Islands in Books: The World's Best Island Novels

Islands in Books - classic island novels: Wednesday 11 November 2026, 15:30–17:00, Auning Bibliotek, Auning. Tickets cost 30 kr.

Thomas from Auning Library takes us on a literary island journey from "Robinson Crusoe" to "Rans vilje". Along the way we visit Anholt, the Faroe Islands, Barrøy and a small island whose name nobody knows, but where treasure lies buried.

As Lars Erik Andersen wrote in Kristeligt Dagblad (28.10.10): "When an author chooses the island as the setting for their novel's action, it is not because the described conflicts do not exist on the mainland, but because the island in our consciousness comes to form a microcosm, where the world and existence can be depicted as in a mirror."