A Fairy Tale with Jonas Bengtsson

Hosted by CBC's Laurence Wall

In Person Fiction

Admission

Free

Tuesday

Apr , 2014

7:30pm

Eastern

Army Officers' Mess

149 Somerset St. W. (off Elgin) • Ottawa

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Grandly conceived, simply told, A Fairy Tale is an artistic triumph... In the struggle to grasp the axis of this rich work, the reader is forced to question her own myths.

The Globe and Mail

Presented in association with the Royal Danish Embassy, The Canadian Nordic Society and The Danish Club of Ottawa

From one of Denmark’s rising stars, A Fairy Tale by Jonas Bengtsson, is a powerful and profound novel about a young boy and his father who live at the margins of society.

1986. Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has been assassinated, and a young boy and his father are on the move again. Travelling from Sweden to the outskirts of Denmark and into the heart of Copenhagen, the two live an unconventional life, constantly on the move and living on the margins of society. By day he home-schools his young son. At night he weaves a fairy tale about a prince and a king who are on a mission to kill the wicked White Queen, while running from the White Men who hide in plain sight.

One day, their adventure takes a dark, unpredictable turn.

The Authors

Jonas T. Bengtsson

Jonas T. Bengtsson was born in 1976. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and prize-winning debut Amina’s Letters, which won the BG Bank First Book Award and was a finalist for the Weekendavisens Litterature Prize. His second novel, Submarino, was awarded the PO Enquist Literary Prize and was adapted into film by Thomas Vinterberg. His third novel, A Fairy Tale, was a finalist for the Danish Radio Literature Prize for Best Novel of the Year. He lives in Copenhagen.