Home News Authors About Photo: Sara Mac Key Tomas Bannerhed, born in 1966, grew up in Uråsa village in the province of Smaland in southern Sweden, and now lives in Stockholm. His professional background includes being a university teacher and a magazine editor. AWARDS August Prize 2011 Agent Susanne Widén susanne@hedlundagency.se Phone: +46 76-644 06 48 Tomas Bannerhed Winner of the August Prize for Best Swedish Novel 2011! Books 2011 – The Ravens (Korparna) Originally published in Swedish by Weyler förlag. 414 pages. Genre General fiction Download Sales sheet (PDF) Sample translation (PDF) Rights sold Bulgarian/Perseus Danish/Gyldendal Dutch/De Geus Estonian/Hea Lugu French/Gallimard German/Btb Norwegian/Gyldendal World English/Clerkenwell Press UK Film rights sold: Studio Jens Assur The Ravens Original title: Korparna With increasing horror, a boy watches his father, a farmer, despair over the circumstances. The meager fields don’t yield enough, but the father, despite nearly going insane from the dreary toil on the farm, is possessed with the idea that the son must take over and carry on the legacy. The chain of generations of tormented small farmers must remain intact. The boy finds refuge with the birds. It is Sweden, it is Smaland, it is a different 1970s. Tomas Bannerhed’s first novel is a razor-sharp depiction of a boy’s anguish before the world and adult life. REVIEWS "One element that shines through The Ravens is Bannerhed's ability to write tenderly of failure and of failed tenderness." (Times Literary Supplement) “His high pitched debut demonstrates both talent and maturity, while having something epic about it, immersed in man and his circumstances.” (Smålandsposten) “It is difficult to grasp that The Ravens really is a first novel. This is a mature, terrifically interesting, writer, that it will be a pleasure to follow.” (DN) “It is so deftly written, so sharp in all its daily details and the way it captures the psychological events, that it, in my view, surpasses most of what has been written in Swedish in recent times.” (Norra Västerbotten) “Tomas Bannerhed’s The Ravens is the best Swedish first novel I have read in a long time” (...) “Bannerhed’s prose is as compressed as free-floating, a leaden text carried upwards by the thermals.” (Expressen) “Tomas Bannerhed’s prose is exceptionally mature and is able to portray a bird date so that it becomes action-packed.” (Svenska Dagbladet) Hedlund Literary Agency Visiting address: Magdalena Hedlund Johanna Kinch Susanne Widén Box 2262 Tyska Brinken 19 magdalena@hedlundagency.se johanna@hedlundagency.se susanne@hedlundagency.se 103 16 Stockholm Directions Mobile: +46 70-669 05 68 Mobile: +46 70-713 42 07 Mobile: +46 76-644 06 48 Sweden