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Wikipedia article
'Illska' ('evil'), published by Ml og menning in 2012, is an Icelandic novel, the fourth by Eirkur rn Nordahl. It won the 2012 Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction,Snorri Pll Jnsson lfhildarson, 'Not The Knee-Jerk Reaction Eirkur rn Nordahl on Illska', 'The Reykjavk Grapevine', 12 March 2013; http://grapevine.is/culture/literature-and-poetry/2013/03/12/not-the-knee-jerk-reaction/. and was chosen as best Scandinavian fiction by the French literary magazine 'Transfuge'.Brynja, 'Heimska valin besti skandinavski skldskapurinn', 'Bjarins besta' (6 January 2017), . The book has been widely translated and reviewed.
Summary
'Illska' is set around 2010. Its main characters are Agnes Lukauskaite, a second-generation Jewish immigrant from Lithuania researching far-right populism for her MA thesis in history at the University of Iceland; her boyfriend mar Arnarson, a graduate in Icelandic linguistics left unemployed by the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis; and Arnr rarson, a PhD-student in history and a far-right activist, who becomes Agnes's love-interest later in the novel. The novel intercalates musings in the narratorial voice about racism and right-wing populism, along with an account of Agnes's grandparents' experience of the Holocaust from their home town of Jurbarkas.Slveig sta Sigurardttir, 'Landvistarleyfi bkmenntaheiminum: Birtingarmyndir innflytjenda slenskum samtmaskldsgum' (unpublished MA thesis, University of Iceland, 2015), p. 37; http://skemman.is/is/item/view/1946/21030.
Translations
* 'Illska, la maldad', trans. by Enrique Bernrdez (Xixn, Asturies: Hoja de Lata, 2018) [Spanish]
* 'Zlo', trans. by Daria Lazi (Zagreb: Oceanmore, 2018) [Croatian]
* 'Illska: To kako', trans. by Roula Georga Kopoulou (Athens: Polis, 2017) [Greek]
* 'Illska: le mal', trans. by Eric Boury (Paris: Mtaili, 2015) [French]
* 'Bse', trans. by Betty Wahl and Tina Flecken (Stuttgart: Tropen, 2014) [German]
* 'Ondska', trans. by Anna Gunnarsdttir Grnberg (Malm: Rmus, 2014) [Swedish]
* 'Ondskab', trans. by Nanna Kalkar (Kbenhavn: Ordenes By, 2013) [Danish]
References
Category:2012 novels
Category:Icelandic novels
Category:Novels set in Iceland
Category:Icelandic books
Category:Icelandic-language novels
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