Rosa Liksom has been awarded the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize!

The Swedish Academy awards Rosa Liksom with its Nordic Prize for 2020 (postponed because of the pandemic). The prize was founded in connection with the 200 year celebration of the Academy in 1986. Previous laureats include Karl Ove Knausgård, Dag Solstad and Agneta Pleijel. The prize sum is 400 000 Swedish crowns. 

Rosa Liksom is one of the foremost modern authors in Finland. She also works as an artist, playwrite and cartoonist.