Lit in Translation

Jörgen Gassilewski

Born 1961 · Sweden

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Augustpriset 2017 · Shortlist

    Hastigheten

    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.

  • No English yet

    Augustpriset 2006 · Shortlist

    Göteborgshändelserna

    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.