Christina Hesselholdt

Broschiertes Buch

Companions

Beschreibung

An exhilarating portrait of friendship in the twenty-first century written in a uniquely playful style.

Autor

Christina Hesselholdt, born in 1962, studied at the Danish Academy of Creative Writing in Copenhagen and published her first novel, Køkkenet, Gravkammeret & Landskabet [The Kitchen, the Tomb & the Landscape] in 1991. She has since written several novels and books for children, and has received critical acclaim and awards for her books, including the Beatrice Prize in 2007, the Jytte Borberg Prize in 2007 and the Critics' Prize in 2010. She was included in Dalkey Archive's Best European Fiction 2013. Companions is her first book to appear in English. Her latest work, Vivian , a novel about the photographer Vivian Maier, was published by Rosinante in 2016. It won the Danish Radio Best Novel Award 2017 and was shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2017. Paul Russell Garrett translates from Danish and Norwegian. He serves on the management committee of the Translators Association and is Programme Director for a new theatre translation initiative, [Foreign Affairs] Translates!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 391g
• ISBN-13: 9781910695333
• ISBN-10: 1910695335
• Artikelnr.: 48348700