Pingviner i Sahara* (Penguins in The Sahara)

Pingviner i Sahara* (Penguins in the Sahara) is a play by Lennart Lidström.

Lidström won The Norwegian Ibsen Award AKA The Ibsen Prize in 2011 for the play.

The jury gave the following reason:

"Lennart Lidström has written an imaginative play, linguistically gifted, humorous, daredevil. Among much else bigotry is confronted, considerately and wisely disposed. A full-length dialogue - an imagined dialogue, sure - one can see it becoming long and verbose. But Pingviner i Sahara* (Penguins in The Sahara) is never experienced as too long drawn. On the contrary one gets the feeling of getting closer and nearer to these two persons. They expose new sides of themselves, but the writer is faithful to the authentic persons, however different they were, even though they had so much background in common. A wise play, filled with empathy with Jonsson and Prøysen, and with a fair share of self-depreciation and joking, so that the humour, too, is well maintained."

Pingviner i Sahara is a fictional story about real persons; the Norwegian poets Alf Prøysen and Tor Jonsson.

Source:

Scenekunst.no, 20.09.2011, http://www2.scenekunst.no/artikkel_8455.nml

*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.