By the Seashore by Sanna Nyqvist sold to Ukraine!

We are happy to let you know that the Ukrainian rights for Sanna Nyqvist‘s Finlandia Prize-nominated non-fiction title By the Seashore: How Writers Discovered the Sea have been acquired by Laboratoria! The deal was closed by Sten-Erik Tammemäe at Elina Ahlback Literary Agency. Rights were recently sold to mareverlag in Germany and Rahva Raamat in Estonia.

By the Seashore is a captivating and immersive account of how five literary authors – Jane Austen, August Strindberg, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Tove Jansson – found the sea and the seashore and how these experiences affected them and their writing. In addition to detailing the authors’ own relationship to the sea and the seashore, Sanna Nyqvist also shows how these landscapes have changed since and how they form a shared cultural heritage that we should cherish and preserve.

By the Seashore was one of the most acclaimed Finnish non-fiction titles of 2024. It was nominated for the prestigious Finlandia Prize in Non-Fiction, it received the Lauri Jäntti Prize Honorary Award of 2024, and it was selected as one of the 10 best non-fiction titles of 2024 by Suomen Kuvalehti magazine.

With this latest sale, the rights for By the Seashore have now been sold to 4 territories!
Rights are available in many territories, e.g., United States, France, United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands…

Download materials for BY THE SEASHORE here!

By the Seashore: How Writers Discovered the Sea

Sanna Nyqvist

Follow Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Tove Jansson and other classic writers to the beach and experience the landscape through the eyes of a writer.

By the Seashore is a fascinating journey through salt-scented cultural history and to the authors’ favourite beaches. Jane Austen adventured along the south coast of England, Marcel Proust returned year after year to the shimmering light of Normandy, and Tove Jansson created her own paradise on an island in the Gulf of Finland. The magic of the beaches is part of our shared experience and our relationship with nature. But how long will we be able to experience our beloved beaches as they are now? This was already being pondered by August Strindberg in the late 19th century, when industry and tourism were shaping the Stockholm archipelago.

By the Seashore is a gripping and surprising account of why beaches have become landscapes of emotion, safe havens as well as islands of adventure.