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Nordic Noir star pens Eurovision hope

Best-selling Swedish author Camilla Läckberg has co-written one of the of the 28 entries for Melodifestivalen 2016, the competition designed to choose Sweden’s entry for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.

Published: 30 November 2015 12:34 CET
Updated: 30 November 2015 15:20 CET
Nordic Noir star pens Eurovision hope
Camilla Läckberg has finally succeeded in her aim to have a song in Melodifestivalen. Photo" Henrik Montgomery / TT

The author has, rather appropriately, written the lyrics for a Swedish singer named Anna Book’s track Heaven For Two.

The song will be one of the 28 performed in hope of being chosen as Sweden's Eurovision 2016 entry.

Läckberg has previously admitted to being a huge Eurovision Song Contest fan. She’s sent contributions to the festival before hoping to compete as a lyricist.

It's not the first time that Anna Book is taking part in Melodifestivalen. Her first entry, ABC, was part of the competition in 1986. She only finished fifth in the competition but the song went on to become a huge Swedish hit that spring.

Book told Swedish newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad: “I admire her (Läckberg’s) versatility. She has written these lyrics in Rio, in Spain and at home in her kitchen – we worked really well together.”

Other artists taking part this year include Melodifestivalen veterans Martin Stenmarck and Linda Bengtzing, as well as younger artists such as Dolly Style and Molly Sandén and hard rockers, Eclipse.

Heats will take place in Gothenburg, Malmö, Norrköping and Gävle in February.

Sweden is hosting Eurovision 2016 after Måns Zelmerlöw's victory with his track Heroes, last year in Austria. It was the Nordic country's sixth Eurovision title, with only Ireland scoring more wins (seven) in the history of the competition.

Sweden's most famous group of all time, Abba, gave the nation its first taste of success in the contest back in 1974.

 

 

POLITICS

Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Green Party and Left Party have managed to oust the right-wing Moderates from power in Gothenburg, despite failing to strike a coalition deal with the Centre Party.

Published: 28 October 2022 15:34 CEST
Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Left Party and Green Party will now take over the municipality with Jonas Attenius, group leader for the Social Democrats in the city, becoming the new mayor.

“We three parties are ready to together take responsibility for leading Gothenburg,” Attenius wrote to TT. “I am looking forward immensely to leading Gothenburg in the coming years.” 

The three parties will lead a minority government, with 40 out of 81 mandates, meaning it will dependent on mandates from the Centre Party to pass proposals. 

The three parties had hoped to bring the Centre Party into the coalition, but talks fell apart on Monday,  October 24th. 

“We our going into opposition, but our goal is to be an independent, liberal force, which can negotiate both to the left and to the right,” the party’s group leader in Gothenburg, Emmyly Bönfors told the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper. 

The end of talks in Gothenburg leave the Social Democrats leading coalition governments in all three of Sweden’s major cities, with Karin Wanngård appointed Mayor of Stockholm on October 17th. 

The Social Democrats had unbroken control in Malmö since 1994, after they regained power from the Moderates, who controlled the city from 1991-1994, and also from 1985-1988. 

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