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vel about memory, about trying to come to terms with life, and about being seriously hurt yet having the will to survive. Hanna Nordenhök is a multifaceted author, poet, playwright, prose writer, and literary critic. She has a great gift for describing the movements of the mind and the soul. In two parallel universes Hanna Nordenhök depicts a series of characters connected to a young people’s facility for young people with severe psychosocial issues. In the framing story, set in the present day, a woman meets friends from her past and recalls her childhood and life at the institution. In the second narrative we find ourselves during the first and the middle part of the 19th century, when the facility catered only for boys, where through diaries, notes and memories a gripping story of love, loneliness and isolation is told. Hanna Nordenhök (b. 1977) The Aspens Publisher Norstedts www.norstedts.se Rights Norstedts agency linda.altrovberg@norstedts.se Selected Works Promenaderna i Dalby Hage Novel 2011 Jaktscener (Lorcatranskription) Poetry 2011 Det vita huset i Simpang Novel 2013 Literary Prizes Lydia och Herman Erikssons stipendium 2011 Göteborgs-Postens litteraturpris 2013 Samfundet De Nios Julpris 2014 Photo: Sara Moritz