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Eva-Marie Liffner

Born 1957 · Sweden

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Augustpriset 2011 · Shortlist

    Lacrimosa

    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.

  • In English

    Augustpriset 2003 · Shortlist

    Imago

    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.