Giveaway: Win a copy of Karitas UntitIed by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir (translated by Philip Roughton)

Today I'm joining in the publication day celebrations for Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir's latest book Karitas Untitled which has been translated into English by Philip Roughton. Sadly I wasn't in  a position to read for review so instead I have a paperback copy to give away. 

Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jónsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside—as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fisherman’s wife—she struggles to thrive, to be what she was meant to be.

Spanning decades and set against a breathtaking historical canvas, Karitas Untitled, an award-winning classic of Icelandic literature, is a complex and immersive portrait of an artist’s conflict with love, family, nature, and a country unaccustomed to an untraditional woman—but most of all, with herself and the creative instincts she has no choice but to follow. 

Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir is one of Iceland’s most acclaimed writers and the  internationally bestselling author of numerous novels, including Karitas Untitled,  a Nordic Council Literature Prize nominee; Street of the Mothers; Chaos on Canvas; and Seagull’s Laughter, which was adapted for the stage and also into an award-winning film. 

She received her degree in 1991 from the University of  Iceland and has also worked as a teacher and a journalist. Among Kristín Marja’s many honors are the Knight’s Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for her achievements in writing and her contributions to Icelandic literature, the Jónas Hallgrímsson Prize, and the Fjöruverðlaun Women’s Literature Prize. Kristín Marja  lives in Reykjavík. 

Philip Roughton is an award-winning translator of many of Iceland’s best-known authors, including Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, Jón Kalman Stefánsson,  Þórarinn Eldjárn, Bergsveinn Birgisson, and Steinunn Sigurðardóttir.

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