The August Prize 2025
Three award winners of the August Prize 2025 and the title Best Swedish Book of the Year were announced on November 24th in the categories Fiction, Non-fiction, and Children's and Youth Literature.
Laureates
Fiction
Title: Liken vi begravde
Author: Lina Wolff
Publishing House: Albert Bonniers Förlag.
Non-fiction
Title: Vitön
Author: Bea Uusma
Publishing House: Norstedts.
Children's and Youth Literature
Title: Klara – Tvättbjörnarnas stad
Author: Fabian Göranson
Publishing House: Galago.
Photos: Andreas Sundbom, AXL Media.
Junior August Prize
Since 1994 each year a young promising author between the age of 16 to 20 receives the Junior August Prize. This year Maja Grönroos was awarded the prize for the novel Ketchup.
Swedish Publishers’ Association’s honorary award
The Literature Festival Litfest got the Swedish Publishers’ Association’s honorary award.
About
The August Prize is named after the famous Swedish author August Strindberg, and is one of the most celebrated and prestigious literary prizes in Sweden.
Founded by the Swedish Publishers’ Association in 1989, the intention was to institute an annual award for the best Swedish books of the year in order to increase public interest in Swedish contemporary literature.