''Miss Iceland'' ( is, Ungfrú Ísland) is a 2018 novel by award-winning novelist
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (born 1958) 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 ...
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Set in the conservative Icelandic society of the 1960s, this novel showcases Hekla, a woman eager to become a writer and free herself from social prejudice.
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2018 novels
Icelandic novels
Novels set in Iceland
Novels set in the 1960s
Grove Press books
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