This is a surprisingly short novel considering the vastness of its subject matter: right-wing extremism and the banality of evil.…
Sjón
Codex 1962, beautifully translated here by Victoria Cribb, at first might seem a rambling, confusing, picaresque tale – hugely enjoyable,…
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, the latest novel in English by Icelandic poet, writer, and lyricist, Sjón, and excellently…
Finishing this short collection of contemporary Nordic writing, I have an overwhelming sense of a region suffering trauma. Or at…
The Icelandic author Sjón, his translator Victoria Cribb and his UK publisher Sceptre have honoured The Riveter magazine by giving…
A Different Sea by Claudio Magris, translated by M.S. Spurr, is a slim, magnetic, slow-read of a book. By Sjón…