Author | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir |
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Original title | Ör |
Translator | Brian FitzGibbon |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Set in | Iceland |
Publisher | Benedikt Grove Press |
Publication date | 2016 |
Published in English | 2018 |
Pages | 288 |
Awards | Nordic Council's Literature Prize 2018 |
ISBN | 978-0802127501 |
Hotel Silence ( Icelandic: Ör) is a 2016 novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir. [1]
This novel deals with a man in his late 40s, poor, abandoned by his wife and suffering his midlife crisis.
It was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2018. [2]
The novel was adapted by Léa Pool into the 2024 film Hotel Silence. [3]