Jo Nesbø

PHANTOM is the ninth novel in the Harry Hole series and will be published in March 2012.
HEADHUNTERS is being made into a film by Summit Entertainments.
THE SNOWMAN is being made into a film by Working Title Films.

Gunnar Staalesen

Varg Veum’s latest adventure will appear in February, published by Arcadia Books, under the title of
COLD HEARTS. This is the sequel to THE CONSORTS OF DEATH.

Karl Ove Knausgård

Harvill Secker has bought the first two novels of a series of six by Karl Ove Knausgård. The first will
be published in March 2012 by Harvill Secker, the second in 2013.

Ida Jessen

The University of Western Australia has bought the rights to CHILDREN, an award-winning Danish
novel, which is due to be published some time during 2012.

Erlend Loe

Gecko Press has bought Kurtby, a children’s story by Erlend Loe. Good chance to become acquainted
with Erlend Loe’s humour.

Elsebeth Egholm

Last year Murdoch Books published the first Dicte Svendsen crime novel, NEXT-OF-KIN, actually the
fourth in Elsebeth’s series. Charlotte Barslund and I co-translated the novel from Danish. We are
now working on LIFE AND LIMB, number five in the series.