The Swan (novel)

The Swan (orig. Icelandic Svanurinn) is a novel written by the Icelandic writer Guðbergur Bergsson in 1991.

Plot introduction[]

The story is about a nine-year-old girl sent to a country farm in Iceland to serve her probation for shoplifting (which is a characteristic Icelandic sentence). In the novel, the girl finds a kind of freedom by submitting to the inevitable restraints and suffering of remote rural life.

Awards and nominations[]

• In 1991, Guðbergur Bergsson got the Icelandic Literary Prize for his novel, Svanurinn.
• In 1992, Svanurinn was nominated for the Literary Prize of the Nordic Council.

Translation[]

• This is one of the few novels by Guðbergur Bergsson that are available in English. The English version is translated by Bernard Scudder, a member of the team producing an English translation of the Icelandic Sagas.

Adaptation[]

In 2017, the Icelandic film director shot her first movie , the adaptation of The Swan.^[1]

References[]

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