Glasnyckeln 2009 går til Johan Theorin, Sverige, for hans deckare, Nattfåk.
The Glass key 2009 goes to Johan Theorin, Sweden, for his novel, Night Blizzard.
Theorin is a journalist and writer by profession, living in Gothenburg but situating his novels in Öland, an island off the south-east coast of Sweden. Night blizzard is the "Winter-story" in a planned "Four-seasons" cycle.
A young couple buys the farm Åludden on the north-east corner of Öland, which used to be the residence of the keeper of the lighthouse of the same name. Legend has it that the house was built with the timbers of sunken ships - and therefore haunted by the ghosts of drowned sailors.
When the wife drowns, shortly after the couple move in, her husband grieves her but also senses her presence in the now empty house.
Tilda Davidson, the local police-constable, is not quite convinced that the drowning was accidental, but at the same time she has to deal with a small gang of petty thieves on a break-in spree - and try to end her relationship with her married lover.
Theorin builds the suspense and intrigue slowly but surely all the way to the end - with supernatural elements playing a tentative, but by no means verified - or verifiable - part in the investigation.
lørdag den 30. maj 2009
mandag den 25. maj 2009
The final programme
Well, all is set for the conference, if not in stone, then at least in writing. This is how it's going to be:
Thursday
20.00 - ?
Get-together
A warm welcome to all our guests by The Icelandic Crime Syndicate, The Icelandic Writers Union and the GrandRokk-pub.
Location: GrandRokk-pub, Smiðjustígur 6, Reykjavík
A few of us - or a bus - will be waiting for you outside Hotel Loftleidir at around 19.45, in order to take you there (i.e. those of you who are not in the centre already, having dinner or whatever. The GrandRokk is very close to (or actually right in) the city centre.)
Friday
10.00 - 13.00: AIEP business-meeting
Location: The Nordic House.
13.00 - 14.00:Lunch/Lecture: The Nordic Crime Wave part I: Crime in Iceland
Rannveig Þórisdóttir, sociologist/criminologist with the Reykjavík police shares her extensive knowledge of the Icelandic underworld with us during lunch.
16.00 - 17.00: The Glass key-award*: Awarding of SKS's (CWA's) prize for the best, nordic crime-novel of the year, presented by the minister of culture & education, Katrín Jakobsdóttir (one of Icelands leading experts on crime-fiction and a long standing member of the Icelandic Crime Syndicate).
Preceded by two topic-related inputs:
1) Spreading crime around the world - Nordic crime stories are success stories. Speaker: Halldór Guðmundsson, project leader of "Sagenhaftes Island" - Frankfurt, 2011.
2) Presentation of the nominated novels & authors by Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, chairman of the Icelandic GK-jury.
Location: The Nordic House
17.00 - 18.00: The Nordic Crime Wave, part II*: The professionals view, a panel discussion. What are nordic crime-writers trying to convey, and how do they go on about it?
Location: The Nordic House
Participants/Suspects: All Glass-Key nominees:
Arnaldur Indriðason (IS)
Johan Theorin (SE)
Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis (DK)
Marko Kilpi (FI)
Vidar Sundstøl (NO).
ca. 19.00 - late: Suburban BBQ: Dinner for all conference guests and a welcome opportunity to mingle with each other, the lecturers and other "informants" and contributors to the conference.
Location: Out in the sticks - i.e. the suburbs - if the weather allows, otherwise - well, we'll keep you informed...
Saturday
10.00 - 13.00: AIEP business-meeting
Location: The Nordic House
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch/Lecture. The Nordic Crime Wave, part III: How to rob a nation and steal a country - or vice versa. The collapse of the Icelandic economy and how it was brought about by a few criminally greedy investors (and a (criminally?) inefficient regulatory system). Ólafur Ísleifsson, economist and assistant professor at Reykjavík University.
Location: The Nordic House
14.30 - 15.00: The Nordic Crime Wave, part IV*: What's so special about Nordic/scandinavian crime novels? Are they a (sub)genre within the genre? What defines the Nordic crime-novel, what puts it apart from crime-novels from other parts of the world? A very unacademic and speculative input from Ævar Örn Jósepsson, writer and president of the SKS.
Location: The Nordic House
15.30 - 17.00: The Nordic Crime Wave, part V*: Is it a wave or just a ripple - the Nordic Crime Wave in an International Context.
What, if anything, from the nordic way of crime-solving/writing has seeped into other parts of the world? What have nordic crime-writers learned from their colleagues elsewhere? Does it matter if a man is killed in Scandinavia or elsewhere? Is the globalisation of crime fiction an opportunity or a threat? Etc. etc. A head-on investigation/interrogation regarding the matter of fictitious crime-solving around the world.
Head interrogator: Bob Cornwell, regular contributor to the Tangled Web and leader of AIEP's CrimeTime-project; a series of practical guides to the crime writing nations of Europe and, perhaps, beyond...
Chief suspects: Internationally acclaimed authors Jo Nesbø, Diane Wei Liang and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir.
Location: The Nordic House
19.00 - late: Farewell-dinner and international crime-fiction-quiz, designed to encourage as international a mix of people at each table as possible...
Location: Hotel Loftleidir
Even later: Pub crawl for night-owls and party-animals.
Sunday
12.00 - 13.00: SKS's AGM
14.00 - ? Sightseeing for those with time on their hands. Sights - or at least some of them - will be relevant to crime, both real and fictional.
*Open for the public
Thursday
20.00 - ?
Get-together
A warm welcome to all our guests by The Icelandic Crime Syndicate, The Icelandic Writers Union and the GrandRokk-pub.
Location: GrandRokk-pub, Smiðjustígur 6, Reykjavík
A few of us - or a bus - will be waiting for you outside Hotel Loftleidir at around 19.45, in order to take you there (i.e. those of you who are not in the centre already, having dinner or whatever. The GrandRokk is very close to (or actually right in) the city centre.)
Friday
10.00 - 13.00: AIEP business-meeting
Location: The Nordic House.
13.00 - 14.00:Lunch/Lecture: The Nordic Crime Wave part I: Crime in Iceland
Rannveig Þórisdóttir, sociologist/criminologist with the Reykjavík police shares her extensive knowledge of the Icelandic underworld with us during lunch.
16.00 - 17.00: The Glass key-award*: Awarding of SKS's (CWA's) prize for the best, nordic crime-novel of the year, presented by the minister of culture & education, Katrín Jakobsdóttir (one of Icelands leading experts on crime-fiction and a long standing member of the Icelandic Crime Syndicate).
Preceded by two topic-related inputs:
1) Spreading crime around the world - Nordic crime stories are success stories. Speaker: Halldór Guðmundsson, project leader of "Sagenhaftes Island" - Frankfurt, 2011.
2) Presentation of the nominated novels & authors by Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, chairman of the Icelandic GK-jury.
Location: The Nordic House
17.00 - 18.00: The Nordic Crime Wave, part II*: The professionals view, a panel discussion. What are nordic crime-writers trying to convey, and how do they go on about it?
Location: The Nordic House
Participants/Suspects: All Glass-Key nominees:
Arnaldur Indriðason (IS)
Johan Theorin (SE)
Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis (DK)
Marko Kilpi (FI)
Vidar Sundstøl (NO).
ca. 19.00 - late: Suburban BBQ: Dinner for all conference guests and a welcome opportunity to mingle with each other, the lecturers and other "informants" and contributors to the conference.
Location: Out in the sticks - i.e. the suburbs - if the weather allows, otherwise - well, we'll keep you informed...
Saturday
10.00 - 13.00: AIEP business-meeting
Location: The Nordic House
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch/Lecture. The Nordic Crime Wave, part III: How to rob a nation and steal a country - or vice versa. The collapse of the Icelandic economy and how it was brought about by a few criminally greedy investors (and a (criminally?) inefficient regulatory system). Ólafur Ísleifsson, economist and assistant professor at Reykjavík University.
Location: The Nordic House
14.30 - 15.00: The Nordic Crime Wave, part IV*: What's so special about Nordic/scandinavian crime novels? Are they a (sub)genre within the genre? What defines the Nordic crime-novel, what puts it apart from crime-novels from other parts of the world? A very unacademic and speculative input from Ævar Örn Jósepsson, writer and president of the SKS.
Location: The Nordic House
15.30 - 17.00: The Nordic Crime Wave, part V*: Is it a wave or just a ripple - the Nordic Crime Wave in an International Context.
What, if anything, from the nordic way of crime-solving/writing has seeped into other parts of the world? What have nordic crime-writers learned from their colleagues elsewhere? Does it matter if a man is killed in Scandinavia or elsewhere? Is the globalisation of crime fiction an opportunity or a threat? Etc. etc. A head-on investigation/interrogation regarding the matter of fictitious crime-solving around the world.
Head interrogator: Bob Cornwell, regular contributor to the Tangled Web and leader of AIEP's CrimeTime-project; a series of practical guides to the crime writing nations of Europe and, perhaps, beyond...
Chief suspects: Internationally acclaimed authors Jo Nesbø, Diane Wei Liang and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir.
Location: The Nordic House
19.00 - late: Farewell-dinner and international crime-fiction-quiz, designed to encourage as international a mix of people at each table as possible...
Location: Hotel Loftleidir
Even later: Pub crawl for night-owls and party-animals.
Sunday
12.00 - 13.00: SKS's AGM
14.00 - ? Sightseeing for those with time on their hands. Sights - or at least some of them - will be relevant to crime, both real and fictional.
*Open for the public
mandag den 27. april 2009
The Glass Key - a historical overview
The Glass Key has been awarded by the SKS/CWS since 1992. A new link has been added to the list of links on the right-hand sidebar of this blog, leading you to a list of all winners and nominees.
All corrections and/or comments are welcome, but have to be made here, as comments are not allowed on the Glass Key-site.
All corrections and/or comments are welcome, but have to be made here, as comments are not allowed on the Glass Key-site.
fredag den 24. april 2009
And the nominees are...
So, here we are. In a little more than a month from now (may 29th), the Glass key 2009 will be handed over to the winner in the Nordic House in Reykjavík. All the nominees have been invited, and each and every one of them has accepted the invitation.
The first time all the nominees were present was at the SKS-AGM in Iceland 2004, and again, we got them all to show up in Copenhagen in 2005. And now for the third time, the whole gang will be present. It's an honour and a pleasure to welcome them all, and their presence and participation will undoubtedly make the joint AGM's of SKS and AIEP an even more memorable event than it otherwise would have been.
Last year, Stieg Larssons third and last novel about the adventures of Kalle Blomquist and Lisbeth Salander, Luftslottet som sprängdes, was awarded the Glass key - the first novel in the millenium-series having been awarded the key back in 2006.
Who will receive it this year? Let's look at the candidates. (As the Glass-key-ceremony will be a part of the international conference "The Nordic Crime wave", which again is integrated into the double AGM's of both AIEP and SKS, this post - just like others leading up to this event - will be in english, to the benefit of our colleagues joining us from all around the world.)
Denmark
The Danish crime academy awarded the Harald Mogensen-award for the best danish crime/suspense novel to Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis for their novel Drengen i kufferten (e: The boy in the suitcase (People’s Press). In this story, Kaaberbøl and Friis introduce the Red-Cross nurse Nina Borg, who seems to have everything a serial hero can wish for. In the danish jury's words, their novel is a "breath-taking and superbly written thriller, told with a fine sense of plot and detail. One can only look forward to accompanying Nina Borg in future adventures."
Anton Koch-Nielsen, a veteran on the Danish crime scene and a long time member of the Danish crime academy and its jury, describes the plot as follows:
"The main character, Nina Borg, is a nurse in a refugee-center. There - and in her former capacity as an employee of various humanitarian organizations operating all over the world - she has become all too familiar with the [danish] authorities ineffecivity, when it comes to people in distress. This in turn influences her behaviour and decisions when she picks up a suitcase for a friend and experiences the shock of discovering its content - a little boy, alive and - barely - kicking. Determinded to do the right thing, she sets out to find out who the boy is and where he comes from. The reader, however, knows the answer to this: He was kidnapped in Vilnius, Lithuania, where his mother has mounted a desperate search for her son. She discovers a lead, pointing to Denmark - and thus, two amateur detectives, so to speak, have got hold of two seperate threads of the mystery. It sounds complicated, but is, as it turns out, a brilliant ploy.
The story gets scarier as it goes on, especially after the friend who asked Nina to pick up the suitcase is brutally murdered, before Nina can ask her for an explanation..."
The authors, Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis are both successful authors of books for children and teenagers. This is Friis's second book, but Kaaberbøl has sold millions of copies of her fantasy novels aimed at teenagers all over the world. The boy in the suitcase however, is their debut in the genre of adult crime.
Finland
Suomen dekkariseura, the Finnish Whodunnit Society, nominated Marko Kilpi, a novice in the field of crime-writing, for this years Glass-key, for his novel Jäätyneitä ruusuja, e: Frozen roses. But even if Kilpi is a newcomer in the world of fictitious crime, he is no stranger to the harsh realities of the criminal world, as he earns his living as a policeman.
This is also his hero's profession - although, fittingly enough, the tables have been turned in Kilpi's fictional world: The central character, Olli Repo, has recently quit his job as a writer in the advertising business, to join the police...
As a rookie and a trainee in the police-academy, he returns to his old home-town to learn the ropes of his new job under the guidance of his mentor, the chief of police back home. But once he's back, a series of mysterius crimes commences (involving a mysterious guy with a thing for explosives...), which demands more of his time than he can reasonably afford - because old family-business, preferably forgotten, inevitably comes up to the surface and demands a fair bit of attention now he's back at long last...
The finnish jury found Kilpi's story "surprisingly mature for a debut novel, tight in structure with a very plausible character description" The jury was also impressed by the fact that the novel's main character is not an experienced detective, "but a novice in his first job who makes almost all the mistakes a novice can make. He is, however, honest to himself and learns from his mistakes."
Iceland
Beginner in the field, rookie, novice, debutant - none of this applies to this year's candidate from Iceland. On the contrary: Arnaldur Indriðason was the first writer to win the Glass key two times (and the only one to win it consecutively, Stieg Larssons two GK's were seperated by a year). The Icelandic Crime Syndicate proudly presents Arnaldurs Harðskafi, e: Hypothermia as the icelandic entry this year - in a bid for a record-breaking third Glass-key...
Awarding Arnaldur the recently established icelandic award for best crime-novel, Blóðdropinn (e: The drop of blood) in 2008, the jury reasoned as follows:
„This year's prize-winning novel is written by a well-trained storyteller. At first sight, it may not appear extraordinary, but the plot gets deeper and thicker by the page, as destinies of apparently unrelated characters intertwine and the main character discovers what he has been missing from his own life in the lives of others. And all the things he yearns for turn out to be what makes him an exceptional detective.
The novel Harðskafi is as deep as the lakes it describes; as vibrant with strong and diverse life as they are. But it is nowhere near as cold as the depths of the lakes are - on the contrary. It is aflame with strong emotion; love and faith, unfaithfullness and greed, ambition and injured pride."
Norway
This years winner of Riverton-klubbens (The Riverton Club's) prize, Den Gyldne Revolver (e: The golden revolver), is Vidar Sundstøl for his novel Drømmenes land, e: Land of dreams. The jury's reasoning goes approximately as follows:
The story is situated in an American, yet Norwegian-esque environment full of place-names such as Tofte, Hovland, Lutsen and Finland.
A young Norwegian on holiday is found murdered on the shores of Lake Superior in Minnesota, USA. Lance Hansen, of Norwegian ancestry, is an officer in the US Forest service. He discovers the body and becomes a central figure in the following murder-investigation.
With Lance Hansen, the author has invented a very authentic, convincing and complex character. A father of one son, Lance is divorced and has a volatile and ambiguous relationship with his own brother.
He gets involved in the investigation of the murder in a way he could never have imagined, and the reader gets a glimpse of a lonesome, sensitive man on the brink of an abyss he is all too well aware of.
A keen student of local history, Lance soon discovers similarities between the young Norwegian´s death and the strange disappearance of Swamper Caribou, an Ojibway-indian who walked these shores more than a hundred years earlier.
Before he knows it, Lance finds himself in a dilemma, where his immigrant ancestor's dark secrets - the ones he'd rather not know anything about, and those he's curious to discover - suddenly seem to be more relevant to the crime he's investigating than he's comfortable with...
In an intensive, authentic and thrilling novel, the author describes the main character's dilemma in a mileu full of suspense and mystery in fascinating social as well as natural surroundings.
Sweden
Svenska Deckarakademin (The swedish crime-novel academy) has nominated Johan Theorin's second crime novel Nattfåk, e: Night Blizzard for the 2009 Glass Key-award.
Theorin is a journalist and writer by profession, living in Gothenburg but situating his novels in Öland, an island off the south-east coast of Sweden. Night blizzard is the "Winter-story" in a planned "Four-seasons" cycle.
A young couple buys the farm Åludden on the north-east corner of Öland, which used to be the residence of the keeper of the lighthouse of the same name. Legend has it that the house was built with the timbers of sunken ships - and therefore haunted by the ghosts of drowned sailors.
When the wife drowns, shortly after the couple move in, her husband grieves her but also senses her presence in the now empty house.
Tilda Davidson, the local police-constable, is not quite convinced that the drowning was accidental, but at the same time she has to deal with a small gang of petty thieves on a break-in spree - and try to end her relationship with her married lover.
Theorin builds the suspense and intrigue slowly but surely all the way to the end - with supernatural elements playing a tentative, but by no means verified - or verifiable - part in the investigation.
The first time all the nominees were present was at the SKS-AGM in Iceland 2004, and again, we got them all to show up in Copenhagen in 2005. And now for the third time, the whole gang will be present. It's an honour and a pleasure to welcome them all, and their presence and participation will undoubtedly make the joint AGM's of SKS and AIEP an even more memorable event than it otherwise would have been.
Last year, Stieg Larssons third and last novel about the adventures of Kalle Blomquist and Lisbeth Salander, Luftslottet som sprängdes, was awarded the Glass key - the first novel in the millenium-series having been awarded the key back in 2006.
Who will receive it this year? Let's look at the candidates. (As the Glass-key-ceremony will be a part of the international conference "The Nordic Crime wave", which again is integrated into the double AGM's of both AIEP and SKS, this post - just like others leading up to this event - will be in english, to the benefit of our colleagues joining us from all around the world.)
Denmark
The Danish crime academy awarded the Harald Mogensen-award for the best danish crime/suspense novel to Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis for their novel Drengen i kufferten (e: The boy in the suitcase (People’s Press). In this story, Kaaberbøl and Friis introduce the Red-Cross nurse Nina Borg, who seems to have everything a serial hero can wish for. In the danish jury's words, their novel is a "breath-taking and superbly written thriller, told with a fine sense of plot and detail. One can only look forward to accompanying Nina Borg in future adventures."
Anton Koch-Nielsen, a veteran on the Danish crime scene and a long time member of the Danish crime academy and its jury, describes the plot as follows:
"The main character, Nina Borg, is a nurse in a refugee-center. There - and in her former capacity as an employee of various humanitarian organizations operating all over the world - she has become all too familiar with the [danish] authorities ineffecivity, when it comes to people in distress. This in turn influences her behaviour and decisions when she picks up a suitcase for a friend and experiences the shock of discovering its content - a little boy, alive and - barely - kicking. Determinded to do the right thing, she sets out to find out who the boy is and where he comes from. The reader, however, knows the answer to this: He was kidnapped in Vilnius, Lithuania, where his mother has mounted a desperate search for her son. She discovers a lead, pointing to Denmark - and thus, two amateur detectives, so to speak, have got hold of two seperate threads of the mystery. It sounds complicated, but is, as it turns out, a brilliant ploy.
The story gets scarier as it goes on, especially after the friend who asked Nina to pick up the suitcase is brutally murdered, before Nina can ask her for an explanation..."
The authors, Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis are both successful authors of books for children and teenagers. This is Friis's second book, but Kaaberbøl has sold millions of copies of her fantasy novels aimed at teenagers all over the world. The boy in the suitcase however, is their debut in the genre of adult crime.
Finland
Suomen dekkariseura, the Finnish Whodunnit Society, nominated Marko Kilpi, a novice in the field of crime-writing, for this years Glass-key, for his novel Jäätyneitä ruusuja, e: Frozen roses. But even if Kilpi is a newcomer in the world of fictitious crime, he is no stranger to the harsh realities of the criminal world, as he earns his living as a policeman.
This is also his hero's profession - although, fittingly enough, the tables have been turned in Kilpi's fictional world: The central character, Olli Repo, has recently quit his job as a writer in the advertising business, to join the police...
As a rookie and a trainee in the police-academy, he returns to his old home-town to learn the ropes of his new job under the guidance of his mentor, the chief of police back home. But once he's back, a series of mysterius crimes commences (involving a mysterious guy with a thing for explosives...), which demands more of his time than he can reasonably afford - because old family-business, preferably forgotten, inevitably comes up to the surface and demands a fair bit of attention now he's back at long last...
The finnish jury found Kilpi's story "surprisingly mature for a debut novel, tight in structure with a very plausible character description" The jury was also impressed by the fact that the novel's main character is not an experienced detective, "but a novice in his first job who makes almost all the mistakes a novice can make. He is, however, honest to himself and learns from his mistakes."
Iceland
Beginner in the field, rookie, novice, debutant - none of this applies to this year's candidate from Iceland. On the contrary: Arnaldur Indriðason was the first writer to win the Glass key two times (and the only one to win it consecutively, Stieg Larssons two GK's were seperated by a year). The Icelandic Crime Syndicate proudly presents Arnaldurs Harðskafi, e: Hypothermia as the icelandic entry this year - in a bid for a record-breaking third Glass-key...
Awarding Arnaldur the recently established icelandic award for best crime-novel, Blóðdropinn (e: The drop of blood) in 2008, the jury reasoned as follows:
„This year's prize-winning novel is written by a well-trained storyteller. At first sight, it may not appear extraordinary, but the plot gets deeper and thicker by the page, as destinies of apparently unrelated characters intertwine and the main character discovers what he has been missing from his own life in the lives of others. And all the things he yearns for turn out to be what makes him an exceptional detective.
The novel Harðskafi is as deep as the lakes it describes; as vibrant with strong and diverse life as they are. But it is nowhere near as cold as the depths of the lakes are - on the contrary. It is aflame with strong emotion; love and faith, unfaithfullness and greed, ambition and injured pride."
Norway
This years winner of Riverton-klubbens (The Riverton Club's) prize, Den Gyldne Revolver (e: The golden revolver), is Vidar Sundstøl for his novel Drømmenes land, e: Land of dreams. The jury's reasoning goes approximately as follows:
The story is situated in an American, yet Norwegian-esque environment full of place-names such as Tofte, Hovland, Lutsen and Finland.
A young Norwegian on holiday is found murdered on the shores of Lake Superior in Minnesota, USA. Lance Hansen, of Norwegian ancestry, is an officer in the US Forest service. He discovers the body and becomes a central figure in the following murder-investigation.
With Lance Hansen, the author has invented a very authentic, convincing and complex character. A father of one son, Lance is divorced and has a volatile and ambiguous relationship with his own brother.
He gets involved in the investigation of the murder in a way he could never have imagined, and the reader gets a glimpse of a lonesome, sensitive man on the brink of an abyss he is all too well aware of.
A keen student of local history, Lance soon discovers similarities between the young Norwegian´s death and the strange disappearance of Swamper Caribou, an Ojibway-indian who walked these shores more than a hundred years earlier.
Before he knows it, Lance finds himself in a dilemma, where his immigrant ancestor's dark secrets - the ones he'd rather not know anything about, and those he's curious to discover - suddenly seem to be more relevant to the crime he's investigating than he's comfortable with...
In an intensive, authentic and thrilling novel, the author describes the main character's dilemma in a mileu full of suspense and mystery in fascinating social as well as natural surroundings.
Sweden
Svenska Deckarakademin (The swedish crime-novel academy) has nominated Johan Theorin's second crime novel Nattfåk, e: Night Blizzard for the 2009 Glass Key-award.
Theorin is a journalist and writer by profession, living in Gothenburg but situating his novels in Öland, an island off the south-east coast of Sweden. Night blizzard is the "Winter-story" in a planned "Four-seasons" cycle.
A young couple buys the farm Åludden on the north-east corner of Öland, which used to be the residence of the keeper of the lighthouse of the same name. Legend has it that the house was built with the timbers of sunken ships - and therefore haunted by the ghosts of drowned sailors.
When the wife drowns, shortly after the couple move in, her husband grieves her but also senses her presence in the now empty house.
Tilda Davidson, the local police-constable, is not quite convinced that the drowning was accidental, but at the same time she has to deal with a small gang of petty thieves on a break-in spree - and try to end her relationship with her married lover.
Theorin builds the suspense and intrigue slowly but surely all the way to the end - with supernatural elements playing a tentative, but by no means verified - or verifiable - part in the investigation.
tirsdag den 10. marts 2009
Deadline for a murderous weekend
Although the special offer for the hotel-rooms at Loftleidir Hotel has (at least officially) expired, that does not mean you're too late to sign up for the AIEP/SKS-AGM's and the accompanying Nordic Crime Wave-congress.
The deadline for registrations is April 30th.
Send your registration to me, before that date, and you're on for an unforgettable, literary and criminally interesting weekend in Iceland.
And even if the special offer has expired, that does not neccessarily mean that you cannot stay at the same hotel as the rest of the gang. It only means that they do not guarantee that you'll get a room there at these dates and at these prices. So, if you reckon you're coming after all, don't hesitate to e-mail the hotel at icehotels@icehotels - and don't forget to mention the AIEP-SKS conference in your booking, who knows, they might just decide to forgive you for being late...
Cheers,
Ævar Örn
The deadline for registrations is April 30th.
Send your registration to me, before that date, and you're on for an unforgettable, literary and criminally interesting weekend in Iceland.
And even if the special offer has expired, that does not neccessarily mean that you cannot stay at the same hotel as the rest of the gang. It only means that they do not guarantee that you'll get a room there at these dates and at these prices. So, if you reckon you're coming after all, don't hesitate to e-mail the hotel at icehotels@icehotels - and don't forget to mention the AIEP-SKS conference in your booking, who knows, they might just decide to forgive you for being late...
Cheers,
Ævar Örn
tirsdag den 24. februar 2009
The list of participants
Below is a list of the people who have confirmed their attendance at the double AIEP-SKS/Nordic Crime Wave-conference in Reykjavík this spring - may 28th - 31st.
I only list those who have explicitly and definitely confirmed their attendance, those of you who have hinted that you'll possibly or even probably be there will be added to this list as soon as you confirm your attendance, and the list will be constantly updated, as the confirmations roll in.
So, here goes...
From Europe
Agnete Friis (DK, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Anne B. Ragde (NO, SKS, AIEP)
Bob Cornwell + 1 (UK, AIEP)
Borislav Iotov + 1 (BL, AIEP)
Carmen Iarrera (I, AIEP)
Charles den Tex (NL, AIEP)
Chris Rippen (NL, AIEP)
Diane Wei Liang (UK/China, AIEP, Special Guest)
Helga Anderle (A, AIEP)
Ingrid J. Kurnig (A, AIEP)
Irmtraut Karlsson +1(A, AIEP)
Janet Laurence (UK, AIEP)
Jo Nesbø (NO, SKS, AIEP, Special Guest)
Johan Theorin (SE, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Jutta Motz (CH, AIEP)
Lene Kaaberbøl (DK, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Marko Kilpi (FI, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Piet Teigeler + 1 (BE, AIEP)
Richard Donnenberg (A, AIEP)
Risto Raitio (FI, SKS)
Susan Moody (UK, AIEP)
Vidar Sundstøl (NO, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Willy Dahl + 1(NO, SKS, AIEP)
From the USA
Cynthia Smith (AIEP)
Deen Kogan (AIEP)
Jenny White (AIEP)
Jeremiah Healy (AIEP)
Jim Madison Davis (AIEP)
Jim Weikart (AIEP)
Sandra Balzo (AIEP)
From Japan
Ken & Harue Matsuzaka (AIEP)
Tadashi Oyama (AIEP)
Iceland
Arnaldur Indriðason (SKS/AIEP)
Bergljót Kristjánsdóttir (SKS)
Coletta Bürling (SKS)
Eiríkur Brynjólfsson (SKS/AIEP)
Gunnar Gunnarsson (SKS/AIEP)
Kristján Jóhann Jónsson (SKS)
Ragnar Jónasson (SKS)
Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson (SKS/AIEP)
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (SKS/AIEP)
Ævar Örn Jósepsson (SKS/AIEP)
I only list those who have explicitly and definitely confirmed their attendance, those of you who have hinted that you'll possibly or even probably be there will be added to this list as soon as you confirm your attendance, and the list will be constantly updated, as the confirmations roll in.
So, here goes...
From Europe
Agnete Friis (DK, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Anne B. Ragde (NO, SKS, AIEP)
Bob Cornwell + 1 (UK, AIEP)
Borislav Iotov + 1 (BL, AIEP)
Carmen Iarrera (I, AIEP)
Charles den Tex (NL, AIEP)
Chris Rippen (NL, AIEP)
Diane Wei Liang (UK/China, AIEP, Special Guest)
Helga Anderle (A, AIEP)
Ingrid J. Kurnig (A, AIEP)
Irmtraut Karlsson +1(A, AIEP)
Janet Laurence (UK, AIEP)
Jo Nesbø (NO, SKS, AIEP, Special Guest)
Johan Theorin (SE, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Jutta Motz (CH, AIEP)
Lene Kaaberbøl (DK, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Marko Kilpi (FI, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Piet Teigeler + 1 (BE, AIEP)
Richard Donnenberg (A, AIEP)
Risto Raitio (FI, SKS)
Susan Moody (UK, AIEP)
Vidar Sundstøl (NO, SKS, AIEP - Glass key nominee)
Willy Dahl + 1(NO, SKS, AIEP)
From the USA
Cynthia Smith (AIEP)
Deen Kogan (AIEP)
Jenny White (AIEP)
Jeremiah Healy (AIEP)
Jim Madison Davis (AIEP)
Jim Weikart (AIEP)
Sandra Balzo (AIEP)
From Japan
Ken & Harue Matsuzaka (AIEP)
Tadashi Oyama (AIEP)
Iceland
Arnaldur Indriðason (SKS/AIEP)
Bergljót Kristjánsdóttir (SKS)
Coletta Bürling (SKS)
Eiríkur Brynjólfsson (SKS/AIEP)
Gunnar Gunnarsson (SKS/AIEP)
Kristján Jóhann Jónsson (SKS)
Ragnar Jónasson (SKS)
Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson (SKS/AIEP)
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (SKS/AIEP)
Ævar Örn Jósepsson (SKS/AIEP)
torsdag den 19. februar 2009
AIEP-SKS Reykjavík - Things are shaping up
From now on, until the upcoming AIEP/SKS double-AGM/Nordic Crime Wave-conference is behind us, all posts on this blog will be in english. This is not only for the benefit of many Icelandic and Finnish SKS-members, but also for our international guests attending, who will be advised to look to this blog for updates on the preparations for the conference(s).
The Nordic Crime Wave-programme is shaping up, and this is what it looks like at the moment (most of this has already been listed in the last post, but here it is again, this time in english, and just a little more detailed):
Thursday, may 28th, 20.00: Get-together
The Writer's Union of Iceland welcomes the participants of the joint AIEP/SKS-conference under the roof of the GrandRokk-pub in the center of Reykjavík, a longtime benefactor of the Icelandic Crime Syndicate.
Friday, may 29th
10 - 13: AIEP Business-meeting
13 - 14: Lunch & lecture. Nordic Crime Wave part I: Crime in Iceland
Break
15 - 16: Awarding of the Glass key (open for the public)
16.30 - 18.00: Nordic Crime Wave part II: Lectures - suggestions for themes more than welcome. Teh topic most probable at the moment:Nordic crime makes a killing: What's the secret behind the mysterious success of nordic mystery-novels? Suggestions for other themes are more than welcome (and volunteers to participate in panels/give a lecture on the subject as well...)(Open for the public)
ca. 19.00 onwards: Suburban bbq; eating, drinking and chatting/plotting into the bright night...
Saturday, may 30th
10.00 - 13.00: AIEP Business-meeting
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch & Lecture, Nordic Crime Wave part III: How to rob a nation and steal a country...
Break
15.00 - 17.00: Nordic Crime Wave, part IV: Top drawer. Three or four best-selling authors on the international crime-scene interrogated about their crimes. Names of the suspects will be revealed at the earliest possible date... (Open for the public)
19.00 - late: Farewell-dinner with questions... A three-course meal, accompanied by a criminally insane quiz - and an even crazier quiz-master.
Even later: A pub-crawl in the center of Reykjavík for the night-owls and party-animals.
Sunday, may 31st
12.00 - 13.00: SKS-AGM & light lunch
14.00 - onwards: Sightseeing for those with time (and possibly money) to spare...
Costs
Everyone has to pay for his/her own accomodation during the conference. A special offer for conference guests at the Loftleidir Hotel stands until march 1st, 12.500 icelandic kronas for a double, standard room, 10.400 for a single, standard room. E-mail to
icehotels@icehotels and mention the conference in order to ensure these rates, if you choose to stay at this hotel (the farewell-dinner on saturday will take place there).
The sightseeing on sunday (4-6 hour trip) is still a work in progress - like everything else, I admit - but the sights will be interesting, some of them linked to real and fictional crimes, and the cost will be kept at a minimum (and if we manage to rig up enough volunteers with cars, it will be free of charge).
Defying one of the best known laws of economics, the lunches will be free - at least, participants of the conference will not be the ones paying for them...we hope.
The friday bbq will be cheap, and hopefully completely free of charge, but guests are encouraged to bring their own beverages (remember the DutyFree!)
As for the farewell-dinner on saturday - well, we're still working on the funding for that one...
That's it for now, more soon.
The Nordic Crime Wave-programme is shaping up, and this is what it looks like at the moment (most of this has already been listed in the last post, but here it is again, this time in english, and just a little more detailed):
Thursday, may 28th, 20.00: Get-together
The Writer's Union of Iceland welcomes the participants of the joint AIEP/SKS-conference under the roof of the GrandRokk-pub in the center of Reykjavík, a longtime benefactor of the Icelandic Crime Syndicate.
Friday, may 29th
10 - 13: AIEP Business-meeting
13 - 14: Lunch & lecture. Nordic Crime Wave part I: Crime in Iceland
Break
15 - 16: Awarding of the Glass key (open for the public)
16.30 - 18.00: Nordic Crime Wave part II: Lectures - suggestions for themes more than welcome. Teh topic most probable at the moment:Nordic crime makes a killing: What's the secret behind the mysterious success of nordic mystery-novels? Suggestions for other themes are more than welcome (and volunteers to participate in panels/give a lecture on the subject as well...)(Open for the public)
ca. 19.00 onwards: Suburban bbq; eating, drinking and chatting/plotting into the bright night...
Saturday, may 30th
10.00 - 13.00: AIEP Business-meeting
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch & Lecture, Nordic Crime Wave part III: How to rob a nation and steal a country...
Break
15.00 - 17.00: Nordic Crime Wave, part IV: Top drawer. Three or four best-selling authors on the international crime-scene interrogated about their crimes. Names of the suspects will be revealed at the earliest possible date... (Open for the public)
19.00 - late: Farewell-dinner with questions... A three-course meal, accompanied by a criminally insane quiz - and an even crazier quiz-master.
Even later: A pub-crawl in the center of Reykjavík for the night-owls and party-animals.
Sunday, may 31st
12.00 - 13.00: SKS-AGM & light lunch
14.00 - onwards: Sightseeing for those with time (and possibly money) to spare...
Costs
Everyone has to pay for his/her own accomodation during the conference. A special offer for conference guests at the Loftleidir Hotel stands until march 1st, 12.500 icelandic kronas for a double, standard room, 10.400 for a single, standard room. E-mail to
icehotels@icehotels and mention the conference in order to ensure these rates, if you choose to stay at this hotel (the farewell-dinner on saturday will take place there).
The sightseeing on sunday (4-6 hour trip) is still a work in progress - like everything else, I admit - but the sights will be interesting, some of them linked to real and fictional crimes, and the cost will be kept at a minimum (and if we manage to rig up enough volunteers with cars, it will be free of charge).
Defying one of the best known laws of economics, the lunches will be free - at least, participants of the conference will not be the ones paying for them...we hope.
The friday bbq will be cheap, and hopefully completely free of charge, but guests are encouraged to bring their own beverages (remember the DutyFree!)
As for the farewell-dinner on saturday - well, we're still working on the funding for that one...
That's it for now, more soon.
mandag den 26. januar 2009
Karin Alvtegen nominerad til Edgar-prisen i USA
Karin Alvtegen er blivet nominerad til Mystery writers of America's viktigasta pris, The Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel, for sin andra deckare, Saknad (e. Missing).
Det ser altså ut som om Amerikanarna tycker lika bra om denna historian som deres nordiska kollegar, som i 2001 belönnade just denna deckaren med Glasnyckeln.
Vi si'r bara Grattis til Karin, och lycka till!
The Edgars - hemsida
Det ser altså ut som om Amerikanarna tycker lika bra om denna historian som deres nordiska kollegar, som i 2001 belönnade just denna deckaren med Glasnyckeln.
Vi si'r bara Grattis til Karin, och lycka till!
The Edgars - hemsida
mandag den 19. januar 2009
Årsmöte 2009 - programm og kostnad
Kostnader
Det er jo liksom inte billigt att resa til Island, och det koster ja också pengar att övernatta. Vi vil göre allt vad vi kann, til at allt annat (lunch/dinner, konference- och möter osv.) blir så billigt som det bara kann bli, men ja, ni vet det vel - en resa till Island kommer til at kosta. Några av er kansje er så heldiga att ha tillgång til utgivare/arbetsgivare, som är beredd att betala (en del) av kostnaden - men alla kan forsöka göra en ansökan här: Kulturkontakt Nord.
Programm
Programmet er "under construction" som det heter på engelska, men några saker står någonlunda fest. Overskriften er "The Nordic Crime Wave"
Den största delen av programmet, såvel möterna for SKS/AIEP-medlemmer only som de, som står öppen for almenheten, vil ta plass i det Nordiska huset.
Och cirka såher ser programmet ut:
Torsdag
18.00? 20.00? Get together - vi möts, alla ihop, som er redan på plats...
Fredag
ca. 10 - 12/13: AIEP-buisness-meeting
ca 12-13 eller 13 - 14: Lunch och föreläsning
ca 14.00 - 15.00: Glasnyckeln presenteras (öppen for almenheten)
ca. 16 - 18: Föredrag av 2 - 4 sak-kundiga: Den nordiske krimi-bölgen
ca. 19.00 - sent... Suburban & criminal bbq and party...
Lördag
ca. 10 - 12/13 AIEP-Buisness-meeting.
ca. 12-13 eller 13-14: Lunch och föreläsning
ca. 15 - 17 (16 - 18, 15 - 18...) Panel om den nordiske krimi: 3 - 4 nordiska/internationale deckarförfattare + en sakkundig ledare (öppen for almenheten)
ca. 19.00 - sent: Avskeds-dinner, och i anslutning, pub-crawl for night-owls...
Söndag
ca. 12 - 13 SKS-Årsmöte
ca. 15 - 19 Sightseeing for alla, som er intresserad och har gott om tid.
Det er jo liksom inte billigt att resa til Island, och det koster ja också pengar att övernatta. Vi vil göre allt vad vi kann, til at allt annat (lunch/dinner, konference- och möter osv.) blir så billigt som det bara kann bli, men ja, ni vet det vel - en resa till Island kommer til at kosta. Några av er kansje er så heldiga att ha tillgång til utgivare/arbetsgivare, som är beredd att betala (en del) av kostnaden - men alla kan forsöka göra en ansökan här: Kulturkontakt Nord.
Programm
Programmet er "under construction" som det heter på engelska, men några saker står någonlunda fest. Overskriften er "The Nordic Crime Wave"
Den största delen av programmet, såvel möterna for SKS/AIEP-medlemmer only som de, som står öppen for almenheten, vil ta plass i det Nordiska huset.
Och cirka såher ser programmet ut:
Torsdag
18.00? 20.00? Get together - vi möts, alla ihop, som er redan på plats...
Fredag
ca. 10 - 12/13: AIEP-buisness-meeting
ca 12-13 eller 13 - 14: Lunch och föreläsning
ca 14.00 - 15.00: Glasnyckeln presenteras (öppen for almenheten)
ca. 16 - 18: Föredrag av 2 - 4 sak-kundiga: Den nordiske krimi-bölgen
ca. 19.00 - sent... Suburban & criminal bbq and party...
Lördag
ca. 10 - 12/13 AIEP-Buisness-meeting.
ca. 12-13 eller 13-14: Lunch och föreläsning
ca. 15 - 17 (16 - 18, 15 - 18...) Panel om den nordiske krimi: 3 - 4 nordiska/internationale deckarförfattare + en sakkundig ledare (öppen for almenheten)
ca. 19.00 - sent: Avskeds-dinner, och i anslutning, pub-crawl for night-owls...
Söndag
ca. 12 - 13 SKS-Årsmöte
ca. 15 - 19 Sightseeing for alla, som er intresserad och har gott om tid.
tirsdag den 13. januar 2009
It's alive!
Yes, although it's been dormant for almost a year now, the SKS blog is still (barely) alive.
In the coming weeks and months it will be very much alive, informing all of you who are interested in the upcoming joint AGM's of SKS and AIEP in Reykjavík and the acommpanying conference on the subject of nordic/scandinavian Crime-fiction.
The dates: may 28th - 31st.
Book your flight now to save money, and please confirm your attendance at the earliest possible date via e-mail:avarorn@simnet.is
More information coming up soon - and also, there is more on this subject below...
cheers,
ævar örn
In the coming weeks and months it will be very much alive, informing all of you who are interested in the upcoming joint AGM's of SKS and AIEP in Reykjavík and the acommpanying conference on the subject of nordic/scandinavian Crime-fiction.
The dates: may 28th - 31st.
Book your flight now to save money, and please confirm your attendance at the earliest possible date via e-mail:avarorn@simnet.is
More information coming up soon - and also, there is more on this subject below...
cheers,
ævar örn
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