Illska

Illska ('evil'), published by Mál og menning in 2012, is an Icelandic novel, the fourth by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl. It won the 2012 Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction,^[1] and was chosen as best Scandinavian fiction by the French literary magazine Transfuge.^[2] 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 Ómar Arnarson, a graduate in Icelandic linguistics left unemployed by the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis; and Arnór Þórðarson, 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.^[3]

Translations

Illska, la maldad, trans. by Enrique Bernárdez (Xixón, Asturies: Hoja de Lata, 2018) [Spanish]
Zlo, trans. by Daria Lazić (Zagreb: Oceanmore, 2018) [Croatian]
Illska: To kako, trans. by Roula Georga Kopoulou (Athens: Polis, 2017) [Greek]
Illska: le mal, trans. by Eric Boury (Paris: Métailié, 2015) [French]
Böse, trans. by Betty Wahl and Tina Flecken (Stuttgart: Tropen, 2014) [German]
Ondska, trans. by Anna Gunnarsdóttir Grönberg (Malmö: Rámus, 2014) [Swedish]
Ondskab, trans. by Nanna Kalkar (København: Ordenes By, 2013) [Danish]

References

^ Snorri Páll Jónsson Úlfhildarson, 'Not The Knee-Jerk Reaction – Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl on Illska', The Reykjavík Grapevine, 12 March 2013; http://grapevine.is/culture/literature-and-poetry/2013/03/12/not-the-knee-jerk-reaction/.
^ Brynja, 'Heimska valin besti skandinavíski skáldskapurinn', Bæjarins besta (6 January 2017), "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-03-22. Retrieved 2017-03-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).
^ Sólveig Ásta Sigurðardóttir, 'Landvistarleyfi í bókmenntaheiminum: Birtingarmyndir innflytjenda í íslenskum samtímaskáldsögum' (unpublished MA thesis, University of Iceland, 2015), p. 37; http://skemman.is/is/item/view/1946/21030.

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[1] Snorri Páll Jónsson Úlfhildarson, 'Not The Knee-Jerk Reaction – Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl on Illska', The Reykjavík Grapevine, 12 March 2013; http://grapevine.is/culture/literature-and-poetry/2013/03/12/not-the-knee-jerk-reaction/.

[2] Brynja, 'Heimska valin besti skandinavíski skáldskapurinn', Bæjarins besta (6 January 2017), "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-03-22. Retrieved 2017-03-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).

[3] Sólveig Ásta Sigurðardóttir, 'Landvistarleyfi í bókmenntaheiminum: Birtingarmyndir innflytjenda í íslenskum samtímaskáldsögum' (unpublished MA thesis, University of Iceland, 2015), p. 37; http://skemman.is/is/item/view/1946/21030.

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