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The Swan (novel)

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Originally published
  
1991

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Author
  
Guðbergur Bergsson

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Nominations
  
Nordic Council's Literature Prize

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The Swan (orig. Icelandic Svanurinn) is a novel written by the Icelandic writer, Guðbergur Bergsson in 1991.

Contents

Plot introduction

The story is about a nine-year-old girl sent to a country farm in Iceland to serve her probation for shoplifting (which is a characteristic Icelandic sentence). In the novel, the girl finds a kind of freedom by submitting to the inevitable restraints and suffering of remote rural life.

Awards and nominations

  • In 1991, Guðbergur Bergsson got the Icelandic Literary Prize for his novel, Svanurinn.
  • In 1992, Svanurinn was nominated for the Literary Prize of the Nordic Council.

    • Trivia

  • This is one of the few novels of Guðbergur Bergsson, which is available in English. The English Version is translated by Bernard Scudder, the member of the team producing an English translation of the Icelandic Sagas.

    • References

    The Swan (novel) Wikipedia
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