Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

Stefánsson’s prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour. – Boyd Tonkin * Spectator *Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy – Eileen Battersby * Times Literary Supplement *Powerful and sparkling … Prize-winning translator Philip Roughton’s feather-light touch brings out the gleaming, fairy-tale quality of the writing – Irish Times * Nora O’Mahony *A wonderful, exceptional writer … A timeless storyteller * Carsten Jensen *The Icelandic Dickens … He has the same gift of writing with great understanding, an empathy with troubled souls and a skill at laugh-out-loud comedy – Tina Neylon * Irish Examiner *

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and his novel Summer Light, and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P.O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy - Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels and The Heart of Man - and for Fish Have No Feet.

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