Born 1972 · Sweden
Augustpriset 2014 · Shortlist
Beckomberga
Sara Stridsberg · 42 when first published
Novel · 286 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:When Jimmie Darling is admitted to Beckomberga psychiatric hospital in Stockholm, his twelve-year-old daughter Jackie starts going there every day, and once her mother leaves on a long trip, the wards are all she has.
Augustpriset 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Medealand and Other Plays”
Sara Stridsberg · 40 when first published
Drama · 462 pages
AI-generated summary:Three plays about women who reach for the sky and refuse to bow, even when love seems impossible: the abandoned refugee Medea, Queen Kristina Alexandra and the homeless radical Valerie Solanas.
Augustpriset 2010 · Shortlist
Sara Stridsberg · 38 when first published
Novel · 326 pages
AI-generated summary:Lo and her father take night drives in an old Jaguar through burning forests near an unnamed European city, while other lives echo hers: Nabokov's Dolores Haze, a captive ape taught to draw in Paris, a mother circling motorways.
Augustpriset 2006 · Shortlist
Drömfakulteten
Sara Stridsberg · 34 when first published
Novel · 338 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:In April 1988 Valerie Solanas lies dying of pneumonia on a filthy mattress in a hotel room in San Francisco's Tenderloin, and the narrator imagines herself beside her, writing her life.