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
1 peopleNiviaq 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