Awards & Winners

Kerstin Ekman

Date of Birth 27-August-1933
Place of Birth Finspång Municipality
(Östergötland County)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as Kerstin Lillemor Ekman
Profession Novelist, Author, Writer, Screenwriter
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist. Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels but later went on to psychological and social themes. Among her later works is Mörker och blåbärsris and Händelser vid vatten, in which she returned to the form of the detective novel. Ekman was elected member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. According to the rules of the Academy, however, she will remain a passive member for the entirety of her life.

Awards by Kerstin Ekman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Kerstin Ekman.

1994


Nordic Council's Literature Prize
Honored for : Blackwater
(Sweden)

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Blackwater
Sweden

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Knivkastarens kvinna
Sweden

1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize A City of Light
Sweden

1976


Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Witches' Rings
Sweden