Lina Wolff wins The August Prize for Fiction!

Hipp hipp hurrah! Lina Wolff ’s The Corpses We Planted (Liken vi begravde, Albert Bonniers förlag) has won this year’s prestigious August Prize for Fiction in Sweden! We couldn’t be happier that this incredible novel—now sold to 7 languages—is getting the recognition it deserves.

From the jury’s motivational statement:
“Two orphaned sisters grow up among pedophiles and sadists in darkest Skåne, where an unsolved double murder weighs heavily on the village. With fluid prose and dramatic twists, Lina Wolff elicits laughter from the depths of despair. The Corpses We Planted is a furiously entertaining and ingenious novel.”

In her acceptance speech, Lina said:
“I wanted to write a book about the place I come from. I tried to think about how much darkness you can fit into the light, and how much light you can fit into the darkness.”

This is the third time Lina has been nominated for this prestigious award and the second time she’s won; she also received the prize in 2016 for The Polyglot Lovers and was nominated in 2022 for The Devil’s Grip. With this victory, Lina joins the exclusive circle of authors (alongside Kerstin Ekman and Per Olov Enquist) who have won the Fiction Prize twice.

Congratulations, Lina!

Photo: Andreas Sundbom, AXL Media