Wednesday, December 05, 2007

The August Prize Laureats

The final laureats for the Swedish literary award Augustprisit has been announced.
Fiction: Carl-Henning Wijkmark, for his book on death: "Stundande natten" (Norstedts).
Non-fiction: Bengt Jangfeldt, for the second time. This time it is his book on the Russian poet Majakovskij, entitled "Med livet som insats" (Wahlström & Widstrand).
Children's book: Sven Nordqvist for the book "Var är min syster?" (Opal).
Increased sales to be expected!