The Petrona Award Longlist 2022

November 4 2022

Everything Is Mine by Ruth Lillegraven, translated by Diane Oatley, is nominated for The Petrona Award

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.

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September 15 2026

"Hafni says" out in English to rave reviews

Helle Helle’s Hafni says (Hafni fortæller, Gutkind 2023) is now out in English (UK: Akoya, NA: New Directions, AU/NZ: Giramondo, tr. Martin Aitken) – and reviewers are showering the book with praise!

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September 4 2026

"Vaim Hotel" out in Norwegian

Vaim Hotel is out in Norway! The second book in Jon Fosse’s Vaim trilogy has surprised and delighted reviewers here in Norway, and multiple foreign editions will already be coming out in the next few months.

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