{{short description|2019 book by Patrik Svensson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox book | italic title = | name = The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish | image = Ålevangeliet.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = The first edition | author = Patrik Svensson
| audio_read_by = | title_orig = Ålevangeliet: Berättelsen om världens mest gåtfulla fisk | orig_lang_code = sv | title_working = | translator = Agnes Broomé | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Sweden | language = Swedish | series = | release_number = | subject = Eel life history | genre = history, autobiography | set_in = | published = 30 July 2019 | publisher = Albert Bonniers förlag | publisher2 = | pub_date = | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = | awards = August Prize (2019) | isbn = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = }} '''''The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish''''' ({{langx|sv|'''Ålevangeliet: Berättelsen om världens mest gåtfulla fisk'''}}) is a 2019 non-fiction book written by Swedish journalist and author Patrik Svensson. It won the 2019 August Prize for non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.albertbonniersforlag.se/bocker/225439/alevangeliet/ | title=Ålevangeliet }}</ref>
The book covers both the eel as a species and the eel's cultural history, and also has an autobiographical story about the author's relationship with his father.
In 2020, it was translated into English by Agnes Broomé.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://libris.kb.se/bib/jwj0m35sgvtj5mzk | isbn=9781529030686 | title=The Gospel of the Eels : A father, a son and the world's most enigmatic fish | year=2020 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{August Prize Best Non-Fiction}}
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