Your Eyes Saw Me, 1994
With a Quivering Tear, 2001
I am a Sleeping Door, 2016

“There are not many of us on this Earth who can describe the feeling of entering the world. Most people have difficulty remembering what they did yesterday, not to mention a week ago, three months or thirteen years ago. But I can recall every single thing that has happened from the moment I came to life on the kitchen table in Ingolfsstraeti street 10 and to this very day.”

As an individual of the anno 1962 vintage, Josef Löwe recounts his story that is unlike any other and reaches back to the horrors of WWII. He is himself a living testimony of the consequences
of the transgressions that followed. Therefore, his story offers a view to a not-so-distant past – events that changed the world – and the narrative, peppered with vivid descriptions of people and
intricate fates, captivates the reader.

Sjón tackles life and literature in his unique way, and as it says in the epilogue – all stories begin “long before humans found a way to store them outside of their memory”.

• DV Cultural Prize for literature, 1995 (Your Eyes Saw Me)
• DV Cultural Prize for literature, 2002 (With a Quivering Tear)
• Nominated for the DV Cultural Prize for literature 2016 (I Am a Sleeping Door)
• Nominated for Prix Europa 2009 in the category Radio Fiction (adaption by B. Jonsson) (Your Eyes Saw Me)
• Nominated for Gríman, the Icelandic Theatre Awards 2009, as the radio play of the year (Your Eyes Saw Me)
• Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize 2016 (I Am a Sleeping Door)
• The Icelandic Booksellers’ Prize 2016 (I Am a Sleeping Door)
• Best Translated Book Awards 2019 Longlist

Literary agent: Licht & Burr
e-mail: tl@licht-burr.dk