Two Icelandic novels long-listed for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize!
Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir and The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson are among the 15 works long-listed for the The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014.
Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir and The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson are among the 15 works long-listed for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014. Other long-listed authors this year include Karl Ove Knausgaard, Julia Franck, Javier Marias and Yoko Ogawa.
Butterflies in November, translated by Brian FitzGibbon and published by Pushkin Press, is Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's first novel to be released in the United Kingdom, and her second to be published in English. Her novel The Greenhouse was previously published by Amazon Crossing in the United States in 2011. Butterflies in November is also due to be released in the USA this year, by Grove Atlantic.
The Sorrow of Angels is Jón Kalman Stefánsson's second novel to be published in the UK, following Heaven and Hell in 2010. Both works are published by MacLehose Press/Harvill Secker and translated by Philip Roughton.
Only one Icelander has previously been nominated for the prize: Sjón, for Blue Fox (2009) and From the Mouth of the Whale (2012), both translated by Victoria Cribb.
The short-list for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 will be announced on April 8.