Shark Drunk by Morten Stroksnes (Omnibus)
A true story portraying the art of catching a large shark from a tiny rubber dinghy in a big ocean. Read by Adrian Scarborough.
The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beautyβthe skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. Itβs a place of small villages, where the art of fishing, though evolving, is still practised in traditional ways.
Beneath the great depths surrounding these islands lurks the infamous Greenland shark. Shark Drunk is the true story of two friends, the author and the artist Hugo Aasjord, as they embark on a wild pursuit of the famed creatureβall from a tiny rubber boat.
Winner of the Norwegian Brage Prize 2015
Winner of the Norwegian Criticsβ Prize for Literature 2015
Winner of the Norwegian Reine Ord Prize at Lofoten International Literature Festival 2016
MORTEN STRΓKSNES is a Norwegian historian, journalist, photographer, and writer. He has written reportage, essays, portraits, and columns and reviews for most major Norwegian newspapers and magazines. He has published four critically acclaimed books of literary reportage and contributed to several others.
Translated by Tiina Nunnally
Read by Adrian Scarborough
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, first broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in July 2017.
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