by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420454412
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«La escritora» is the literary fiction novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, published by Alfaguara in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
In 1963 Iceland, Hekla wants to be a writer in a society where being a woman is an obstacle. After moving to Reykjavík with her typewriter and a manuscript, she shares an apartment with her friend Jón John, a gay man with theatrical aspirations; together they seek their place in a conservative environment that the sixties are beginning to change.
Translation by Fabio Teixidó Benedí. Winner of the XXVI San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca Prize, the Icelandic Booksellers' Prize and the Prix Médicis étranger.
For readers of Nordic fiction interested in friendship, artistic creation and the role of women in the sixties.
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic professor of art history, a novelist, playwright and poet. She received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Hotel Silence in 2018 and the Médicis Foreign Award for Miss Iceland in 2019.
