We at Brandt New Agency hope you had a wonderful summer and that you are as thrilled as we are at the beginning of a new literary season! There is a lot of news from recent weeks, which we are delighted to share with you.

To begin with…Katerina Janouch’s latest novel, Blood Sisters has gone directly to #2 on the Swedish bestseller list. Blood Sisters is the latest episodes in Janouch’s popular Cecilia Lund series and it gratifying to see that Swedish readers love the book as much as we do.

There is also exciting news about our witty YA title Lex Bok by Sara Kadefors, with the Spanish and Catalan rights being sold to Destino/Planeta and Grup 62. The novel tells the story of Lex, a teenage girl who hates the world and thinks everyone is an idiot. But when she creates a blog, her alter ego, Maya, becomes extremely popular and Lex suddenly has to deal with fame. News about Sara Kadefors’ new novel will be posted soon on this website!

Danny Wattin’s Herr Isakowitz’ Treasure continues to thrill foreign publishers and rights have now also been sold to Forlagid in Iceland. The book has been sold to 12 territories and the first translation will be published in Holland by Uitgeverij Q at the end of October.

Our Fall Catalogue is almost finished and will be presented very soon. As always, our team will be attending the Gothenburg and Frankfurt book fairs.

Last but not least, we are pleased to introduce you to Elin Hellström, who is joining the  Brandt New Agency team as a literary agent.

Elin (1981) grew up in thousand-year-old Skara, one of Sweden’s oldest villages. As a child she enjoyed every subject in school except mathematics and loved spending time reading and playing in the Swedish outdoors. At 18, she left her sleepy hometown and headed for Latin America, inspired by her father who had worked and lived there. She studied Spanish Philology and Literature, first in Santiago de Chile and then at Lund University in Sweden and Alcalá de Henares University in Spain.

Her curiosity about different peoples and cultures took her on various journeys around the world and lead to further studies in Social Anthropology. Elin also holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. After working as a news reporter in Stockholm, she decided to settle in Barcelona where, for two years, she worked as a freelance journalist for Swedish newspapers and magazines before joining Brandt New Agency.