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Edition 41 (2024)

Fiction (novels)Nonfiction (factual and specialist books)Children's and young adult literature

Winners

4 people
Pajtim Statovci ぱいてぃむ・すたとゔち Winner
Lehmä synnyttää yöllä

Layering a summer in Kosovo with later confrontations with the wounds of war, the novel explores the difficulty of return and forgiveness. It is a painful book in which memory and imagination keep shifting against each other.

Going home also means touching the past again.

300 pages
returnwar memoryfamilyguiltidentity
Paivi Lukkarila ぱいゔぃ・るっかりら Winner
Skutsi

Set at a forest camp, the novel becomes a survival story where friendship and unease collide. It carries a horror mood while also showing the pain of growing up and the difficulty of building trust.

In the forest, the unseen is the most frightening thing.

200 pages
forest survivalfriendshiphorrorgrowing upunease
Sofia Tawast そふぃあ・たゔぁすと Winner
Suuri valhe vammaisuudesta

The book reexamines assumptions about disability through both lived experience and the language society uses around it. Using familiar examples, it unpacks hidden premises in an accessible nonfiction style.

The assumptions that look most ordinary are often the ones most worth questioning.

400 pages
disabilitysocial assumptionslived experienceaccessibilitynonfiction
Riikka Leinonen りいっか・れいのねん Winner
Suuri valhe vammaisuudesta

The book reexamines assumptions about disability through both lived experience and the language society uses around it. Using familiar examples, it unpacks hidden premises in an accessible nonfiction style.

The assumptions that look most ordinary are often the ones most worth questioning.

400 pages
disabilitysocial assumptionslived experienceaccessibilitynonfiction