August Prize おーがすとしょう
第30回(2018年)
受賞者
3名Taking its title from a Northern Sami word for land or earth, this epic novel in verse follows two Sami families. Through voices crossing generations, it portrays memories fractured by borders, assimilation policy, schooling, and development, asking how lost land and culture may be reclaimed.
Voices dispossessed of land sing family and collective memory back from the margins of silence.
This nonfiction work examines the Swedish famine of the late nineteenth century through climate, political decisions, poverty, and the history of migration. Combining individual testimony with social history, it traces how hunger helped shape modern Sweden.
The record of hunger reflects not a remote past but social choices that still reach into the present.
This picture book centers on Gropen, a rough play place behind the school, where children's imagination meets adults' concern for safety. With humorous narration and images close to a child's voice, it explores the freedom of play, the negotiation of risk, and a world not entirely decided by adults.
The places adults dislike most can become secret kingdoms where children enlarge the world.