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Lisa Dos Santos awarded the Natur & Kultur Debate Book Prize 2024
Posted on 20/05/2024 in
We are very happy to share that Lisa Dos Santos has been awarded the Natur & Kultur Debate Book Prize 2024 for THE DEATH GAME!
The Natur & Kultur Debate Book Prize is awarded annually to one author of a Swedish non-fiction book that contributes to deepening the social debate.
The motivation for the award goes as follows:
Natur & Kultur’s Debate Book Prize 2024 is awarded to Lisa dos Santos for deepening the knowledge of gang crime as a systemic threat with a clear eye and daring style. THE DEATH GAME is an unexpected insider’s report from the new Sweden of violence, where ruthless murders all too rarely end in conviction – and about how the situation can be changed.
Per Almgren, CEO of Natur & Kultur also shares the following words about the award: “Gang crime is one of the great social challenges of our time. In her book, Lisa dos Santos provides a unique insider perspective with knowledge that can contribute to positive change. Her story is also a fantastic reading experience.”
About the book:
In 2018, prosecutor Lisa dos Santos was given a case file of a murder on Årsta bridge in Stockholm, a case that would figure in the media as well as given personal importance to dos Santos herself, and a hard case to crack, as no one was talking. But after having been given some unexpected help from the FBI, dos Santos would unlock a direct link into the dark reality of gang-related crime, and now she is ready to share her insights with us.
Lisa dos Santos is a prosecutor with a string of high-profile cases with gang connections, able to give an insider account of the inner workings of this new, heightened violence, and in THE DEATH GAME she describes the problems for the judicial system as laws are lagging behind technical developments, and witnesses are hard to find, or too afraid to speak out.
THE DEATH GAME was first published by Bokförlaget Forum in 2022.
