PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NOVEL
Argentine-American author Hernan Diaz and Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson have both reached wide international audiences and received numerous literary awards for their novels. They write epic works that move fluidly through time and space, challenging the boundaries of the traditional novel form and defying conventional narrative structures.
Jón Kalman Stefánsson, who began his literary career as a poet, weaves together short stories about ordinary people into cohesive, resonant wholes—often held together by an invisible, subtle thread that at times brings his work close to magical realism.
Hernan Diaz is devoted to examining—and upending—American myths. In his two novels, he has, in his own distinctive way, portrayed two iconic periods in U.S. history: the Gold Rush and the roaring twenties, just before the stock market crash.
Join these two groundbreaking authors in a conversation about storytelling, moderated by Bjørn Gabrielsen.
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NOVEL
Argentine-American author Hernan Diaz and Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson have both reached wide international audiences and received numerous literary awards for their novels. They write epic works that move fluidly through time and space, challenging the boundaries of the traditional novel form and defying conventional narrative structures.
Jón Kalman Stefánsson, who began his literary career as a poet, weaves together short stories about ordinary people into cohesive, resonant wholes—often held together by an invisible, subtle thread that at times brings his work close to magical realism.
Hernan Diaz is devoted to examining—and upending—American myths. In his two novels, he has, in his own distinctive way, portrayed two iconic periods in U.S. history: the Gold Rush and the roaring twenties, just before the stock market crash.
Join these two groundbreaking authors in a conversation about storytelling, moderated by Bjørn Gabrielsen.
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