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August Prize おーがすとしょう

Edition 23 (2011)

FictionNonfictionChildren and Young Adult

Winners

3 people
Tomas Bannerhed とます・ばんねるへーど Winner

A 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
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Elisabeth Åsbrink えりざべーと・おーすぶりんく Winner

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
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Jessica Schiefauer じぇしか・しぇふぁうえる Winner

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
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