Born 1942 · Sweden
Augustpriset 2017 · Shortlist
Sigrid Combüchen · 75 when first published
Novel · 317 pages · War, Migration, Historical
AI-generated summary:March 1944: two Frenchwomen, Sidonie and Nathalie, strangers thrown together by chance, are fleeing across a bombed-out Germany. With their last valuables they cross the strait to Sweden, where they are renamed and set to work.
Augustpriset 2010 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Waste”
Sigrid Combüchen · 68 when first published
Novel · 449 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:An old woman living on the Spanish coast writes to a novelist: a 1930s family snapshot from Lund that the novelist once put into a book shows her own family. Their letters slowly rebuild Hedda's youth.
Augustpriset 2003 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Swim in the Sound”
Sigrid Combüchen · 61 when first published
Novel · 280 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:On an almost empty beach at Skanör in September 1999, Göran Sager-Larsson, past sixty, watches his much younger girlfriend Vera swim towards the horizon and lets his thoughts drift across his whole life.