Born 1942 · Sweden
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 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 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.