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Edition 34 (2022)

FictionNonfictionChildren and Young Adult

Winners

3 people
Ia Genberg いあ・げんべり Winner

Through four intertwined portraits, the novel quietly examines how memory shapes a life. Fragments of remembrance gather into the outline of a person.

Small details accumulate until a life comes into view.

152 pages
novelmemoryrelationshipsfragmentation
Nina Margita van den Brink にな・ゔぁん・でん・ぶりんく Winner

This biography follows Maja Ekelöf’s life and writing, where labor, politics, and motherhood are tightly intertwined. It traces how a cleaner became a writer within a wider social history.

A cleaner’s life opens onto the shape of an era.

454 pages
biographylaborwomen's historysocial history
Ellen Stromberg えれん・すとろむべり Winner

Two girls in a small town move through friendship, longing, and the awkwardness of growing up. The YA novel captures adolescence with both lightness and urgency.

An ordinary town becomes the backdrop for the intensity of adolescence.

247 pages
YAfriendshipadolescencesmall-town life