Martin Holmén - Bonnier Rights

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Autumn 2014
Rights Guide
Fiction & Narrative Nonfiction
Fiction
Martin Holmén
Clinch
Part 1 in the Harry Kvist Series
Harry Kvist, a bisexual former boxer, earns a living as a bailiff.
He is scarred by poverty and alcoholism, but is conscientious in
his work: finding runaway farm girls and chasing bad debts. He
rents a flat above a funeral home in the Sibirien district of
Stockholm and takes great pride in his appearance. His past contains a deep scar and an estranged daughter. One of his secrets is
a strong attraction to men.
In CLINCH, Kvist is wrongly accused of murder and is forced
deeper into Stockholm’s underworld in the hunt for the only
person who can save him. As he attempts to clear his name from
false allegations, he moves through shanty-towns, speakeasies,
brothels and contraband stores, but also catches a glimpse of
upper-class life in their decadent parlours. Torn between his
broken past and his desire to survive, between his pride and his
misery, he risks his life in a violent quest for justice and reveals
corruption at the heart of the city.
Swedish title: Clinch
Publisher: Albert Bonniers Förlag,
Autumn 2015
Pages: ~ 300
Material:
Swedish ms, Full English
translation (unedited), Author
Q&A, Series synopsis
In each of the novels, Harry Kvist gets caught in the crossfire
between powerful groupings and has to fight to survive. Over the
course of the trilogy, his own tragic fate is also revealed.
The trilogy begins during the cold, dark autumn of the Kreuger
Crash in 1932, while the finale takes place four years later.
Martin Holmén, b. 1974, teaches History and Swedish at secondary level. He holds an MPhil in History and up until writing took
over most of his time, conducted research into didactics in history. Before studying and becoming a teacher Martin worked as a
waiter and bartender, but confesses that he doesn’t remember
much of that time. CLINCH is his first novel. Martin is already
hard at work on the second instalment, OUT FOR THE COUNT.
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Non-fiction
Non-Fiction
Per J. Andersson & PK Mahanandia
New Delhi—Borås
The unlikely story of the Indian who rode his bike to
his love in Sweden
Every night, the young boy PK stands in a park in New Delhi
drawing people to earn his daily bread. He was born
untouchable, with nothing but the prophecy he was given at
birth: “You will marry a girl who is not from the village, not from
the district, not even from our country; she will be musical, own a
jungle and be born under the sign of the ox.”
One evening a young blonde woman appears in the light beside
his easel. Lotta von Schedvin has felt drawn to India ever since
she was a child and has travelled there by VW bus from Sweden.
She was born under the sign of the ox, and PK just knows she is
the one.
But the odds that these two starstruck lovers will see each other
again after Lotta has gone back home might seem slight – if it
were not for a second-hand ladies’ Raleigh bicycle. The bicycle
takes PK overland from Asia to Europe. Despite the hardship and
endless setbacks, he stubbornly makes his way westwards.
Rights sold:
French: Univers Poche
German: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Danish: Gads Forlag
Swedish title: New Delhi—Borås
Published by: Forum 2013
Pages: 200
Material:
Swedish ms, Finished copies
Sample translation, Synopsis
'PK's real-life story has everything you need to create a
page turner that reads like fiction'
- Svenska Dagbladet
Per J Andersson, b. 1962, the writer, is a travel journalist and an
expert on India. He founded the Swedish travel magazine
Vagabond, and feels more at home on the road than at home.
PK and Lotta are married and have two children. They live
together outside Borås, Sweden. PK has worked as an art teacher
and Lotta teaches music.
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Fiction
Lars Berge
Office Ninja
OFFICE NINJA can be described as the marriage between
The Office and Being John Malkovich. Dry wit and dark humour
guaranteed.
A satire on office life, set in a large office complex about 20
minutes outside Stockholm. On one of the myriad identical office
floors resides Helm Tech, a company in the “safety market”
providing bicycle helmets to the Swedish consumer. Jens Jansen,
a brand manager at Helm Tech, has up until now lead a very
ordinary middle class life. As a middle manager, Jens Jansen
does his outmost to avoid actual work. His mundane life
depresses him, but he's unable to change it. His marriage is in
ruins, but he couldn’t care less.
When Jens suspects he will be promoted, thus being forced to do
actual work, he plans his own disappearance. But he does not
travel the world, no, he hides in the office, in the server room that
no one uses. He crawls through the ventilation system to go to the
bathroom, drinks from the water cooler, eats his colleagues'
lunches. He is so ordinary that it takes weeks before anyone at the
office realizes Jens is in fact no longer there.
Rights sold:
Finnish: Atena
German: C Bertelsmann, Carl’s
Books
Italian: Bompiani
Spanish: Alfaguara
Swedish title: Kontorsninja
Published by: Wahsltröm &
Widstrand, 2013
Pages: 270
"...above all, Office Ninja is a fine example of the eternal
mystery of workplace humour: that something so
fundamentally dull can be made so entertaining.'
–Helsingborgs Dagblad
Lars Berge, b. 1974, is a journalist, documentary film maker and
script author. OFFICE NINJA was his debut novel. He is now
hard at work writing his second novel.
Material:
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Sample translation
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Fiction
Katarina Bivald
Readers In Broken
Wheel Recommend
Rights sold:
Bulgarian: ERA Media
Catalan: Edicions 62
Danish: Lindhardt & Ringhof
Dutch: Meulenhoff Boekerij
English(World): Chatto & Windus
(Vintage Books)
English (Ca): Doubleday Canada
French: Denoel
German: btb Verlag
Hungarian: Erawan
Italian: Sperling & Kupfer
Korean: Sigongsa
Lithuania: Alma Littera
Norwegian: Gyldendal
Polish: Amber
Portuguese (BR): Suma de Letras
Russian: A.S.T License Ltd
Spanish: Planeta
Swedish title: Läsarna i Broken
Wheel rekommenderar
Published by: Forum, 2013
Pages: 300
Material:
Swedish ms, Finished copies,
English ms, Author letter, Reader’s
report
It all begins with a correspondence between two very different women.
28-year-old Sara Lindqvist from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy
Harris from Broken Wheel, Iowa.
After two years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on both
literature and life, Sara decides to visit Amy. But when Sara arrives
in Iowa something's amiss. Amy doesn't come to pick her up. Once
Sara makes it to Broken Wheel, she is faced with the tragic news:
Amy has passed away.
Sara finds herself bewildered and alone in a small town in the middle
of nowhere. Should she turn back and go home?
Sara stays, and, for the first time in her life, she makes real friends –
not just Mr Darcy and Bridget Jones. The townspeople help her set
up a bookshop stocked with Amy’s books, cleverly organised in
useful groupings like: 'No Unnecessary Words' for the untrained
reader, or 'Sex, Violence and Weapons' for crime.
Through the bookshop, both Sara and the town come alive, new and
unexpected liaisons are created, passions long forgotten rekindled.
When Sara's two-month visa is about to expire, her new-found
friends come up with an absolutely crazy, wonderful idea to get her
to stay…
“Readers In Broken Wheel Recommend is a wonderful
novel. A feel good story to enjoy completely, with characters
that you love from the very start.”
–Litteraturmagazinet
Katarina Bivald, b. 1983, worked part-time in a bookshop throughout
her teens. She still hasn’t decided whether she prefers books, or people.
READERS IN BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND is her debut, and she's
aready hard at work on her second, feel-good, novel.
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Stefan Einhorn
The New
Seven Deadly Sins
Our darkest traits and how to deal with them
What is good and evil, and what do we consider to be deadly sins? Are
they the same as stipulated by the church over 1,500 years ago, or have
they changed?
With his new popular non-fiction title, Stefan Einhorn returns to the
questions of good and bad, kind and evil, but his approach is different.
The question that Stefan poses is; what do we today consider to be
unfogivable traits or deadly sins?
The classic seven deadly sins were stipulated by the Catholic church over
1,500 years ago, and they are still well known and a part of our moral
and cultural inheritance. But, do they still apply to our society today?
Are they really still considered to be the worst of human traits and actions? After conducting several surveys and interviewing hundreds people, and a panel of experts, he found some surprising answers. The deadly sins are not what they used to be.
In hopes of understanding why we still do things we know are not really
good or kind, Stefan analyzes these new sins, and tries to make out how
one can try to better one self. We are not perfect, but we can strive to at
least understand ourselves and our decisions, in hope that maybe we
will make wiser decisions in the future.
Swedish title: De nya
dödssynderna
Published by: Forum, 2014
Pages: 214
Material:
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Sample translation
“He also explains why ‘kindness’ is the smartest of all life strategies, because it
is through caring about others that you also care about yourself. THE ART OF
BEING KIND is a really great book.”
–Aftonbladet
Stefan Einhorn, b. 1955, is professor of oncology at the Karolinska
Institute, he also lectures on work ethics and leadership. He has written
several popular science books; The Art of Being Kind was published in
2005, and rights were sold to 17 countries. .
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Fiction
Gertrud Hellbrand
The Veterinarian
’Few novelists today have a style and tone so
nuanced and sublime as Hellbrand’
–Dagens Nyheter
Isle of Wight, summer 1965. Bengt, a young Swede, is drawn into
a love triangle, a matter of life and death. At a riding camp in
Verden, Germany, provincial girl Lucille learns the extent of life’s
injustice. One blustery autumn evening in 1994, Artur and Inez
Johansson step aboard the doomed MS Estonia, about to set sail
from Tallinn harbour.
Kristin has returned to her childhood home to make a radio
programme. The mood is tense at the farm. The family have just
buried their brood-mare, and the talented rider Carro has
disappeared. Kristin begins to have doubts about her project.
She’d left The Lake Lands, but soon becomes aware of a dark
longing that won’t let her go.
THE VETERINARIAN is the story of a family, spanning five
decades. The growing popularity of equestrianism provides a
backdrop, against which a figure stands out – the veterinarian –
as one of the momentous forces that come to shape and define a
family.
Swedish title: Veterinären
Published by: Albert Bonniers
Förlag 2014
Pages: 500
Material:
Swedish ms, Finished copies,
Sample translation, Synopsis,
Quotesheet
‘Gertrud Hellbrand has a unique talent for getting under
the skin of each of her characters, and once she gets that
close, succeeds in writing that person’s every hidden wish
and secret… Novels do not get better than this’
–Östgöta Correspondenten
Gertrud Hellbrand, b. 1974, has written three novels, THE
VETERINARIAN is the first to be published by Albert Bonniers
Förlag. Gertrud teaches the creative writing course at Bona
College.
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Zlatan Ibrahimovic & David Lagercrantz
I Am Zlatan
”Perhaps the best recent autobiography by a footballer ...
a modern European fairy tale."
- Simon Kuper in New Statesman
Rights sold:
Albanian: Dritan
Arabic: Creative Solutions
Bosnian: Buybook:
Chinese: Beijing Wisdom
Croatian: Buybook
Czech: Host:
Danish: Gyldendal
Dutch: Ambo Anthos
Estonian: Tänapäev
English UK (World): Penguin
(Penguin RH)
English US: Random House (Penguin
RH)
Finnish: WSOY
French: JC Lattès
Georgian: Intelekti
German: Piper
Hungarian: Konyvmolykepzo Kiado
Icelandic: Draumsyn
Italian: Rizzoli
Japanese: Toto
Korean: Hans Media
Norweigan: Font
Montenegrin: Buybook
Polish: Sine Qua Non
Romanian: Publica Com
Serbian: Buybook
Slovenian: Ucila International
Turkish: Pegasus
I AM ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC is the one and only
autobiography of and by Zlatan Ibrahimović, Sweden’s most
successful football player ever and one of the greatest players in
the world today. Zlatan’s story is one of both hardships and
amazing success. We follow Zlatan from his childhood in the
rough immigrant suburbs of Rosengård outside Malmö, to the
discovery of his unique talent and his time with some of the
major European football clubs; Ajax, Juventus, Inter, Barcelona
and Milan.
This unique story is now sold to 27 countries, among them
Germany, France, Italy and the UK. It is not your ordinary sports
biography - it is a story with great literary qualities about an
amazingly successful boy growing into a man, and the absolute
essence of football.
The autobiography was told by Zlatan and penned by David
Lagercrantz, known in Sweden for both amazing biographies and
highly praised literary novels. Through long hours of
interviewing Zlatan, Lagercrantz managed to capture Zlatan’s
personal, and never before told, story. It also let's us hear the
true voice of an immigrant street kid who is now one of the top
ten highest paid football players in the world.
Swedish title: Jag är Zlatan
Published by: Albert Bonniers Förlag,
2011
Pages: 432
Material:
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Non-fiction
Herman Lindqvist
Erik XIV
Splendour Dreams Darkness
Erik XIV, the Swedish king who went mad, married a common
woman, disowned his brothers and died of poisoning. In fact,
there was much more to King Erik XIV of Sweden.
Erik was a renaissance king, talented, educated and multilingual.
He was a skilled composer and artist, and he had grand, but
realistic, plans on how to modernize and empower Sweden. Erik
was the first Swedish king who sought out to create an army free
of mercenaries, and he tried to form a European trader’s alliance
to control trading with Russia. It was also his idea to construct the
Göta Canal, even though it wasn’t done in his lifetime. Erik was a
lover of life, and before he married his beloved Karin a womanizer, but he also suffered spells of depression and paranoia.
During one of his bouts of depressions he managed to alienate his
whole family and the Swedish nobility, which later led to his
downfall.
Herman Lindqvist’s biography follows Erik XIV from his birth
and childhood, until the tragic ending of his life, when he was
murdered, poisoned, by his own family.
Swedish title: Erik XIV Prakt.
Drömmar. Mörker.
Published by: Albert Bonniers
Förlag, 2014
Pages: 400
Material:
Swedish ms, Finished copies
Herman Lindqvist, b.1943, has written about 50 books, mostly
historical biographies, but also fiction. He studied political
science and worked as a foreign news correspondent,for newspapers and Swedish Televison for over 20 years.
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Fiction
Johanna Mo
The Helena
Mobacke Series
DEATH AS I SEE IT
TURN AROUND AND BE STILL
ALL THAT IS BROKEN SHALL BE MADE WHOLE
UNTITLED FOURTH NOVEL
When detective chief inspector Helena Mobacke's son tragically dies,
her own life comes to an abrupt halt. After a year she is ready to start
re-entering society, and she takes a new job with the Southern
Stockholm police. She will be heading up a new unit dealing with
more complex cases. If she was expecting a slow start, she couldn't be
more wrong. This is the Helena Mobacke Series.
DEATH AS I SEE IT (2013), Forum
When a teenage boy is pushed in front of an underground train and dies,
noone is quite sure whether they are investigating a crime or a tragic
accident. Just a few days later a woman is also pushed in front of a train.
Fear spreads through Stockholm, the train platforms are empty and
terrible news headlines vie for prominence. Helena Mobacke tries to run
the thorny investigation while her own wounds are torn open. Gradually
both she and the people around her begin to doubt her ability to cope.
Swedish title: Döden tänkte jag
mig så
Published by: Forum, 2013
Pages: 341
Material:
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Sample translation, Series
description
Swedish title: Vänd om och var
stilla
Published by: Forum, 2014
Pages: 367
Material:
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TURN AROUND AND BE STILL (2014), Forum
The second Helena Mobacke title centres on religious fanatics and what
happens to the outsiders in society. The Stockholm we meet in this novel
is a cold place, where it is easy to feel exposed and vulnerable. Two
women are found murdered on consecutive days, and Mobacke realises
the police will have to act fast if they are to keep more women from
falling victim.
Part three of the Helene Mobacke Series, titled ALL THAT IS BROKEN
SHALL BE MADE WHOLE, will be published by Forum in 2015.
Untitled fourth novel, more information to come.
Johanna Mo, b. 1976, has written two literary novels prior to writing the
Helena Mobacke series. Her novella "Let Forgetfulness Take the Rest"
was nominated for the 2011 Swedish Radio Novella Prize. In 2013 she
was awarded Barometern-OT's cultural prize "Gyllene Fjädern".
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Fiction
Jan Mårtenson
The Homan Series
A Swedish Agatha Christie, with a little sprinkle of
Midsomer Murders, set in Old Town, Stockholm.
Johan Kristian Homan is an antiques dealer whose shop occupies
a prime location in Stockholm’s Old Town. He lives with his
Siamese cat Cléo de Merode, while his girlfriend, Francine, head
of the Swedish Security Service’s Dignitary Protection Unit,
galavants around the world on security business.
Homan would be perfectly content tending to his shop, enjoying
exquisite food and wine and spending time with Cléo and
Francine. But, somehow he always finds himself entangled in a
murder mystery.
The Homan crime novels are penned with a sharp wit, a wicked
sense of humor and they each give you fascinating characters and
vivid milieus. We encounter more Bordeaux than blood, and no
matter what adventure he finds himself involved in, from
Swedish castles and quaint art galleries to exotic locations around
the world, Homan always stays true to himself and solves his
mysteries in his own way.
The Homan Series consists of 42 crime novels, and a short story
collection featuring Johan Kristian Homan (Please see separate
list). Mårtenson's books have sold more than two million copies
in Sweden alone.
Jan Mårtenson, b. 1933, is a former diplomat, UN Director
General and Chief of Staff to the King of Sweden. He has written
more than 60 books.
Swedish title: Homandeckarna
Published by: Wahsltröm &
Widstrand
Pages: ca 255
Material:
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Sample translation of MURDER IN
HAVANA, Series description
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Fiction
Håkan Nesser
Berlin. London.
New York.
Three cities. Three novels.
11 DAYS IN BERLIN
2015, Albert Bonniers förlag
Arne Murberg has just lost his father to cancer. Before he passed, he revealed
that Arne’s presumed dead mother actually took off with a troubadour when
Arne was just a toddler and lives in Berlin. “Go and find her, my son. That is
the mission I give to you.” But ever since Arne had that diving accident when
he was twelve, he’s been a bit slow, and at the age of 35 he has never been
away on his own. So how will he manage himself in a big city like Berlin?
SKY OVER LONDON
2011, Albert Bonniers förlag
The story takes off at 4.50 am at Paddington Station, in the very heart of London. Or maybe it all really started an evening in September 1968. SKY OVER
LONDON is a spy drama that extends behind the iron curtain, a love story
and a story about books – and how it’s impossible to live without them.
THE WORMS OF CARMINE STREET
2009, Albert Bonniers förlag
The island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River is probably home
to more tales and stories than anywhere else. THE WORMS OF CARMINE
STREET tells the story of author Erik Steinbeck, of a missing child and love
that is blind . But it ’s also about guilt, loss, loneliness – and about being taken
over by circumstances.
Håkan Nesser, b.1950, is one of Sweden’s most beloved authors. He is
published in 21 countries and has written 27 books.
Option publishers
Bulgarian: Emas
Czech: Moba Knihy
Danish: Modtryk
Dutch: De Geus
English UK: Macmillan UK
Finnish: Tammi
French: Edition du Seuil
German: btb (RH)
Hungarian: Animus
Icelandic: Uppheimar
Italian: Ugo Guanda
Norwegian: Gyldendal
Polish: Czarna Owca
Turkish: Labirent
Previous publishers
English US: Pantheon
Greece: Metaixmo
Korean: Dong Hyun
Latvian: Zwaigzne ABC
Rumanian: Editura trei
Russian: Ripol
Spanish: RBA Libros
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Fiction
Peter Normark
Child’s Play
”The battle between the inconceivable and the ordinary escalates
through every well-written dramatic scene, and by the time you
get it, you will remember CHILD’S PLAY as an ice cold village
thriller.”
–Dagens Nyheter
As two brothers fall into a downward spiral of exceedingly brutal games, a war against some local boys, the violence threatens
to destroy not only their family, but the entire village.
Erik is eleven. His brother Henke is four years older. They live in
Djupvik, a small village on the coast of Västerbotten in northern
Sweden. Their older brother Karl has been thrown out of the
family home, and their sister Lina stays away as much as
possible. It is 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
There is a unique bond between the brothers that gives them the
strength to stand the daily harassments from the rest of the
village. But the bond is also destructive; over and over again it
leads to confusion and catastrophes. Henke carries a strain of
violence ready to detonate at any moment. Erik’s fear of his
brother makes him sleep with a screwdriver under his pillow.
Swedish title: Lekarna
Published by: Albert Bonniers
Förlag, 2014
Pages: 450
When the parents leave the home the two brothers fall into a
downward spiral of violent and destructive games, a war against
some local boys. The village has never accepted Erik’s family, and
he knows it has to do with their mother, Charlie. The brutal
violence that is finally unleashed threatens to destroy not only the
family, but the entire village.
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Peter Normark, b. 1978, grew up in Holmsund, in Northern
Sweden and in Saint Louis, USA. He is a journalist and
documentary film maker. CHILD’S PLAY is his debut novel.
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Fiction
Elin Olofsson
And Then
I Think of Sigrid
This is a novel about homecoming, reconciling with the past
and finding out that love can change everything.
Hanna flees Stockholm and her, seemingly wonderful, job at an
advertising agency after a painful love affair with a colleague. She
escapes to Gärningsberg, the northern Swedish village where she
grew up, and moves onto the family’s country estate,
Storgårda, the one her father was forced to leave many years
before. She is determined to breathe new life into her slumbering
dream of becoming an artist and to forget about Henrik.
But what really happened to Åke, who took his own life in the
kitchen at Storgårda? Where is Sigrid, the grandmother Hanna
fears, has never known, and whose life revolved around the
estate?
What happens when you lose yourself? How far can you go for
love, and where will love take you when you let yourself go?
Hanna searches for these answers in the place where it all began:
Storgårda.
Swedish title: Då tänker jag på
Sigrid
Published by: Wahsltröm &
Widstrand, 2013
Pages: 256
Material: Swedish ms, Finished
copies, Sample translation, Author
letter
"With a style that shimmers, Elin Olofsson succeeds in
introducing Shakespearean dilemmas into the ordinary, grey
Swedish everyday life"
-Sydsvenskan
Elin Olofsson, b. 1971, lives in northern Sweden in a town not
too dissimilar to Gärningsberg. AND THEN I THINK OF
SIGRID, which has sold more than 34,000 copies, is Elin's debut
novel.
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Fiction
Anna-Karin Palm
Hunting Trophies
Short story collection
Can we be sure who is the hunter, and who is the prey?
In her short story collection, Anna-Karin Palm investigates ten
different aspects of love, sexuality and what it is to be a woman.
We meet ten different women, at different stages in their lives,
with different experiences of love. HUNTING TROPHIES can be
seen as a shattered novel, or ten variations of the same theme.
Not everything is as it seems, and tables are turned when we least
expect it.
The book starts with Kattis, only seventeen years old, and to her
horror, still a virgin. While she enjoys the new-found thrill of lust,
she feels unfamiliar with her own body that elicits such rapt attention from boys around her. The book ends with Agnes and her
husband celebrating his ninetieth birthday by making love, for
what may very well be the last time.
Ten short stories, ten glimpses into women’s lives:
HUNTING TROPHIES.
Swedish title: Jaktlycka
Published by: Albert Bonniers
Förlag, 2014
Pages: 200
Material:
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Sample translation
“Hunting Trophies isn’t intellectually penetrating…but
intimate and empathetic, and therefore so much more
compelling and touching.”
–Trelleborgs Allehanda
Anna-Karin Palm, b. 1961, debuted as an author in 1991, with the
novel The Faun. The Painter’s Daughters (1997) became her
international breakthrough and was translated into eight
languages.
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Ester Roxberg
My Dad
Ann-Christine
“–Hi, I would like to book the church for my son’s christening.
–Sure, no problem.
–But, my dad’s a vicar and we would like him to baptize our
son.
–Yes, that’s quite alright, what’s his name?
–Ann-Christine Roxberg.
–Um, I thought you said your dad.
–Yes.
–…Oh.”
In 2010 Åke Roxberg, vicar and father of three, breaks the news to
his family that he wants to live as a woman. This is his daughter
Ester’s story of what happens when her father changes his name
to Ann-Christine.
Ester Roxberg writes about the paradox of losing a parent who is
still alive. She thinks of her family as it once was, picture perfect,
mum, dad and three children. All her memories are now being
scrutinized, in the light of what has been revealed. But can Ester
overcome her disappointment and anger and start over again
with Ann-Christine, or is her trust broken forever?
Swedish title: Min pappa AnnChristine
Published by: Wahlström &
Widstrand, 2014
Pages: 198
Material:
Swedish ms, Finished copies
This is the remarkable story of their unusual journey.
"It's a story of transformation, about growing up and what
we really know - and want to know - about our parents."
–Sveriges Radio
Ester Roxberg, b. 1987, was born in Zimbabwe and raised in
Småland, Sweden. In 2004 she was awarded Lilla Augustpriset.
She is the author of two previous novels, ANTILOPES and THE
BIRDHOUSE.
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