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Grand News #9, 2015
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The festival for crime lovers is here

Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of your favourite crime writer? Are you a publisher of Swedish crime and want to see some of the places where your author kills his or her victims? Would you like to attend a marathon with thriller movies? Do you dare to mingle with people who look nice, but get paid to kill and are you ready to walk through the medieval alleys of Visby on a shady August night? If yes, you should immediately book your tickets for the first edition of CRIME TIME GOTLAND, the festival for everyone - readers, editors, translators, who love suspense in books and movies. Four full days in August, the 13th to the 16th, Visby on Gotland will be crowded with crime lovers. 40 writers and over 50 events. Make sure you are there.

In the program you’ll find seminars, informal talks, screenings, excursions to crime scene sites, writing courses, crime drinks and much, much more. The town will be filled with Swedish crime writers, both the ones who write about Gotland such as Anna Jansson, Håkan Östlundh, Marianne Cedervall and Mari Jungstedt, and other great creators of thrill like Håkan Nesser, Jens Lapidus, Åsa Larsson to only mention a few.  The international stars are
Jussi Adler-Olsson, Roger Hobbs, Anne Holt, Alex Markwood and Denise Mina. The festival promises an informal atmosphere to make sure that you will actually have a chance to meet and talk to your favourite authors. And of course, there will be a program for adults as well as for children.

Read more and book your tickets at http://crimetimegotland.se/

Anna Jansson will take you to places all over Gotland where her gruesome murders have taken place.
They may look innocent, but during the writing courses at CTG Håkan Östlundh and Marianne Cedervall will teach you the meanest way to kill people.
Award winners, best sellers, self publishers, international stars. There will be many Grand Agency authors at CTG that create noir and dark thrilling stories; Tove Alsterdal, Karin Wahlberg,  Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, Emelie Schepp and Lars Rambe.
 

Words from the Agent

One August night a couple of years ago I was sitting in the old chapel that is my summer home on the east coast of Gotland, reading an unusually scary crime novel. I looked out the window and thought how much I’d like to meet the author and ask her how this horrifying story had come out of her computer. I wanted to sit down and talk to her in an informal way. I thought of the crime festivals I had attended and realized we desperately needed one in Sweden. And what would be a better place than the magic town of Visby, with its old houses, fairylike atmosphere and beautiful setting on the coast of Gotland. The next day I contacted the mayor of Gotland to introduce my idea. It was clear we agreed on the need of a crime festival in Visby and when contacts were taken with the magazine and event organizer Books & Dreams it turned up that they had a similar idea. Carina Nunstedt was appointed Chief of Program and thanks to her energy and hundreds of hours of enormous work it’s now time for the very first CRIME TIME GOTLAND. I have a great feeling about this and look forward to see you in Visby in August.
Welcome!                                                                                                      
Lena Stjernström
Grand Agency



Photos
Jesper Anhede: Lena Stjernström

Anna-Lena Ahlström: Anna Jansson & Karin Wahlberg
Mia Carlsson: Marianne Cedervall
Helén Karlsson: Emelie Schepp
Annika Marklund: Tove Alsterdahl
Conny Palmqvist: Lars Rambe

Sofia Runarsdotter: Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg & Håkan Östlundh
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