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Nordic Council Literature Prize ほくおうひょうぎかいぶんがくしょう

Edition 56 (2016)

Literature prizeInternational Literature PrizeNordic Literature

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Katarina Frostenson かたりな ふろすてんそん Winner

Songs and Formulae is a poetry collection focused on the sound and form of language, weaving together personal memory, bodily experience, and historical fragments. Its central impulse is to re-examine what language can do.

Memory and the body gather inside the sound of language.

137 pages
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