Born 1938 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2008 · Shortlist
Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir · 70 when first published
Novel · 251 pages
AI-generated summary:Rán, who has lived her whole adult life abroad, leaves her home and husband in Switzerland for Iceland, stopping in Barcelona, where she lived an eventful youth, and faces forgotten moments and lost ideals.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2001 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Across the Ebro”
Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir · 63 when first published
Novel · 459 pages · War, Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Haraldur, one of many young men alarmed by the rise of fascism in the 1930s, goes to Spain to fight for the Republic; growing old in Iceland, he returns in memory to the comrades of the Battle of the Ebro.