Bonnier News - Wahlström & Widstrand

August Prize Nominees Named

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-17
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Bonnierförlagen books nominated in several categories for Sweden's top book award, the August Prize.

Today the nominees were announced to Sweden's No. 1 book award, the Augustpriset 2011.

Bonnierförlagen to Work with Swedish Trains

By Bert Menninga on 2011-07-14
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Passenger rail company SJ's new customer magazine Book includes excerpts from Bonnierförlagen books.

Johan Theorin's new book will be part of the selection.

When Sweden's state-owned passenger rail system SJ launches its new customer magazine, book publisher Bonnierförlagen is along for the ride. The magazine, Book, will premier in the fall and come out twice a year with 120,000 copies printed. A large part of the magazine will be given over to excerpts from recent books.

Gängkrig 145 Reprise from Wahlström & Widstrand

By Bert Menninga on 2011-02-28
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Jens Lapidus and Peter Bergting's graphic novel Gängkrig 145 is out in a special iPad edition.

Swedish graphic novel Gängkrig 145 by Jens Lapidus and Peter Bergting was published originally by Wahlström & Widstrand in 2009.

Authors Get Their Say on TV Series

By Bert Menninga on 2010-09-27
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Nyläst, a new TV series on the Swedish Axess TV, features writers talking about their work. The series is sponsored by Bonnierförlagen.

On Sunday Sept. 26 at 9:30 p.m., Swedish Axess TV premiered the new series Nyläst (recently read). A literary magazine program, Nyläst features in-depth interviews with authors of new books as well as tips on books to read. The series, which is produced by Bonnierförlagen and Svenska Filmbolaget, will be broadcast every Sunday evening.

Pod Poetry from Wahlström & Widstrand

By Bert Menninga on 2010-09-09
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Podpoesi - pod poetry - lets readers listen to their favorite poets, with the possibility of buying the book just a click away.

Podpoesi  - pod poetry - is a new way for Swedish publisher Wahlström & Widstrand to publish its lyrical offering. At  the podpoesi website, listeners can hear poets reading their own poems. First out is poet Magnus William-Olsson, who is also the man behind the podpoesi initiative.

Herta Müller is a money-spinner

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-12-09
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Today, Herta Müller receives the Nobel Prize in Literature from the hands of His Majesty the King of Sweden. In addition to eternal glory and fame, she also gets the prize money, 10 million Swedish crowns (almost 1.4 million USD). But even for her Swedish publisher, Wahlström & Widstrand, the Prize is a welcome addition to the Christmas trade.

Photo: Ulla Montan

"It's a money-spinner," says Katarina Arborelius, marketing manager at Wahlström & Widstrand. "The hottest right now is Andningsgunga (English title: Everything I Possess I Carry With Me) who came in stock last week, while Herta Müller arrived in Stockholm.

Nobel Prize to W&W and Tammi

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-10-08
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Herta Müller, whose books in Swedish are published by Wahlström & Widstrand and in Finnish by Tammi, is this year's Nobel laureate in literature.

It was the German-Romanian author Herta Müller who received this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. She is described as "a prolific novelist and essayist whose works depicting the human devastation of the Romanian dictatorship and the rootlessness of political asylum."

Her Swedish publisher Wahlström & Widstrand are obviously very pleased today.

"We had a hope," says Martin Stromberg at Wahlstrom & Widstrand. "But you can never be sure."