Petrona Award 2024 Longlist

Ten crime novels from Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the 2024 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.

They are:

You Will Never Be Found by Tove Alsterdal, tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, Faber & Faber)

The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock, tr. Tara F Chace (Denmark, Swift Press)

Snow Fall by Jørn Lier Horst, tr. Anne Bruce (Norway, Michael Joseph)

Stigma by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger, tr. Megan E Turney (Norway, Orenda Books)

The Girl by the Bridge by Arnaldur Indriðason, tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, Harvill Secker)

Dead Men Dancing by Jógvan Isaksen, tr. Marita Thomsen (Faroe Islands (Denmark), Norvik Press)

The Sins of our Fathers by Åsa Larsson, tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, MacLehose Press)

White as Snow by Lilja Sigurðardottir, tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Orenda Books)

The Prey by Yrsa Sigurðardottir, tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, Hodder & Stoughton)

The Girl in the Eagle's Talons by Karin Smirnoff, tr. Sarah Death (Sweden, MacLehose Press)

The long list contains a mix of newer and more established authors including previous Petrona Award winners, Jørn Lier Horst and Yrsa Sigurðardottir.

Both large and small publishers are represented on the longlist, with Orenda Books and MacLehose Press both having two entries, and the breakdown by country is Iceland (3), Sweden (3), Denmark (2) and Norway (2).

The shortlist will be announced on 10 October 2024.

The Petrona Award 2024 judging panel comprises Jackie Farrant, the creator of RAVEN CRIME READS and a bookseller/Area Commercial Support for a major book chain in the UK and Ewa Sherman, translator and writer, and blogger at NORDIC LIGHTHOUSE, with additional help from Sarah Ward, author, former Petrona Award judge and current CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger judge.

The Award administrator is Karen Meek, owner of the EURO CRIME blog and website.

The Petrona team would like to thank both our sponsor, David Hicks, for his continuing support of the Petrona Award and the CWA, in particular Maxim Jakubowski, for allowing Sarah to step in following the very unexpected death of our much missed judge and friend Miriam Owen.