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Om bidragsyterne
Elin Cullhed is a Swedish author who made her debut in 2016. Euphoria is her first novel for adults. It won the 2021 August Prize, Sweden's most prestigious literary award, and was a finalist for the Strega European Prize.
Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator and artist. She is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, PEN and the Jerome Foundation among others. Her translations from the Swedish include work by Ida Börjel, Athena Farrokhzad and Iman Mohammed.
An audacious, gripping novel . . . a book for our times
* Guardian *
<i>Euphoria </i>is about the fissures between motherhood, love and creativity but is also a celebration of Plath's power
* Evening Standard *
Compelling and visceral
* Irish Examiner *
A novel about the conflicted emotional underbelly of female experience - including childbirth, desire, envy, rage, insecurity, ambition . . . Brave
* Times Literary Supplement *
A sensitive and artistic account of a woman attempting to write herself out of oblivion . . . not a book about death, it is a book about art, more specifically, female art, and its resilience and endurance
* Sunday Business Post *
Compelling
* BBC History Magazine *
Imagines the hopes, fears, dreams and memoirs of [Plath's] final months, as well as the growing tensions between the worlds of creativity and domesticity. Based on archival research but explicitly a work of fiction, Elin Cullhed's book aims to focus not on Plath's death but instead on the complexities and contradictions of her life
* History Revealed *
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Elin Cullhed is a Swedish author who made her debut in 2016. Euphoria is her first novel for adults. It won the 2021 August Prize, Sweden's most prestigious literary award, and was a finalist for the Strega European Prize.
Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator and artist. She is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, PEN and the Jerome Foundation among others. Her translations from the Swedish include work by Ida Börjel, Athena Farrokhzad and Iman Mohammed.