Monika Fagerholm

Monika Fagerholm (b. 1961) is by far one of the most interesting and esteemed writers in the Nordic countries. Her books have been extremely well received in both Finland and abroad. She has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Lithuanian, Dutch, Icelandic and Korean.

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Glitterscenen (The Glitter Stage)

Fagerholm's previous novel Amerikkalainen tyttö (“The American Girl”) was a success both critically and among the reading audience. It was awarded the most prestigious literary award in Sweden, the August prize. Säihkenäyttämö (“The Glitter Stage”) is an independent follow-up to “The American Girl” and a concluding part to this versatile and fascinating story. The death of the American girl in autumn 1969 and the tragic events that followed bind local people’s fates together. What really happened and why a play about the American girl is performed again and again in the Winter Garden glitter stage? The events that have already taken place intermingle with what is happening right now. Söderstöms Publishers will publish the book in Swedish simultaneously.

To be published in 2008

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Den amerikanska flickan (The American Girl)

Den amerikanska flickan (The American Girl) is a story of two teenagers, a girl and a boy, who die under obscure circumstances in the rural outskirts of a big city in the late 1960s. It is a story of longing, youth and fascination for death at an early age, which starts living its own life both as reality and myth, shaping and changing lives and destinies through the ages, at last turning up as a "theme" in a strange adults' theme park, a world-of-its-own, in 2008 - a place called The Winter Garden. Extending over six decades from the 1950s, The American Girl is the first book of two of a thriller epic, The End of the Glitter Scene.