Copenhagen Literary Agency Spring 2016
Rights List
Copenhagen Literary Agency is the result of a merger between Leonhardt & Høier Literary Agency (established 1951) and Lars Ringhof Agency (established 2001). The agency represents 80 Scandinavian authors worldwide and works as a subagent for a distinguished list of foreign proprietors in Scandinavia. Personnel: Monica Gram (mg), owner, senior agent (translation rights) Lars Ringhof (lr), owner, senior agent (Danish rights, film rights) Esthi Kunz (ek), senior agent (translation rights, sub rights) Anneli Høier (ah), associated agent (translation rights) Eva Haagerup (eh), agent (sub rights, contract management) Ane Lauenblad (al), agent (Danish rights, contract management) Rika Pydde (assistant, contract management) Alex Buk-Swienty (assistant, contract management) Address: Copenhagen Literary Agency Frederiksholms Kanal 2, 3. floor DK-1220 Copenhagen K Tel.: +45 33 13 25 23 E-mail: firstname@cphla.dk Web: www.cphla.dk Anneli Høier (visiting address only): Studiestræde 35 A DK-1455 Copenhagen K Tel.: +45 51 51 50 37
Recently published
Geir Gulliksen (NO) HISTORIE OM ET EKTESKAP
Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2016 A Story about a Marriage is a novel narrated by a man, who tries to figure out how his seemingly loving marriage, could end in divorce. He tries to figure out what went wrong by examining all their years together, as if he were her. Nominated for the Norwegian Critics‘ Prize for Literature 2015 Nominated for the P2 Listeners Novel Prize 2015 Selected Focus Title for Spring 2016 by NORLA Sharp about love, sex and betrayal. A Story about a Marriage is written with an enormously strong sense of language, that makes the novel just as beautiful as it is interesting. - Dagsavisen So well written that it becomes uncomfortable (...) With an aesthetic, expressive language, so rich in detail, he twists and turns the plot, so that it almost becomes embarrassing in the most erotic scenes. - Dagbladet A Story about a Marriage is an emotionally complex novel and one of this autumn's finest (‌) It may be embarrassing to read, but it is truly literary impressive. - Klassekampen Geir Gulliksen (b. 1963) is a writer and book editor. He has written poems, essays, plays, novels and children's books. Original title: Historie om et ekteskap (A Story of a Marriage). Published in Norway by: Aschehoug, 2015. 170 pages. English sample available.
Rights sold: Denmark: C&K Forlag Sweden: Weyler FĂśrlag
Agent: mg
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Ane Riel (DK) HARPIKS
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Nominated by the Danish Radio for Best Novel 2016. Nominated by Berlingske and The Danish Library Association for the Reader’s Award 2016. What happens to a sensitive man, who has lost again and again, and finally cannot bear to lose any more? Perhaps he flees from it all. Perhaps he chooses to murder his own mother. Perhaps he reports the death of his own child. Perhaps he allows his wife to choke. Perhaps he drowns himself in things he cannot let go. And how does a much loved child grow up in a world turned upside down — where good is evil and right is wrong, where darkness is light and the dead are living? Resin is a story of a young girl who grows up on an island and slowly, along with the reader, realizes that everything is not as it should be. Her language is pure and sharp in a crooked sort of way, her characters ambiguous and colourful, while the story is captivating, the tone melancholic, melodious and masterfully strange. ★★★★★ - Berlingske Holy smoke, Ane Riel has written a totally captivating and remarkable novel (…) One of the most pleasurable reads I have found among Danish novels for a long time. - Weekendavisen It is both a thriller and a family saga of the odd sort, narrated with a fantastic feel for the child’s mind and inner world. ★★★★★ - Ekstra Bladet The ending has a surprising twist, you put the book down with a smile […] truly touched. – Information Convincingly scary. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ - Politiken Original title: Harpiks (Resin). Published in Denmark by: Tiderne Skifter, 2015. 257 pages. English sample available. Rights sold: Norway: Aschehoug (at auction) Previous publishers include: Germany: btb/Random House
Agent: ek
Morten Brask (DK) OFRENE
The Victims is a novel about rape written by an author whose precise prose is an ongoing examination of extreme emotions. One hot summer night in the heart of Copenhagen a young lawyer is attacked. A stranger drags her into a back alley and brutally rapes her. Through the eyes of her boyfriend, we follow her from forensics to the police inquiry at a rape crisis centre, until the day when the case is brought before a judge. We see how she gradually falls apart under the prying eyes of the system, and how the boyfriend is caught in the maelstrom and suddenly becomes the rapist’s second victim. The Victims is a gripping, intense and harrowingly relevant novel; a study of responsibility and punishment, violation and revenge. Le talent de Morten Brask est indéniable. - Le Monde Morten Brask is the author of nine books, most recently the novels The Sea In Theresienstadt, William Sidis’ Perfect Life and A Girl and a Boy. He is the winner of the Bottari Lattes Grinzane Prize 2015, the Edoardo Kihlgren Prize for European Literature 2014 and nominated for the Prix du roman Fnac 2011, Prix Chapitre du roman européen 2011 and Premio Letteraria 2014. Original title: Ofrene (The Victims). Published by: Politikens Forlag, April 2016. 278 pages. Agent: ek English sample available
Previous publishers include: France: Presses de la Cité Germany: Hanser Verlag Greece: Kedros Italy: Iperborea Norway: Spartacus Turkey: GOA Publishers
Peder Frederik Jensen (DK) VOLD
Violence is a story of a road trip through West Africa and a street view of the counter-culture of Copenhagen in the 90s. It is a coming-of-age novel, a thought-provoking tour-de-force and a love story. Simon, a young writer, lives with junkies and whores near the main train station in Copenhagen. His relationship with his girlfriend is at a standstill, and one day he can’t take it anymore. He packs his backpack and takes off to West Africa – not to find himself, but to get away from it all, from his dysfunctional family, from love and death. But what he finds is yet another form of chaos, that forces him to confront his own past, both the abuses he has suffered and those who have suffered abuse from him. Violence is a brutal novel about how victims can become violent, and vice versa. If one word can encapsulate the era in which we live, that word might be violence. Peder Frederik Jensen´s novel is as ambitious as its title: its story is no less than global in its scope, alternating between close encounters with local culture in West Africa and political violence among extremist left-wing groups in Copenhagen. Peder Frederik Jensen is a visionary writer reporting from a world on the brink. – Carsten Jensen His writing is superiorly good. – ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ - Politiken [Violence] is an ambitious work that employs violence – physical, psychological and political – as the overarching framework within which it develops small and more intimate narratives of family feuds and love as well as vaster accounts of emigration and genocide […] Violence raises important questions for the Denmark of today, where we lack a language that can process our own history of violence, and, additionally, the terror we face and fear becoming victims of. - Atlas Magazine Original title: Vold (Violence). Published by: Samlerens Forlag, 2016. 382 pages. Agent: mg English sample available
Ole Thorstensen (NO) EN SNEKKERS DAGBOK
Diary of a Carpenter is the story of a loft. Simple and brilliant. From the moment when the carpenter receives the first phone call asking to submit tenders, the carpenter’s diary follows the project to its conclusion when the loft is ready for occupation. Reflections on work and identity blends effortlessly with the heavy lifts, the blood, sweat and frustration and the joy and pride towards craftsmanship into a rarely told story about the other side of most people’s dealings with builders and manual labor. He has found what could only be described as an ingenious solution to talk about these things. By documenting an entire course of a construction project in diary form, he offers insights into processes that very few people know anything about (…) the book is just as solid as the craft that he describes. - Dagbladet Thorstensen perfectly describes how a job at the home of a private consumer looks from his perspective (…) What primarily makes the book worth reading is that it is so rich in descriptions of all pleasures related to mastering a craft: the portrayal of the working community, the joy of seeing something take shape, and the knowledge that one has left a piece of oneself behind. The pleasure of drinking coffee from a thermos, listemning to good radio, observe the city from a new angle, and feel the weight of history when you continue building on something that craftsmen before you have Started. - Klassekampen The carpenter Ole Thorstensen makes his debut with a story about how he spends his days. Thorstensen has worked 25 years in the construction industry. He lives in Eidsvoll, north of Oslo. Original title: En snekkers dagbok (Diary of a Carpenter). Published in Norway by: Pelikanen, 2015. 221 pages. English sample available. Selected Focus title for Spring 2016 by NORLA Rights sold: Denmark: tba UK: Maclehose Press
Agent: mg
Halfdan Pisket (DK) DANSKER Dane is volume three of the critically acclaimed trilogy of graphic novels about a TurkishArmenian refugee of war, the artist’s father, and his life as a guest worker and parttime criminal, part-time father in Denmark.
A masterpiece – Politiken Particularly outstanding – Information My father's story is similar to so many others, who travel away in an attempt to put the past behind them, but who eventually fall apart in the new country. - Halfdan Pisket The Ping Award 2014 Politiken’s Special Award 2016 Original titles: Desertør, Kakerlak, Dansker (Deserter, Cockroach, Dane) Published in Denmark by: Fahrenheit, 2014- 2016. Total: Approx. 135 pages each. Agent: ek in cooperation with Nicolas Grivel Agency
Rights sold: Holland: Uitgeverij Q/SubQ France: Presque lune éditions
Madame Nielsen (DK) INVASIONEN En fremmed i flygtningestrømmen In the fall of 2015 Madame Nielsen set off on a Grand Tour of Europe: from ancient Hellas all the way up to Denmark. She walked alone until her route fell into step with the ‘tide of refugees’. She shared their foreignness, their exhaustion, the border crossings and the white tent filled camps. A journey by foot, which reveals a Europe turned inside out, where capital cities appea like provincial villages, and hip lives remain strangely unaffected by the violence playing out along their borders. The Invasion is a Bildungsroman, about Europe and the European, the emigrants and the immigrants. The Danish author Claus Beck-Nielsen has worked under the name Das Beckwerk. He changed his name to Nielsen or Madame Nielsen in 2011. Claus Beck-Nielsen has been nominated twice for the Nordic Council Literature Price. Represented in the 2016-issue of Best European Fiction Original title: Invasionen – En fremmed i flygtningestrømmen (The Invasion – A Stranger in the Tide of Refugees). Published in Denmark by: Gyldendal, 2016. 190 pages. Agent: ah German sample translation is available. Rights sold: Norway: Pelikanen Previous publishers include: France: Notabilia, Norway: Pelikanen, Spain: Minúscula, Sweden: Kabusa World English: Open Letter Books, NY
Coming attractions
Tom Buk-Swienty (DK) TOMMY OG TANNE
An outstanding storyteller - Berlingske Coming in November 2016: A masterful biography about a man, who saw the horrors of the Western Front in 1918, received the Victoria Cross for his service and nearly broke his heart by falling in love with a married woman. Two young children swore an oath to ‘follow father’s God, to seek what is great in life’. To the older sister, that meant persuading her brother to enlist in the First World War. Their father was Captain Wilhelm Dinesen, who killed himself at age 50, leaving a wife and four young children behind, forever hiding the truth about his tormented experiences as an officer in some of the bloodiest conflicts of 19th century Europe. The older sister was Karen ‘Tanne’ Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen, who would seek her destiny in Africa, and fail, only later to become a world famous author. The brother was Thomas ‘Tommy’ Dinesen, whose amazing story forms the backbone of this dramatic and utterly engaging biography based on never before seen diaries, letters and new research. 1918: A Love Story tells the story of two siblings who seek what is great in life, in wars, but ultimately they are both swept away by love. The two love affairs a young Tommy experiences in New York and in Brighton are retold in riveting detail, bringing to life another time, but with feelings of longing and despair recognizable through the ages. Tom Buk-Swienty is the author of a celebrated two-volume biography and bestseller about Captain Wilhelm Dinesen, and the books behind the TV-series 1864, about the Danish-Prussian war of 1864. Original title: Tommy og Tanne (1918: A Love Story). To be published in Denmark by: Gyldendal, November 2016. Approx. 480 pages. Agent: ek Previous publishers include: Germany: Osburg Verlag Norway: Gyldendal UK: Profile Books
Josefine Klougart (DK) COLUMBIA BLUE
New novel from young Danish author nominated twice for the Nordic Council Literary Prize. A young girl on a trip to the south of England rides a horse through New Forest and sees a blacksmith hammering on a red-hot horseshoe. A young woman, an author, is in a complicated relationship and contemplates having children. An older woman takes care of her dying husband and finally watches him lying dead in his open coffin in the living room. Three women in three different life situations. Their storylines come together and becomes an ambitious novel about what it means to be a daughter, mother, sister and lover. What it is like to be loved, and what it is like to stand outside the light of love. Original title: Columbia Blue (Columbia Blue) To be published in Denmark by: Gladiator, Summer 2016. Approx. 400 pages. Agent: mg
On Darkness (2014) She has an unusual ability to create phrases, images and a language that you long to stay in and remember forever. She looks deep inside the human mind. - Dagens Nyheter Danish Klougart has become known for writing the most beautiful prose in Scandinavia. (... ) I believe that the author could even achieve the impossible, to describe light. - Sydsvenskan One of Us Is Sleeping (2012) Scandinavia now has its own Virginia Woolf. - Mari Nymoen Nilsen, VG, Norway, starred review
Previous publishers include: Bulgaria: Perseus Publishing, Croatia: VBZ, France: Actes Sud, Italy: Scritturapura, Norway: Gyldendal Norsk forlag, Sweden: Albert Bonniers Fรถrlag, Turkey: Bence Kitap, World English: Deep Vellum Publishing (On Darkness), World English: Open Letter Books (One of Us is Sleeping)
Erik Fosnes Hansen (NO) ET HUMMERLIV First novel in almost 10 years from the author of Psalm at Journey’s End and Tales of Protection.
The Lion Woman An international feature film to be released August 2016 The Lion Woman, by Erik Fosnes Hansen is a novel about a girl born in 1910 with the rare disease Hypertrichosis lanuginosa congenita: she is covered from head to toe in silky hair. The Lion Woman is an epic novel about loneliness, about growing up and about the creation of a unique and strong personality.
Sedd is growing up with his sturdy Norwegian grandfather and eccentric Austrian grandmother in a Norwegian mountain hotel in the early 1980’s. Sedd spends time in his piccolo-uniform observing the guests and the people who live in the village nearby. The novel opens with Sedd trying to resurrect a local bank manager after he collapses during a dinner party at the hotel. Unfortunately the bank manager dies and this sets in motion the slow demise of the hotel. A Lobster Life is filled with humour, exquisite prose and an elegant portrayal of characters that are positioned around a tragic secret and the looming bankruptcy of the mountain hotel. Original title: Et hummerliv (A Lobster Life). To be published in Norway by: Cappelen Damm, August 2015. English sample translation available. Agent: ah Rights sold: Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Previous publishers include: Brazil: Companhia das Letras, Denmark: Gyldendal, Finland: France: Gallimard Italy: Marco Tropea Editore, Japan: Shinchosha, Latvia: Atena, Netherlands: De Geus, Portugal: Presenca ,Russia: Azbooka, Spain: JP Libros, Sweden: Bonniers, US: FSG
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Morten Strøksnes (NO) HAVBOKA
RIGHTS SOLD IN 16 COUNTRIES Shark Drunk - The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean through Four Seasons by Morten A. Strøksnes The depths of Lofoten are home to the great Greenland shark. The meat of this shark contains a poison that, when consumed is known to make people or dogs intoxicated. The shark has a parasite feeding on its eyes , which cause them to glow in the dark. Shark Drunk is about the sea, its creatures and two friends who become obsessed with bringing the iconic monster to the surface. What a fishing trip! (…) At the end, it all comes together in a way that only a full-fledged writer is capable of. - VG, starred review Strøksnes' wisdom about life in the sea is without end (...) The book is a stunning display of essayistic writing and will be read and remembered for a long time. - Vårt Land Winner of the Norwegian Brage Prize, 2015 Winner of the Norwegian Critics‘ Prize for Literature 2015 Original title: Havboka - eller Kunsten å fange en kjempehai fra en gummibåt på et stort hav gjennom fire årstider (Shark Drunk). Published in Norway by: Forlaget Oktober, 2015. 320 pages. English translation of excerpt published in Granta, April 2013. German translation available. Agent: mg
Rights sold: China (simplified Chinese rights): Penguin Random House Croatia: Fraktura. Denmark: DonMax/Hr. Ferdinand (auction) France: Gallimard (auction). Germany: DVA/ Random House (preempt), Iceland: Bjartur. Italy: Iperborea (auction). Korea: Business Books, Netherlands: Meridiaan Uitgevers (auction) Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie. Russia: Corpus Books, Spain: Ediciones Salamandra (pre-empt), Sweden: Leopard Förlag Taiwan: (Complex Chinese rights): Locus Publishing UK: Jonathan Cape (auction). US: Knopf (auction)
Erika Fatland (NO) SOVJETISTAN
A Journey to the Strangest Places in Central-Asia In her third documentary account Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unbeknownst to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics’ all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since then? With this in mind, Erika Fatland explores with her usual compassion and vast knowledge of these societies, their recent and ancient history, their culture and landscapes. She invites the reader to witness gripping human encounters and interesting accounts of how the Soviet heritage has influenced these countries. June 2015 Erika Fatland was named “One of the Best Norwegian authors under 35”. Winner of the Norwegian Prize for Nonfiction 2015. For her book on the tragedy of Beslan, The Village of Angels (2011) Erika Fatland was nominated for the Norwegian BRAGE-prize. Erika Fatland is a Norwegian author and social anthropologist, born 1983. Studied in Lyon, Helsinki, Copenhagen and at the University of Oslo where she completed her MA in Social Anthropology in 2008. Original title: Sovjetistan Published in Norway by: Kagge (2014). 495 pages. English sample available. Agent: ah Rights sold: Denmark: Informations Forlag Estonia: Tänapäev Finland: Siltala France: Gaïa Editions Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag Netherlands: De Geus Poland: W.A.B. Foksal Russia: Ripol Classic Publishing Group Sweden: Leopard Förlag Italy: Marsilio
Jón Kalman Stefánson (IS) EITTHVAO À STÆR∂ VIO ALHEIMINN About the same Size as the Universe is a standalone sequel to the novel Fish Have No Feet. The story starts with Ari on his way to see his father who is on his deathbed. Soon the plot unfolds with a narrative structure that intertwines old stories with new ones. A description of burning passion between husbands and wives, and tales of forbidden love, violence, sorrow, betrayal and depression unravels. Margrét, Ari‘s grandmother, loves her husband deeply but she secretly longs for Þorkell and engage in an affair with him. Veiga, Ari‘s aunt, has an affair with a German soldier, and also Ari cheats on his wife, Þóra. Infidelity is a strong topic throughout the novel and death is always near. Probably his funniest and most amusing book yet. (…) a magnificent and clear description of death itself. - Stundin, starred review Nominated for the 2015 Icelandic Literature Award. Jón Kalman Stefánson’s work The Trilogy About the Boy was published in 25 countries. Original title: Eitthvað á stærð við alheiminn (About the same Size as the Universe). Published in Iceland by: Bjartur, 2015 Agent: mg Rights sold: Denmark: Batzer & Co., France: Gallimard Germany: Piper Verlag, Italy: Iperborea Netherlands: Ambo Anthos, Norway: Press Portugal: Cavalo de Ferro, Sweden: Svante Weyler Förlag, UK: MacLehose Press
John Ajvide Lindqvist (SE) RÖRELSEN John Lindqvist is nineteen and wants to become a magician. In September 1985 he moves into a narrow and dark back building in Stockholm, to practice for the magicians’ championship in Copenhagen. He does not win, he does not even get to Copenhagen. Instead he is arrested for theft, and when he gets out of prison something has changed, a strange shift seems to have taken place in his nearest surroundings. Incredible and wonderful things happen to those who are initiated. Something that takes them to a place that John calls The Other Place. Rörelsen is a stand-alone prequel to Himmelstrand NOMINATED FOR THE AUGUST-PRIZE 2015 Original title: Rörelsen (I’ll Always Find You). Published in Sweden by: Ordfront, 2015 Agent: ah
Swedens answer to Stephen King. –Daily Mirror
Rights sold: Netherlands: Signatuur Norway: CappelenDamm
Carsten Jensen (DK) DEN FØRSTE STEN When a Danish army unit is catastrophically betrayed, twelve rogue soldiers, their chaplain and the disillusioned camp commander do just what their enigmatic enemy expected. They set out on a mission of revenge into unknown Afghan territory. First Stone is a gripping, panoramic drama about the power of myth-making and the limits of war.
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It is not only about the war in Afghanistan, but about war in general – and about modern technological warfare in particular … Breaking with tradition, Carsten Jensen’s brilliant novel does not focus on the impossible distance between the battlefield and home: instead, we are catapulted directly into a group of professional Danish soldiers in Helmand, and in the middle of a war in which the first stone has long since been thrown. – Politiken
Shortlisted for DR Romanprisen 2016 Shortlisted for the Readers Award 2016 More than 52.000 copies in print.
Original title: Den første sten (The First Stone). Published in Denmark by: Gyldendal, 2015 550 pages. Detailed English summary available. English sample available.
Agent: ah
Sold to: France: Phébus, Germany: Knaus Verlag/RH, Netherlands: De Bezige Bij, Norway: Forlaget Press, Sweden: Bonniers, Turkey: Dedalus Film rights: Good Company Films
Niels Lyngsø (DK) MIN UKENDTE BROR An encyclopedic novel about sex, love and interstellar dust clouds. Narrated by a mysterious voice, the novel looks at the upbringing of a boy and young man, the titular unknown brother, in the Danish welfare state, and curiously examines the loneliness created within a tightknit, communal society. The book received numerous rave reviews:
Masterful [...] The book is a surprise from the beginning to end; a sober, yet sympathetic psychological analysis of a forty year old man’s upbringing, breakdown and recovery, [… ] A great contemporary novel – full of subtle humor and mild irony, exciting and insightful, so that one blazes through it. - JyllandsPosten A thoroughly convincing novel with a firm grip on style [...] A magnificent enlightenment project, Rubik’s cube as a novel, a psychological mystery and an existential study. - Weekendavisen A follow-up will be published this fall. Niels Lyngsø is an acclaimed Danish poet. He is also a translator of, among others, Philip Roth, Junot Díaz, Michel Houllebeq and Marcel Proust. Original title: Min ukendte bror (My Unknown Brother) Published in Denmark by: Gyldendal (2015) 320 pages Agent: ek
Ida Jessen (DK) EN NY TID A Change of Time is the diary of a newly widowed former teacher from a small, provincial town, who, in the late 1920s, contemplates her past and the options that she sees in her future. Once I read the opening, I was sold. Ida Jessen’s writing is understated, delicate and perceptive. I gave myself over to the narrator’s quiet adamance, to her deep-rooted emotions, to the relaxed rhythm that gives us room to breathe, feel and think. - Jill Schoolman, Archipelago Books For Ida Jessen, being human is being unable to truly see oneself, or in particular, the ways that we are connected to others. - Information
Ida Jessen is a master of contemporary Danish fiction, a member of The Danish Academy, a bestselling author since her debut, and the translator of several major authors, including Alice Munro and Marilynne Robinson. Nominated by the Danish Radio for Best Novel 2016. Original title: En ny tid (A Change of Time). Published in Denmark by: Gyldendal, 2015. 210 pages. Agent: ek
Rights sold: USA: Archipelago Books Italy: Scritturapura
Anna Grue (DK) ITALIENSVEJ Italy Road is a romantic bestseller from the popular author of the The Bald Detective series. Nostalgic and fun the novels opens with a young Italian woman arriving in Copenhagen in the 1950s. She arrives in a small Fiat with an envelope full of cash and an infant baby boy. While she does her best to adapt to the Danish lifestyle (and the terrible food), she will not reveal the story behind the child, she claims to be hers. When her employee, a doctor, falls in love with her, she must tell the truth, or, with the advice of her new friend, the free-spirited Conny, set out to loose her virginity before it is too late. Truly entertaining. - Politiken Original title: Italensvej (Italy Road). Published in Denmark by: Politikens Forlag, 2015. 472 pages. Agent: ek
Rights sold: Germany: Berlin Verlag Norway: CappelenDamm
Lene Kaaberbøl (DK) VILDHEKS 1-6
More than 300.000 copies sold. Sold in 10 territories. Soon to be a major feature film The Wildwitch Series follows a 12-year girl, Clara, who battles with confidence issues and low self-esteem. When events force her out of her comfortable contemporary existence, she discovers a world full of magic - and great danger. Lene Kaaberbøl with a friend.
In volume 1, Wildfire, we meet Clara, who thinks she’s an ordinary girl , but one day, when she is attacked by a big black cat, her special talent is revealed: Clara has an understanding of the wild and can hear what animals are thinking. Her aunt, the Wildwitch Isa, teaches her to trust her instincts and use her closeness to nature. But the more Clara's skills grow, the bigger her responsibility becomes. Lene Kaaberbøl has written many books for children and young adults, among them The Shamer’s Chronicles. She co-wrote the New York Times bestselling crime series about Nina Borg (The Boy in the Suitcase) with Agnete Friis. Lene Kaaberbøl has been awarded numerous literary prizes and was most recently nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award as well as for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Original title: Vildheks 1-6 (Wildwitch 1-6). Published in Denmark by: Alvilda, 2010-2014. 170-190 pages. English translations available.
Agent: ek
Sold to: Bulgaria: EMAS, Colombia (Latin America): Panamericana Editorial, France: Bayard, Germany: Hanser, Italy: Carlo Gallucci Netherlands: Lannoo, Norway: Samlaget, Russia: Eksmo Sweden: Rabén & Sjögren, UK (World English): Pushkin Press
Crime
Ragnar J贸nasson (IS) DIMMA
NEW CRIME SERIES: THE HULDA SERIES A lawyer and a translator of Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic, Ragnar Jónasson has written seven novels, five in the Dark Iceland series, sold to 11 territories, and two in the new Hulda series, which is told in reverse order, with the first book called Hulda’s Last Case. The plots he leaves behind are more interesting, more believable and more unexpected than fans of crime novels have come to expect. Hulda’s Last Case is an outstanding book in every way (…) the ending makes the reader crouch in excitement. – Hringbraut, starred review Original title: Dimma (Hulda’s Last Case). Book 1 in the Hulda Series. Original title: Drungi (Gloom). Book 2 in the Hulda Series. Published by: Bjartur Veröld, 2015 and Fall 2016. English sample translation available. Agent: mg
THE DARK ICELAND SERIES #1: SNOWBLIND Has all the skillful plotting of an old-fashioned whodunit although it feels bitingly contemporary in setting and tone. - Sunday Express A No. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in UK and Australia Selected amongst The Best Crime Fiction of 2015 by The Independent Nominated for the Barry Award in the US for Best Paperback Original Original title: Snjóblinda (Snowblind), Myrknætti (Blackout), Rof (Broken), Andköf (Breathless), Náttblinda (Nightblind). Published by: Bjartur, 2010-2014. English translations available. Agent: mg Rights sold: Arabic: Kalima, Armenia: Guitank Publishing, France: La Martinière, Germany: S. Fischer Verlag, Italy: Marsilio Editori, Japan: Shogakukan Inc. Korea: Bookplaza, Poland: Wydawnictwo Amber, Turkey: Andante UK: Orenda Books, US: St. Martin’s Press UK Production Company On the Corner in the UK has acquired TV Rights to the Dark Iceland series.
Anna Grue (DK) I LIGE LINJE
THE BALD DETECTIVE SERIES #7: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON 750.000 copies of The Bald Detective printed in Denmark The seventh volume in the popular series about Dan Sommerdahl, the former advertising man turned private detective, finds Dan depressed, unloved, unemployed and uneasy around his mother, who is moving into an old age home. In Christianssund, the idyllic seaside town where Dan lives, a man is killed in what looks like a motorcycle accident, but when his friend is found murdered shortly after, the two deaths become linked. Dan, who is on his own mission searching for a different set of answers, finds himself involved. In Denmark, Anna Grue is just as famous as her colleague Jussi Adler-Olsen because she writes crime novels that are brilliantly sophisticated and credible. - Die Welt Orchestrates plot and characters with a grown up sense of logic and a completely natural dialogue. - Weekendavisen It is first and foremost Grue's light and playful style that makes you think of Dashiell Hammett's 'The Thin Man'. [..] an exceptionally good crime series. - Berlingske Tidende Original title: I lige linje (Like Father, Like Son). Volume 7 of The Bald Detective series. To be published by: Politikens Forlag, Summer 2016. Agent: ek
Previous publishers include: Armenia: Guitank, France: Gaïa Editions. Germany: Atrium Verlag, Iceland: Forlagiđ, Italy: Marsilio, Norway: Cappelen Damm, Sweden: Piratförlaget Film rights to ndf (Neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft).
Henrik Tord (SE) LABOON Laboon - a wave that eats people Sandra and Matti saw the wave approaching like white foam across the horizon that sunny morning on Boxing Day. They searched in despair along the beach for their nine year old son, Viktor. Six years later. In the middle of the night, the mobile rang.
Henrik Tord has lived for many years in South East Asia. His literary debut was the critically acclaimed thriller KUM. He works in advertising and now lives in Stockholm.
She wanted to stay in her dreams, did not want to return to reality, to the endless sorrow and loss. The ringing continued. Sandra groped along the floor for her mobile. “This is Bertil Arvidsson from the embassy in Bangkok”, a voice said. Sandra felt herself go cold, wanted to scream. The voice coughed: “We have found your son. Laboon follows KUM and Tears of Lazarus as the third stand-alone thriller taking place in South East Asia and Sweden.
Original title: Laboon – Vågen som äter människor (Laboon – The Wave That Eats People) To be published in Sweden by: Ordfront, May 2016. Agent: ek
Helene Tursten (SE) JAKTMARK Author of the IRENE HUSS SERIES, published in 15 territories with more than 4 million copies in print. Hunting Ground is the first novel in a new crime series launched Fall 2014. Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, 28, is in her car, and on her way up to Dalsland and the annual moose hunt. Hunting is, apart from boxing, one of the few things that makes her relax. But this year’s hunt turns out to be far from what the members of the hunting team had envisioned when two of the hunters suddenly disappear. Soon one of them is found dead and Embla Nyström realizes that her holiday is over. Together with her colleagues Göran and Hampus from the mobile unit in Västra Götaland, they embark on a hunt for a killer. Volume 2 to be published in August 2016. Original title: Jaktmark (Hunting Ground). Published by: Kabusa, 2014. Agent: ah
Rights sold: Germany: btb Random House, Main Title Spring 2016 Czech Republic: Motto/Albatros Media Denmark: Lindhardt og Ringhof World English: Soho Press
Henning Mankell (SE) SVENSKA GUMMISTÖVLAR One autumn night in 2008, Fredrik Wehlin, a retired doctor who lives on an island in the Baltic Sea, wakes up to find his house on fire. He escapes at the very last moment wearing two left-footed wellies
Henning Mankell 1948-2015 Henning Mankell is internationally one of the bestselling Swedish author. His books have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and are translated into more than forty languages. In particular police inspector Kurt Wallander has gained fame all over the world, most recently personified by the British actor Kenneth Branagh in a television series produced by the BBC. Swedish Wellies is Henning Mankell’s last novel and a stand-alone sequel to Italian Shoes.
Louise, Fredrik’s daughter, comes to the island and tells him that she is pregnant. To Fredrik this is hardly a positive message. In general, Fredrik is increasingly confronted with aging that autumn. When he meets Lisa Modin, a journalist at the local newspaper, something in him is aroused that he thought was dead long ago. On New Year’s Eve he arranges a party, where he invites Lisa Modin and his old friend and adversary, the postman Jansson. That night, another house burns on the archipelago. The events of that autumn lead to an end that Fredrik Wehlin could never have imagined... Original title: Svenska Gummistövlar (Swedish Wellies). Published in Sweden by: Leopard Förlag, 2015. Agent: ah
Rights sold to (among many others): Finland: Otava, France: Editons du Seuil, Germany: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Italy: Marsilio, Netherlands: De Geus, Norway: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Poland: W.A.B. Foksal, UK: Harvill Secker
Client list, April 2016: A Gabriela Adamesteanu (RU), fiction Peter Adolphsen (DK), fiction. Mah-Rukh Ali (NO), non-fiction
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B Sanne Bjerg (DK), fiction Ritt Bjerregaard (DK), non-fiction, memoir Morten Brask (DK), fiction Tom Buk-Swienty (DK), non-fiction, biography
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C Rune Christiansen (NO), fiction Thomas Clemen (DK), crime fiction
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D Leif Davidsen (DK), crime fiction Daniel Dencik (DK), fiction Adda Djørup (DK), fiction Slavenka Draculic (CR), fiction
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E Elsebeth Egholm (DK), crime fiction Marit Eikemo (NO), fiction Jakob Ejersbo Estate (DK), fiction Kjell Eriksson (SE), crime fiction
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F Karen Fastrup (DK), fiction Erika Fatland (NO) non-fiction Mette Finderup (DK), young adult
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G Lotte Garbers (DK), fiction Joakim Garff (DK), non-fiction Simon Glinvad (DK), fiction Karen Glistrup (DK), non-fiction Günter Grass Estate (DE), fiction (Scandinavia only) Anna Grue (DK), crime Geir Gulliksen (NO), fiction Gunnar Gunnarsson Estate (SE), fiction
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Client list, April 2016: H Christina Hagen (DK), fiction Ulf Peter Hallberg (SE), fiction Kirsten Hammann (DK), fiction Erik Fosnes Hansen (NO), fiction Steffen Heiberg (DK), non-fiction Hanne-Vibeke Holst (DK), fiction Lone Hørslev (DK), fiction
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J Carsten Jensen (DK), fiction, non-fiction Peder Frederik Jensen (DK), fiction Erling Jepsen (DK), fiction Ida Jessen (DK), fiction Tony Johansson (SE), crime fiction Ragnar Jónasson (IS), crime fiction Christian Jungersen (DK), fiction Jesper Juul (DK), non-fiction
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K Josefine Klougart (DK), fiction Linda Boström Knausgaard (SE), fiction Birgithe Kosovic (DK), fiction Michael Katz Krefeld (DK), crime fiction Monica Kristensen (NO), crime fiction Lone Kühlmann (DK) non-fiction, memoir Kaaberbøl & Friis (DK), crime fiction Lene Kaaberbøl (DK), young adult , fiction, crime
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L Maja Lee Langvad (DK), fiction John Ajvide Lindqvist (SE), fiction Anne-Sophie Lunding-Sørensen (DK), fiction (f), Niels Lyngsø (DK), fiction Line-Maria Lång (DK), fiction
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M Henning Mankell Estate (SE), crime, fiction, non-fiction Iben Mondrup (DK), fiction Søren Mørch (DK), non-fiction
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Client list, April 2016: N Nielsen (DK), non-fiction, fiction Jóanes Nielsen, (FØ), crime fiction
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P Halfdan Pisket (DK), graphic novels
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R Ane Riel (DK), fiction
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S Astrid Saalbach (DK), fiction Peter Seeberg Estate (DK), fiction Annemarie Selinko Estate (DK), fiction Jan Sonnergaard (DK), fiction Henrik Stangerup Estate (DK), fiction Susanne Staun (DK), crime fiction Jón Kalman Stefánsson (IS), fiction Morten Strøksnes (NO), non-fiction Søren Sveistrup (DK), crime fiction Villy Sørensen Estate (DK), fiction, non-fiction
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T Mette Thomsen (DK), fiction Ole Thorstensen (NO), non-fiction Henrik Tord (SE), crime fiction Ole Tornbjerg (DK), fiction Helene Tursten (SE), crime fiction
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U Maren Uthaug (DK), fiction, cartoons
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V, W Harald Voetmann (DK), fiction Alberte Winding (DK), children, young adult Thomas Winding Estate (DK), children
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Ø Øbro & Tornbjerg (DK), crime fiction
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Film rights optioned/under development/in production, April 2016: Author Leif Davidsen Elsebeth Egholm Anna Grue Kirsten Hammann Erik Fosnes Hansen Steffen Heiberg Carsten Jensen Hanne-Vibeke Holst Ragnar Jónasson Christian Jungersen Kaaberbøl & Friis Lene Kaaberbøl Lene Kaaberbøl Lene Kaaberbøl Anne-Sophie Lunding-Sørensen Ane Riel Susanne Staun Jón Kalman Stefánsson Mette Thomsen
Title The Unknown Wife Dicte-series, season 3 Bald Detective Look at Me The Lion Woman Christian IV The Last Stone Knud, The Great Dark Island Series You Disappear Boy in the Suitcase Shamer’s Daughter II Madeleine Karno Wildwitch
Happy Ending Resin Fanny Fiske series Heaven and Hell-trilogy Confessions of a Superhero Thomas Winding Estate Master
Producer Ashaa Ltd Miso Film NDF SF Productions Filmkameratene Metropolitan Film Good Company Regner Grasten Film On the Corner Zentropa Amazon Nepenthe SAM Productions Good Company SAM Productions Zentropa SAMProductions Anagram Film & TV SAM Productions Toolbox
Part two of the adaptation of Lene Kaaberbøl’s The Shamer Chronicles is expected to be released in 2017.