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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 61 (2021)

Literature prizeInternational Literature PrizeNordic Literature

Winners

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Niviaq Korneliussen にゔぃあく こるねりあせん Winner

Niviaq Korneliussen's Flower Valley follows a young Greenlandic woman as she confronts migration, belonging, love, loss, and the taboo of suicide. The cold landscape is tightly bound to her isolation and the instability of identity.

A novel that confronts the pain of not belonging within an icy landscape.

340 pages
novelidentityfamily and generationsmigration and belongingmemory and cultureGreenlandic society