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Blackwater her first novel published in englishreceived the swedish crime academys award for best crime novel, the august prize, and the nordic councis literary prize. Oksanens third finnishlanguage novel, purge was published in 2008 and is based upon her original play of the same name, staged at the finnish national theatre in 2007. Kerstin ekman was born on august 27, 1933 in risinge, ostergotlands lan, sweden. Blackwater is a novel by the swedish writer kerstin ekman.
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