Steve Sem-Sandberg

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• W.

  In English

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  Augustpriset 2019 · Shortlist

  W.

  W.

  Steve Sem-Sandberg · 61 when first published

  Novel · 352 pages · Historical, War, Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:To escape destitution, a solitary young man joins the army and is swept through the wars of early-nineteenth-century Europe, in a novel built on the real case behind Woyzeck.

• De utvalda

  In English

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  Augustpriset 2014 · Shortlist

  The Chosen Ones

  De utvalda

  Steve Sem-Sandberg · 56 when first published

  Novel · 576 pages · Historical, War

  AIAI-generated summary:Between 1940 and 1945 the Spiegelgrund clinic in Vienna takes in children the Nazi authorities brand as surplus: orphans, misfits, the 'racially degenerate'. A young inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, stand at the centre.

• De fattiga i Łódź

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  Augustpriset 2009 · ★ Winner

  The Emperor of Lies

  De fattiga i Łódź

  Steve Sem-Sandberg · 51 when first published

  Novel · 664 pages · Historical, War

  AIAI-generated summary:In occupied Poland the Nazis seal off a Jewish ghetto in Łódź and put Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski in charge of it. Amid hunger, forced labour and deportations, his deeply ambiguous leadership shapes the lives of its people.

• Ravensbrück

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  Augustpriset 2003 · Shortlist

  Ravensbrück

  Steve Sem-Sandberg · 45 when first published

  Novel · 270 pages · Historical, War, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:The life of the Czech journalist Milena Jesenská, Kafka's correspondent and translator, a figure of interwar Central Europe's intellectual circles, which ended in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.