Jan Myrdal’s small prize – the Robespierre Prize 2024 goes to Fanny Klang with the following justification:
“In a time when the calls for stricter penalties are getting louder and the overcrowded prisons are expanding at record speed, it is more relevant than ever to portray and review the Swedish correctional system, something Fanny Klang, after several years of working on the floor within the agency, does with great insight and clarity in her debut novel Closed Institution, which succeeds with the art of being both a leaded contribution to the debate on a burning social issue and sensationally good literature.”
