Lit in Translation

Marit Kapla

Born 1970 · Sweden

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Warwick Prize 2022 · Winner

    Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village

    Osebol

    Marit Kapla · 49 when first published

    Nonfiction · 800 pages

    Translated by Peter Graves

    AI-generated summary:Almost every adult in Osebol, a village of about forty people beside the Klarälven river in northern Värmland, tells their life to a journalist raised there, and the interviews are shaped into lyrical testimony.

    Also: Augustpriset 2019 winner