Hispanopedia WikiThe August Prize (Swedish: Augustpriset) is an annual Swedish literary prize awarded each year since 1989 by the Swedish Publishers' Association. The prize is awarded to the best Swedish book of the year, in three categories. The Swedish Publishers' Association also awards the Young August Prize (Lilla Augustpriset) to youth and young adults (until the age of 20).
Prize
In the years 1989–1992, the prize was awarded in one general category. Since 1992, the prize has been awarded in the categories Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Children's and Youth Literature.[1] The prize is named after the writer August Strindberg.[2]
Selection
All Swedish publishers may submit nominations for the award. In each category, a jury shortlists six titles each. These titles are then read and voted on by an assembly of 63 electors, 21 in each category. The electors come from across the country, and comprise booksellers, librarians and literary critics. The books receiving the largest number of votes in each category win the prize.[3][4]
The prizes are handed out at a gala in Stockholm. Winners receive 100,000 Swedish krona and a bronze statuette by the artist Michael Fare.[3]
Winners and nominees
Best book (1989–1991)
Fiction
Non-fiction
Children and Young Adult
References
- ^ "Sweden's August Prize for Literature". The Booktrail. November 23, 2020.
- ^ Landes, David (November 24, 2009). "Jewish ghetto tale scoops 2009 August Prize". The Local. Archived from the original on 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
- ^ a b "Om Augustpriset". Augustpriset (in Swedish). Retrieved November 27, 2012.
- ^ "August Prize winner: "In 20 years, we forget everything"". Sveriges Radio. November 24, 2015.
- ^ "Augustpriset 2017". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Augustpriset 2018". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Augustpriset 2019". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Augustpriset 2020". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Augustpriset 2021". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Augustpriset 2022". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ a b "Augustpriset 2023". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Augustpriset 2019". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Archived from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Augustpriset 2020". The August Prizes (augustpriset.se). Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
Notes
- ^ "With an original and fate-saturated dramaturgy, Johannes Anyuru depicts the chain of events where the fabric of society in a contemporary and future Sweden breaks down and leaves open to terror and repression. With poetic delay, the individual vulnerability is embodied in a world with shrinking life prospects and a provocative wonder about the effect of human actions.."[5]
- ^ "In Linnea Axelsson's poetic fragments, another side of the emerging twentieth century is depicted. The loss of the Sami aednan's rhythm of life is captured in two family stories where generations' repressed belonging to language and nature has left existential tears."[6]
- ^ "With unfailing feeling and respect, Marit Kapla creates an entire universe of her literary reportage about Osebol. Individuals' testimonies become lyrical songs where different voices are interspersed. The talk about the place reflects both painful change and uncertain future. The fate of sparsely populated areas and the world is shaped by life in a Värmland village."[7]
- ^ "Lydia Sandgren builds and populates her own literary universe filled with living details. Gothenburg, with black clubs, sunkhak and university libraries, becomes the scene of a triangle drama where the missing Cecilia is the black hole around which the novel characters gravitate. Collected works are a declaration of love for literature."[8]
- ^ "In her literary imagination, Elin Cullhed lets the reader get really close to the creative, living person Sylvia Plath. Life-affirming and furious prose depicts how a poetic genius wrestles with a housewife existence where dreams and desperation give birth to each other. With Euphoria , an author icon takes its place in our time – in the beating heart of the text, the reader also sees himself."[9]
- ^ "In Detaljerna, an incandescent fever becomes a portal to the past and the relationships that once meant everything - in a life that no longer exists. With melancholy, precision and low-key humor, Ia Genberg writes the shards that create a human being, and lets her voice sound with unmistakable timbre. In the precise feeling for the small details, a whole world comes alive."[10]
- ^ "In a perfect balance between light-heartedness and sadness, Andrev Walden depicts a boy's attempt to grasp an existence where fathers are constantly being replaced. Jävla karlar is a humorous confrontation with a different childhood, which, despite the blackness throughout, is portrayed with an inexhaustible warmth and presence."[11]
- ^ "A dizzying story with philosophical and existential signs about the extinction of the endangered eel and its place among humans and myths that take the reader out into deep water, both literally and figuratively. Patrik Svensson lets us follow the eel from the Sargasso Sea, via a smorgasbord right into his soul where, thanks to his father, it has been given a very special place. Because it is also a story about a father and son, and how the love for the eel tied them together in an often wordless relationship."[12]
- ^ "Elin Anna Labba describes reindeer skins as "so soft that it feels like the hand should melt when you iron them". With the same quiet poetic power in the language, she makes visible Sweden's forced relocations of the Sami, forced relocations that have divided ancient family ties, networks and relocation routes. By also weaving in testimonials, archive photographs, maps, yoiks and government papers, she sheds new light on a dark part of Sweden's history in this very beautifully designed book."[13]
- ^ "Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Karl Marx and Toni Morrison all have in common that they have been translated from other languages into Swedish. It also has Harlequin books and the Bible. In Hidden Gods, Nils Håkanson takes us on a dizzying tour of the translation landscape and puts the translator at the center. With finesse, humor and an infectious interest in language and style, he shows how the view of translation and the role of the translator has changed throughout history, but that one thing is constant – translation is an indispensable part of the text's path to the reader, purely its own form of literature."[9]
- ^ "Maja Ekelöf, a cleaning lady and single mother of five, made a name for herself with her 1970 diary Rapport från en skurhink ("Report from a Scrub Bucket"). Nina van den Brink skillfully weaves together Maja Ekelöf - cleaning lady, acclaimed author, abortion advocate, and left-wing activist - with stories of cleaning ladies in her own family. The close descriptions of each task and its effect on the body are almost poetic. The book is as much a powerful portrait of one of Sweden's most poignant writers as it is a reckoning with the welfare state that did not benefit everyone."[10]
- ^ "There is much more to Anders Zorn than the myth of his valley hills and eternal space. In Per Svensson's biography, we get a full portrait of the miracle painter and modern entrepreneur with his outstanding ability to network in the right circles, charge money, and look ahead. But neither his art nor his health could withstand so much success and so much partying. Per Svensson paints a nuanced picture, placing the world-renowned artist's life in time and space, depicting the road to fame and the end when Zorn's artistic drive was consumed."[11]
External links
- Official website (in Swedish)