- Icelandic Literary Prize 2020 · Shortlist
Animal Life
Dýralíf
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (born 1958)
Translated by Brian FitzGibbon
English editions
In EnglishAnimal Life
Black Cat · United States · 6 December 2022 · Paperback · 192 pages
Animal Life
Pushkin Press · United Kingdom · 1 December 2022 · Paperback · 192 pages
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A Reykjavík midwife lives in the flat she inherited from her great-aunt, also a midwife. In the dark days before Christmas, with an unprecedented storm on the way, she opens a banana box and finds three manuscripts the old woman left behind, the first a study of what the human animal is capable of.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 205 pages in the original
- Set in
- Iceland
- First published
- 2020 by Benedikt
- Author's age
- 62 when first published
- ISBN
9789935488718 (original)
9781782277675 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)
9780802160164 (Black Cat, United States)