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Amanda Svensson is Awarded Svenska Dagbladet's Literature Prize

Another literary prize to "A Magnificent System".

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Johannes Anyuru's Novel Praised in the US

"They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears" is reviewed in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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Double Award Triumphs for Mirja Unge

Mirja Unge is twice recognised for her "relentless", "compassionate" and "pitch-black" prose.

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Nina Wähä and Lotte Möller Shortlisted for the August Prize

"Testament" and "Bees and Their Keepers" are up for Sweden's most prominent literary award.

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At a Loss turns into a very brave attempt to understand, not forgive but understand, male domestic abuse, by depicting a man’s alienation and inadequacy in a coordinate system where the fixed points – the mother, the wife, the daughter – constantly educates, judges and forgives, but refuses to see him for who he really is. The novel is apparently the final part of a triptych about relationships, but still we have only just seen the beginning of an authorship that is stringent, nuanced and austerely poignant in a way that makes Agnes Lidbeck one of Swedish prose’s foremost contemporary voices. I can’t remember, off the top of my head, when I last read a novel that affected me so deeply, that has lingered for so long and that still, as I’m browsing my review copy, has made me so melancholic yet so excited about the prospects of literature .

Expressen

Agnes Lidbeck has a knack for finding the most hideous, the most trivial, but also the true darkness in our modern lives /… / With her triptych Lidbeck has composed a distressingly universal work about contemporary life that will be relevant for some time to come.

Norra Skåne

Lidbeck’s ability to write about the passing of time, days and years that blend into one, is on a par with Virginia Woolf, and her fictive universe recalls Bergman.

Upsala Nya Tidning

Agnes Lidbeck is magnificent at finding the pressure points that expose human irrationality /… / A less gifted author would probably not manage the structure. The gaps in both plot and time between the book’s five sections could have made the story sweeping but Lidbeck achieves it splendidly. The perfect pitch, the stylistic acuity, the superb personification, the elegance of the responses that only take place through a phrase or a thought: everything suggests Lidbeck’s significance as an author and becomes a joy to read.

Nya Wermlands-Tidningen

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Amanda Svensson is Awarded Svenska Dagbladet's Literature Prize

Johannes Anyuru's Novel Praised in the US

Double Award Triumphs for Mirja Unge

Nina Wähä and Lotte Möller Shortlisted for the August Prize

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