STOCKHOLM, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The best-selling
author Camilla Läckberg and the celebrated actor Alexander Karim have written an audiobook
manuscript exclusively for Storytel Original. The epic love story
follows two strangers who are separated in strict isolation in
their hotel rooms at the same time as a deadly virus threatens to
wipe out humanity. They break their isolation by mistake, and a
dizzying, life-threatening love
emerges. Glacier will be launched
globally on Storytel starting 15 June.
What happens to a person in isolation? What is a life worth
without contact with other people? How can a person love when this
love threatens their life? These are some of the questions that
inspired Glacier, a novel by best-selling author Camilla
Läckberg and celebrated actor Alexander Karim.
Glacier will be released in fourteen languages
exclusively on Storytel on 15 June in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Bulgaria and Poland. It will be released in Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Italy,
Russia and Turkey later in the year. Each market
will choose their own voices for the recordings in each
language.
The voices for the Swedish production are Alexander Karim and the acclaimed Bergman
actress Lena
Endre. Endre and Karim will also play the leading
roles in the movie with the same title that will be directed and
produced by Baker Karim and premier this spring.
"Working with a story for different formats in this way gives
the story fantastic opportunities. In the audiobook, listeners will
get to know the characters on a deeper level and see different
sides of them; the plot can be developed, take different turns and
paths - and the end could actually be completely different.
Glacier is a story that transcends borders and that
Alexander and I really are passionate about. We can't wait for it
to reach its audiences on the various platforms", says Camilla
Läckberg.
"It is a drama that lies close to both of our hearts, and it is
really a project that has been fuelled by passion. The plot has
naturally been inspired by our reality in the past year. It has
been an intense and incredible year, and I am excited that we will
soon finally be able to share the incredible result", says
Alexander Karim.
Glacier is set in a luxury hotel, where a female
doctor and a male pastor are each in their own room. They are
unaware of each other's existence. A pandemic is raging outside the
quarantine that both protects and destroys them. They are kept
strictly isolated to survive, but in many ways they have both long
ago isolated their inner selves. A devastating mistake leads to a
forbidden meeting - and the seed to a magnificent, overwhelming
love is sown. A love worth dying for.
"Glacier is a relentless love story in a time when we all
have experienced in some way what isolation can do to the human
soul. It is a story in the true spirit of Shakespeare, where the
heart's desire is worth more than life itself. At Storytel, we are
very proud that we have had the opportunity to nurture this story,
and our Glacier team, which is one of the largest we have
put together to work on an audiobook, created an audio drama that
we hope will pierce the hearts of our listeners", says Anna
Öqvist Ragnar, Executive Producer for Glacier at
Storytel.
"This is our largest project to date in terms of how many
translations and productions we are doing simultaneously. It is a
story that is highly relevant, and it is so much fun to be able to
offer it to so many listeners in so many countries. Storytel
Original is now an exciting mix of super local, tailored and
global", Rickard Henley, Head
of Global Direct Publishing at Storytel.
Facts Camilla Läckberg:
Camilla Läckberg is one of Sweden's most well-known and successful
authors internationally. Her breakthrough with the
Fjällbacka series, ten acclaimed and celebrated crime novels
about author Erica Falck and police
officer Patrik Hedström, have been sold in more than 60 countries
and made into both movies and TV shows. She has also written a
series of popular children's books about a young superhero,
Super-Charlie. Her most recent novels, The Golden
Cage (2019) and Wings of Silver (2020), are part of her
best-selling series about Faye.
Facts Alexander Karim:
Alexander Karim is an actor known
from his roles in popular movies and TV series. Karim also debuted
in 2019 as an author with the novel Den extraordinära
berättelsen om Jonas Paulssons plötsliga död. In 2019 he
also published the children's book Modigast i världen
(The Bravest in the World), which he wrote together with his
wife Malin Karim.
For more information, please contact:
Rickard Henley
Head of Global Direct
Publishing
Storytel AB
Cell: +46 70 471 20 45
E-mail: rickard.henley@storytel.com
Dan Panas
Head of
Communications
Storytel AB
Cell +46 70 186 52 90
E-mail: dan.panas@storytel.com
About Storytel
Storytel is one of the world's largest subscribed audiobook and
e-book streaming services and offers listening and reading of more
than 500 000 titles on a global scale. Our vision is to make the
world a more empathetic and creative place with great stories to be
shared and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere and anytime. Storytel's
streaming business is conducted under the brands Storytel and
Mofibo. Storytel's publishing business area is carried out through
the audiobook publisher StorySide and acclaimed Nordic publishing
houses such as Norstedts, People's and Gummerus. Storytel operates
in over 20 markets around the globe and is headquartered in
Stockholm, Sweden.
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