkiye Is Bankasi,
Turkey
Stieg Larsson, Daniel Poohl, En annan sida av Stieg Larsson / Another Side of Stieg Larsson
sold to: Columna, Spain (Catalan) / Modtryk, Denmark / Psichogios, Greece / Destino, Spain / Quercus, UK
(World English) / Marsilio, Italy / Heyne, Germany
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Gunnar Ardelius
Friheten förde oss hit / The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here
Mikael Bergstrand
Delhis vackraste händer / The most beautiful Hands in Delhi
Sigrid Combüchen
Spill - En damroman / Waste - A Ladies Novel
Eija Hetekivi Olsson
Ingenbarnsland / No Child´s Land
Lena EinhornSiri
Anneli Jordahl
Augustenbad en sommar / Augustenbad, one Summer
Aleksander Motturi
Svindlarprästen / The Swindling Priest
Karolina Ramqvist
Alltings början / The Beginning of Everything
Amanda Svensson
Välkommen till den här världen / Welcome to this World
Helena Thorfinn
Innan floden tar oss / Sisters by the River
Robert Åsbacka
Samlaren / The Collector
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Maria Lang Mördaren ljuger inte ensam / The Murderer Doesn’t Lie Alone (1949/2012)
Farligt att förtära / Harmful if Eaten (1950/2012)
Inte flera mord / No More Murders (1951/2012)
Robert Kviby
De korrupta / The Corrupt (2012)
Michael Hjorth & Hans Rosenfeldt The Sebastian Bergman Series:
Det fördolda / Dark Secrets (2010)
Lärjungen / The Disciple (2011)
Fjällgraven / The Mountain Grave (2012)
Hans Koppel
The Collin Series:
Kommer aldrig mer igen / Never Coming Back (2011)
book II (2013)
narrative non-fiction
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Jesper Bengtsson
Aung San Suu Kyi - En kamp för frihet / Aung San Suu Kyi - A Biography
Ingrid Carlberg Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig - Berättelsen om Raoul Wallenberg
/Raoul Wallenberg – a biography
Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson Minecraft
Svenska Hackare / Swedish Hackers
Niklas Zetterberg & Dan Öberg
Kampen om Stilla havet / The Battle of the Pacific
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Linda Altrov Berg
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