Awards & Winners

P. C. Jersild

Date of Birth 14-March-1935
Place of Birth Katrineholm
(Södermanland County, Katrineholm Municipality, Södermanland, Sweden)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as P. Jersild, Per Christian Jersild
Profession Writer, Author, Physician
Per Christian Jersild, better known as P. C. Jersild, is a Swedish author and physician. He also holds an honorary doctorate in medicine from Uppsala University, and another one in engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology. P. C. Jersild was born in Katrineholm in a middle-class family, his first book was Räknelära which he released 1960 at the age of 25, although he had already been writing for 10 years at that time. Until now he has written 35 books, usually focused on social criticism. His most famous work is Barnens ö, which tells the story of a young boy, on the verge of adulthood, who runs off from a children's summer camp to spend time alone in the big city, Stockholm. Another book worth mentioning is Babels hus which gives an account of the inhuman treatment of patients at a large modern hospital, said to be modeled on the Karolinska Hospital in Huddinge, outside Stockholm. Aside from his literary production, Jersild has also been a columnist for Dagens Nyheter since the mid-1980s. In 1999, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Awards by P. C. Jersild

Check all the awards nominated and won by P. C. Jersild.

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize A Living Soul
Sweden

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize House of Babel
Sweden

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Children's Island
Sweden

1974


Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize The Animal Doctor
Sweden