1 October 2021
Publishing Weekly Wrap-Up September 27th – October 1st
It’s time for our Publishing Weekly Wrap-Up that shares the latest activities, news, deals and much more from the past week. Here are the latest highlights. This week we are excited to welcome two new authors to the agency, introduce more of the newest titles on our adult list and share a couple of newly translated editions.
We want to kick off this Weekly Wrap-Up by warmly welcoming two new authors, Inkeri Markkula from Finland and Stefan Lindberg from Sweden.
Inkeri Markkula is a writer and biologist, researching northern nature. Her recently published book The Land that Never Melts (Maa joka ei koskaan sula) is a thrillingly shocking yet beautiful novel about love and deception, nature and climate change that throws the reader on the ice of a glacier that threatens to disappear from underneath. It is a story of belonging, homesickness, freedom and love of northern nature. On the surface floats the threat of the melting glacier, whereas gruesome secrets from the past of people bubble underneath.
The book is originally published in Finnish by Otava Publishing Company.
Inkeri Markkula by Jonne Räsänen 2020.
Author photo: © Jonne Räsänen/ Otava
Stefan Lindberg made his literary debut back in 1999 with the highly acclaimed short story collection A Thousand Needles. During the past decades, he has written several novels and also worked as a playwriter and translator.
His book Splendor that begins with an encounter of two individuals at a bar in Stockholm is a novel that breaks the boundaries of autofiction and puts the reader in a state of absolute and hallucinatory presence. Both a mystery tale and a love story, the novel points onto a new direction in Stefan Lindberg’s authorship. The book is originally published in Swedish by Albert Bonniers Förlag. The book was nominated for both the August Prize and Swedish Radio Novel Prize 2020.
Stefan Lindberg by Sofia Runarsdotter.
Author photo: © Sofia Runarsdotter
Released new editions
The first book of Siri Kolu’s action-packed contemporary adventure trilogy, Wild House Book 1: the Amazing Villa von Böök (Villitalo) has reached a new destination with the release of the Turkish edition by Ayrinti Yayinlari.
Hello Ruby 1: Adventures in Coding by Linda Liukas has a Basque edition now, published by Elhuyar Fundaziona.
The third book School Shock (Hammaskeiju) from the hilarious Dad around the Clock series by Eve Hietamies delights Latvian readers, the edition released by Latvijas Mediji.
Travel duo and Russian experts Ville Ropponen’s and Ville-Juhani Sutinen’s Finlandia Prize-nominated The Road of Bones (Luiden tie) has been released in Russian, published by Eksmo Publishing House.
Latest deals
And to round the week off, here are the latest foreign rights deals:
Simplified Chinese rights to Untu and the Secret of the Heart of Winter (Untu ja sydaÌntalven salaisuus) written by Nora Surojegin and Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin go to Daylight Publishing House via Cloudberry Limited.
