The winner of the Award will be announced online later this year.
The rules for eligibility are:
- The submission must be in translation and published in English in the UK during the preceding calendar year ie 1 January – 31 December 2023.
- The author of the submission must either be born in Scandinavia* or the submission must be set in Scandinavia*.
- The submission must have been published in its original language after 1999.
*in this instance taken to be Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
More details about the award and the history behind it can be found on the Petrona Award website. The winner of the 2023 Award was Femicide by Pascal Engman, translated from the Swedish by Michael Gallagher and published by Legend Press.
The award is sponsored by David Hicks.
Entries
[15 titles are by Female authors and 12 by Male plus 3 teams of Female and Male authors and 1 team of 2 Male authors. There are 22 translators (11 Female (15 titles), 11 Male (16 titles)) and 6 countries are represented (11 Sweden, 7 Iceland, 7 Norway, 3 Denmark, 2 Finland and 1 France).]
Maria Adolfsson - Cruel Tides tr. Agnes Broomé (F, Sweden, Zaffre)
Tove Alsterdal - You Will Never Be Found tr. Alice Menzies (F, Sweden, Faber & Faber)
Samuel Bjork - The Wolf tr. Charlotte Barslund (M, Norway, Bantam)
Stella Blómkvist - Murder at the Residence tr. Quentin Bates (F, Iceland, Corylus Books)
Kjell Ola Dahl - The Lazarus Solution tr. Don Bartlett (M, Norway, Orenda Books)
M T Edvardsson - The Woman Inside tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (M, Sweden, Macmillan)
Anki Edvinsson - The Snow Angel tr. Paul Norlen (F, Sweden, Thomas & Mercer)
Carin Gerhardsen - Black Ice tr. Ian Giles (F, Sweden, Head of Zeus)
Johana Gustawsson - Yule Island tr. David Warriner (F, France, Orenda Books)
Anne Mette Hancock - The Collector tr. Tara F Chace (F, Denmark, Swift Press)
Jørn Lier Horst - Snow Fall tr. Anne Bruce (M, Norway, Michael Joseph)
Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger - Stigma tr. Megan E Turney (M&M, Norway, Orenda Books)
Arnaldur Indridason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (M, Iceland, Harvill Secker)
Jógvan Isaksen - Dead Men Dancing tr. Marita Thomsen (M, Denmark, Norvik Press)
Ragnar Jonasson & Katrín Jakobsdottír - Reykjavík tr. Victoria Cribb (M&F, Iceland, Michael Joseph)
Katrín Júlíusdóttir - Dead Sweet tr. Quentin Bates (F, Iceland, Orenda Books)
Lars Kepler - The Spider tr. Alice Menzies (M&F, Sweden, Zaffre)
Camilla Läckberg & Henrik Fexeus - Cult tr. Ian Giles (F&M, Sweden, HarperCollins)
Asa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (F, Sweden, MacLehose Press)
Jenny Lund Madsen - Thirty Days of Darkness tr. Megan E Turney (F, Denmark, Orenda Books)
Niklas Natt och Dag - 1795: The Order of the Furies tr. Ian Giles (M, Sweden, Baskerville)
Jo Nesbo - Killing Moon tr. Seán Kinsella (M, Norway, Harvill Secker)
Jo Nesbo - The Night House tr. Neil Smith (M, Norway, Harvill Secker)
Max Seeck - The Last Grudge tr. Kristian London (M, Finland, Welbeck)
Lilja Sigurdardottir - White as Snow tr. Quentin Bates (F, Iceland, Orenda Books)
Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (F, Iceland, Hodder & Stoughton)
Karin Smirnoff - The Girl in the Eagle's Talons tr. Sarah Death (F, Sweden, MacLehose Press)
Gunnar Staalesen - Mirror Image tr. Don Bartlett (M, Norway, Orenda Books)
Viveca Sten - Hidden in Shadows tr. Marlaine Delargy (F, Sweden, AmazonCrossing)
Antti Tuomainen - The Beaver Theory tr. David Hackston (M, Finland, Orenda Books)
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir - You Can't See Me tr. Victoria Cribb (F, Iceland, Orenda Books)
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Katrine Engberg - The Island (apa The Sanctuary) tr. Tara Chace (F, Denmark, Hodder & Stoughton)
And a nice graphic courtesy of Goodreads:
