SELTA members Neil Smith and Rachel Willson-Broyles have been shortlisted for the 2025 Petrona Award.

The Petrona Award recognises outstanding translated crime fiction from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with this year’s winner being announced on 16th October 2025. There were a total of 31 entries to the annual prize, so congratulations Neil and Rachel!

The judges on Neil’s translation of Pascal Engman’s The Widows:

“A previous winner of the Petrona Award with FEMICIDE, Pascal Engman once again produces a high-octane thriller which impressed the judges with its complex plotting, nerve wracking tension and strong characterisation throughout.”

And on Rachel’s translation of Deliver Me by Malin Persson Giolito:

“DELIVER ME is a powerful, yet unsettling, examination of the dark underbelly of suburban Stockholm and the real victims of gang violence and social inequality.”