Books at Berlinale each year tempts film producers with 12 books carefully curated for their film adaptation potential—as the demand for screen rights soars in the age of Netflix, Amazon Studios, HBO, and others.

With biography, children's literature, new Nordic noir, literary fiction, and a mystery that rides with the Tour de France, we look at several interesting rights deals this month.

Taking note of the fact that two of the six shortlisted titles are Turkish in this year's EBRD Literature Prize, Istanbul's Nermin Mollaoğlu looks at the rights scene for Turkish books.