The Looking-Glass Sisters (19 page)
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Authors: Gøhril Gabrielsen
AUTHOR
Gøhril Gabrielsen, born in 1961, grew up in Finnmark, the northernmost county in Norway, and currently lives in Oslo. She won Aschehoug’s First Book Award for her 2006 novel
Unevnelige hendelser (Unspeakable Events)
, and was the recipient of the 2010 Tanum Scholarship for Women. Since the publication of her debut novel she has brought out two further books to great acclaim in her native Norway,
Svimlende muligheter, ingen frykt (The Looking-Glass Sisters)
and
Skadedyr (Vermin)
. Her fourth novel is due out in 2015.
TRANSLATOR
John Irons studied modern and medieval languages at Cambridge before doing research within the field of poetic imagery. Since the mid 1980s he has translated poetry, fiction and non-fiction from the Scandinavian languages and was awarded the NORLA translation prize for non-fiction in 2007.
First published in English in 2015 by
Peirene Press Ltd
17 Cheverton Road
London N19 3BB
www.peirenepress.com
This ebook edition first published in 2015.
First published under the original Norwegian language title
Svimlende muligheter, ingen frykt
, H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard) AS © 2008
This translation © John Irons, 2015
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ISBN 978-1-908670-25-0
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Designed by Sacha Davison-Lunt.
Photographic image by Gowangold / Alamy
This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.