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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    The Whispering Muse (May 2013)
  • Last Book:
    Red Milk (January 2022)
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Books in Order: 7 titles

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  • Red Milk

    WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023 A timely and provocative novel about a mysterious Icelandic neo-Nazi and the enduring global allure of fascism. In England in 1962, an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for Cheltenha...

  • Codex 1962

    "This book is a Norse Arabian Nights . . . Stories are nested in stories and crack open to reveal humor and anecdote, prose poems, tendrils of myth." -- Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesOver the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens o...

  • The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat

    Discover 18 short stories from across Stockholm, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, and more in this epic Nordic short story anthology curated by one of Iceland’s most internationally renowned writers.This exquisite anthology collects the very best fictio...

  • Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

    The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjón's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a socie...

  • The Blue Fox

    Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter landscape, the mysterious blue fox is an elusive, enigmatic target for hunters like Baldur Skuggason, a nineteenth-century priest who has profound influence over his rural community and is now se...

  • From the Mouth of the Whale

    The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burned. Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught hea...

  • The Whispering Muse

    The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the...



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Sjon has published 7 books.

Sjon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Red Milk, was published in January 2022.

The first book by Sjon, The Whispering Muse, was published in May 2013.

No. Sjon does not write books in series.
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