This slender novella by Icelandic poet Sjón (famed for his frequent collaborations with the singer Björk) was the 2005 winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize (the highest honor in Nordic literature). “The Blue Fox” might best be described as part fable, part poem, and part novel, blended into a dreamy kind of genre mix. Sjón begins his tale with a hunter, lost in a snowy landscape as he pursues a blue fox. He then shifts the scene to tell the story of a mysterious girl, found in a ship’s hold. For adventurous readers in search of magic, color, and poetry in a little-known land, the works of Sjón will be a delightful discovery
