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Christian Rück wins The August Prize 2024!

Posted on 25/11/2024 in

We are over the moon about Christian Rück winning THE AUGUST PRIZE 2024 for Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year with his SUICIDE FOR BEGINNERS: A Social History and Modern Perspective on Life and Death!

The August Prize is Sweden’s most prestigious literary award, and the jury’s motivation is as follows:
“A book about suicide in history, culture and in our consciences. Christian Rück, professor of psychiatry at Karolinska Institutet, writes nuanced, with great insight and a liberating clarity about this incredibly difficult subject. It is seemingly anecdotal, but the short stories of people who took, wanted, feared to end their life form a whole. This book resonates with you who have been touched by the darkness of life, with you who stood by, with you who have read and heard about it but not directly affected. A book that manages to get past and through all the layers of taboo surrounding the subject.”

You can read more about the prize here: https://augustpriset.se/prisnom/2024/