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Flood and Roslund longlisted for Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year
Helene Flood and Anders Roslund are among those longlisted for the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.
The longlist features 12 “outstanding” crime novels from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This is the first year the judges have decided to release a longlist. These 12 titles will be whittled down to a shortlist, to be announced on 16th November.
The award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.
The longlist contains a number of new faces as well as Petrona Award-winning authors Jørn Lier Horst and Antti Tuomainen and the previously shortlisted Kjell Ola Dahl and Thomas Enger.
Both large and small publishers are represented on the longlist, with Orenda Books leading with four entries.
Maria Adolfsson is nominated for Fatal Isles translated by Agnes Broomé (Sweden, Zaffre), while Kjell Ola Dahl is up for The Assistant translated by Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books) and Katrine Engberg is in contention with The Butterfly House translated by Tara Chace (Denmark, Hodder & Stoughton).
Helene Flood’s The Therapist translated by Alison McCullough (Norway, MacLehose Press) is longlisted alongside Óskar Guðmundsson for The Commandments translated by Quentin Bates (Ireland, Corylus Books Ltd), Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Smoke Screen translated by Megan Turney (Noway, Orenda Books), Ruth Lillegraven’s Everything Is Mine translated by Diane Oatley (Norway, AmazonCrossing) and Sólveig Pálsdóttir’s Silenced translated by Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books Ltd).
Anders Roslund’s Knock Knock translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Sweden, Harvill Secker) is also in contention, as well as Lilja Sigurðardóttir’s Cold as Hell translated by Quentin Bates (Iceland, Orenda Books), Gustaf Skördeman’s Geiger translated by Ian Giles (Sweden, Zaffre) and Antti Tuomainen’s The Rabbit Factor translated by David Hackston (Finland, Orenda Books).
