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The Whispering Muse - Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023

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  • Sceptre

  • Paru le : 15/04/2020
WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023'Funny, strange, provoking and disturbing; darkness with a light touch.' TLSA master storyteller, Sjón... > Lire la suite
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WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023'Funny, strange, provoking and disturbing; darkness with a light touch.' TLSA master storyteller, Sjón weaves together Greek and Nordic myths with the legacies of the Second World War in this mesmerising novel, which reminds us that everything is capable of change. Valdimar Haraldsson is an eccentric Icelander with dubious ideas about the relationship between fish consumption and Nordic superiority.
To his delight, in the spring of 1949, he is invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its voyage to the Black Sea. He is less delighted with the lack of fish on the menu. Worse, his fellow travellers show no interest in his 'Fish and Culture' lecture. They prefer the enthralling tales of the second mate, Caeneus, who every evening regales them with his adventures aboard the Argo, on Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece.

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  • Date de parution : 15/04/2020
  • Editeur : Sceptre
  • ISBN : 978-1-5293-4300-7
  • EAN : 9781529343007
  • Format : ePub
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Protection num. : Contenu protégé

À propos des auteurs

Born in Reykjavík in 1962, Sjón is the author of the novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone and CoDex 1962, for which he has won several awards including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and his work has been translated into thirty-five languages.
In addition, Sjón has written nine poetry collections as well as four opera librettos and lyrics for various artists. He lives in Reykjavík, Iceland. Victoria Cribb has translated over thirty-five books by Icelandic authors. Her translations of Moonstone and CoDex 1962 were both longlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize and in 2017 she received the Ordstír honorary translation award for services to Icelandic literature.

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