Valet

Thorvald Steen is a major Norwegian author who has published a wide range of novels, plays, collections of poems and short stories, children’s books, and essays. His books include Lionheart, The Little Horse, The Invisible Library, and The White Bathing Hut, all also published by Seagull Books. Olivia Lasky is an Oslo-based translator who focuses on Norwegian to English literary translations. Her literary translations include work by Karl Ove Knausgård, Laila Stien, Sigbjørn Skåden, and Tor Åge Bringsværd.

“The Little Horse shows just how much richness there is in dramatic irony. . . . Steen doesn’t abandon the ripe entertainment in a story of love, fatherhood, spies, betrayals, manipulation, revenge . . . It is a saga itself and Anderson’s translation accomplishes the difficult task of creating not just the descriptions of a historical time, but prose that has the stiffness of an older world, while still tumbling gently, never forgetting that Iceland is a land of beauty.”

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