Bea Uusma is awarded the 2025 August prize for Best Non-fiction for Kvitøya . The jury’s motivation reads: “Bea Uusma continues to unravel the mystery of the Andrée Expedition’s final days. Using modern technology, she uncovers new details in the polar-historical drama that refuses to let her go. Kvitøya is a captivating journey in the footsteps of the balloonists, told with unfeigned obsession. It shows the beauty of giving everything
— not in order to succeed, but because one simply cannot help it.”