Dark as Night, page 22
Lilja lives in Reykjavík with her partner.
Lilja Sigurðardóttir
@lilja1972
sigurdardottirlilja
Author website: liljawriter.com
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Lorenza Garcia spent her early adulthood living and working in Iceland, Spain and France. She has been a full-time literary translator since 2008 and has translated and co-translated over forty novels and works of non-fiction from French, Spanish and Icelandic. She currently lives in South London with her Tibetan Terrier.
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First published in Icelandic as Drepsvart hraun by Forlagið, 2022
First published in English by Orenda Books in 2024
Copyright © Lilja Sigurðardóttir, 2022
English translation copyright © Quentin Bates, 2024
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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B-format paperback ISBN 978–1–916788–36–7
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Lorenza Garcia, Dark as Night
