Awards & Winners

Gösta Ågren

Date of Birth 03-August-1936
Place of Birth Nykarleby
(Finland)
Nationality Finland
Profession Author
Gösta Ågren is a Swedish-language Finnish author who won the Finlandia Prize in 1988 for Jär. Gösta Ågren has praised the Gospel of Mark for its literary values and published the collection The Carpenter in reference to it. That stated he is known for his left-wing sympathies, which can be seen in his autobiographical work concerning the rural "proletariat." His brothers Leo and Erik were also writers. He has published poems, essays and biographies. Among the literary awarded to him is the Finlandia Prize for Fiction for the poetry collection Jär in 1989. In his poems, Ågren often refers to the region he was born in, Ostrobothnia, on the west coast of Finland.

Awards by Gösta Ågren

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gösta Ågren.

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize I det stora hela
Finland

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Städren
Finland

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Jär
Finland

1988


Finlandia Award
Honored for : Jär
(Swedish)