Euro Crime's Karen Meeks revealed that twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have made the longlist for the 2026 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. The longlist contains a mix of newer and more established authors including previous Petrona Award winners Satu Rämö, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Antti Tuomainen. The shortlist will be announced on 24 September 2026.
The
Petrona Award was established to celebrate the work of Maxine Clarke,
one of the first online crime fiction reviewers and bloggers, who died
in December 2012. Maxine, whose online persona and blog was called
Petrona, was passionate about translated crime fiction but in particular
that from the Scandinavian countries. 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.
Here are the longlisted titles:
- Snæbjörn Arngrímsson - One True Word tr. Larissa Kyzer (Pushkin Vertigo, Iceland)
- Stella Blómkvist - Murder Tide tr. Quentin Bates (Corylus Books, Iceland)
- Jón Atli Jónasson - Broken tr. Quentin Bates (Corylus Books, Iceland)
- Ørjan N Karlsson - Into Thin Air tr. Ian Giles (Orenda Books, Norway)
- John Ajvide Lindqvist - The Writing in the Water tr. Michael Meigs (Amazon Crossing, Sweden)
- Jo Nesbø - Wolf Hour tr. Robert Ferguson (Harvill Secker, Norway)
- Aslak Nore - The Heirs of the Arctic tr. Sean Kinsella (MacLehose Press, Norway)
- Satu Rämö - The Grave in the Ice tr. Kristian London (Zaffre, Finland)
- Lilja Sigurðardóttir - Black as Death tr. Lorenza Garcia (Orenda Books, Iceland)
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The Wake tr. Victoria Cribb (Hodder & Stoughton, Iceland)
- Karin Smirnoff - The Girl with Ice in her Veins tr. Sarah Death (MacLehose Press, Sweden)
- Antti Tuomainen - The Winter Job tr. David Hackston (Orenda Books, Finland)
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