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Denmark · Since 1949 · For books in Danish
Denmark's booksellers' prize, awarded each February or March after a vote among the country's booksellers and their staff to a book by a living Danish author published the year before. It names a winner only, and an author can win it once.
The prize was founded in 1949 by BoghandlerKlubben, a social club for people in the Danish book trade, and was first called Boghandlernes Gyldne Laurbær. When the club was dissolved in 2010, it carried on only as the prize's administrator. Each January ballots go out to the country's bookshops, and booksellers and their staff vote for a living Danish author and a book of fiction from the year before. The most votes wins, and no author can win twice. The prize often goes to a bestseller. The winner is surprised with the news in February or March and receives a laurel wreath, a gold pin, a diploma and a book voucher; until 2010 there was also a cash sum. The prize is named for the year it is given: the 2026 prize went to a novel of 2025.
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Gyldne Laurbær 2023 · Winner
11%
Maren Uthaug · 50 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Speculative, Satire
AI-generated summary:In a new age with no men left in society, apart from a few males kept for breeding on Lolland, four women's lives become entangled when a boy turns up outside.
Gyldne Laurbær 2021 · Winner
Meter i sekundet
Stine Pilgaard · 36 when first published
Novel · 272 pages
AI-generated summary:A young woman follows her partner to a folk high school in West Jutland, where she must learn the locals' sparing way of talking while caring for a newborn and writing the advice column of the local paper.
Gyldne Laurbær 2015 · Winner
Kvinden de meldte savnet
Sara Blædel · 50 when first published
Novel · 320 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:An English housewife is shot dead through her kitchen window, and in Copenhagen a detective's partner disappears after stepping out for cigarettes; the victim turns out to be a Dane who vanished long ago.
Gyldne Laurbær 2013 · Winner
Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden
Kim Leine · 51 when first published
Novel · 525 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1787 a young Danish priest arrives at the colony of Sukkertoppen in West Greenland to spread the faith, and finds that Greenlanders nearby have rejected colonial rule and gathered around two prophets up Eternal Fjord.
Gyldne Laurbær 2012 · Winner
Dette burde skrives i nutid
Helle Helle · 46 when first published
Novel · 186 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Dorte, twenty and supposedly studying literature in Copenhagen, lives alone by the railway station in Glumsø, rides the train to the city every day and skips her classes.
Gyldne Laurbær 2011 · Winner
Journal 64
Jussi Adler-Olsen · 60 when first published
Novel · 500 pages · Crime · Afdeling Q, book 4
AI-generated summary:Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck reopens the 1980s disappearance of a brothel owner and finds that several other people vanished the same weekend, a trail that leads back to a woman abused in her youth and a surgeon with dark convictions.
Gyldne Laurbær 2010 · Winner
Børnene
Ida Jessen · 45 when first published
Novel · 334 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Newly divorced, the health visitor Solvej moves to a remote house near the village of Hvium so that she can be near her small daughter, who lives there with the girl's father.
Gyldne Laurbær 2007 · Winner
Den som blinker er bange for døden
Knud Romer · 46 when first published
Novel · 184 pages · Autofiction, Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In 1960s Nykøbing Falster, where hatred of the Germans has outlasted the war, a boy whose mother is German is bullied and shunned at school.
Gyldne Laurbær 2006 · Winner
Hundehoved
Morten Ramsland · 34 when first published
Novel · 383 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Called home to Denmark to his dying grandmother's bedside, Asger hears the half-true stories of three generations of the Eriksson family, starting with a grandfather who escaped a Nazi camp, and sets out after a hidden fortune.
Gyldne Laurbær 2005 · Winner
Undtagelsen
Christian Jungersen · 42 when first published
Novel · 620 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:At a small Copenhagen centre that documents genocide, two of the four women on staff start receiving death threats, and their fear of a Balkan war criminal they have written about slowly turns into suspicion of one another.
Gyldne Laurbær 2003 · Winner
Nordkraft
Jakob Ejersbo · 34 when first published
Novel · 401 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In Aalborg in the early 1990s, a group of young dealers, users and dreamers try to stay afloat: Maria runs hash for her boyfriend, Allan comes home from sea determined not to slide back, and a friend's death brings them all together.