Twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden made the longlist for the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. Congratulations to All!
Samuel Bjørk - Dead Island tr. Charlotte Barslund (Norway, Bantam)
Stella Blómkvist - Murder Under the Midnight Sun tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)
Pascal Engman - The Widows tr. Neil Smith (Sweden, Legend Press)
Malin Persson Giolito - Deliver Me tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, Simon & Schuster)
Óskar Guðmundsson - The Dancer tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)
Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger - Victim tr. Megan E Turney (Norway, Orenda Books)
Jo Nesbo - Blood Ties tr. Robert Ferguson (Norway, Harvill Secker)
Aslak Nore - The Sea Cemetery tr. Deborah Dawkin (Norway, MacLehose Press)
Sólveig Pálsdóttir - Shrouded tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)
Satu Rämö - The Clues in the Fjord tr. Kristian London (Finland, Zaffre)
Max Seeck - Ghost Island tr. Kristian London (Finland, Mountain Leopard Press)
Gunnar Staalesen - Pursued by Death tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books)
The breakdown by country is Norway (5), Iceland (3), Finland (2) and Sweden (2).
The shortlist will be announced on 18 September 2025.
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The award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.
More information on the history of the Award and previous winners can be found at the Petrona Award website (https://www.petronaaward.co.uk/).
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