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
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.
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All nominated books