“We are really happy to be able to reward Marit Kapla's courage and persistence. She interviews all residents in the whole village and creates journalism that we have never seen before, ”says Lena Kvist, chairman of Western PK.

The price is SEK 15,000 and a gold pen.

Marit Kapla, also known as "a Värmland Svetlana Aleksijevich" by the Publicist Club, has interviewed 42 residents of Osebol, the village she herself comes from, and describes in the book life in a depopulated farm.