- August Prize 2005 · Shortlist
I min ungdom speglade jag mig ofta
“In My Youth I Often Looked at Myself in the Mirror” (title translated by AI)
Per Gunnar Evander (born 1933)
English editions
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Urged by a friend to turn his diaries into a novel, a writer in middle age cannot get it going and retreats to a familiar cabin by a deep lake in Kolmården. Late summer brings shards of memory and dream, a mounting feeling of having failed and a narrow escape from an accident; his talks and fishing trips with Eskil next door become what holds him up. Grief, betrayal and loneliness are met with anger and dry humour.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 210 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Sweden
- First published
- 2005 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
- Author's age
- 72 when first published
- ISBN
9789100107734 (original)