Hákon Gunnarsson

Berengaria wrote: "Hákon wrote: "Thanks Berengaria, it’s a good story. 😊 What book does it come from?
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This one:Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland. My review of it will be up in a f..."

Looking forwards to your review.

Hákon wrote: "Thanks Berengaria, it’s a good story. 😊 What book does it come from?
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This one:Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland. My review of it will be up in a few days. The publication date of this year is for the latest edition. The original publication was in 2019.

Congratulations on your publication! Even if the magazine is no longer around. ☹️

Berengaria wrote: "Hákon,
found this flash fiction story in a book of Icelandic short stories. Thought you might enjoy it! (Would have messaged it to you, but impossible now)

A Pen Changes Hands

by óskar Árni óska..."

Thanks Berengaria, it’s a good story. 😊 What book does it come from?

I had a story in Stína once. Unfortunately it’s no longer being published.

Hákon,
found this flash fiction story in a book of Icelandic short stories. Thought you might enjoy it! (Would have messaged it to you, but impossible now)

A Pen Changes Hands

by óskar Árni óskarsson

Four or five years ago, I attended a poetry festival in
Akureyri, along with six other poets. The reading took place
in Gilið, to great acclaim from the attending locals. I had forgotten
my pen up at the hotel but needed to jot something down before
my turn came at the podium. A colleague sitting next to me loaned me his pen, a cheap type of Biro.

As sometimes happens, I inadvertently put the pen in my pocket after having used it. It wasn’t until I arrived back in Reykjavík that I found I still had the poet’s pen
in my jacket pocket. However, since the pen wasn’t an especially
remarkable pen, I didn’t feel it was necessary to contact the owner.
Besides, I didn’t really want to have anything to do with that particular poet, so I decided to adopt the pen as my own.

Soon I discovered that anything I wrote with the pen showed distinct characteristics of my colleague’s style, a poet I did not really admire, so I got rid of it. I seem to remember leaving it on a bench at a bus stop.

Strange as it may seem, the poet in question has not published a
single poem since. Stranger still, in recent years poems by a young
poet have been appearing in journals, poems that show a definite
stylistic resemblance to the poems by the original pen’s owner.
And that’s not all. Last month the literary journal Stína published
three poems in the same style, but by yet another author.

Thanks Melki. I’ve never been much of a painter, but I enjoy watching Bob Ross paint. 🙂

Majenta wrote: "Hallo, Hakon, guess what I've just read and I hope you'll be reading/seeing it soon--Joaquin Phoenix has welcomed a son into this crazy world and named him River! Congratulations and good luck to them all, and best wishes to you and your loved ones. (I read it at mailonsunday.co.uk, the Sunday edition of the DailyMail--British.) I wish you a great new week! Please take care!
Best wishes from Majenta"

I’m happy for them. That is a nice way to remember his brother. Hope you have a good week too. 🙂

Hallo, Hakon, guess what I've just read and I hope you'll be reading/seeing it soon--Joaquin Phoenix has welcomed a son into this crazy world and named him River! Congratulations and good luck to them all, and best wishes to you and your loved ones. (I read it at mailonsunday.co.uk, the Sunday edition of the DailyMail--British.) I wish you a great new week! Please take care!
Best wishes from Majenta

K.D. wrote: "Hákon, Thank you for liking my review and thank you for being my friend! Karen Dowdall :)"

You're welcome, Karen, and thank you for being my friend. :-)

Hákon, Thank you for liking my review and thank you for being my friend! Karen Dowdall :)

Richard wrote: "Gleðileg jól!"

Richard, I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Gleðileg jól!

Thanks Nicola. :-)

Hákon wrote: "If you publish the mainstream story I would appreciate if you would let me know."

Will do! Actually, one other story I've written, though not set in Iceland, features the Norse gods and Norse mythology. That's mainstream and is called The Ragnarök Chronicles. :)

I'll let you know if I release the other short story set in Iceland in the New Year. :)

Best Wishes

Nicola

Hæ Nicki,
I had a look at Northern Lights, and it looks interesting, but maybe not my genre. :-) If you publish the mainstream story I would appreciate if you would let me know. I might like to read that one.

Best regards,
Hákon.

Hákon wrote: Which of your stories is set in Iceland? I might like to read them.

Hæ Hákon.

So far only one of the two is published, and that is a MM (gay romance) short story called Northern Lights.

My other Icelandic story is mainstream fiction, but is not yet released. I may consider publishing it as a free read in 2017. If I do, I'll let you know. :)

Nicki wrote: "Hæ Hákon

Takk fyrir „friend request“.
Ég er að læra íslensku. :)
Gangi þer vel með enskum bókum.
I only recently started learning, so I hope that made sense."

Hæ Nicki, takk fyrir að samþykkja vina beiðnina. :-)
Your Icelandic makes sense. Which of your stories is set in Iceland? I might like to read them.

Hæ Hákon

Takk fyrir „friend request“.
Ég er að læra íslensku. :)
Gangi þer vel með enskum bókum.
I only recently started learning, so I hope that made sense.
Perhaps if my Icelandic improves enough I'll be able to read one of your books.
I visited Reykjavik for the first time a year ago and loved it there. I've even set a couple of my stories in Iceland. :)

Nicola

And warmest greetings from Iceland. Thank you for accepting my friend request. All the best, Hákon.

WARMest greetings from Erie, Pennsylvania, USA all the way to Iceland! Thank you so much for contacting me. Happy Saturday, I hope you had a good week, are enjoying a great weekend, and will have a great week ahead! I love how you worded your biography! I feel like I too have taken early retirement from writing in order to read more! (And I did start writing--and reading--at a very young age, as well. Isn't it great!) Have a lovely and productive day. Blessings!

Best wishes from Majenta

CeDany wrote: "Hello Hákon, thank you for adding me as a friend. The second novel of my series might interest you (or not) as I write a wee bit about the battles in England and the last remaining Vikings."

Hi CeDany, and thanks for accepting my friend request. Yes, stories of vikings can be interesting, so I may just have to read your novel. :-)