A Story That Saga Told Me
Suzanne Arhex

“I’m Saga. I hang out on the port. Sometimes I play music for the seals, it makes them come. Stop laughing! It’s true!”

Saga lives on the Icelandic coast. Impertinent and spontaneous, she addresses the reader to evoke her daily life in a port environment, near the fishing factory where her mum works. Above all, she likes to talk about her ancestors who used to hunt whales and her fascination for this mysterious animal. One day, she really thought she saw one swimming towards her. But when it came closer, it wasn’t a whale at all…

While telling her story, Saga expresses deep thoughts about climate change and the shock between tradition and progress.

Suzanne Arhex
The author and illustrator

Suzanne Arhex is an author and illustrator but also a painter of theatre and cinema sets. After studying illustration in Brussels and Reykjavik, she co-founded the children’s monthly magazine Biscoto. She also collaborates with the fanzine Cuistax and has illustrated several books, among which La Guerre des bisous written by Vincent Cuvellier and Massime chasseuse de mouches published by Giboulées. The idea of A Story That Saga Told Me arose during a residency in Neskaupstaður, a fishing village on the East coast of Iceland.