Linda Boström Knausgård

Longlist, 2020 National Book Awards

Linda Boström Knausgård is a Swedish author and poet, as well as a producer of documentaries for national radio. Her first novel, The Helios Disaster, was awarded the Mare Kandre Prize and shortlisted for the Swedish Radio’s Novel Award in 2014.
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The Helios Disaster

ISBN 9781642860689 World Editions

This modern spin on the myth of Athena plunges us deep inside the mind of an unlikely twelve-year-old goddess confined to a small Swedish town. More about this book >

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Linda Boström Knausgård

Linda Boström Knausgård is a Swedish author and poet, as well as a producer of documentaries for national radio. Her first novel, The Helios Disaster, was awarded the Mare Kandre Prize and shortlisted for the Swedish Radio’s Novel Award in 2014. Welcome to America, her second novel, was nominated for the prestigious August Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Prize.

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