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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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+!…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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… […
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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