Camilla Läckberg honoured in Genoa as Europe’s leading woman writer
The Rapallo Prize accompanies the author’s only announced Italian appearance and her new crime novel Il canto dei morti.
Camilla Läckberg received the 2026 Rapallo BPER Banca European Prize as best European woman writer at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa on 3 November. The event, announced as the Swedish author’s only Italian appearance, accompanied the publication of Il canto dei morti by Marsilio. The novel brings Erica Falck and Patrik Hedström back to Fjällbacka, where a disappearance thirty years earlier resurfaces through a community’s memory. Läckberg spoke with jury members Nadia Terranova and Margherita Rubino. Dedicated to European fiction translated and published in Italy, the award precedes the national Rapallo Prize final, scheduled for 7 November at Teatro delle Clarisse, and connects the author’s international readership with her return to the series’ coastal setting.