A Stranger at My Table: The Postcolonial Story of a Family Caught in the Half-Life of Empires - Paperback

by Ivo de Figueiredo (Author), Deborah Dawkin (Translator)

A biracial son of a subcontinental, migrant family searches for his estranged father's story and ultimately rewrites his own.

Author Biography

Ivo de Figueiredo (b. 1966) is the critically-acclaimed biographer of Norway's treasured cultural icon, Henrik Ibsen (forthcoming in English with Yale University Press, 2019), and his next book is the official biography of Edvard Munch, commissioned by the Munch Foundation. In 2002, he was awarded the Brage Prize for a biography of Johan Bernhard Hjort, the co-founder of the Norwegian Fascist Party who later became a resistance fighter and human rights lawyer. A Stranger at My Table received one of the highest non-fiction honors in Norway, the 2016 Language Prize and was nominated for the Brage Prize that same year. Figueiredo works as a critic at Morgenbladet and Aftenposten and is a member of the Norwegian Academy.