This is a surprisingly short novel considering the vastness of its subject matter: right-wing extremism and the banality of evil. But it’s brevity is a tribute to the magnitude o
Codex 1962, beautifully translated here by Victoria Cribb, at first might seem a rambling, confusing, picaresque tale – hugely enjoyable, but not particularly coherent. I contend
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, the latest novel in English by Icelandic poet, writer, and lyricist, Sjón, and excellently translated by Victoria Cribb, continues the author’s
Finishing this short collection of contemporary Nordic writing, I have an overwhelming sense of a region suffering trauma. Or at least a group of authors from that region expressin
The Icelandic author Sjón, his translator Victoria Cribb and his UK publisher Sceptre have honoured The Riveter magazine by giving us an exclusive extract from Sjón’s forthcomi
A Different Sea by Claudio Magris, translated by M.S. Spurr, is a slim, magnetic, slow-read of a book. By Sjón A Different Sea Written by Claudio Magris Translated by M. S. Spurr
The Whispering Muse, The Blue Fox, From the Mouth Of The Whale and now his fourth novel in English, Moonstone: there is something mysterious, ancient and fairytale-like in all Sjó
I’ve just discovered the beautiful and poetic work of the Icelandic writer Sjón. His book Moonstone is published by Sceptre and I came across it as part of their 30th birth
The thirteenth edition of Fabula beckons you to visit the City of Literature, as Ljubljana can proudly be called from this year onward (we have become part of the UNESCO Creative C
