Storytellers' Agency.

Swedish authors Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril (who write under the pseudonym Lars Kepler) and Bonnierförlagen have started a joint literary agency: Storytellers' Agency.

Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril and Bonnierförlagen have worked together since 2009, and this collaboration has grown into a major international venture covering book publishing, film and television production in 39 languages. Building on this creative partnership, they have agreed to further their cooperation with the launch of a joint literary agency.

"The book, film and broadcast business is changing at breakneck speed, something which also affects the role of literary agencies," says Håkan Rudels, Managing Director for Bonnierförlagen. "A good story is still central, but the ways in which this is managed and developed is changing. That two of Sweden's most prominent thriller writers have joined us in starting this new agency means that we are in pole position from day one."

Storytellers' Agency's goal is to represent a number of authors in the international market. Initially, the agency will be working in the areas of book, film and television rights.

Heading up the new agency will be Elisabet Brännström, currently Rights Director at Head of Zeus Ltd in London. Elisabet Brännström has worked in publishing in London for eight years, five of these as a literary agent at Andrew Nurnberg Associates. In 2012 she joined Anthony Cheetham's publishing house Head of Zeus, where she set up the foreign rights department and sold rights across the list around the world. She's looking forward to moving back to Sweden to head up Storytellers' Agency, she says.

"During our five years as Lars Kepler, we have been on a sort of crash course in international launches," say Alexander & Alexandra Ahndoril. "All this experience has now converged to create a vision of a modern, dynamic agency with a unique author perspective."

Further employees will be recruited shortly.