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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir receives Canadian Prize
The novel Afleggjarinn (The Greenhouse) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir recently received the Canadian Prix des libraires du Québec award, in the category of best of best foreign novel.
The prize is awarded annually by booksellers in Québec as part of the region's international literary festival. Other nominees this year included such luminaries as Sofi Oksanen, Henning Mankell and Michel Houellebecq, and the roster of previous winners lists Cormac McCarthy, Khaled Hosseini and Siri Hustvedt, to name a few.
This is the second prize awarded to The Greenhouse's French translation, which was published last year. It received the Prix de Page as Best European Novel 2010, and was hailed by French critics as the “literary discovery of the year.”
The book is due to be published in English and German this year, by Amazon Crossing and Suhrkamp, respectively.