Bergþóra Snæbjörnsdóttir

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• Svínshöfuð

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2019 · Shortlist

  Svínshöfuð

  AITitle translated by AI:“Pig's Head”

  Bergþóra Snæbjörnsdóttir · 34 when first published

  Novel · 236 pages · Family, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:In the mid-1990s a Chinese mother and son come to Iceland to join a new family whose old sorrows run from one generation to the next.

• Flórída

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2017 · Shortlist

  Flórída

  Bergþóra Snæbjörnsdóttir · 32 when first published

  Poetry · 111 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:A sequence of poems telling, in the voice of an unreliable narrator, of her life in Berlin and her bond with a fading former punk-rock star called Flórída, while she is questioned by one Herr Fleischer.