Born 1979 · Sweden
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 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 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 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.