Born 1934 · Sweden
Augustpriset 2013 · Shortlist
Liknelseboken
Per Olov Enquist · 79 when first published
Novel · 253 pages · Autofiction, Love, Family
AI-generated summary:An old writer wonders whether the eulogy he gave for his mother needs revising, as his father's notebook, its torn-out pages long thought burned, resurfaces and the memory of a first love asks to be told.
Augustpriset 2008 · Winner
Ett annat liv
Per Olov Enquist · 74 when first published
Nonfiction · 391 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Writing of himself as "he", the author recalls growing up fatherless as the village teacher's son in Hjoggböle in Västerbotten, a temperance boy and promising high jumper who would become a writer.
Augustpriset 2004 · Shortlist
Boken om Blanche och Marie
Per Olov Enquist · 70 when first published
Novel · 218 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Blanche Wittman, once the most famous patient of the Paris neurologist Charcot, later becomes assistant to Marie Curie, and, maimed by radium, writes down her love for Charcot and Marie's affair with Langevin.
Augustpriset 2001 · Shortlist
Lewis resa
Per Olov Enquist · 67 when first published
Novel · 468 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:The life of Lewi Pethrus, founder of the Swedish Pentecostal movement, from working-class boy with dreams of becoming a writer to a spiritual leader conscious of his power.