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August Prize おーがすとしょう

Edition 6 (1994)

FictionNonfictionChildren and Young Adult

Winners

3 people
Björn Ranelid びょるん らねりっど Winner

A memoir that follows three generations of women in China and turns the twentieth century into a family history moving through war, revolution, and the Cultural Revolution.

A memoir that reads twentieth-century China through three generations of women.

524 pages
modern Chinese historyfamily historymemoir
Leif Jonsson れいふ よんそん Winner

A four-volume study that treats Swedish music as a long history, tracing institutions, styles, and social change across a broad cultural field.

A substantial multi-volume history of Swedish music.

music historySwedish cultural historygeneral history
Ulf Lennart Nilsson うるふ にるそん Winner

A readable retelling of key New Testament episodes through the frame story of the Roman boy Titus, turning biblical material into narrative momentum.

The Bible retold through the viewpoint of the boy Titus.

256 pages
biblical narrativechildren's literaturefaith