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Agneta Pleijel

Born 1940 · Sweden

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Augustpriset 2015 · Shortlist

    A Fortune Foretold

    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.

  • No English yet

    Augustpriset 2004 · Shortlist

    Mostrarna och andra dikter

    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.