Marit Kapla

Marit Kapla (born 4 September 1970) is a Swedish writer, journalist and cultural manager. Her debut novel Osebol won the 2019 August Prize.

Private life Marit Kapla was born on 4 September 1970. which is located in Torsby Municipality, Värmland County. The work brought her the 2019 August Prize, the Guldpennan prize awarded by the Swedish Publicists' Association, Studieförbundet Vuxenskolans author prize 2019, Borås Tidnings debutantpris 2020 and Göran Palm Scholarship 2021. and was nominated for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

In 2022, Kapla published her second book, Kärlek på svenska, which also consisted of interviews, this time on the topic of love. However, Kapla did not conduct the interviews herself and based her book on the work of the filmmaker Staffan Julén instead. The book was nominated for the 2023 European Union Prize for Literature.

Works

Osebol, 2019 Kärlek på svenska, 2022