Miss Iceland
- Schrijfster: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (IJsland)
- Soort boek: IJslandse roman
- Origineel: Ungfrú Ísland (2018)
- Engelse vertaling:
- Uitgever: Grove Press
- Verschijnt: 16 juni 2020
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook
Flaptekst van de roman van Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla is a budding female novelist who was born in the remote district of Dalir. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces’s Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, she heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. There, she intends to become a writer. Sharing an apartment with her childhood and queer friend Jón John, Hekla comes to learn that she will have to stand alone in a small male dominated community that would rather see her win a pageant than be a professional artist. As the two friends find themselves increasingly on the outside, their bond shapes and strengthens them artistically in the most moving of ways.