Hedlund Agency

We represent some of Scandinavia's most wonderful authors, as well as Moggliden, the Estate of Stieg

Hedlund Literary Agency was established in March 2011 by Magdalena Hedlund. The company’s focus is general fiction, crime and thrillers while also representing a few, selected authors of children's books. The agency's principal area of expertise is selling Swedish translation and film rights to works by some of Scandinavia's most highly acclaimed authors. In particular, it represents Moggliden, the company of the Stieg Larsson Estate.

16/01/2024

Woman with dogs.

05/01/2024

Today is the publication day for Lisa Bjerre and Susan Casserfelt's Unknown Sender in Denmark 🙌

Unknown Sender is a criminal novel about crimes that targets society’s most vulnerable individuals. It is the third installment in the Line 17-series where we get to follow the daily life of police officers Lina Kruse and Jack Karlberg in the suburb Bagarmossen.

31/12/2023

Karin Smirnoff pays tribute to one of Sweden’s iconic writers, Sara Lidman, with a beautiful essay in SvD today. Happy and kind New Year to everyone! 🌟✨

14/12/2023

Årets julknytis Stortorget 1, dokumenterad utifrån ett pannben. Tack alla kära!

24/11/2023

Simply beautiful Danish edition of Mikael Niemi's epic story Stone in Silk 🌿

15/11/2023

Paris photo session. Merci Actes Sud!

10/11/2023

Fantastic German reading tour in Luneburg, Hannover, Erfurt, Munich and Hamburg with and Verderben. Thank you and Peter Tvihausen and of course ! Es war toll!

19/10/2023

’’Reports from the Front: Winter 2023’’ is published in Granta Magazine’s latest issue. The piece is an account from the two weeks Peter Englund and photographer Paul Hansen travelled through Ukraine to report and write about the war.

During october the piece, translated into English by Sigrid Rausing, is available to read at Granta’s website for free. Link in bio!

18/10/2023

Happy Frankfurt evening. Congrats to the birthdaycompanies!

18/10/2023

King and Queen.

13/10/2023

Wonderful German edition of Ingrid Carlberg’s Nobel: The Enigmatic Alfred

30/09/2023

Saturday in sunny Gothenburg! Don’t miss out on meeting some of our amazing authors today☀️📚

26/09/2023

First reviews of Mikael Niemi’s wonderful novel Stone in Silk are here! 📰✍🏼

20/09/2023

M7 making its way around the world! Alongside No. 6 on Der Spiegel’s Bestseller list its also No. 3 on the Castillian Bestseller list as well as No. 4 on the Catalan one ⚡️

15/09/2023

A pre-review of upcoming novel The Hundredth Woman was published by BTJ this week pointing out author Simon Häggström’s extensive commitment and ability to create deeply touching and educative suspense. We can’t wait until publishing day September 28th!

11/09/2023

Two weeks to go before publication date of The Hundredth Woman by Simon Häggström, here as cover on Harper Collin’s autumn catalogue!

11/09/2023

First UK reviews coming in!✏️

15/08/2023

The first copy of Knopf’s edition of The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons has arrived. Publication day is approaching-August 29th!

04/07/2023

French cover of the 7th installment in the Millennium series 🎉 Available this fall!

20/06/2023

Simon Häggström’s Sisters in Solitude is available as paperback!
Make sure to get your copy of the third installment of the bestselling series about the Human Trafficking Unit that has sold more than 120 000 copies in Sweden👏🏻

12/06/2023

And the journalist Tom Tivnan writes: ”For my two kronor, Smirnoff is the best of the Salander septet. A smart, crime trope-free tale with boundary pushing prose (in Sara Death’s sprightly transaktion) that is still compulsively page-turning” 🔥🔥🔥.

26/05/2023

Wonderful Dutch bookrelease of The Girl in the Eagles Talons in Amsterdam! Thank you for fabulous arrangements and lovely days in your professional company !