by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · Zulma · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782843048692
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«Miss Islande» is the feminist novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, published by Zulma in 2019 in paperback (261 pages, in French).
Iceland, 1963. Hekla, twenty-one, leaves the farm and settles in Reykjavík with her typewriter and four manuscripts: she wants to be a writer. Society would rather see her as a Miss Iceland candidate. With her friend Ísey and Jón John, who dreams of styling, Hekla seeks to live and create outside the norms.
«Miss Islande» is translated into French by Éric Boury and won the Prix Médicis Étranger 2019. The original Icelandic novel was published in 2018 under the title «Ungfrú Ísland».
For readers of literary fiction and historical narrative with an interest in feminist and queer perspectives, and for book clubs.
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic professor of art history, a novelist, playwright and poet. She received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Hotel Silence in 2018 and the Médicis Foreign Award for Miss Iceland in 2019.
