Mads Peder Nordbo's Blog
April 13, 2017
THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN
Foreign Rights so far sold to: Norway (Gyldendal), Czech Republic (Dobrovsky), Italy (Einaudi), Iceland (Bjartur), Finland (Like), Sweden (Albert Bonniers), Germany (Fischer Verlag), The Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Lithuania (Baltos Lankos), Slovakia (Ikar), Spain (Planeta), Poland (Burda Media), France (Actes Sud), Portugal (Planetas), Estonia (Varrak), Israel (Penn Publishing) and Australia/New Zealand (Text Publishing – World English Rights).
Mads Peder Nordbo is Danish but has lived in Greenland for several years and works at the town hall in Nuuk. He holds degrees in literature, communications and philosophy from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Stockholm. He is the author of five novels; his two latest books will published in eighteen languages. The Girl Without Skin is the first to be published in English.
THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN
"They were near the edge of the glacier. The sea beneath the helicopter was dense with pack ice. In front of them, the endless whiteness stretched as far as the light could reach. It hurt his eyes. Millions of white crystals. Except in one place. One spot. Right where the mummified Norseman had been found and Aqqalu had kept watch. There, the ice was glossy red."
When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the policeman who was keeping watch is found naked and flayed—exactly like the victims in a gruesome series of murders that terrified the remote town of Nuuk in the 1970s.
As Matt investigates, he is shocked by the deprivation and brutal violence the locals take for granted. Unable to trust the police, he begins to suspect a cover-up. It’s only when he meets a young Inuit woman, Tupaarnaq, convicted of killing her parents and two small sisters, that Matt starts to realise how deep this story goes—and how much danger he is in.
SUMMARY
Matthew Cave is a 28-year-old Danish journalist. Feeling responsible for the death of his girlfriend and unborn daughter in a traffic accident, his bid to escape reality has driven him to the remote Arctic capital of Nuuk.
When a mummified body is discovered on the ice sheet, the first well-preserved Norse Viking ever found, Matthew is sent to cover the story. Everything is set up for a world sensation and the small community is holding its breath. Articles, photo shoots and research teams – everything is in place. But already the next day, chaos breaks out.
The mummy has disappeared and the police officer who was keeping watch at the discovery site has been split open and his entrails removed. He is lying naked on the ice with his belly inside out.
Back in Nuuk, and to Matthew’s great annoyance, a firm lid is put on the case – both on the sensation with the Viking mummy and the killing of the policeman.
Instead, Matthew strays off into a shelved murder case from 1973, where the method of killing resembles the one used on the police officer out on the ice. They are identical murders – except that the four men killed in 1973 had also been flayed when they were found. The same four men were under investigation for sexual abuse of their daughters.
Matthew soon realises that two of the abused girls disappeared without a trace while the case was still going on. And the same did the police officer, Jakob, in charge of investigating both the assaults and the murders.
For Matthew, the cases from 1973 and 2014 merge and he quickly gets so deeply involved in the bloody murders of the past and present that there is no going back. He quickly finds himself as the main suspect in the case and the only person he really dares to trust is a young Greenlandic woman who, fourteen years old, killed her father in the same way as the murders Matthew is working on.
Her name is Tupaarnaq. Her body is covered in tattoos. Her skin was worn away when she was a child, but her will is as strong as the mountains around Nuuk.
Matthew and Tupaarnaq find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game in which they are not only wanted by the police, but are also having their lives threatened by physical echoes from the past.
http://www.madspedernordbo.com/the-gi... Pigen uden hud
Mads Peder Nordbo is Danish but has lived in Greenland for several years and works at the town hall in Nuuk. He holds degrees in literature, communications and philosophy from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Stockholm. He is the author of five novels; his two latest books will published in eighteen languages. The Girl Without Skin is the first to be published in English.
THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN
"They were near the edge of the glacier. The sea beneath the helicopter was dense with pack ice. In front of them, the endless whiteness stretched as far as the light could reach. It hurt his eyes. Millions of white crystals. Except in one place. One spot. Right where the mummified Norseman had been found and Aqqalu had kept watch. There, the ice was glossy red."
When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the policeman who was keeping watch is found naked and flayed—exactly like the victims in a gruesome series of murders that terrified the remote town of Nuuk in the 1970s.
As Matt investigates, he is shocked by the deprivation and brutal violence the locals take for granted. Unable to trust the police, he begins to suspect a cover-up. It’s only when he meets a young Inuit woman, Tupaarnaq, convicted of killing her parents and two small sisters, that Matt starts to realise how deep this story goes—and how much danger he is in.
SUMMARY
Matthew Cave is a 28-year-old Danish journalist. Feeling responsible for the death of his girlfriend and unborn daughter in a traffic accident, his bid to escape reality has driven him to the remote Arctic capital of Nuuk.
When a mummified body is discovered on the ice sheet, the first well-preserved Norse Viking ever found, Matthew is sent to cover the story. Everything is set up for a world sensation and the small community is holding its breath. Articles, photo shoots and research teams – everything is in place. But already the next day, chaos breaks out.
The mummy has disappeared and the police officer who was keeping watch at the discovery site has been split open and his entrails removed. He is lying naked on the ice with his belly inside out.
Back in Nuuk, and to Matthew’s great annoyance, a firm lid is put on the case – both on the sensation with the Viking mummy and the killing of the policeman.
Instead, Matthew strays off into a shelved murder case from 1973, where the method of killing resembles the one used on the police officer out on the ice. They are identical murders – except that the four men killed in 1973 had also been flayed when they were found. The same four men were under investigation for sexual abuse of their daughters.
Matthew soon realises that two of the abused girls disappeared without a trace while the case was still going on. And the same did the police officer, Jakob, in charge of investigating both the assaults and the murders.
For Matthew, the cases from 1973 and 2014 merge and he quickly gets so deeply involved in the bloody murders of the past and present that there is no going back. He quickly finds himself as the main suspect in the case and the only person he really dares to trust is a young Greenlandic woman who, fourteen years old, killed her father in the same way as the murders Matthew is working on.
Her name is Tupaarnaq. Her body is covered in tattoos. Her skin was worn away when she was a child, but her will is as strong as the mountains around Nuuk.
Matthew and Tupaarnaq find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game in which they are not only wanted by the police, but are also having their lives threatened by physical echoes from the past.
http://www.madspedernordbo.com/the-gi... Pigen uden hud
Dansk krimi om Grønland storsælger
Udenlandske forlæggere har budt et sjældent stort beløb for en dansk krimiforfatter, de ikke kender. De isnende arktiske scenerier er på vej ind i kriminalgenren.
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Grønlandsk krimi sælger. Ikke bare er de vildsomme og øde landskaber som skabt til krimiscener.
Landet har også en social underskov og en sjældent høj mordrate, og flere krimiforfattere er i de senere år begyndt at flytte deres mord op i det arktiske. Nu oplever Politikens Forlag, hvordan udenlandske forlag hiver og flår i den danske forfatter Mads Peder Nordbos Grønlands-krimi, ’Pigen uden hud’.
»Jeg har aldrig oplevet noget lignende«, siger chefen for Politiken Literary Agency, Sofie Voller, der lige er kommet hjem fra bogmesse i London.
»Vi lukkede 13 aftaler på små 14 dage, selv om Mads Peder Nordbo nærmest er at sammenligne med en debutant: Ingen i den internationale forlagsverden har hørt om ham, men pludselig var hans bog blandt den håndfuld af bøger, alle talte om«.
http://politiken.dk/kultur/art5890078...
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Grønlandsk krimi sælger. Ikke bare er de vildsomme og øde landskaber som skabt til krimiscener.
Landet har også en social underskov og en sjældent høj mordrate, og flere krimiforfattere er i de senere år begyndt at flytte deres mord op i det arktiske. Nu oplever Politikens Forlag, hvordan udenlandske forlag hiver og flår i den danske forfatter Mads Peder Nordbos Grønlands-krimi, ’Pigen uden hud’.
»Jeg har aldrig oplevet noget lignende«, siger chefen for Politiken Literary Agency, Sofie Voller, der lige er kommet hjem fra bogmesse i London.
»Vi lukkede 13 aftaler på små 14 dage, selv om Mads Peder Nordbo nærmest er at sammenligne med en debutant: Ingen i den internationale forlagsverden har hørt om ham, men pludselig var hans bog blandt den håndfuld af bøger, alle talte om«.
http://politiken.dk/kultur/art5890078...
Aftale på plads med verdens tredjestørste agentur
Vi (Politiken Literary Agency og mig) har indgået en aftale med verdens tredjestørste agentur, ICM, om, at de arbejder videre med filmrettighederne for PIGEN UDEN HUD. Det er ret vildt og spændende. ICM ruller sig år for år i Oscar- og Emmynomineringer, og listen over kendte skuespillere og forfattere i deres stald er bedøvende. Det er ikke sikkert, der kommer en dyt ud af det, men det er nu vildt i øjeblikket - uanset hvordan det så ender for THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN i Los Angeles 🙃😁👻💃🏻📚 ICM har i første omgang filmrettighederne i et halvt år.
Lidt om ICM: http://www.webfilmschool.com/icm-agen...
Lidt om ICM: http://www.webfilmschool.com/icm-agen...
THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN hopper Down Under
Efter nogle hektiske uger er ’World English Rights’ endt hos det australske forlag Text Publishing. Det er et ret fedt independent forlag, der er kendt for at være yderst kræsne. Det er et forlag, der lægger vægt på at udgive bøger, der betyder noget, og så er de bare grumt gode til at sælge bøger i Australien og New Zealand – og resten af den engelsksprogede verden samt Asien for så vidt. Det er en yderst lovende aftale, og Text er lidt af et ønskeforlag, omend der nok ikke er så mange her i DK, der kender til forlaget.
’World English Rights’ betyder kort sagt, at man i stedet for at sælge rettighederne adskilt til flere engelsksprogede lande sælger dem samlet til ét forlag, og dette forlag får derved rettighederne til selv at udgive eller forhandle videre udgivelse i alle ’engelske’ lande som f.eks. Australien, New Zealand, USA, England og Canada, ligesom de også vil have retten til at udgive på engelsk i lande som Indien, Thailand, Papua Ny Guinea, Singapore med flere.
Det er en spændende aftale, der potentielt rummer en masse lande og ikke blot Australien og New Zealand – selvom det i sig selv er ret fedt at tænke på, at PIGEN UDEN HUD om et års tid kan købes i de to lande – og at vi naturligvis skal ned og se på, hvordan det går hende Down Under (det er jo nok næsten det vigtigste – og Arendse mener i øvrigt, at jeg kommer til at vinde en kænguru i et australsk TV-show, og at vi må beholde den).
Text Publishing er et forlag, der er kendt for at gå ’all in’ på deres enkelte udgivelser, og derfor er det yderst fedt, at de gik målrettet efter PIGEN UDEN HUD dette forår.
Der findes lidt mere information om Text Publishing her:
https://www.textpublishing.com.au/about
“At Text we want to publish books that make a difference to people’s lives. We believe that reading should be a marvellous experience, that every book you read should somehow change your life if only by a fraction.”
“…we want our beautiful books to be read on trains and beaches, in beds and planes, or under the desk at school and work, we work up a sweat to promote and market them. And that includes selling rights on behalf of our writers to publishers all around the world. In fact we earn more money for our writers through licensing international editions than we do by turning their books into bestsellers in Australia and New Zealand.”
’World English Rights’ betyder kort sagt, at man i stedet for at sælge rettighederne adskilt til flere engelsksprogede lande sælger dem samlet til ét forlag, og dette forlag får derved rettighederne til selv at udgive eller forhandle videre udgivelse i alle ’engelske’ lande som f.eks. Australien, New Zealand, USA, England og Canada, ligesom de også vil have retten til at udgive på engelsk i lande som Indien, Thailand, Papua Ny Guinea, Singapore med flere.
Det er en spændende aftale, der potentielt rummer en masse lande og ikke blot Australien og New Zealand – selvom det i sig selv er ret fedt at tænke på, at PIGEN UDEN HUD om et års tid kan købes i de to lande – og at vi naturligvis skal ned og se på, hvordan det går hende Down Under (det er jo nok næsten det vigtigste – og Arendse mener i øvrigt, at jeg kommer til at vinde en kænguru i et australsk TV-show, og at vi må beholde den).
Text Publishing er et forlag, der er kendt for at gå ’all in’ på deres enkelte udgivelser, og derfor er det yderst fedt, at de gik målrettet efter PIGEN UDEN HUD dette forår.
Der findes lidt mere information om Text Publishing her:
https://www.textpublishing.com.au/about
“At Text we want to publish books that make a difference to people’s lives. We believe that reading should be a marvellous experience, that every book you read should somehow change your life if only by a fraction.”
“…we want our beautiful books to be read on trains and beaches, in beds and planes, or under the desk at school and work, we work up a sweat to promote and market them. And that includes selling rights on behalf of our writers to publishers all around the world. In fact we earn more money for our writers through licensing international editions than we do by turning their books into bestsellers in Australia and New Zealand.”
February 3, 2013
Lidt af anmeldernes ord om Odins labyrint – et glasbarns fortællinger:
”Lad mig slå det fast med det samme: Hvis ikke du allerede har læst bogen, så skynd dig at sætte den på ønskelisten eller løb ud og køb den! Hvis jeg havde haft råd, så havde jeg foræret den til alle jeg kender.” Boghunden.dk
”Jeg er vild med konspirationsromaner om kristendommen og den nordiske mytologi, og denne føjer sig fint til rækken af gode romaner. Forfatterens idéer omkring Odin er spændende læsning, og krydret med mord, kærlighed og magt giver det en rigtig god cocktail.” Litteratursiden.dk
”Jeg ved godt at ‘pageturner’ er et meget brugt og til tider slidt ord, men jeg vil bruge det om denne bog, for det er lige præcis det den er. Jeg håber, og tror, at ‘Odins Labyrint’ er begyndelsen på noget rigtig stort.” Krimifan.dk
”Det er en dramatisk og temmelig kompliceret historie, læseren skal skærpe al sin opmærksomhed for at hænge på her, nogle vil nok snuble i detaljerne, men spændende er det ubetinget.” Lektørudtalelse uge 49, 2012.
”Mads Peder Nordbo formår at skabe et sælsomt og dystert univers. Historien kommer under huden i en sådan grad, at man kan mærke fortællerens hastige pulsslag og kuldegysninger i de mørke lofter og fugtige kældre. Resultatet er en veldrejet og velskrevet spændingsroman.” Fyens Stiftstidende d. 4. november 2012.
“Rammen er et effektivt knirkende gys af et Kensingtonhus … forfatteren kan skabe uhygge, og ideen med et afsæt Nordens tidlige historie rummer kim til mere.” Politiken d. 8. december 2012.
“Mads Peder Nordbos omtalte debutroman ’Odins labyrint’ er fascinerende, måske revolutionerende, sprogforskning rimpet sammen med gotisk gys … Det er i Mads Peder Nordbos generøse, engagerede genfortælling af sin omfangsrige og, angiveligt veldokumenterede, viden, at hans bog har sin imponerende styrke, originalitet og potentielle internationale rækkevidde.” Information d. 3. januar 2013.
”For fans af konspirationsteorier er der en del guf i Mads Peder Nordbos debutroman. Her er det den nordiske mytologi, det handler om, men stilen er videnskabsthriller, som den kendes fra blandt andet ‘Da Vinci-mysteriet’ med lange religionshistoriske udredninger blandet op med passende mængder regulær spænding.” JyllandsPosten d. 1. november 2012.
”Mads Peder Nordbo har fat i spændende stof, og ’Odins labyrint’ viser ham som en forfatter, der forstår at folde et handlingsforløb ud, så læserens nysgerrighed hele tiden udfordres, og stemningen i huset i London er ægte gotisk.” Midtjyllands Avis d. 29. november 2012.
”Jeg er vild med konspirationsromaner om kristendommen og den nordiske mytologi, og denne føjer sig fint til rækken af gode romaner. Forfatterens idéer omkring Odin er spændende læsning, og krydret med mord, kærlighed og magt giver det en rigtig god cocktail.” Litteratursiden.dk
”Jeg ved godt at ‘pageturner’ er et meget brugt og til tider slidt ord, men jeg vil bruge det om denne bog, for det er lige præcis det den er. Jeg håber, og tror, at ‘Odins Labyrint’ er begyndelsen på noget rigtig stort.” Krimifan.dk
”Det er en dramatisk og temmelig kompliceret historie, læseren skal skærpe al sin opmærksomhed for at hænge på her, nogle vil nok snuble i detaljerne, men spændende er det ubetinget.” Lektørudtalelse uge 49, 2012.
”Mads Peder Nordbo formår at skabe et sælsomt og dystert univers. Historien kommer under huden i en sådan grad, at man kan mærke fortællerens hastige pulsslag og kuldegysninger i de mørke lofter og fugtige kældre. Resultatet er en veldrejet og velskrevet spændingsroman.” Fyens Stiftstidende d. 4. november 2012.
“Rammen er et effektivt knirkende gys af et Kensingtonhus … forfatteren kan skabe uhygge, og ideen med et afsæt Nordens tidlige historie rummer kim til mere.” Politiken d. 8. december 2012.
“Mads Peder Nordbos omtalte debutroman ’Odins labyrint’ er fascinerende, måske revolutionerende, sprogforskning rimpet sammen med gotisk gys … Det er i Mads Peder Nordbos generøse, engagerede genfortælling af sin omfangsrige og, angiveligt veldokumenterede, viden, at hans bog har sin imponerende styrke, originalitet og potentielle internationale rækkevidde.” Information d. 3. januar 2013.
”For fans af konspirationsteorier er der en del guf i Mads Peder Nordbos debutroman. Her er det den nordiske mytologi, det handler om, men stilen er videnskabsthriller, som den kendes fra blandt andet ‘Da Vinci-mysteriet’ med lange religionshistoriske udredninger blandet op med passende mængder regulær spænding.” JyllandsPosten d. 1. november 2012.
”Mads Peder Nordbo har fat i spændende stof, og ’Odins labyrint’ viser ham som en forfatter, der forstår at folde et handlingsforløb ud, så læserens nysgerrighed hele tiden udfordres, og stemningen i huset i London er ægte gotisk.” Midtjyllands Avis d. 29. november 2012.
