Rights to Leena Lehtolainen’s books sold to 23 countries

Posted on 20.09.201111.08.2016

The rights to Leena Lehtolainen’s Where Have All the Young Girls Gone (Minne tytöt kadonneet) have been sold to the Romanian publisher Hardcover & Paperback SRL, making Romania the 23rd Leena Lehtolainen territory!

The deal makes Romanian already the seventh language into which Where Have All the Young Girls Gone , the 11th Maria Kallio title, is translated. Translation rights to this title have previously been sold to Germany, Taiwan, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Poland.

The Romanian deal is yet another milestone in Leena Lehtolainen’s international success story.

Full English text of Where Have All the Young Girls Gone is available, please contact the agency!

LEENA LEHTOLAINEN: MARIA KALLIO CRIME SERIES

RIGHTS SOLD:

CZECH REPUBLIC, Hejkal
DENMARK, Bazar
FINLAND, Tammi
FRANCE, Gaïa Editions
GERMANY, Rowohlt/Kindler
HUNGARY, Animus
ISRAEL, Penn Publishing
ITALY, Fanucci
THE NETHERLANDS, A W Bruna
NORWAY, Bazar
POLAND, Rebis
ROMANIA, Hardcover & Paperback SRL
RUSSIA, Ast
SPAIN, Destino
SWEDEN, Bazar
TAIWAN, Linking Publishing
TURKEY, Bizim Kitaplar

Some of Leena Lehtolainen’s works have also been published in: ALBANIA, CHINA (simplified), ESTONIA, LITHUANIA, SLOVAKIA and UKRAINE

About author

Leena Lehtolainen

Leena Lehtolainen is the top female crime author in Finland: her new titles always head straight to #1 on the Finnish bestseller lists.

Lehtolainen created her successful protagonist, detective Maria Kallio, in 1993. Having already featured in 16 novels and a complete TV series, a new Maria Kallio TV reboot series was launched in Fall 2021 on C More. Lehtolainen’s novels have been translated into 30 languages and have sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide.

And just like the events in Bodyguard, a that takes the heroine Hilja Ilveskero all around Europe, Lehtolainen’s own work takes her to book festivals, exhibitions and other events across the globe.

Leena Lehtolainen has also published outside the crime genre; her book The Charm of Figure Skating was voted sports book of the year 2010 in Finland, and A Life in Six Scenes showed her return to literary fiction.

The Crossing of the Green Dragon is her first title for YA audiences.

In her free time, Lehtolainen enjoys all kinds of music and follows lynx trails in the forests – just like Maria Kallio.

2023, Crime & Suspense

About author

Leena Lehtolainen

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