Bonnier Rights 8 March Catalogue 2019

Bonnier Rights Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction

Catalogue

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I need feminism because I am a woman, and I won’t be the one who allows myself or my sisters to be satisfied with anything less than what a mediocre white man might have settled for.

Clara Henry

‘Clara Henry’s book Towards The

Future: A Simple Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy is a perfect guide for a young feminist’

Ystads Allehanda

CLARA HENRY Clara Henry is an author, feminist campaigner, tv presenter, radio host, and two-time winner of the Swedish Vlogger of the Year Award. She has consistently focused on important and often taboo feminist issues, such as ‘embarrassing’ periods, and is a much-loved role model for millennial feminists.

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Over 80,000 copies of her books sold in Sweden alone Clara Henry’s call-to-arms book, TOWARDS THE FUTURE: a Simple Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy is an indispensable, radical manifesto for feminism today that should be read by anyone and everyone — young, old, female, male and non-binary alike. A survival guide for anyone who has ever been exposed to – or thought about — everyday sexism in society, with humorous, insightful anecdotes drawing on the author’s own experiences, and akin to Emer O’Toole’s Girls Will be Girls and Laura Bates Girl Up. Available Material Swedish Edition English Sample Translation Video Greeting from Clara Reviews

‘A powerhouse...

Katarina Wennstam has worked to enlighten the issues of men’s violence against women.’

Kuriren

For over twenty years, Wennstam has reported tirelessly on issues surrounding masculinity, societal structures, power dynamics, violence against women and sexual violence.

KATARINA WENNSTAM From the million-copy bestselling author Her bestselling ‘Shirin’ crime novel series, featuring lawyer Shirin Sundin and detective Charlotta Lugn, features brilliantly-written plots that pose questions about feminist issues.

Immensely popular in Sweden, her books have sold over a million copies in Sweden alone; the next ‘Shirin’ instalment will be published in summer 2019.

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Nominated to the Power Girl Awards by UN Women for International Women’s Day 2019 Her work of reportage, THE GIRL AND THE GUILT (2002) provoked a heated debate on sexual violence and rape in Sweden, and it later led to a motion for a revision in Swedish law. Katarina is a sought-after public expert on violence against women, sexual assault and judicial bias, and has been widely quoted in the Swedish #metoo movement.

Available Material Swedish Editions English Sample Translations (1-5) Series Presentation Publishers of THE SHIRIN SERIES Finnish: Otava (1-5) Korean: Breathing Book Factory (5)

‘When awake, she has begun putting her hands on her belly where the little heart is beating. In town, she notices many people holding their hands in the same way and it creates a feeling, as though she belongs with women and men, with the body of society, a society that is in love with women.’

VIKTORIA JÄDERLING Viktoria Jäderling is a literary critic turned author, who debuted in 2017 with her acclaimed short story collection, OH LUNARGATAN. The fifteen stories are bound together by their characters’ quests to find beauty, love and purpose in their lives – up to the point when they are forced to confront their great shame.

It also explores notions of motherhood: being a mother, fake mothers, and even childless mothers, testing the boundaries between masculinity and femininity in an expansive and lyrical narrative.

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‘It’s great being forty plus and writing a book, it’s like taking a young lover, while you can still fall back on your collected experiences.’

Born 1971 in northern Sweden, Viktoria Jäderling now lives in Stockholm, where she works as literary critic and magazine editor.

OH LUNARGATAN is her debut.

Available Material Swedish Edition English Sample Translation Reviews Publishers of OH LUNARGATAN Danish: Silkefyret

‘She is pleasant but firm, calmly resting in her strong convictions and doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable truths. Hellbrand [is] a radical feminist, and radiates equal parts anger and humour.’

Corren

Since her debut with Vinthunden (2004), Gertrud Hellbrand has become a regular provocateur in the Swedish literary landscape. Her writing is often unsettling, always thoughtprovoking, and examines the power structures between the genders, especially in terms of submission and domination. As one of Sweden’s most interesting voices in fiction today, Hellbrand eschews the common feminist tropes, choosing instead to explore the forbidden, unafraid to give voice to the uncomfortable truths that others shy away from.

Her latest novel, SATYRICON (2018) is a dark, suspenseful novel about friendship, jealousy and obsession.

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GERTRUD HELLBRAND Hailed as a Swedish equivalent to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, it explores human nature’s deepest driving forces and the eternal quests for love, sensuality and acceptance.

Available material Swedish Edition Full English Translation Synopsis Letter from the Author Reviews Publishers of SATYRICON Polish: Marginesy

Throughout her long and productive career, Kerstin Ekman has consistently told the life stories of women, especially those who could not speak for themselves, and explored concepts of nature and femininity.

In her tetralogy, ‘The Women and the City’, she shows the advancement of society from the early twentieth century onwards through the story of three generations of women, giving a voice to the disenfranchised.

KERSTIN EKMAN Since her literary debut in 1959, Kerstin Ekman has become one of Sweden’s most celebrated novelists, with her works becoming recognized as part of the Swedish feminist literary canon.

‘We women have always known that if we are assaulted, the guilt and the shame will fall on us. The #metoo movement has changed that.’

In 1978, she made history when she was elected to the Swedish Academy, the third ever female after Selma Lagerlöf and Elin Wägner. She then went on to resign from her seat in 1989, following the Academy’s choice not to publicly oppose the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.

Ekman has garnered almost every literary award and accolade in existence, including six nominations and two wins of the prestigious August Prize, and a Nordic Council Literature Prize.

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was established in 2003. The literary agency is owned by the Swedish Bonnier Publishing Group, and represents a carefully selected number of authors published by Bonnier and other houses, for translation as well as film and tv rights.

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