Nina Burton
© Caroline Andersson Renaud
Agent
Johanna Lindborg
Agent
Johanna Lindborg
Agent
Madelene Hovstadius
Category: General Non-Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction
Nina Burton
Nina Burton (b. 1946) is a poet and essayist, famous for her unique style of combining lyric poetry and the natural sciences. In 2016 she won the prestigious August Prize for Non-Fiction for The Gutenberg Galaxy Nova, and has also been awarded amongst others the Swedish Nobel Academy’s Essay Prize, Sweden’s biggest non-fiction award Stora Fackboks priset and Övralidspriset. Nina is a fellow of the Swedish Science Academy and the prestigious literary association Samfundet De Nio.
Books by Nina Burton
Variations of the Imperfect
Nina Burton
Notes from a Summer Cottage
Nina Burton
From the 2016 August Prize for Non-Fiction winner comes a beguiling and in many ways exceptional nature memoir, an homage to the natural world around us.What begins with a renovation of Nina Burton’s summer cottage, swiftly turns into an exploration…
The Gutenberg Galaxy Nova
Nina Burton
NONFICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR – WINNER OF THE 2016 AUGUST PRIZEThe fate of humanism told through the life of the 16th century literary star Erasmus of Rotterdam. In the time of Gutenberg’s great printing innovation, and the birth of free media, Erasmu…
The Book of Rivers
Nina Burton
From the celebrated author of Notes from a summer cottage and August Prize awarded The Guthenberg Galaxy Nova.What can possibly connect glaciers, steam engines, eels and birds, diasporas and culture shifts, fairy tales and Gutenberg, dragons, salt an…
