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Åke Edwardson is awarded the Crimetime Award in the category Lifetime Achievement 2025

11/09/2025

The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an author who has been groundbreaking for Swedish crime fiction and put Sweden on the crime literature…

Cecilia Heikkilä’s The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole out in the UK

10/09/2025

We’re thrilled to welcome Katrine Wessel-Aas to Bonnier Rights!

22/04/2025

We are incredibly proud to be working with the talented Katrine Wessel-Aas, whose captivating historical romance series about the Winther family, set…

Cecilia Hansson awarded the Eva Bonnier 70th Anniversary Fund Stipend 2025

25/02/2025

We are thrilled that Cecilia Hansson have been awarded the Eva Bonnier 70th Anniversary Fund Stipend 2025. “Cecilia Hansson depicts the longing from h…

Cecilia Hansson Awarded The Academy of the Nine’s Winter Prize 2025

18/02/2025

Our warmest congratulations Cecilia Hansson on being awarded The Academy of the Nine’s Winter Prize (Samfundet De Nios Vinterpris) for 2025! Cecilia H…

2025 Recipients of the Albert Bonnier Scholarship for Young and New Authors!

14/02/2025

We are very happy to share that Donia Saleh, Pauline Olsson Ghoreishi, and Ella-Maria Nutti are recipients of this year’s Albert Bonnier Scholarship f…

Johan Rundberg to join Bonnier Rights!

24/01/2025

We are so happy to welcome Johan Rundberg to Bonnier Rights! Johan Rundberg, winner of the August Prize 2021 for the children’s novel The Night Raven,…

Premiere for Håkan Nesser’s THE LIVING AND DEAD IN WINSFORD!

13/12/2024

We were so excited to be at the opening night of the film based on Håkan Nesser’s psychological thriller, titled UNMOORED, this week. The film feature…

Christian Rück wins The August Prize 2024!

25/11/2024

We are over the moon about Christian Rück winning THE AUGUST PRIZE 2024 for Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year with his SUICIDE FOR BEGINNERS: A Soc…

The Book of ABBA: MELANCHOLY UNDERCOVER in UK media!

14/10/2024

Jan Gradvall’s long-awaited The Book of ABBA: MELANCHOLY UNDERCOVER has finally landed in the UK, and so have the great reviews from the media. The bo…

William Älgebrink to join Bonnier Rights!

13/09/2024

We are thrilled to welcome William Älgebrink to our family of talented authors. A dynamic and versatile storyteller, William has previously written an…

Linnea Axelssons AEDNAN Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature!

11/09/2024

We are thrilled to announce that Linnea Axelsson’s powerful work AEDNAN has been longlisted for the prestigious National Book Award for Translated Lit…

Patrik Svensson awarded scholarship by Kerstin Ekman

31/05/2024

We are very happy to share the news that Patrik Svensson has been awarded the Stiftelsen Klockrosens Grant for THE BLUE MARBLE. The jury’s motivation…

Lisa Dos Santos awarded the Natur & Kultur Debate Book Prize 2024

20/05/2024

We are very happy to share that Lisa Dos Santos has been awarded the Natur & Kultur Debate Book Prize 2024 for THE DEATH GAME! The Natur & Kul…

Janette Hentati is awarded the Gerard Bonniers Essäpris 2024

30/04/2024

Bonnier Rights are happy to announce that author Janette Hentati has been awarded the Gerard Bonnier Essäpris 2024 for her novel TAMING A RIVER! The J…

Lina Nordquist to join Bonnier Rights!

10/01/2024

We are thrilled to welcome Lina Nordquist to Bonnier Rights! Lina Nordquist made her literary debut in 2020 with Hunger (Swedish title: Dit du går, fö…

REMEMBER US TO LIFE awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2023!

01/11/2023

Bonnier Rights are proud to announce that author Joanna Rubin Dranger has won the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2023 for her documentary graphic nov…

Lisa dos Santos THE DEATH GAME nominated to the August Prize 2024

24/10/2023

We are so proud and happy to let you know that Lisa dos Santos THE DEATH GAME is nominated to the August Prize 2024 for Non-Fiction Book of the Year….

Rose Lagercrantz awarded The Swedish Academy’s Award for Outstanding Authors of Children’s and Youth Literature 2023

14/06/2023

Rose Lagercrantz is 2023 year’s recipient of The Swedish Academy’s Award for Outstanding Authors of Children’s and Youth Literature with a price sum o…

Joanna Rubin Dranger awarded the 2023 Prisa! Award by Svenska Tecknare

27/04/2023

Joanna Rubin Dranger is this year’s recipient of Svenska Tecknare’s award Prisa! The jury’s motivation goes as follows: A picture is worth a thousand…

REMEMBER US TO LIFE by Joanna Rubin Dranger to be published in Arabic!

04/04/2023

Bonnier Rights is pleased to announce that Arabic world rights to Joanna Rubin Dranger’s documentary graphic novel REMEMBER US TO LIFE (Albert Bonnier…

Joanna Rubin Dranger nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize!

23/02/2023

Bonnier Rights is proud to announce that graphic novelist Joanna Rubin Dranger has been nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize 2023 for the…

WARMING HANDS and BODIES AT WAR finalists in Storytel Awards

15/02/2023

We are proud to announce that the following books are finalists in the audiobook prize Storytel Awards 2023! WARMING HANDS by Katarina Widholm (Albert…

Maria Nilsson Thore’s A PACK OF YOUR OWN is picked as the Children’s Book of the Week by The Times

10/01/2023

So proud to let you know that Maria Nilsson Thore’s A PACK OF YOUR OWN was picked by the Times as the Best Children’s Book of the Week right before th…

Maria Adolfsson winner of the 2022 Petrona Award!

08/12/2022

Bonnier Rights are proud to announce that Maria Adolfsson, author of the internationally acclaimed ‘DOGGERLAND’ series, is the winner of the Petrona A…

Patrik Svensson’s The Gospel of the Eels awarded 2022 Open Book Award

25/11/2022

Patrik Svensson’s The Gospel of the Eels is the winner of the Taiwanese Open Book Award 2022 for Best Lifestyle & General Non-Fiction Title! The G…

Grand Master Diploma awarded to Håkan Nesser

25/11/2022

Bonnier Rights is proud to share that Håkan Nesser has been awarded the Grand Master Diploma by the Swedish Crime Academy! The award ceremony took pla…

Maria Adolfsson’s FATAL ISLES Shortlisted for Petrona Award 2022

16/11/2022

Bonnier Rights are proud to announce that Fatal Isles, part 1 in Maria Adolfsson’s beloved ‘Doggerland’ series, has been shortlisted for this year’s P…

Joanna Rubin Dranger receives the prestigious Adamson statuette 2022

27/09/2022

Joanna Rubin Dranger is awarded the 2022 Swedish Academy of Comic Art’s Adamson statuette. The award is Sweden’s oldest award for graphic and comics,…

Release date set for The Playlist, the Netflix series based on SPOTIFY UNTOLD

15/09/2022

We are happy to announce that Netflix will premiere new series The Playlist on October 13th! The series is based on the book SPOTIFY UNTOLD, written b…

Håkan Nesser wins Riverton Club’s Honorary International Award

05/09/2022

For the first time in ten years, the Riverton Club awards its honorary award for international authors (“The Golden Revolver”) and it goes to Håkan Ne…

Kerstin Ekman awarded Norrland’s Literature Prize

11/07/2022

We are delighted and proud to announce that Kerstin Ekman has been awarded Norrland’s Literature Prize 2022 (Norrlands Litteraturpris 2022). The nomin…

Anna-Karin Palm praised by the Swedish Academy

02/06/2022

Anna-Karin Palm is awarded The Doblougska Prize 2022. The prize is awarded by The Swedish Academy to reward and support Swedish and Norwegian fiction…

Kerstin Ekman awarded The Society of the Nine Grand Prize 2022

25/05/2022

Kerstin Ekman. Photo by Bodil Bergqvist Our warmest congratulations to Kerstin Ekman on being awarded the The Society of the Nine Grand Prize 2022 (Sa…

Ella-Maria Nutti awarded Umeå Culture Committee’s Scholarship for Cultural Practitioners 2022

19/05/2022

Ella-Maria Nutti and her debut novel COFFEE WITH MILK Our warmest congratulations to Ella-Maria Nutti on being awarded the Umeå Cultural Committee’s S…

THE WOLF RUN winner of Storytel Awards 2022!

12/04/2022

We are very happy and excited to announce that THE WOLF RUN has won best audio book in the category Novel at Storytel Awards 2022. Huge congratulation…

THE DARK HEART awarded “Best Series” at Series Mania

12/04/2022

THE DARK HEART was awarded “Best Series” in the International Panorama competition at Series Mania in Lille, France. The series, produced by FLX, is a…

TV-premiere of THE DARK HEART based on Joakim Palmkvist’s book

08/02/2022

Image: Jesper Spanning Clear your calendars and make room on the couch, because tomorrow night, February 9th, THE DARK HEART premieres on Discovery+!…

THE WOLF RUN now in 11 territories 12 languages!

04/02/2022

We are excited that Kerstin Ekman’s beloved and highly acclaimed novel, THE WOLF RUN, is now sold to Books XXI in the Ukraine and in Spain to Tusquets…

Five books nominated to Storytel Awards 2022

26/01/2022

We are proud to announce that the following books are nominated to the audiobook prize Storytel Awards 2022! Category Novel (Roman) THE WOLF RUN by Ke…

Kerstin Ekman’s THE WOLF RUN nominated for Swedish Radio’s Prize for Best Novel 2022

13/01/2022

We are happy and proud to announce that Kerstin Ekmans‘s masterful novel THE WOLF RUN is nominated for the prestigious Prize for Best Swedish Novel 20…

In production: Psychological thriller based on Nesser’s THE LIVING AND THE DEAD IN WINSFORD

09/12/2021

Håkan Nesser’s 2013 novel, winner of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy and the Rosenkrantz Prize for Best Crime Novel of the Year, is in production a…

WRETCHEDNESS on the shortlist for The Bernard Shaw Prize 2022

17/11/2021

Congratulations to Andrzej Tichy, And Other Stories, and the wonderful translator Nichola Smalley for being on the 2021 Translation Prizes Shortlist f…

Filming wrapped on drama series based on THE DARK HEART

25/10/2021

Gustav Lindh and Clara Christiansson Drake. Photos by Eva von Bahr and Anders Thessing. Filming has now been wrapped on the set of the FLX’s five-part…

Linnea Axelssons AEDNAN sold to Knopf Doubleday!

14/10/2021

We are very pleased to announce that Knopf Doubleday in the US has purchased World English rights to Linnea Axelsson’s incredible novel-in-verse AEDNA…

THE EMIGRANTS to premiere on Christmas Day

08/10/2021

Fifty years after the original Oscar-nominated films with Liv Ullman and Max von Sydow, acclaimed director Erik Poppe is once more bringing Vilhelm Mo…

Kerstin Ekman’s BLACKWATER in production as a TV-series for SVT

07/10/2021

Kerstin Ekman’s beloved and highly acclaimed novel BLACKWATER (Händelser vid vatten) is now in production as a six-part TV-series for SVT, planned for…

Caroline Engvall awarded the Karin Söder scholarship 2021

22/09/2021

Congratulations to our author Caroline Engvall who has been awarded the Karin Söder scholarship! The motivation of the jury goes as follows: ‘Caroline…

Kerstin Ekman and THE WOLF RUN on Swedish culture tv-programme Babel

22/09/2021

The iconic Kerstin Ekman’s THE WOLF RUN, her first novel in ten years, has been universally lauded by Swedish media and press, and a number 1 bestsell…

Haugesund Film Festival 2021 – An energizing start to the autumn!

09/09/2021

In the last week of August, the 49th Norwegian International Film Festival descended on the one-time herring-fishing town of Haugesund. I was delighte…

Rave reviews in for Kerstin Ekman’s THE WOLF RUN

30/08/2021

  ‘In format The Wolf Run is a small novel, less than 200 pages long, and yet it covers most of the prominent themes from Ekman’s writing over the dec…

Andrzej Tichý nominated to Nordic Council Literature Prize 2021

25/02/2021

  Andrzej Tichý’s PURITY (Renheten, Albert Bonniers förlag) is nominated to the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2021. This is the third time for…

Donia Saleh nominated to Borås Debutantpris and Katapultpriset 2020

28/01/2021

Bonnier Rights are thrilled to let you know that Donia Saleh is nominated with her YA LEILA to Sweden’s most two prestigious award for debuts, Borås…

The million-dollar question; How do we pick our authors?

03/12/2020

Perhaps the most commonly asked question in our profession: how do we pick our new clients? On what grounds do we choose the projects we represent? We…

Lydia Sandgren wins August Prize 2020

03/12/2020

The August Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious literary award, goes to Lydia Sandgren for her novel COLLECTED WORKS in the category best fiction 2020! We…

FakeFurt 2020: What have we learned?

28/10/2020

Late October. So here we are once again after a busy Gothenburg and Frankfurt Fair. Rapid 30-minute meetings with editors who looked slightly more rag…

Håkan Nesser wins Honorary Award at Crimetime 2020

24/09/2020

’Sweden’s King of Crime’ Håkan Nesser wins the Honorary Award at Crimetime, Gothenburg Book Fair 2020. Håkan Nesser is awarded the Crimetime Award in…

An Autumn of Virtual Meetings

02/09/2020

So, it’s September and we have a very special autumn ahead of us. My colleagues and I are now all back from our holidays and though we still only work…

What brings us together?

03/07/2020

Summer is here, the sun is mostly shining and the holidays are around the corner. We are leaving behind a hectic period which has seen us setting up o…

Slowing down for summer

26/06/2020

Four months after the dreaded c-word unfolded and we are now looking forward to enjoying a long summer break, albeit with continued social distancing….

June – a time for hope and renewal in the agenting world

12/06/2020

This time of year is really something special. In Sweden, we call it “mellan hägg och syrén”, the magical time of early summer between the blooming of…

Agenting in the time of social distancing – can it be done?

20/05/2020

Hello from our home offices! Bonnier Rights Sweden is currently in our 11th week working from home, and it doesn’t look as if we’ll be seeing our much…

World Book Day 2020: What book changed your life?

23/04/2020

Some of our authors answered the question for the World Book Day 2020 and shared their most precious reading experiences with us.   Patrik Svenss…

International praise for The Gospel of Eels

13/02/2020

“An account of the mysterious life of eels that also serves as a meditation on consciousness, faith, time, light and darkness, and life and death… […

SPOTIFY UNTOLD green lit for Netflix Originals

12/12/2019

We are so so pleased to announce that the limited tv-series based on SPOTIFY UNTOLD has been picked up by Netflix as a Netflix Original series! Yellow…

Mari Jungstedt directly to #1 on bestseller list

09/07/2019

Mari Jungstedt’s 15th book in the Gotland series, I SEE YOU, was published by Albert Bonniers Förlag on the 4th of June, 2019, and went straight up to…

Linnea Axelsson wins Norrlands Litteraturpris 2019

09/07/2019

Linnea Axelsson’s powerful verse novel Aednan wins Norrlands Litteraturpris (Norrland’s Literature Award) for Fiction. The book has previously won the…

Patrik Svensson’s The Gospel of Eels sells to 32 territories

03/07/2019

Patrik Svensson’s The Gospel of Eels, called the ‘book of the fair’ at the London Book Fair this spring, has now been sold to 32 territories. The Gosp…

Spotify Untold sold to Japan, Korea and Czech Republic

03/07/2019

 The riveting non-fiction title SPOTIFY UNTOLD by tech journalists Sven Carlsson & Jonas Leijonhufvud has recently been sold to Diamond Inc in Jap…