Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 was special this year with Norway as the Guest of Honour.
This meant a program with a lot of of authors from Northern Stories participating
From Northern Stories participated Camara Lundestad Joof, Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen, Jon Larsen, Torolf Kroglund and Agnes Ravatn.
And it was all a huge success according to NORLA with a lot of media attention and an increase in number of visitors. For the agents, it was a week as usual, a week filled with meetings, this time we were all placed in The Festhalle.
To read the report on Norway as the Guest of Honour, have a look here.
The UK rights to John Kåre Raake’s thriller The Ice has been acquired by the renowned British publisher Pushkin Press. – The Ice is a brilliantly paced and plotted thriller — taut, claustrophobic, and all played out in the freezing darkness of the North Pole. I can’t wait for Pushkin Vertigo to publish it in English, says the editor Daniel Seton.
Anders Røyneberg’s book GREEN JOY is set to travel out into the world. The estemeed publishing house Quadrille has bought World English rights and will publish it in the UK. In Australia it will be published by Hardie Grant, while Crown will publish it in North America.
The first book about Ingrid Winter written by Janne Stigen Drangsholt is going to become a movie.
The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter will be produced by the Norwegian production company Chezville.
Lots of books has been sold this fall. Here’s an update.
Linka Neumann’s highly successful first book Wilderness Sweaters is sold to be published both in Sweden and Finland.