Wednesday, June 16, 2010

ARLA Ventures Into The Land Of Dreams

ARLA has signed Norwegian crime novelist Vidar Sundstøl's Minnesota Trilogy. The first, LAND OF DREAMS, has been a best-seller in Norway and Iceland and has just been published in the Netherlands, where it sold out its first print run in two weeks. Translation rights have also been sold in Denmark, France, Italy, and Germany. Rave reviews have pronounced it "... dark, powerful and eerily good … fully compatible with Annie Proulx's stories from Wyoming"; "… a powerful tale of a murder in Minnesota [that] is in a class of its own … an amazing novel, regardless of genre"; and "…brilliantly plotted."

Ann will be sending the first 90 pages out to US publishers soon.