Born 1955 · Sweden
Augustpriset 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Poached Crucian Carp”
Klas Östergren · 71 when first published
Novel · 169 pages · Speculative, Love
AI-generated summary:A compact three-hander for a man, a woman and an amorous, anguished robot calling itself Werther 2.0, testing where humans end and machines begin, with T. S. Eliot cast as a penguin.
Augustpriset 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Renegades”
Klas Östergren · 65 when first published
Novel · 746 pages · Gentlemen, book 3
AI-generated summary:Spring 2018: from his farm in Skåne the narrator spots a strangely familiar walker in the distance. It is Henry Morgan, crossing Europe on foot from Vienna on his way to Lapland to see his son.
Augustpriset 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“In a Forest of Sumac”
Klas Östergren · 62 when first published
Novel · 266 pages · Coming of age, Politics
AI-generated summary:At a notorious Stockholm school during the Vietnam War, Kenneth Jansson befriends Dan Schoultze, an oddly grown-up new boy, and Dan's sister; the two live without parents in a villa beside a grove of sumac.
Augustpriset 2005 · Shortlist
Klas Östergren · 50 when first published
Novel · 439 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:Twenty-five years after the events of Gentlemen, the narrator, who bears the author's name, reveals that the story of the Morgan brothers was largely a lie, and returns to a dark tale of arms deals, paranoia and state abuse.