On a tiny island off Norway besieged by weather and the sea, the compelling story of one family unfolds, in Roy Jacobsen’s profound and haunting novel
Roy Jacobsen
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Roy Jacobsen was born in Oslo in 1954
He was twice nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991 and Frost in 2003. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles.
Jacobsen’s novel The Unseen was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2017.