Þjónn, það er Fönix í öskubakkanum mínum!

by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl

Hinn undarlegi fítónn og angurgapi íslenskrar ljóðalistar, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, galopnar níðþröngar sjónir hennar með bók sem á sér ekki hliðstæðu í bókaútgáfu hérlendis síðan Kalda stríðinu lauk: 200 blaðsíðna þrekvirki með engu nema ljóðum.

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl (1978) is an Icelandic experimental poet and novelist. His work – about a dozen novels, a dozen poetry books, a couple of essay books, a couple of plays, a cook book, a children's christmas splatter, video poems, sound poems and various conceptual projects – have been published in over a dozen languages and won numerous awards in several countries, including the Icelandic Literary Award, the Transfuge award for best nordic fiction (in France), the DV Cultural Award, the Zebra Poetry Film Festival Special Mention, Sparibollinn Award for Romantic Fiction and the Book Merchant's Prize. They have also been shortlisted for awards such as the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Nordic Council Literary Award.

Eiríkur has translated over a dozen books into Icelandic, including a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (for which he received the Icelandic Translation Award). He lives in Ísafjörður, Iceland, a rock in the middle of the ocean, and spends much of his time in Västerås, Sweden, a town by a lake.