This year's August Gala takes place on November 23 at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. In this year's non-fiction book category, Elin Anna Labba and Johanna Bäckström Lerneby are nominated.
Labba tells in “The gentlemen put us here.
About the forced relocations in Sweden ”about the Swedish state's forced relocations of Sami from the Karesuando area in the 1920s and 30s - but it is also a personal story.
Bäckström Lerneby challenges
In "The Family", the journalist Johanna Bäckström Lerneby charts a family that controls the Angered district in Gothenburg with reign of terror.
- I am so extremely interested in this subject, I personally think that it is very exciting with these cultural clashes and contexts that one should try to describe as factually as possible, she says.
Sameradion & SVT Sápmi has talked to Elin Anna Labba in the clip above.
Johanna Bäckström Lerneby has written about a feared family in Angered who control the district with mafia methods.
Photo: SVT