A World with No Shore

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A World with No Shore
Zerogram Press edition
AuthorHélène Gaudy
TranslatorStephanie Smee
Cover artistMark Cappellano
LanguageFrench
GenreHistorical fiction, Philosophical fiction, Postmodernism
PublisherActes Sud
Publication date2019
Published in English
2022
Media typePrint
Pages320
ISBN9782330124946

A World with No Shore (French: Un monde sans rivage) in a 2019 novel by French writer Hélène Gaudy which imagines the doomed 1897 Swedish expedition to the North Pole, known as Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition, from photographs found with the bodies of the explorersSalomon August Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindbergover 30 years after their deaths, in 1930.

Originally published by Actes Sud in 2019, this postmodern, historical fiction won the François Billetdoux Prize in 2020. It was translated into English by Stephanie Smee and published by Zerogram Press in 2022.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. "Prix François Billetdoux sélection 2020". Société civile des auteurs multimedia. 2020. Archived from the original on 2022-02-10. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  2. "Hélène Gaudy est lauréate du prix François Billetdoux pour "Un Monde sans rivage"". Actes Sud. 2020. Archived from the original on 2022-02-10. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  3. "A World with No Shore: An Extract". Kill Your Darlings. 2022-03-01. Archived from the original on 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  4. "A World with No Shore by Helene Gaudy". Good Reading Magazine. 2022.