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Stefansson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy -- Eileen Battersby * Times Literary Supplement * Powerful and sparkling . . . Prize-winning translator Philip Roughton's feather-light touch brings out the gleaming, fairy-tale quality of the writing -- Nora Mahoney * Irish Times * A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless storyteller. -- Carsen Jensen Stefansson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour. -- Boyd Tonkin * Spectator. *

Stefansson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour. - Spectator. Stefansson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy - Times Literary Supplement Powerful and sparkling . . . Prize-winning translator Philip Roughton's feather-light touch brings out the gleaming, fairy-tale quality of the writing - Irish Times A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless storyteller.

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Jon Kalman Stefansson's novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and his novel Summer Light, and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P.O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy - Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize) - and for Fish Have No Feet (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017).

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