The Svenska Deckarakademin have announced their annual crime fiction prizes (see my previous mention) -- though not yet at the official site, last I checked .....
As reported (here at Svenska Dagbladet), Till offer åt Molok by Åsa Larsson took the Swedish-language honors, while Before the Poison by Peter Robinson won as best translated work.
But the one I'm really interested in is the non-fiction winner, Karl Berglund's study Deckarboomen under lupp: Statistiska perspektiv på svensk kriminallitteratur 1977-2010. Love those statistical perspectives !
An English abstract is available online, and among the points of interest:
As reported (here at Svenska Dagbladet), Till offer åt Molok by Åsa Larsson took the Swedish-language honors, while Before the Poison by Peter Robinson won as best translated work.
But the one I'm really interested in is the non-fiction winner, Karl Berglund's study Deckarboomen under lupp: Statistiska perspektiv på svensk kriminallitteratur 1977-2010. Love those statistical perspectives !
An English abstract is available online, and among the points of interest:
- Nearly 2.5 times as many first editions of crime fiction were issued in Sweden in the first decade of the 2000s, compared to the 1980s
- The share of crime fiction written by women increased in the same period of time from between 10 and 20 percent to just over 30 percent. Furthermore, the gender balance among the bestsellers of crime fiction in the 2000s is nearly even.
- Crime fiction has been extremely dominant on the bestseller charts in Sweden during the 2000s, and the genre outnumbers all other fiction taken together.