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Edition 22 (2010)

FictionNonfictionChildren and Young Adult

Winners

3 people
Sigrid Combüchen しぐりど・こんびゅーひぇん Winner

A 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
Yvonne Hirdman いゔぉんぬ・ひるどまん Winner

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
Jenny Jägerfeld じぇにー・いぇーがーふぇると Winner

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