This year's recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, French Marion Brunet, is now being published in Swedish translation for the first time. On May 30, "Grey Sea" will be released, which is also the one of her youth novels that has received the most attention in her home country. The story is about a gang of 17-year-olds who go on a disastrous sailing trip from Brittany to Ireland.
Swedish publisher Gilla has also acquired the rights to the dystopian climate trilogy "Ilos", whose first part will be published in Swedish in the spring of 2026.
In connection with the announcement of this year's prize winner, the chairman of the Alam jury, Boel Westin, described Marion Brunet as "A brilliant describer of young people's living conditions in an increasingly materialistic and threatening world".
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