The brightness of summer then the night approaches

Nominated novels by Yun Kalman Stevenson three times for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and his novel "Summer Light then Night Approaches" won the Icelandic Literature Prize in 2005. In 2011, he was awarded the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Prize. He perhaps enjoys wider fame because of his trilogy: Paradise and Hell, Angels' Sorrow, The Heart of Man. And his novel "Not for Fish Feet" was included in the 2017 Man Booker International list.