Every year, France, Japan, Brazil and more crown their best book. Spin the globe to see which ones you can read in English, and which are still waiting.
4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
Augustpriset 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Beneath the Lakes”
Ingela Strandberg · 82 when first published
Poetry · 75 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems that try to reach down to the floor of reality and a simple peace with the world, guided by an 'inner dog' and travelling from the planets past a discount superstore to an empty bus stop.
Augustpriset 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Beauty”
Inger Edelfeldt · 70 when first published
Novel · 257 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Approaching sixty, the sensible Laura is thrown off balance when she runs into Bertil, a gorgeous younger man she once coached in English before his London wedding, now divorced, homeless and broken.
Augustpriset 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Night Season”
Karolina Ramqvist · 50 when first published
Novel · 226 pages
AI-generated summary:A celebrated stage actress rehearses the part of a far younger, abandoned girl in the play that inspired Madama Butterfly, as talk of war darkens Stockholm and a young man, son of her first great director, seeks her out.
Augustpriset 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Poached Crucian Carp”
Klas Östergren · 71 when first published
Novel · 169 pages · Speculative, Love
AI-generated summary:A compact three-hander for a man, a woman and an amorous, anguished robot calling itself Werther 2.0, testing where humans end and machines begin, with T. S. Eliot cast as a penguin.
Augustpriset 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Winter”
Magnus Dahlström · 63 when first published
Novel · 600 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Snow in July greets a dentist starting a temporary job in a rural district while his partner awaits their first baby. The cold never lifts, and over generations a whole community is locked in ice.
Augustpriset 2026 · Shortlist
Maxim Grigoriev · 46 when first published
Novel · 490 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Three young men meet while studying literature in Stockholm in the early 2000s. One of them, Adrian, half raised in Russia, dreams of becoming a poet in the mould of Gunnar Ekelöf.
Augustpriset 2025 · Winner
Liken vi begravde
Lina Wolff · 52 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Crime, Family
AI-generated summary:Two orphaned sisters, Jolly and Peggy, are raised by foster parents in a bleak village in rural Skåne, a place of folklore and brutality still haunted by a double killing nobody has solved.
Augustpriset 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Emptiness and Tenderness”
Isabella Nilsson · 36 when first published
Poetry · 160 pages
AI-generated summary:One hundred short pieces, part prose and part verse, in which a writer and the married man she loves play a game with intricate rules, exploring solitude and what lies on its other side.
Augustpriset 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“An Internal Matter”
Kristian Fredén · 53 when first published
Novel · 195 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:After his elderly mother kills herself, Kristian begins to confront his family's history, long dominated by his great-grandfather Nathan Söderblom, archbishop and public figure.
Augustpriset 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Year of Apocalyptic Thinking”
Linda Spåman · 49 when first published
Novel · 244 pages · Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:When her larger-than-life, rather self-centred father Walter is diagnosed with ALS in 2020, he resolves at once to end his life, and the cartoonist decides to spend every day of his final year at his side.
Augustpriset 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Survival of the Species”
Lydia Sandgren · 38 when first published
Novel · 776 pages
AI-generated summary:In autumn 2021 the widow of a famous Italian conductor offers Karl Hillberg, a teacher who writes fiction, an unexpected commission: the life story of her late husband.
Augustpriset 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Our Boy”
Mikael Yvesand · 39 when first published
Novel · 223 pages
AI-generated summary:Johan's upbringing looks ordinary, apart from his knife-carrying friends. Then, for reasons he cannot grasp, he kills a woman and a child, is never caught, and drifts on through training schemes and cleaning jobs.
Augustpriset 2024 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The King of Nostratia”
Tony Samuelsson · 63 when first published
Novel · 347 pages
AI-generated summary:A struggling working-class author is hired to secretly complete the manuscript of a famous bestselling novelist laid low by a stroke, and starts to suspect the book conceals a story of its own.
Augustpriset 2024 · Shortlist
Hyper
Agri Ismaïl · 43 when first published
Novel · 464 pages · Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:Rafiq, a Kurd, escapes Tehran by night with his wife and their three children and tries to start again in London, but cannot get past everything he has left behind.
Augustpriset 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Same, Mum”
Hanna Rajs · 33 when first published
Poetry · 71 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems to the poet's mother, lost in 2021, keeping grief raw and circling, and asking how a woman who has only just had a child herself can be a mother with no mother of her own beside her.
Augustpriset 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The First Book”
Karolina Ramqvist · 48 when first published
Novel · 277 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Jamaica, 2002: within the space of one morning, a young couple's relationship is told from its uncertain start, its course bent by the island's violent history and by who holds power over whom.
Augustpriset 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Bro, Crab and Leather”
Linus Gårdfeldt · 43 when first published
Poetry · 111 pages
AI-generated summary:A rhyming cycle of poems set in today's rural Värmland, where a local character known as Brorsan sings of the place, its decay and its parties, and of neighbours with names like Bröd-Jon and Lök-Emma.
Augustpriset 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Dog Nights”
Mirja Unge · 51 when first published
Novel · 289 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Back in the countryside after years in town, Nadja moves into her empty old house, works at a youth residential home and sees old friends, but finds the village's silent hierarchies and brutality unchanged.
Augustpriset 2023 · Winner
Jävla karlar
Andrev Walden · 47 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Autofiction, Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:Christmas 1983, outside Norrköping: during a furious row, seven-year-old Andrev is told the man he calls Dad isn't his father. His real one lives abroad, yet all that arrives is a series of stand-in fathers.
Augustpriset 2023 · Shortlist
Systrarna
Jonas Hassen Khemiri · 45 when first published
Novel · 656 pages · Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:Three mysterious sisters, Swedish-born but talking English among themselves, move into Jonas's neighbourhood, and he slowly discovers that their family and his father's history are intertwined.
Augustpriset 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Study in Human Behaviour”
Lena Andersson · 53 when first published
Short stories · 260 pages
AI-generated summary:Interlinked stories about present-day women, among them Amanda, Märta, Olga and Rawia, who struggle to live in their bodies, study one another, and long for closeness they can never quite sustain.
Augustpriset 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Morality”
Lyra Ekström Lindbäck · 33 when first published
Novel · 190 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Anna moves to a Czech university town to write a doctoral thesis on moral philosophy. The charged rapport with the professor who collects her at the train soon turns into an affair, though his wife is a colleague.
Augustpriset 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Spider Birch”
Pär Hansson · 53 when first published
Novel · 290 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:A man takes his wife and children back to his home town in Västerbotten, where his father and brother still live, and in the family house near the river the boy he used to be, Joel, returns to him.
Augustpriset 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Satan's Whispers”
Sami Said · 44 when first published
Novel · 235 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Somewhere in an unnamed desert stands a boarding school for unruly girls, run by a headmistress who cuts them off from the world to remake them. Nadine has been sent there for hiding in a cupboard.
Augustpriset 2022 · Winner
Detaljerna
Ia Genberg · 55 when first published
Novel · 144 pages
AI-generated summary:Laid low by fever, a woman finds herself visited by figures from her past: a future celebrity who once wrote to her, a companion who vanished without trace, a lover she could never keep.
Also: International Booker 2024 shortlist
Augustpriset 2022 · Shortlist
Björnjägarens döttrar
Anneli Jordahl · 62 when first published
Novel · 400 pages · Family, Nature
AI-generated summary:A local historian sets out to write down the scandalous tale of the Leskinen sisters, seven daughters of a bear hunter who live wild and alone deep in the Finnish forest.
Augustpriset 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Memories of Infrared”
Iman Mohammed · 35 when first published
Poetry · 73 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems where violence and grief creep into a daily life that should feel safe, glimpsing fathers and mothers, God, war, death and childhood in a surreal, darkly glinting landscape of dreams.
Augustpriset 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Dream, Baby, Dream”
Jenny Tunedal · 49 when first published
Poetry · 118 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems from a speaker unable to stop mourning, who wonders what exactly she grieves for, whether the dead, an unfair world, her early years, a parent or an unattainable love, and what to do with so much sorrow.
Augustpriset 2022 · Shortlist
Ixelles
Johannes Anyuru · 43 when first published
Novel · 468 pages
AI-generated summary:Since Mio died, Rut has brought up their son alone while working for a secretive agency that steers public opinion with invented voices. Then a boy in a coma is found with a recording of Mio speaking.
Augustpriset 2022 · Shortlist
Djävulsgreppet
Lina Wolff · 49 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A woman from a harsh northern place arrives in Florence, dazzled and unsettled, hoping her new lover will melt the frost inside her. Instead their relationship becomes a hold that keeps tightening.
Augustpriset 2021 · Winner
Eufori
Elin Cullhed · 38 when first published
Novel · 292 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:A fictional account of Sylvia Plath's final year: elated, desperate, possessive and full of ambition, she adores her children and craves time to write, while Ted Hughes leaves the household to her.
Augustpriset 2021 · Shortlist
Singulariteten
Balsam Karam · 38 when first published
Novel · 194 pages
AI-generated summary:On a coastal road by the sea, a mother hunts for her missing daughter until grief drives her out of her mind. A pregnant tourist sees someone go over the edge of the cliffs.
Augustpriset 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Year of the Black Moon”
Ellen Mattson · 59 when first published
Novel · 197 pages
AI-generated summary:Banned from his job at the university, David Svarthed clings to a visiting cat and his notes on the Iliad, until a fall on the ice makes his whole world start to shift.
Augustpriset 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Return to Life”
Kjell Espmark · 91 when first published
Poetry · 270 pages
AI-generated summary:The final volume of a trilogy of poems, printed with its two predecessors, moving from an unfinished act of creation through the bold late work of artists to different ways of coming back to life.
Augustpriset 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“When We Were Sámi”
Mats Jonsson · 48 when first published
Novel · 344 pages · Family, Historical, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:After his grandfather's death, a cartoonist's family finally opens a forbidden box of reindeer-mark papers, official letters and old photos, and learns that their ancestors were Forest Sámi from around Malå.
Augustpriset 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Europe”
Maxim Grigoriev · 41 when first published
Novel · 444 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:Nikita fled Moscow for Paris as a fourteen-year-old. Decades later, heavy and worn out, he looks at the winter sea from someone else's balcony in Nice and remembers Nina, the one friend he ever had.
Augustpriset 2020 · Winner
Samlade verk
Lydia Sandgren · 33 when first published
Novel · 608 pages · Family, Love
AI-generated summary:Gothenburg is preparing a big show of the painter Gustav Becker, and the student Rakel sees her long-vanished mother's face on posters all over town, while her father, the publisher Martin Berg, falls into crisis.
Augustpriset 2020 · Shortlist
Jag ser allt du gör
Annika Norlin · 43 when first published
Short stories · 240 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories of restless people out of step with their lives: a woman walking south after an unbearable loss with a song forming in her head, and a fairly hopeless band, Personligt Varumärke, out on tour.
Augustpriset 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Threads of Memory”
Carola Hansson · 78 when first published
Novel · 258 pages · Historical, Migration
AI-generated summary:In the summer of 1939 sixty young Jews from Germany come to a farm near Falun to train in agriculture before emigrating to a kibbutz, but the outbreak of war strands them in Sweden.
Augustpriset 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Renegades”
Klas Östergren · 65 when first published
Novel · 746 pages · Gentlemen, book 3
AI-generated summary:Spring 2018: from his farm in Skåne the narrator spots a strangely familiar walker in the distance. It is Henry Morgan, crossing Europe on foot from Vienna on his way to Lapland to see his son.
Augustpriset 2020 · Shortlist
Stefan Lindberg · 49 when first published
Novel · 263 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:On a spring evening in 2017 a novelist called Stefan meets Mathias 'Splendor' Johansson at a Stockholm café, a former member of a grandiose cult who seems to know about something buried in Stefan's past.
Augustpriset 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Ground Beetle's Book”
Thomas Tidholm · 77 when first published
Poetry · 154 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:Poetic reflections on people, art and the natural world, asking whether humans can make peace with a nature they have shut themselves away from, and whether we could do something to make the ants happy.
Augustpriset 2019 · Winner
Osebol
Marit Kapla · 49 when first published
Nonfiction · 800 pages
AI-generated summary:Almost every adult in Osebol, a village of about forty people beside the Klarälven river in northern Värmland, tells their life to a journalist raised there, and the interviews are shaped into lyrical testimony.
Also: Warwick Prize 2022 winner
Augustpriset 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Weather Phenomena”
Anna Fock · 35 when first published
Novel · 426 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Igor grows up in Kyshtym, a Soviet town in the southern Urals close to the secret Mayak nuclear complex. As a child he comes upon the charred body of a friend in the woods, and the KGB makes sure nobody talks.
Augustpriset 2019 · Shortlist
Daniel Gustafsson · 47 when first published
Novel · 287 pages
AI-generated summary:A newly separated father realises his seven-year-old has gone to school without mittens, buys another pair and tries to take them over to him near Odenplan in Stockholm, an errand that turns out far from simple.
Augustpriset 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Testament”
Nina Wähä · 40 when first published
Novel · 437 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Pregnant, Annie unwillingly travels back to her childhood farm in Tornedalen, where Meänkieli is spoken, and to a vast, quarrelsome family of parents and a dozen siblings weighed down by a shared secret.
Augustpriset 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Child”
Olivia Bergdahl · 30 when first published
Poetry · 33 pages
AI-generated summary:Fifteen linked sonnets about growing up exposed to violence, set in Gothenburg, by the sea and on Mediterranean beaches, which gradually turn towards words themselves and a young poet's ambitions.
Augustpriset 2019 · Shortlist
W.
Steve Sem-Sandberg · 61 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · Historical, War, Crime
AI-generated summary:To escape destitution, a solitary young man joins the army and is swept through the wars of early-nineteenth-century Europe, in a novel built on the real case behind Woyzeck.
Augustpriset 2018 · Winner
Ædnan
Linnea Axelsson · 38 when first published
Poetry · 448 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:Early in the twentieth century, a Sámi family follows its herd along the old migration trail to summer grazing on a Norwegian island. Soon a closed border will cut them off from that life.
Also: National Book Award 2024 finalist
Augustpriset 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Social Democratic Stories”
Björn Runeborg · 81 when first published
Short stories · 159 pages · Politics, Historical
AI-generated summary:Short fictions that drop real leaders of Swedish social democracy into imagined moments: Per Albin Hansson's final tram journey, a youthful Olof Palme thumbing a lift in Texas, and many others.
Augustpriset 2018 · Shortlist
Jag for ner till bror
Karin Smirnoff · 54 when first published
Novel · 318 pages · Family, Crime
AI-generated summary:Jana Kippo, who as a girl once went for her father with a hayfork, comes back to Smalånger, a remote village in northern Sweden, to her twin brother, and takes a job caring for the elderly.
Augustpriset 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Shtetl in Stockholm”
Kenneth Hermele · 69 when first published
Novel · 237 pages · Autofiction, Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:A boy comes of age in 1950s Stockholm inside a closed Orthodox Jewish world on Södermalm, torn between a devout mother and a practical father who wants the family to find its place in Sweden.
Augustpriset 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Human Being Is the Most Beautiful City”
Sami Said · 39 when first published
Novel · 367 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:A man from the Horn of Africa who calls himself San Francisco is stuck without papers somewhere in northern Europe, broke and fenced in by closed borders, scheming to get further, perhaps all the way to America.
Augustpriset 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Storehouse of Shells”
Ulf Eriksson · 60 when first published
Poetry · 140 pages
AI-generated summary:Reflective new poems in which the speaker wanders, mostly through cities, among light, memory, place and movement, meeting a present full of paradoxes that slip from his grasp or resist him.
Augustpriset 2017 · Winner
De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar
Johannes Anyuru · 38 when first published
Novel · 300 pages · Politics, Speculative
AI-generated summary:On a winter night three supporters of the collapsing Daesh storm a bookshop during a provocative artist's talk and take the audience hostage. One of them, a young woman meant to film the attack, is hiding something that could change everything.
Augustpriset 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Right Now I Am Here”
Isabelle Ståhl · 29 when first published
Novel · 294 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Elise, a student in central Stockholm, dates on Tinder and compares antidepressants with her friends. She is drawn only to older men, placid as horses, until she meets Victor, a man of her own age.
Augustpriset 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Roses, Injuries”
Jenny Tunedal · 44 when first published
Poetry · 149 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Poems that approach dementia as something that happens to speech and to relationships: a daughter sees her mother slip away though her body is still there, and the poems voice both the daughter's grief and the mother's confusion.
Augustpriset 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Speed”
Jörgen Gassilewski · 56 when first published
Novel · 241 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:Rwanda, April to July 1994: nineteen-year-old Marie-Louise, a Tutsi, lives with the bicycle repairer Félicien, a Hutu, in Nyamata, a district where Tutsis are being killed by their own Hutu neighbours.
Augustpriset 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“In a Forest of Sumac”
Klas Östergren · 62 when first published
Novel · 266 pages · Coming of age, Politics
AI-generated summary:At a notorious Stockholm school during the Vietnam War, Kenneth Jansson befriends Dan Schoultze, an oddly grown-up new boy, and Dan's sister; the two live without parents in a villa beside a grove of sumac.
Augustpriset 2017 · Shortlist
Sigrid Combüchen · 75 when first published
Novel · 317 pages · War, Migration, Historical
AI-generated summary:March 1944: two Frenchwomen, Sidonie and Nathalie, strangers thrown together by chance, are fleeing across a bombed-out Germany. With their last valuables they cross the strait to Sweden, where they are renamed and set to work.
Augustpriset 2016 · Winner
De polyglotta älskarna
Lina Wolff · 43 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Max Lamas, an author, wants a lover who can talk with him in every language he knows. Ellinor, thirty-six, from a small place in Skåne, advertises for a gentle man, though not too gentle. Lucrezia sees her grandmother fade away in an empty palazzo.
Augustpriset 2016 · Shortlist
Eländet
Andrzej Tichý · 38 when first published
Novel · 176 pages
AI-generated summary:Waiting for his fellow musicians at Slussen in Malmö, a cellist runs into a young man living rough, and a flood of voices, recollections and half-lost languages starts to take over his mind.
Augustpriset 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Deep Love No One”
Ann Jäderlund · 61 when first published
Poetry
AI-generated summary:Poems from a poetic inquiry begun more than twenty years earlier, touching down briefly in moments of exposure, inward love, want and solitude, where a darkness rises and a lonely white light appears.
Augustpriset 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Playwright's Diary”
Lars Norén · 72 when first published
Nonfiction
AI-generated summary:The third part of a playwright's diary, from January 2013 to July 2015: café visits, walks with his daughter, bus rides across Stockholm and spells of hard work, alongside thoughts on philosophers, writers and music, and on decay.
Augustpriset 2016 · Shortlist
Välkommen till Amerika
Linda Boström Knausgård · 44 when first published
Novel · 91 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A girl fell silent long ago. Her mother, a stage actress, and her brother, who has nailed his door shut, have adapted, and now and then her dead father is waiting on her bed. She believes she caused his death.
Augustpriset 2016 · Shortlist
Aftonland
Therese Bohman · 38 when first published
Novel · 208 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Karolina, a professor at Stockholm University living alone after a long relationship, takes on a confident new PhD student who claims that a forgotten woman artist will rewrite Swedish art history.
Augustpriset 2015 · Winner
Allt jag inte minns
Jonas Hassen Khemiri · 37 when first published
Novel · 306 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A writer sets out to reconstruct the last day of Samuel's life, talking to his friends, relatives and neighbours. From their clashing accounts emerge Samuel, his friend Vandad and Laide, the woman he loved.
Augustpriset 2015 · Shortlist
Spådomen
Agneta Pleijel · 75 when first published
Novel · 272 pages · Autofiction, Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:Born in 1940, a girl grows up between Stockholm's suburbs, the United States and Lund, watching for a prophecy once made to her beloved aunt to come true, while her parents' marriage turns into a war zone.
Augustpriset 2015 · Shortlist
Aris Fioretos · 55 when first published
Novel · 315 pages · Politics, Historical
AI-generated summary:Mary P., twenty-three, is an architecture student under a military dictatorship. Her boyfriend is plotting resistance, and one November night in 1973 the security police take her away.
Augustpriset 2015 · Shortlist
Carola Hansson · 73 when first published
Novel · 584 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:Masja, the daughter closest to Leo Tolstoy, grows up on the Yasnaya Polyana estate under a domineering father and a mother who also wants to steer her life, and struggles to find an identity of her own.
Augustpriset 2015 · Shortlist
Rörelsen
John Ajvide Lindqvist · 47 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Speculative · Platserna, book 2
AI-generated summary:Autumn 1985: John Lindqvist, who hopes to earn his living doing magic tricks in restaurants, rents a gloomy flat on Luntmakargatan in Stockholm. Soon something behind a locked door in the basement laundry begins to change the building.
Augustpriset 2015 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Becoming Like Other People”
Stina Stoor · 33 when first published
Short stories · 211 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Nine stories set in a changing Västerbotten, on the borders between past and present, childhood and adult life, where girls try to become flawless and boys have to become men.
Augustpriset 2014 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Life at Any Cost”
Kristina Sandberg · 43 when first published
Novel · 553 pages · Family, Historical · Maj, book 3
AI-generated summary:Over Easter at a smart hotel in Järvsö, Maj, a housewife from Örnsköldsvik, ought to be happy with her husband Tomas and their two teenagers, but a dizziness will not leave her, and tears come during a facial.
Augustpriset 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Alchemist's Daughter”
Carl-Michael Edenborg · 47 when first published
Novel · 379 pages · Historical, Speculative
AI-generated summary:Late in the 18th century Rebis Aurora Drakenstierna, last of a line of alchemists, grows up at Hermestorp under skies blackened by the furnace. When her father dies, she is left with a secret: she has been chosen for a task that concerns all humanity.
Augustpriset 2014 · Shortlist
Ma
Ida Börjel · 39 when first published
Poetry · 336 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems that try to give form to the dead while they are gone, named after a Japanese character that can mean void, pause or room, a god, time, memory, and also a mother.
Augustpriset 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Such a Bright Light”
Lyra Ekström Lindbäck · 24 when first published
Novel · 262 pages · Love, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In Stockholm, Sara's infatuations slip away before they can begin: Joanna, a charismatic actress, keeps her distance, and her childhood love for Linnéa stays unspoken. Then Sara meets C.
Augustpriset 2014 · Shortlist
Beckomberga
Sara Stridsberg · 42 when first published
Novel · 286 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:When Jimmie Darling is admitted to Beckomberga psychiatric hospital in Stockholm, his twelve-year-old daughter Jackie starts going there every day, and once her mother leaves on a long trip, the wards are all she has.
Augustpriset 2014 · Shortlist
De utvalda
Steve Sem-Sandberg · 56 when first published
Novel · 576 pages · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:Between 1940 and 1945 the Spiegelgrund clinic in Vienna takes in children the Nazi authorities brand as surplus: orphans, misfits, the 'racially degenerate'. A young inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, stand at the centre.
Augustpriset 2013 · Winner
Egenmäktigt förfarande
Lena Andersson · 43 when first published
Novel · 195 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Ester Nilsson, a level-headed poet and essayist in a level-headed relationship, is asked to give a talk on the artist Hugo Rask. He sits spellbound in the audience, and once it is over the two are introduced.
Augustpriset 2013 · Shortlist
Vitsvit
Athena Farrokhzad · 30 when first published
Poetry · 70 pages · Migration, Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:In one long poem, members of a family bound together by revolution and exile speak in turn about violence and whiteness; the speaker is heard only through the words she places in their mouths.
Augustpriset 2013 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Three Roads”
Katarina Frostenson · 60 when first published
Poetry · 164 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Three prose pieces that now and then turn into poems, each one a walk: towards a work of art, through the suburb of a childhood, along exposed shores, thinking about memory, art, the dead and a mother.
Augustpriset 2013 · Shortlist
Hägring 38
Kjell Westö · 52 when first published
Novel · 341 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Helsinki, 1938: the divorced lawyer Claes Thune takes on a capable, guarded clerk, Matilda Wiik. Then one evening, among his old friends of the Wednesday Club, she recognises a man from her past.
Also: Finlandia 2013 shortlist
Augustpriset 2013 · Shortlist
Liknelseboken
Per Olov Enquist · 79 when first published
Novel · 253 pages · Autofiction, Love, Family
AI-generated summary:An old writer wonders whether the eulogy he gave for his mother needs revising, as his father's notebook, its torn-out pages long thought burned, resurfaces and the memory of a first love asks to be told.
Augustpriset 2013 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Porcelain Facades”
Sven Olov Karlsson · 42 when first published
Novel · 259 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In the 1970s, in the village of Eriksfors in northern Västmanland, the Silver family's auction business clears out the estates of the dead, while the daughter of the family quietly makes plans of her own.
Augustpriset 2012 · Winner
Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz
Göran Rosenberg · 64 when first published
Nonfiction · 331 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:In August 1947 a young survivor of Łódź and Auschwitz arrives by train in a small Swedish town built around a lorry factory, hoping to start again. His son goes back over that journey and the life they shared.
Augustpriset 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Running with Oars”
Cilla Naumann · 52 when first published
Novel · 255 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:On a still first day of summer, Johanna, a summer visitor, pulls the farm girl Monika down onto the gravel beside her bicycle, and a friendship begins whose class tensions will reach all the way to their own children.
Augustpriset 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“No Child's Land”
Eija Hetekivi Olsson · 39 when first published
Novel · 331 pages · Coming of age, Migration
AI-generated summary:Gårdsten, Gothenburg, in the 1980s: Miira, from a Finnish family, never backs down from a fight and means to become prime minister or a brain surgeon, not a stair cleaner like her mother.
Augustpriset 2012 · Shortlist
En storm kom från paradiset
Johannes Anyuru · 33 when first published
Novel · 252 pages · Migration, Politics
AI-generated summary:A young Ugandan dreams of flying for his country's air force and is sent to train as a pilot in Greece. Then, in January 1971, Idi Amin seizes power and the cadets are ordered home.
Augustpriset 2012 · Shortlist
Sång till den storm som ska komma
Peter Fröberg Idling · 40 when first published
Novel · 331 pages · Historical, Politics, Love
AI-generated summary:Late summer 1955: Cambodia prepares for its first free election since independence. Young Sar, later known as Pol Pot, works secretly for a communist uprising while officially serving the leader of the opposition.
Augustpriset 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Medealand and Other Plays”
Sara Stridsberg · 40 when first published
Drama · 462 pages
AI-generated summary:Three plays about women who reach for the sky and refuse to bow, even when love seems impossible: the abandoned refugee Medea, Queen Kristina Alexandra and the homeless radical Valerie Solanas.
Augustpriset 2011 · Winner
Korparna
Tomas Bannerhed · 45 when first published
Novel · 411 pages · Family, Coming of age, Nature
AI-generated summary:On a poor smallholding in Småland in the early 1970s, twelve-year-old Klas watches his father break down under the endless toil, yet the father insists that his son must one day take over the farm.
Augustpriset 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Welcome to This World”
Amanda Svensson · 24 when first published
Novel · 239 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Greta bites her nails, sells woks in Malmö and lives with a crowd of vain, spineless young men, and she badly needs her life to change. Then she meets Simon, an art worker in Copenhagen, who comes with his friend Claus.
Augustpriset 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Requiem for John Cummings”
Bengt Ohlsson · 48 when first published
Novel · 450 pages
AI-generated summary:John Cummings, the guitarist known as Johnny Ramone, has quit touring after two decades when a cancer diagnosis arrives, and he looks back over his life in the Ramones and outside it.
Augustpriset 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“River”
Carolina Fredriksson · 26 when first published
Novel · 245 pages
AI-generated summary:Alka and Kappen, two small children, are the only ones left after the authorities bulldozed a shanty town beneath a roaring bridge. They live in an old caravan, and sometimes a young woman, Ina, brings them food.
Augustpriset 2011 · Shortlist
Eva-Marie Liffner · 54 when first published
Novel · 299 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In early 19th-century Finland the young tutor Carl Jonas Love Almqvist finds a wild child called Ros living in the briars by the stables at Fagervik manor, neither yet girl nor boy, and decides to raise her after Rousseau.
Augustpriset 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“One Cubic Metre of Soil”
Sören Bondeson · 55 when first published
Poetry · 75 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:Poems that dig down layer by layer into a heap of earth, past leaf litter, mould and mineral soil, finding there where we come from and where we are going, in a process that joins living and dying.
Augustpriset 2010 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Waste”
Sigrid Combüchen · 68 when first published
Novel · 449 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:An old woman living on the Spanish coast writes to a novelist: a 1930s family snapshot from Lund that the novelist once put into a book shows her own family. Their letters slowly rebuild Hedda's youth.
Augustpriset 2010 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Life Poem”
Johan Jönson · 44 when first published
Poetry · 711 pages
AI-generated summary:A writer who scrapes by on odd jobs is cross-examined without mercy by his own double: about repetitive paid work, poverty that paralyses, love as a dependency, bodies and desires. He is allowed to hold nothing back.
Augustpriset 2010 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Stripes”
Magnus Florin · 55 when first published
Novel · 102 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Asked to write about a work of art, a writer chooses an image of a pair of children riding in a cart, their figures painted black. It brings back something from his own childhood and starts him digging towards an old hurt.
Augustpriset 2010 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Inger Sonnets”
Magnus William-Olsson · 50 when first published
Poetry
AI-generated summary:Sonnets in which a son speaks to his mother as Alzheimer's erodes her memory.
Augustpriset 2010 · Shortlist
Peter Törnqvist · 46 when first published
Novel · 335 pages
AI-generated summary:In 1970s Småland, in the rural district of Westra Härad, Tjippen, Jyro, Hannele, Pjäta and others work the local peat bog and come of age between a hellfire Christianity that terrifies children and the freedom of the woods.
Augustpriset 2010 · Shortlist
Sara Stridsberg · 38 when first published
Novel · 326 pages
AI-generated summary:Lo and her father take night drives in an old Jaguar through burning forests near an unnamed European city, while other lives echo hers: Nabokov's Dolores Haze, a captive ape taught to draw in Paris, a mother circling motorways.
Augustpriset 2009 · Winner
De fattiga i Łódź
Steve Sem-Sandberg · 51 when first published
Novel · 664 pages · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:In occupied Poland the Nazis seal off a Jewish ghetto in Łódź and put Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski in charge of it. Amid hunger, forced labour and deportations, his deeply ambiguous leadership shapes the lives of its people.
Augustpriset 2009 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“What Good Does It Do a Person If She Pours Clean Water over Herself All Her Days”
Ann Jäderlund · 54 when first published
Poetry · 187 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems about living inside matter: a churning world that destroys and remakes itself, that we cannot help belonging to and yet face entirely alone, where the borders of the self keep melting and forming again.
Augustpriset 2009 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Last Greek”
Aris Fioretos · 49 when first published
Novel · 384 pages · Migration, Historical
AI-generated summary:One winter day in 1967 Jannis Georgiadis, a smiling, muscular Greek, walks into a hospital in Kristianstad and ends up staying in Sweden. His friend Kostas sets out to record his life on index cards.
Augustpriset 2009 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Little Story”
Eva Adolfsson · 67 when first published
Novel · 222 pages · Love, Family
AI-generated summary:Marie, married with two children, feels her world give way when her husband falls for another woman. Then she travels to Amsterdam for a conference, meets a man there, and a hidden second love begins.
Augustpriset 2009 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Cities Inside Hall”
Johannes Anyuru · 30 when first published
Poetry · 358 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:Poems circling the hard, man-made core of the modern city, its nylon and polymers, its value and worthlessness, set beside Aeneas's descent to meet the long line of Rome's emperors and killers.
Augustpriset 2009 · Shortlist
Per Agne Erkelius · 74 when first published
Novel · 320 pages · Historical, War, Love
AI-generated summary:An old, gravely ill Swedish writer goes to Oświęcim to keep a promise made on Cyprus in 1963 to Régine, the Jewish woman he loved: to learn what became of her family after the Paris round-up of 1942.
Augustpriset 2008 · Winner
Ett annat liv
Per Olov Enquist · 74 when first published
Nonfiction · 391 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Writing of himself as "he", the author recalls growing up fatherless as the village teacher's son in Hjoggböle in Västerbotten, a temperance boy and promising high jumper who would become a writer.
Augustpriset 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Black as Silver”
Bruno K. Öijer · 57 when first published
Poetry · 100 pages
AI-generated summary:An ageing poet meets the reader in poems of apparent simplicity that describe existence and call up life, where every person is an island left to tend their own darkness.
Augustpriset 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“But How Small Can Poets Really Be”
Eva-Stina Byggmästar · 41 when first published
Poetry · 91 pages · Love · En trilogi om kärleken, book 2
AI-generated summary:Playful, life-affirming poems that praise the word and language, books, letters and writing, the second part of a lyrical trilogy about love.
Augustpriset 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Speech and Rain”
Katarina Frostenson · 55 when first published
Poetry · 127 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Expansive poems, both playful and strict, in which clear sounds from everyday life meet social satire on a national scale and open conversations with the world break into light, enigmatic fragments.
Augustpriset 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Edelcrantz's Connections”
Malte Persson · 32 when first published
Novel · 374 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Abraham Clewberg, a poet and rival of Kellgren, becomes theatre director at Gustav III's court, is ennobled as Edelcrantz, builds an optical telegraph and brings steam power to Sweden.
Augustpriset 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Rules”
Sara Mannheimer · 41 when first published
Novel · 175 pages
AI-generated summary:A woman in an unidentified time and place searches for happiness, love and true creative power, and to reach them lives by a set of very strict rules.
Augustpriset 2007 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Approaching Night”
Carl-Henning Wijkmark · 73 when first published
Novel · 157 pages
AI-generated summary:Four terminally ill men share Ward 5: a silent stranger, a gambler betting on eternal life, a homeless man and Hasse, the narrator, who settles accounts with his past before the end.
Augustpriset 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Nobody Owns Me”
Åsa Linderborg · 39 when first published
Novel · 293 pages · Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:A girl grows up with her single father, a hardener at the Metallverken works in Västerås, a loving and funny man whose drinking shapes their life together.
Augustpriset 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Has Anyone Seen Me Anywhere Else?”
Beate Grimsrud · 44 when first published
Novel · 198 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A writer goes to a performance of acrobatics and slapstick, and on the way home meets one of her own characters, a confused string theorist, Sisyphus and Raskolnikov in a long, dreamlike night.
Augustpriset 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The World's Last Novel”
Daniel Sjölin · 30 when first published
Novel · 372 pages · Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:A writer and television host who shares the author's name, an alcoholic, faces his mother's Alzheimer's, which has destroyed her grasp of reality and her language, while his own child dies before birth.
Augustpriset 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Norrland Aquavit”
Torgny Lindgren · 69 when first published
Novel · 221 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:In 2006 the ageing preacher Olof Helmersson, who led the last great revival in inland Västerbotten in the 1950s, returns to the transformed villages where he once converted hundreds of souls.
Augustpriset 2007 · Shortlist
Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson · 42 when first published
Poetry · 123 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Poems made of plot summaries, epitaphs, campaign phrases and found texts expose the language of normality and the comic, critical state of humankind.
Augustpriset 2006 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Swine Rows”
Susanna Alakoski · 44 when first published
Novel · 259 pages · Family, Migration, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In the 1960s and 70s a new housing estate in Ystad fills with immigrants and low-income families. For Leena and her Finnish parents the new flat, with three rooms, a balcony and parquet floors, is the height of luxury.
Augustpriset 2006 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Ocean”
Göran Sonnevi · 66 when first published
Poetry · 418 pages · Nature, Politics
AI-generated summary:A long poem that moves between everyday trivia and existential depths, mourning a father's sudden death and lost friends while commenting on the world and returning to nature and love.
Augustpriset 2006 · Shortlist
Montecore
Jonas Hassen Khemiri · 28 when first published
Novel · 320 pages · Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:The writer Jonas receives an email from Kadir, a childhood friend of his father's, who urges him in a strange home-made French-Arabic Swedish to write a book about his father, the famous photographer.
Augustpriset 2006 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Gothenburg Events”
Jörgen Gassilewski · 45 when first published
Novel · 216 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:During the EU summit in Gothenburg in June 2001, a young man called T-Gul drifts through the city, through the riots, the cordons and the police raids, in a novel built on documentary material.
Augustpriset 2006 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The American Girl's Sundays”
Lars Gustafsson · 70 when first published
Poetry · 111 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:A story in free verse based on a real crime in Texas: a young woman living alone is washing her car on a Sunday morning when two men abduct, rape and murder her.
Augustpriset 2006 · Shortlist
Drömfakulteten
Sara Stridsberg · 34 when first published
Novel · 338 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:In April 1988 Valerie Solanas lies dying of pneumonia on a filthy mattress in a hotel room in San Francisco's Tenderloin, and the narrator imagines herself beside her, writing her life.
Augustpriset 2005 · Winner
Den amerikanska flickan
Monika Fagerholm · 43 when first published
Novel · 528 pages · Coming of age, Crime
AI-generated summary:In the autumn of 1969 an American girl, Eddie, is found drowned in the District and her friend Björn hangs himself. Years later two girls, Sandra and Doris, start to reconstruct what happened.
Augustpriset 2005 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Simone de Beauvoir's Heart”
Ann-Marie Ljungberg · 41 when first published
Novel · 312 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A friendship between women on the edge of society, and their dealings with children, neighbours, music teachers and men, told through the hard but warm everyday life of single mothers.
Augustpriset 2005 · Shortlist
Klas Östergren · 50 when first published
Novel · 439 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:Twenty-five years after the events of Gentlemen, the narrator, who bears the author's name, reveals that the story of the Morgan brothers was largely a lie, and returns to a dark tale of arms deals, paranoia and state abuse.
Augustpriset 2005 · Shortlist
Kristian Lundberg · 39 when first published
Poetry · 55 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems shaped by the Book of Job, in which a modern Job mixes the inner drama of a loss with observations of life in a Malmö flat and tries to write his way towards meaning.
Augustpriset 2005 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Dusk: Dawn”
Lotta Lotass · 41 when first published
Novel · 241 pages
AI-generated summary:Through a desolate, mysterious landscape seemingly beyond time and space, a group of people wanders across an endless plain, driven by the search for Life on earth or in heaven.
Augustpriset 2005 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“In My Youth I Often Looked at Myself in the Mirror”
Per Gunnar Evander · 72 when first published
Novel · 210 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A middle-aged writer, stuck on a novel based on his diaries, rents a cabin in Kolmården by a deep lake, where a growing sense of failure and the friendship of his neighbour Eskil take over.
Augustpriset 2004 · Winner
Gregorius
Bengt Ohlsson · 41 when first published
Novel · 432 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Pastor Gregorius, the despised clergyman of Hjalmar Söderberg's Doctor Glas, tells the story of what will be his last summer, from his youth as a model son to his shameful love for the young Helga.
Augustpriset 2004 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Aunts and Other Poems”
Agneta Pleijel · 64 when first published
Poetry · 85 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Poems like photographs in a family album: lonely aunts dancing on an island, a dying father in his hospital bed, a mother-in-law who wants to be buried in her wedding dress, and encounters with art.
Augustpriset 2004 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“An Indescribable Person”
Kerstin Strandberg · 72 when first published
Novel · 253 pages
AI-generated summary:A writer sets out to choose a stranger at random and describe her, to grasp what friendship and warmth can mean in a life. On a sunny July day in Paris she finds Anna, pregnant with twins.
Augustpriset 2004 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Third Escape Velocity”
Lotta Lotass · 40 when first published
Novel · 189 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Yuri Gagarin and the forgotten cosmonauts, engineers and designers of the Soviet space programme speak in turn about the road to the first crewed flight into space in 1961.
Augustpriset 2004 · Shortlist
Boken om Blanche och Marie
Per Olov Enquist · 70 when first published
Novel · 218 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Blanche Wittman, once the most famous patient of the Paris neurologist Charcot, later becomes assistant to Marie Curie, and, maimed by radium, writes down her love for Charcot and Marie's affair with Langevin.
Augustpriset 2004 · Shortlist
Den stora gåtan
Tomas Tranströmer · 73 when first published
Poetry · 262 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:Five poems and forty-five haiku in eleven sequences, short concentrated pieces about death, the riddles of life and the wonder of nature and human beings.
Augustpriset 2003 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Scratchcards”
Kerstin Ekman · 70 when first published
Novel · 391 pages · Vargskinnet, book 3
AI-generated summary:On All Saints' Eve, in a snowbound village in the north of Sweden, an old woman and her neighbour Elias watch a new woman priest arrive at the door, in a countryside of emptied churches and closed shops.
Augustpriset 2003 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Polar Summer”
Anne Swärd · 34 when first published
Novel · 206 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:After two years away, Kristian returns to his childhood home by the sea to look after his sister Kaj, and over a few charged summer weeks a family drama unfolds, told by several voices.
Augustpriset 2003 · Shortlist
Imago
Eva-Marie Liffner · 46 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Crime, Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1938 a nineteenth-century soldier is found preserved in a bog on the Danish-German border; in 2000 a cleaner and amateur historian in Copenhagen stumbles on the documents about the find.
Augustpriset 2003 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Stone Master”
Folke Isaksson · 76 when first published
Poetry · 59 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A sequence of poems takes up the carvings in Gotland's medieval churches and gives a voice to the stonemason who made them, in his struggle with the stone and against the evil of his time.
Augustpriset 2003 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Swim in the Sound”
Sigrid Combüchen · 61 when first published
Novel · 280 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:On an almost empty beach at Skanör in September 1999, Göran Sager-Larsson, past sixty, watches his much younger girlfriend Vera swim towards the horizon and lets his thoughts drift across his whole life.
Augustpriset 2003 · Shortlist
Steve Sem-Sandberg · 45 when first published
Novel · 270 pages · Historical, War, Politics
AI-generated summary:The life of the Czech journalist Milena Jesenská, Kafka's correspondent and translator, a figure of interwar Central Europe's intellectual circles, which ended in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Augustpriset 2002 · Winner
Den vidunderliga kärlekens historia
Carl-Johan Vallgren · 38 when first published
Novel · 384 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Hercule Barfuss, born in a Königsberg brothel in 1813, is deformed, a dwarf and deaf and mute, but he can read other people's thoughts and loves Henriette, a girl born in the brothel on the same night.
Augustpriset 2002 · Shortlist
Forsla fett
Aase Berg · 35 when first published
Poetry · 130 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems built from a shifting set of words, hare, whale, milk, shell, explore the tension between fullness and starvation, pregnancy and gravity, birth and being carried.
Augustpriset 2002 · Shortlist
Till Mervas
Elisabeth Rynell · 48 when first published
Novel · 192 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Marta, a middle-aged woman who has long lived alone and cut off, receives a letter from Kostis, the love of her youth, sent from Mervas, a place in the far north she has never heard of.
Augustpriset 2002 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Mountain”
Lars Andersson · 48 when first published
Novel · 420 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:The carpenter Dag Ingvarsson returns to Karlskoga, the town where he grew up, to build a room, and there meets Gazzaleh. Memories of his youth and of two friends draw him back as he is about to leave for India.
Augustpriset 2002 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Volume II”
Lotta Lotass · 38 when first published
Novel · 174 pages · Historical, Nature
AI-generated summary:Arranged like an encyclopaedia of forestry and farming, the book gathers the lives of log drivers, charcoal burners and lumberjacks in a forgotten district of Dalarna in the 1920s.
Augustpriset 2002 · Shortlist
Tamara T · 41 when first published
Novel · 168 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A fictional autobiography in which the narrator and her friend Gabriella move between New York and Paris, talking endlessly about sex and gender roles, interleaved with a portrait of a sea squirt, Ciona intestinalis.
Augustpriset 2001 · Winner
Torbjörn Flygt · 37 when first published
Novel · 398 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:In a 1970s housing estate in Malmö, Johan Kraft grows up with his bookish, lonely sister Monika and their mother Bodil, who wears herself out at a stocking factory until it is no longer needed.
Augustpriset 2001 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“In the Animal”
Eva Runefelt · 48 when first published
Poetry · 65 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems of the senses and the present moment, in which the closeness of two people passes into the self, while time settles over every touch and leaves a loneliness behind.
Augustpriset 2001 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Wanderers”
Jan Henrik Swahn · 42 when first published
Novel · 350 pages
AI-generated summary:A single mother whose son does not speak, a man about to be evicted, a woman fleeing a lost love and two solitary people who meet late in life wander through the present until their lives brush against each other.
Augustpriset 2001 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“My Father's House”
Kerstin Norborg · 40 when first published
Novel · 223 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Arvid, a priest and a priest's son raised in a strict Schartauan faith on the Swedish west coast, falls silent in the pulpit one day when the words he has always relied on turn empty.
Augustpriset 2001 · Shortlist
Maja Lundgren · 36 when first published
Novel · 241 pages · Historical, Satire
AI-generated summary:Pompeii in the year before the eruption: a former mayor with family troubles, an unhappy mime, a Christian woman unsettled by letters from Paul and an innkeeper renting out his room on Brothel Lane, while Vesuvius watches.
Augustpriset 2001 · Shortlist
Lewis resa
Per Olov Enquist · 67 when first published
Novel · 468 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:The life of Lewi Pethrus, founder of the Swedish Pentecostal movement, from working-class boy with dreams of becoming a writer to a spiritual leader conscious of his power.
Augustpriset 2000 · Winner
Populärmusik från Vittula
Mikael Niemi · 41 when first published
Novel · 237 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In the 1960s and 70s, Matti and his quiet friend Niila grow up in Vittula, a crowded district on the edge of Pajala in the far north of Sweden, where rock music arrives as the old ways resist change.
Augustpriset 2000 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Hay Rack”
Åke Smedberg · 52 when first published
Short stories · 166 pages · Coming of age, Nature
AI-generated summary:In linked pieces mixing memory, documentation and fiction, the narrator returns to the countryside outside Sundsvall where he grew up, mapping the stories hidden in a remote, ageing district.
Augustpriset 2000 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Lovable One”
Carola Hansson · 58 when first published
Novel · 303 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A woman is asked what her father, dead for twenty years, was really like, and realises how little she knows about the quiet man she loved. She begins to search for him while her mother slowly loses her memory.
Augustpriset 2000 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The World After Communism”
Göran Greider · 41 when first published
Poetry · 232 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:Poems written at the turn of the millennium take stock of a world in which one of the great dreams of liberation has died, and ask what poetry can still do for the poet and for others.
Augustpriset 2000 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Ten Siblings in a Fragile Story”
Kerstin Strandberg · 68 when first published
Novel · 318 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Five brothers and five sisters of the Haverdalius business family, all dead and in heaven, call down their legacy to the nieces and nephews on earth who try to write their story.
Augustpriset 2000 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“In the Red Lady's Castle”
Lars Jakobson · 41 when first published
Novel · 313 pages · Family, Speculative
AI-generated summary:After his father dies, a man clears out the family house, stirring up memories of a strange childhood, while he keeps working on his book about Mars and the extinct civilisation he imagines there.