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Andrzej Tich(b. 1978) was born in Prague to a Polish mother and a Czech father and has lived in Sweden since 1981. He is the author of five novels, a story collection and a wide range of nonfiction and criticism. Tich has received critical acclaim for his work, and is widely recognised as one of the most important novelists of his generation. His novel Wretchedness, a post-political foray into modern day Swedish society, won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2021 Bernard Shaw Prize. His latest short story collection Puritywas nominated for the Nordic Council Literary Prize. Nichola Smalley is a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature. Her translation of Andrzej Tich's novel Wretchedness won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2021 Bernard Shaw Prize. She has a PhD in the use of slang in contemporary Swedish and English literature.
‘Purity is a strong, challenging book, emotionally charged, intricate and ceaselessly fascinating, poetic and tender, even humorous in its dark way, through all its roughness, deep grief, blood and grime.’ Aftonbladet ‘When Tichý combines his concrete social realism with a slip into hypnotic stream of consciousness, it become completely brilliant. Tichý writes interpersonal tenderness and love just as sharply as he depicts pain, and powerful resistance.’ Göteborgs-Posten ‘A feverish kind of despair about the eternal machine that is the abuse of power thrusts Tichý’s disparate voices into an affecting whole.’ Svenska Dagbladet ‘As in all his best books, Tichý is an entertainer. Funny and drastic, smart and tough, without ever letting the tragedy become comedy. It is the style, between elegant novelistic prose and the colloquial, that lends these fragmentary stories a glint of something almost cheerful; the laughter when, staring into the abyss, you realise it is staring right back at you.’ Expressen ‘How something can be simultaneously so powerful and so precise is hard to comprehend. But as a depiction of human existence in today’s evermore precarious labour market, it is brilliant. The truth is that it’s rare to find literary prose, or for that matter political criticism, as refined as this.’ Dagens Nyheter
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