August Prize おーがすとしょう
Edition 22 (2010)
FictionNonfictionChildren and Young Adult
Winners
3 peopleA historical novel that overlays wartime flight with the destinies of two women. The story of movement and survival unfolds in a grave but luminous style.
On the road to escape, two lives cross quietly.
450 pages
historical fictionwarexilewomen
A biography that follows the author’s mother through the upheavals of twentieth-century Europe. Revolution, exile, marriage, and war are bound into one woman’s story.
One mother’s life becomes Europe’s history.
396 pages
biographytwentieth-century historyexilefamily history
A young-adult novel in which Maja searches for a place to belong while coping with family absence and bodily pain. Its humor carries a sharp loneliness.
A bruised everyday life slowly forms a self.
251 pages
young adultfamilythe bodyadolescence