Oraefi: The Wasteland

Oraefi: The Wasteland

by Lytton Smith (Translator), Lytton Smith (Translator), Ófeigur Sigurðsson (Author), Lytton Smith (Translator)

Synopsis

Sigurdsson is without a doubt one of the best writers of his generation. --Frettabladid Daily

After a grueling solo expedition on Vatnaj kull Glacier, Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg returns to civilization, barely alive, and into the care of Dr. Lassi. The doctor, suspicious of his story, attempts to discover his real motives for venturing into the treacherous wastelands of Iceland--but the secrets she unravels may be more dangerous than they're worth.

feigur Sigur sson (b. 1975) has published six books of poetry and two novels, including J n (2010), the first Icelandic novel to receive the European Union Prize for Literature.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 352
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 02 Oct 2018

ISBN 10: 1941920675
ISBN 13: 9781941920671
Book Overview: Galleys mailing to all major review outlets as well as alternative review sources in summer 2017 Introduction & blurb requests targeting prominent literary and cultural figures such as Sjon, Jon Gnarr, David Mitchell, Ben Fountain, Merritt Tierce, David Searcy Embassy of Iceland in DC and their Consulates in local markets to sponsor events with translator and author events in the US planned for festivals, bookstores, and universities throughout 2017 & 2018 Serial rights targeting The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Literal Magazine, Texas Monthly, Gulf Coast, McSweeney's, The White Review; One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Words Without Borders, Asymptote Print publicity targeting literary journals and newspaper book sections Promotion on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Riffle, and other social reading websites Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum) Promotion in the publisher's e-newsletters for weeks and months surrounding release Promotion at publisher's booth at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), American Library Association Conference, Modern Languages Association Convention, Texas Book Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, the American Literary Translators Association Conference, Book Expo America, Dallas Book Festival, and Bay Area Book Festival. Publicity targeting The New Inquiry, The Millions, Full-Stop, The Nervous Breakdown, HTMLGIANT, Three Percent, The Literary Saloon, the Quarterly Conversation, and more Print and digital advertising in select literary journals and magazines and on their websites, such as Words Without Borders, Asymptote, World Literature Today, Literary Hub, Granta, The Rumpus, The White Review, A Public Space, Little Star, The Coffin Factory, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Electric Literature, Music & Literature, and others

Media Reviews
Winner of the Icelandic Literature Prize

Chosen by the booksellers of Iceland as the best novel of 2015

This is epic literature. -- J n Gnarr, author of The Indian

Sigurdsson is without a doubt one of the best writers of his generation. -- Frettabladid

Icelandic humour mixed with fantasy and historical facts, r fi is a rare find. This novel proves that feigur Sigur sson is one of the most noteworthy and original authors of his generation. -- Fr a Bj rk Ingvarsd ttir / V sj culture program, Radio 1, Iceland

Author Bio
feigur Sigur sson was born in Reykjav k on November 2, 1975. He has published six books of poetry and two novels. feigur has tried his hand at a number of things: working as a uniformed night-watchman at a hotel, pre-packing ham and bacon at a factory farm, exercising his brawn as a dock worker, and exercising his brains as a student at the Philosophy Department of the University of Iceland, from where he received his BA degree in 2007, with a thesis on the taboo and transgression in the works of Georges Bataille. feigur is at the forefront of a poetic movement of dynamic young creative people, who have recently had a hand in reshaping the form of Icelandic poetry. He has translated literature and written for radio on writers including Louis-Ferdinand C line and Michel Houellebecq. A prolific poet, feigur has published several collections including Toast to the Midwinter (2001) and Redness (2006). In 2005 his first novel, fer , was published and received very positive reviews. His second novel, J n (2010), the story of a man writing letters to his pregnant wife from a cave, became the first Icelandic novel to receive the European Union Prize for Literature. feigur's latest book, r fi, came out in 2014 and was the runaway literary sensation of the year, becoming a massive bestseller and receiving the Icelandic Literary Prize, and it was also chosen as the year's best book among the country's booksellers.

Lytton Smith (born 1982) is an Anglo-American poet and translator. His poetry collections include The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books, 2009), which was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize in 2009, and a previous chapbook, Monster Theory, selected by Kevin Young for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2008. He has taught at Columbia University, Fordham University, and Plymouth University, and is currently a professor at SUNY-Geneseo. In addition to his work translation J n Gnarr, he has translated two other novels from Icelandic: The Ambassador, by Bragi lafsson (Open Letter 2010) and A Child in Reindoor Woods by Krist n marsd ttir (Open Letter, 2012), and his translation of T mas J nsson, Bestseller by Gudbergur Bergsson is forthcoming from Open Letter Books.