CoDex 1962 - Sjon

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Résumé :
Heralded as a masterpiece in its native Iceland, this playful but poignant novel is a biting attack on nationalism. A Jewish man named Leo escapes World War Two Germany with a lump of clay, which he and the woman who nurses him back to health shape into a baby, who grows up to have politically-charged adventures of his own.

Biographie:

Born in Reykjav?k in 1962, Sj?n is an Icelandic writer whose novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone and CoDex 1962 have been translated into thirty-five languages. He has won several awards including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for The Blue Fox and has also been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, while Moonstone won the Icelandic Literary Prize and the Icelandic Booksellers' prize for Novel of the Year. Sj?n has also published nine poetry collections, written four opera librettos as well as lyrics for various artists, and was nominated for an Oscar for his lyrics in the film Dancer in the Dark. In 2017, Sj?n became the third writer - following Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell - to contribute to Future Library, a public artwork based in Norway spanning 100 years. He lives in Reykjav?k, Iceland.

Victoria Cribb has translated more than twenty-five books by Icelandic authors. Her translations of Moonstone and CoDex 1962 were both longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN America Translation Prize. In 2017 she received the Or?st?r honorary translation award for services to Icelandic literature.