AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Jessica Schiefauer (b. 1978) has established herself as one of Sweden’s foremost writers of literary young adult fiction. Her widely praised first novel, If You Were Me was published in 2009, followed by the August Prize-winning Girls Lost in 2011.
TRANSLATED INTO SEVERAL languages, Girls Lost was also nominated for the Nordic Council Debut Children’s Book Award. In addition to two theatre adaptations of Girls Lost (2014 and 2017), the 2016 film based on the book, was a huge critical success and won several international awards. Schiefauer’s third novel, The Eyes of The Lake was published in 2015, and also won the August Prize, thus cementing her position on the Sweden literary scene.
EXPLORING THEMES OF self-esteem, coming of age, sexuality and gender, Schiefauer engages adults as well as young adults. She has contributed short stories to the erotica collection Hot in 2012 and the science fiction collection Other Ways – Ten New Utopias in 2015, among others. Schiefauer holds a teaching degree in Swedish, English and creative writing. She lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.
AWARDS
2011 August Prize – Girls Lost
2015 August Prize – The Eyes of the Lake
2015 Shortlisted for the Nordic Council’s debut Children’s Award – Girls Lost
2015 Spårhunden Award – The Eyes of the Lake
2016 Winner of the Audio Book Prize – The Eyes of the Lake
2017 Winner of the Audio Book Prize – Girls Lost
2025 Nominated to the Swedish Radio Novel Prize – The Thinker’s Testimony
Books
Children’s & YA
