Sweden
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Marit Kapla is an author and journalist. She grew up in the small village of Osebol in the mid-western parts of Sweden. From 2007 to 2014, she was the Artistic Director of Göteborg Film Festival. She is a member of the board of PEN Sweden. In 2019, she debuted with her book Osebol, an extraordinary work based upon interviews with almost all the residents of her home village. Osebolwon her the 2019 August Prize for the best book of fiction and other Swedish literary awards and a shortlist placement for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2022. Her latest book, Kärlek på svenska (Love in Swedish) was published on August 24, 2022 and consists of interviews with people from all over Sweden about love made by documentary filmmaker Staffan Julén for his film with the same title.
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