Karl Kofi Ahlqvist awarded for "brave book"

In the critically acclaimed debut novel "No Peace at Night" (2023), Karl Kofi Ahlqvist portrays a young man who meets older women for payment. The author will now receive the Migrant Prize at Småland's Literature Festival on February 1.

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Karl Kofi Ahlqvist awarded for "brave book"
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The main character in the novel travels across Öresund to sell sex to middle-aged white women in Copenhagen who are attracted to black men. In Malmö, he has his Ghanaian father who works at a moving company but rarely has time for his son.

A "remarkably brave book in terms of form and content, which follows a young man without direction. He is stuck in a limbo between aimless prostitution with older, white women and hate-love towards his father, a debt-ridden and exhausted patriarch" writes the jury.

Karl Kofi Ahlqvist's narrative is described as uncompromising and authentic in the spirit of Vilhelm Moberg's second.

Karl Kofi Ahlqvist has attended the Writers' School in Copenhagen. The Migrant Prize is 50,000 kronor.

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