About Sven Holm Books
Sven Holm (1940-2019) was a celebrated Danish author and playwright. In 1974 he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy, where he was made a member in 2001, the same year he won the Danish Critics Prize for Literature, followed by the Holberg Medal in 1991. Sylvia Clayton (1926-1994) was a novelist, journalist, and translator. Her novel Friends and Romans won the 1975 Guardian Fiction Prize. Her other novels include Crystal Gazers, The Peninsula, Top C, and Sabbatical.
