Born 1990 · Finland
Finlandia 2024 · Winner
Lehmä synnyttää yöllä
Pajtim Statovci · 34 when first published
Novel · 272 pages · Family, War
AI-generated summary:In 1996 an eight-year-old boy raised in Finland spends a summer at his grandfather's farm in rural Kosovo, where he lives through things there are no words for; as an adult writer he returns with his mother.
Finlandia 2019 · Winner
Bolla
Pajtim Statovci · 29 when first published
Novel · 240 pages · Love, War
AI-generated summary:Arsim, a married man in Pristina, falls for Miloš, a medical student he meets at the university, and follows him into an intense affair that lasts until war drives Arsim and his family into exile.
National Book Award 2019 · Finalist
Tiranan sydän
Pajtim Statovci · 26 when first published
Novel · 272 pages · Migration, Coming of age
Translated by David Hackston
AI-generated summary:In Tirana in the early 1990s, as communism in Albania collapses, young Bujar loses his father and his best friend Agim feels he lives in the wrong body; the two boys run for the coast, hoping to reach the West.