Born 1961 · Finland
Finlandia 2025 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Dead Zone / Women in Revolt”
Monika Fagerholm · 64 when first published
Novel · 382 pages · Coming of age, Politics
AI-generated summary:In 1976, eighteen-year-old Alice moves from the countryside to her photographer father's suburban home, with a stepmother and half-siblings, and begins making a life for herself in the city.
Finlandia 2019 · Shortlist
Vem dödade bambi?
Monika Fagerholm · 58 when first published
Novel · 176 pages · Crime, Family
AI-generated summary:In a fashionable suburb of Helsinki, four boys from well-off families gang-rape a schoolmate at a party. Their mothers try to bury it, until a childhood friend announces he will make a film about the crime.
Augustpriset 2005 · Winner
Den amerikanska flickan
Monika Fagerholm · 43 when first published
Novel · 528 pages · Coming of age, Crime
AI-generated summary:In the autumn of 1969 an American girl, Eddie, is found drowned in the District and her friend Björn hangs himself. Years later two girls, Sandra and Doris, start to reconstruct what happened.