Ísberg, Fríða
Entry updated 14 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1992- ) Icelandic poet and author, active from around 2015; she is of sf interest for her first novel, Merking (2021; trans Larissa Kyzer as The Mark 2024), a Near Future Dystopia involving Cultural Engineering through "well-meant" but deeply intrusive monitoring of the population of Iceland through an Empathy Test that can be failed. The point is coming when a referendum will determine whether the test will become mandatory, with misfits "helped" to transform themselves. [JC]
Fríða Ísberg
born Iceland: 19 December 1992
works (selected)
- Merking (Reykjavik, Iceland: Forlagið, 2021) [binding unknown/]
- The Mark (London: Faber and Faber, 2024) [trans by Larissa Kyzer of the above: hb/]
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