We are delighted to announce that Scorn by Marcus Jarl has been awarded the Sappho in Paradise prize!
The annual prize is presented by the The International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network (ILGCN) and Tulipak, in collaboration with Paradise Press in London. It aims to recognise outstanding contributions to LGBTQ+ literature, journalism, publishing and archival work, and forms a part of ILGCN’s wider mission to highlight queer culture and history.
The prize motivation reads:
For the moving and powerful portrayal of people struggling with their own feelings, searching for their identities and trying to build their relations with others. For in his latest novel, Föraktet (Scorn) trying to balance the painful reality of the modern gay man who tells himself he is living in a liberated time and yet struggling with all the negative feelings both within himself and from the crushing homophobia even in such so-called tolerant societies as Sweden and the U.S. For confirming that the past is never only the past, but is a bridge to the peoples and happenings of today and the events and peoples of tomorrow and for proving the fact that when the colors of the rainbow are stretched over geographic and psychological barriers, they grow not weaker but more brilliant for any one willing to look up to the sky.
Congratulations to the author on this well-deserved recognition!
