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Albert Bonniers Förlag Releases Prime Minister Biography Series

By Bert Menninga on 2010-05-26
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The spring's big release from Albert Bonniers Förlag is a series of biographies of Swedish prime ministers from the past hundred years.

The 22-book series Sveriges Statsministrar under 100 år - Sweden's Prime Ministers Over a Century - is now available in Swedish book shops. The boxed set is the biggest project from Albert Bonniers Förlag in recent years and the launch includes a range of activities planned for 2010, including seminars with the authors and some of the former prime ministers along with a TV series that will be broadcast in May and June.

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Bronze for Book Designer

By Bert Menninga on 2010-04-12
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Nina Ulmaja's design of En dramatikers dagbok is singled out from among 634 books from around the world.

Photo by Dick Norberg

Book designer Nina Ulmaja of Albert Bonniers Förlag recently won a bronze medal in the "Best Books From All Over the World" competition held in Leipzig. Ulmaja won for her design of Lars Norén's En dramatikers dagbok (a playwright's diary), which was published in 2009.

The book design competition, sponsored by the German foundation Stiftung Buchkunst in Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, has been held annually since 1963.

Svensk Filmindustri is filming The Hypnotist

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-11-25
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Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri has acquired the rights to film the Swedish crime novel hit The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler 

The Hypnotist is a co-production between Svensk Filmindustri and Sonet Film, producers Börje Hansson and Peter Possne. The principal shooting of the movie will commence in 2010/2011.

The Dan Brown Code

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-09-24
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On October 21st, what is perhaps the most eagerly awaited book of the year will hit Swedish bookstores. Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, sold over one million copies in the U.S. in its first day on the shelves. In Sweden, more than 275,000 copies have already been pre-ordered. But it hasn’t been entirely smooth sailing up to this point.     

You don't have to speak with many people in the book world to understand that nothing has been the same since The Da Vinci Code. The novel, published in 2003 (2004 in Sweden), has sold 80 million copies worldwide — 1.1 million in Sweden alone. Over 700,000 of these were in hardback, making it by far Sweden's bestselling hardback book of all time. Now, five years later, the sequel has finally arrived.