Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen, Rival to the Cotton Mill by Ann-Christin Antell, Death Comes for the Dead by Sari Rainio & Juha Rautaheimo and Penelope and the Big Baby Tooth Ballyhoo by Saara Kekäläinen & Reetta Niemensivu are running for the Storytel Awards, in the categories literary fiction, romance, crime, and children’s literature respectively.
Storytel has published its list of nominees for the Storytel Awards, and we love to see several HLA titles making the list: Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen, Rival to the Cotton Mill by Ann-Christin Antell, Death Comes for the Dead by Sari Rainio & Juha Rautaheimo and Penelope and the Big Baby Tooth Ballyhoo by Saara Kekäläinen & Reetta Niemensivu have been nominated in the categories of literary fiction, romance, crime, and children’s literature.
Storytel Awards are given to books in the categories of literary fiction, crime and thriller, romance and feel-good, nonfiction and children’s literature on a yearly basis. The winners are chosen among the nominees by the users’ vote and by a professional jury, and will be announced on March 21st at the Storytel Awards Gala.
Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen has been the literary sensation of autumn 2023, mixing science and high-quality literature, and it has so far been sold to 22 territories.
Rival to the Cotton Mill by Ann-Christin Antell is the third installment in the Cotton Mill trilogy. It follows Paula, the head of marketing at her family business the cotton mill, who finds herself in a dilemma when the owner of the rivaling factory, starts to feel less like an enemy and more and more like someone to love. The book has been ranked in the top 10 most listened books on both Bookbeat and Storytel Finland, and the series has sold over 150,000 copies in Finland. The foreign rights have so far been sold for Danish, Dutch, French, Icelandic and Swedish.
Death Comes for the Dead is the second novel in the Mortui Non Silent series by Sari Rainio & Juha Rautaheimo. The shamelessly nostalgic crime series has been received with glowing reviews, and Death Comes for The Dead has been nominated for the Clew of the Year Award given to the best crime novel of the year in 2023.
Penelope and the Big Baby Tooth Ballyhoo is the second volume in the Finlandia-nominated Penelope series by Saara Kekäläinen & Reetta Niemensivu. Penelope is a pocked-sized girl with a very lively imagination, which turns washing her teeth into a hilarious adventure. What will happen when her baby teeth fall off? Maybe she’ll be sent a new sheep instead of new teeth? Or maybe she’ll receive a visit from the tooth fairy’s mischievous cousin, the tooth imp? The reader and Penelope will find out, and it is sure to be a fun ride!
Congratulations to all nominees, and fingers crossed!