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Two sisters Eyes closed The have Just as |
Tvær systur Augun aftur Þær hafa Rétt eins og |
Translator:
Sola Bjarnadóttir-O’Connell is a native Icelander who has lived in New York for the past 30 years. She is pursuing a life-long interest in bringing contemporary poetry and literature to an English-speaking audience and is currently working on translating a collection of Flash fiction to be published in Iceland. Sola is recipient of the 2013 Leif and Ingrid Sjöberg Translation Award conferred by the American Scandinavian Foundation. She divides her time between New York City and Reykjavik.
Gerður Kristný (b. 1970) is among the leading contemporary Icelandic writers, accolated with numerous awards for her non-fictional work as well as her children books, novels and poetry. For the past two decades, she has produced a vast oeuvre, ranging from journalistic works on various subjects to six volumes of poetry, for which she is best known internationally. She received the Icelandic Literature Awards and was nominated for the prestigious Nordic Council Awards in 2010 for Blóðhófnir (Bloodhoof), her modern take on the ancient Nordic myth, told primarily in the Eddic poem Skírnismál. Gerður Kristný’s poetry has been translated into about thirty languages and she has participated in numerous festivals and residencies, such as IWP in Iowa, USA, and the Ingmar Bergman residency on Fåro Island in Sweden.
