Born 1980 · Sweden
Augustpriset 2026 · Shortlist
Maxim Grigoriev · 46 when first published
Novel · 490 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Three young men meet while studying literature in Stockholm in the early 2000s. One of them, Adrian, half raised in Russia, dreams of becoming a poet in the mould of Gunnar Ekelöf.
Augustpriset 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Europe”
Maxim Grigoriev · 41 when first published
Novel · 444 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:Nikita fled Moscow for Paris as a fourteen-year-old. Decades later, heavy and worn out, he looks at the winter sea from someone else's balcony in Nice and remembers Nina, the one friend he ever had.