Mit hus

by Sigurður Pálsson

Sigurður Pálsson har udfoldet sig som dramatiker, prosaist og oversætter fra fransk, men hans hovedbeskæftigelse har gennem fire et halvt årti været at skrive dejlige digte – digte kendetegnet ved lige dele humor og alvor, ved følsomhed og rig fantasi, ved mild ironi og sprød intellektualitet. Han har med stædig sejhed bestræbt sig på at gøre sit lyriske værk til en verden helt for sig – og en sammenhængende verden fyldt med liv og nye betydninger, hver gang underlagt sine egne suveræne love.

120 pages

Published June 1, 2017

About the author

Sigurður studied French in Toulouse and Paris 1967-1968, and drama and literature studies in the Institut d'Etudes Théâtrales, Sorbonne, Paris 1968-1973 and again from 1978-1982, obtaining maîtrise and D.E.A. degrees. He studied also in the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français, obtaining a cinema direction diploma. Pálsson works mainly as writer and translator. He has also worked as professor (University of Reykjavik and the National Academy of Dramatic Art) and cinema producer.

Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature in 1993. Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1995, 2001 and again in 2007 for Minnisbók (Notebook from Memory) for which he finally got the Prize. Minnisbók is a memoir of his stay in France during 1967-1982, a playful, bittersweet, funny and charming description of an époque. He was awarded the annual Literary Prize of the Icelandic Radio 1999 and the Booksellers' Prize for Poetry, 2001.