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August Prize おーがすとしょう

Edition 7 (1995)

FictionNonfictionChildren and Young Adult

Winners

3 people
Torgny Lindgren とるに りんどぐれん Winner

A novel of strange cohabitation in Västerbotten, where two brothers ravaged by illness and a middle-aged woman who stays with them create an unsettling household. Humor and dread, bodily ugliness and narrative force, are twisted tightly together.

Despite the sweet title, the world unravels in strange and unsettling ways.

166 pages
Swedish fictionfamilygrotesque realismregional novel
Maria Flinck まりあ ふりんく Winner

A practical cultural history that traces Swedish garden culture through manor houses, gardens, rural plots, and urban green spaces in Sörmland. It introduces gardening, plants, decoration, and changing ways of life through abundant source material.

A garden is also a cultural memory shaped over centuries.

302 pages
garden historySwedish cultureplantscultural history
Rose Lagercrantz ろーず らーげるくらんつ Winner

A children’s and young-adult novel that follows Orge, a Jewish youth who escapes Nazi Germany and moves through camps, Prague, and Stockholm, where he meets Annie. Through that encounter, it turns the memory of war and discrimination into a readable story of hope and survival.

The story of the girl who would not kiss is also a story of surviving war.

143 pages
children’s literaturewarJewish historymemory