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Kayo Mpoyi's "Mai Means Water" Shortlisted for French Literary Award

Mpoyi's debut novel nominated for Premier Roman Étranger.

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Anton Marklund's "The Omniscient" Sold in Several Pre-empts

Marklund's first suspense novel to Denmark, Norway and Germany.

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Moa Herngren's "The Divorce" is up for the Book of the Year Award

Herngren's new domestic drama is among the twelve nominees for the annual prize.

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Rave Reviews for Jenny Andreasson's "The Theatre"

Lots of enthusiasm for the former theatre director's literary debut.

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This is Anton Marklund’s first crime novel and he expertly handles the suspense. Encompassing everything except Ramona’s gift, it is a realistic crime plot, but so staggeringly beautifully portrayed that it becomes something more essential: a contemplative observation of human helplessness.

Dagens Nyheter

Author Anton Marklund has with The Omniscient achieved a Västerbotten noir that may very well be considered one of the best Swedish crime novels this year. With an unusual female lead character and with profound metaphysical reflections on good and evil, guilt, punishment, God’s potential existence and what it actually means to administer justice, it really stands out at the same time as it carries many familiar traits of the genre – social pathos for those who have ended up on the shady side of life, male violence and sexual frustration, a strong unyielding woman, a poetic language that interacts with nature’s wildness and the desolation of the abandoned villages. The subdued, reflective narrator, and the beautiful nature imagery, create a striking contrast to the grotesque crime. The ending offers the reader no peace, but perhaps that’s the intention.

Bibliotekstjänst

Jenny Andreasson’s perception of both subtle master suppression techniques and sophisticated exercises of power is like a natural force. It works well in symbiosis with the dense, coherent style, and results in a crispy, beautiful prose. This is a pretty brilliant debut with a distinct authority.

Göteborgs-Posten

Perhaps it’s most meaningful to approach this novel as a piece of alarming theatre criticism of a work that you have not seen yourself. And in that case, everything comes down to deserving the reader’s trust. I’m more than happy to give her mine, as Jenny Andreasson shows that she really knows the most crucial element of theatre criticism. Not analysis, not judgment or clever valuation. The pivotal and impossible task is rather to capture the fateful moments that have already dispersed like smoke and faded away. To make them vivid once again.

Dagens Nyheter

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Kayo Mpoyi's "Mai Means Water" Shortlisted for French Literary Award

Anton Marklund's "The Omniscient" Sold in Several Pre-empts

Moa Herngren's "The Divorce" is up for the Book of the Year Award

Rave Reviews for Jenny Andreasson's "The Theatre"

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