Continent (novel)

First edition cover

Continent, Jim Crace's first novel, was published in 1986 by Heinemann in the UK and Harper & Row in the US. It won the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award, the David Higham Prize for Fiction, and the Guardian Fiction Prize.[1] The book consists of seven stories descriptive of life in an imaginary seventh continent. Translations have subsequently divided between providing a title incorporating that gloss, as in the Dutch[2] and Italian,[3] and keeping to the original, as in the Portuguese,[4] Spanish,[5] Czech[6] and Serbian.[7]

  1. ^ Jim Crace Papers, Harry Ransom Center
  2. ^ Het zevende werelddeel (1988)
  3. ^ Settimo continente (1992)
  4. ^ Continente (1988)
  5. ^ Continente (1989)
  6. ^ Kontinent (2003)
  7. ^ Kontinent (2006)