Born 1961 · Finland
Augustpriset 2013 · Shortlist
Hägring 38
Kjell Westö · 52 when first published
Novel · 341 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Helsinki, 1938: the divorced lawyer Claes Thune takes on a capable, guarded clerk, Matilda Wiik. Then one evening, among his old friends of the Wednesday Club, she recognises a man from her past.
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Finlandia 2006 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Where We Once Walked”
Kjell Westö · 45 when first published
Novel · 508 pages · Historical, Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:From 1905 to the eve of war in 1939, the lives of rich and poor families cross in Helsinki, among them a lamplighter's son and the son of a railway director.
Finlandia 2002 · Shortlist
Lang
Kjell Westö · 41 when first published
Novel · 180 pages · Love, Crime
AI-generated summary:Christian Lang, a novelist whom most of Helsinki knows as a television talk-show host, falls into a consuming affair; a narrator who heard his account pieces together what came of it.
Finlandia 2000 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Peril of Being a Skrake”
Kjell Westö · 39 when first published
Novel · 373 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:In Helsinki's Olympic summer of 1952, young Werner Skrake crashes a Coca-Cola truck on its launch day, a mishap that follows him and his son Wiktor for decades.