Nothing to be Rescued

Short Stories
Icelander Asta Sigurdardottir's world is populated by drunkards, the homeless, and the promiscuous on the fringes of society. Her short stories was reprinted posthumously in 1985, together with a number of poems and unpublished pictures. Nordisk Books will be publishing a selection of the short stories featured in that collection.

She caused a sensation from her early short story debut in the avant-garde magazine Líf og list in 1951 with “Sunnudagskvöld til mánudagsmorguns”, a description of drunkards, the homeless, and the promiscuous on the fringes of society. The narrative is pithy and metaphorical with elements of fantasy, the language sensuous, erotic, and partly grotesque. Her short story collection Sunnudagskvöld til mánudagsmorguns was published in 1961 and was reprinted in the collection Sögur og ljód, 1985, together with a number of posthumous short stories, poems, and unpublished pictures. Nordisk Books will be publishing a selection of the short stories featured in Sögur og ljód, including a number of the pictures, under the title Nothing to be Rescued, translated by Meg Matich.

Contributor: Meg Matich (Translated by)

Translator: Meg Matich

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