Historical Fiction
Mariella Frostrup talks to Icelandic novelist Sjon, whose new book, Moonstone: The Boy That Never Was, won the Literary Prize and the Booksellers' Novel of the Year in Iceland.
Mariella Frostrup talks to Icelandic novelist Sjon. His new book Moonstone The Boy Who Never Was won both the Literary Prize and the Booksellers' Novel of the Year in his home country and is now being published in the UK. It's set in 1918 and tells the story of a teenage boy, obsessed by films, who witnesses huge changes in Iceland when a flu epidemic sweeps through the population.
And what is historical fiction? Mariella and guests look at the changing face of the genre, from swashbuckling adventures to fictionalizing our recent past.
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An extended interview with Icelandic author Sjon
Duration: 14:39
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What is historical fiction?
Duration: 02:55
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S. J. Parris celebrates the rise of novels about female spies
Duration: 04:11
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Take a green lizard...
Duration: 04:43
Chapters
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Jerome De Groot and Alistair Moffat
Duration: 07:37
Anne O'Brien
Duration: 03:37
Sjon
Duration: 11:25
Stephanie Merrit
Duration: 04:25
Read the opening chapter of Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjon
Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Mariella Frostrup Interviewed Guest Sjon Broadcasts
- Sun 12 Jun 2016 16:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
- Thu 16 Jun 2016 15:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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