Only two months after receiving the P O Enquist Literary Prize, Amanda Svensson was last night announced as the winner of Svenska Dagbladet's Literature Prize for her novel A Magnificent System, which the jury describes as: a novel about serious contemporary issues such as climate and fear, but that also makes you smile. 

The prize has been awarded annually since 1944 to a promising Swedish authorship and hereby Amanda Svensson joins previous winners such as Stig Dagerman, P.O Enquist, Johannes Anyuru and Lina Wolff. 

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