August Prize おーがすとしょう
Edition 23 (2011)
FictionNonfictionChildren and Young Adult
Winners
3 peopleA novel of rural life and coming of age that follows a boy growing up amid family conflict, isolation, and a hard, beautiful landscape.
A stark coming-of-age novel set in rural Sweden.
329 pages
coming of agenaturefamily
A work of narrative nonfiction that reconstructs prewar Vienna through the family letters sent to a Jewish boy who had escaped to Sweden.
A history of Vienna and exile told through family letters.
329 pages
Holocaustfamily historylettersmemory
Four girls confront changing bodies, identity, and harassment, and then discover a mysterious power that lets them become boys at night.
A sharp coming-of-age story about transformation and identity.
186 pages
gendercoming of agefriendshiptransformation