Borås Tidnings debutantpris (Borås Tidning award for best literary debut) is an annual award to a Swedish debut literary work awarded by newspaper Borås Tidning and University of Borås. It was first awarded in 2001 to Lotta Lotass for , winning 100,000 SEK.
The award has become a prestigious prize in Swedish literature. In a 2010 study, Borås Tidnings debutantpris was the fourth most reported literary award in Sweden, after the August Prize, the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and , in one metric shared fourth with . , the award sum is 150,000 SEK, handed out at Borås City Theatre.
by Tomas Bannerhed was the first work to win both the August Prize and Borås Tidnings debutantpris in 2012. The 2020 winner by Marit Kapla has also won both awards.
The 2025 jury was author and literature critic Aase Berg, secondary-school teacher and critic Björn Kohlström, and University of Borås researcher Linnéa Lindsköld.
Recipients YearWinnerWorkShortlisted nomineesRef.2001Lotta Lotass20022003Daniel Sjölin2004Jonas Hassen Khemiri2005Ida Börjel2006Andrzej Tichý200720082009Sara Mannheimer2010Johan Kling20112012Tomas Bannerhed201320142015Maxim Grigoriev201620172018Agnes Lidbeck20192020Marit Kapla2021202220232024Sanna Samuelsson2025
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