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Steinunn Sigurdardottir - Translators
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Amongst Steinunn Sigurdardottir’s excellent and faithful translators, with whom she enjoys fruitful dialogue and cooperation:. Dr Coletta Bürling. Has translated seven of Steinunn’s novels to date into German, a radio play, short stories and poetry. Latest translation: Jojo. Professor emeritus Rory McTurk, mediaevalist. Translator of The Thief of Time into English. Currently working on Jo-Jo. Phil Roughton. Place of the Heart (Hjartastaður). Vicky Cribb, currently working on The Good Lover, into English.
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Steinunn Siugrðadottir - News / Veranstaltungen
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Pilot writer in residence, écrire l'Europe, at the University of Strasbourg. Public lectures and teaching of creative writing, first semester. Themes for the public lectures are Edith Södergran, Alexander Papadiamantis (The Murderess) Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), Halldór Laxness and Thomas Mann (World Light, The Magic Mountain). May 7, University of Freiburg, International Conference on nordic models of society. Liliput or Legoland. Speaker. November 6-8. Festival Buch Basel. Eine groesse Erzähler...
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Thoristun Villa - About Us
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We are Thorsteinn Hauksson ( www.hauksson.com. Composer of modern/classical music, and Steinunn Sigurðardóttir ( www.steinunn.net. Writer and journalist. We bought the villa in 1997. A lot of work has been done to keep up this beautiful house. We have for instance renovated all sleeping rooms.
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Steinunn Sigurdardottir - Reviews
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Friðrika Benónýsdóttir, Fréttabladid. Brilliant very, very brilliant in fact. Kristján Hrafn Guðmundsson, DV. The text is sharp and clear-cut, yet moving and funny.". Anna Lilja Þórisdóttir, Morgunblaðið. This is an extremely beautiful novel about love and separation . about mother’s love and too much love, and about a restless traveller who yearns for happiness. compelling writing. Vidsja Culture Programme. About Steinunn Sigurdardottir’s novel, Sólskinshestur. (Sonnenscheinpferd, Le Cheval Soleil):.
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Thoristun Villa - About Us
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We are Thorsteinn Hauksson ( www.hauksson.com. Composer of modern/classical music, and Steinunn Sigurðardóttir ( www.steinunn.net. Writer and journalist. We bought the villa in 1997. A lot of work has been done to keep up this beautiful house. We have for instance renovated all sleeping rooms.
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Steinunn Sigurdardottir
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Steinunn Sigurðardóttir is one of Iceland s most highly acclaimed novelists and poets. She began her writing career at the age of 19, with a book of poetry. Her output to date includes eleven novels, seven volumes of poetry, a book about Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former president of Iceland, a children’s book, a stage play,TV-plays, radio plays. She is also translator of poetry and prose. Directed by Yves Angelo (screenplay by writer Nancy Huston), starring Emmanuelle Béart, Sandrine Bonnaire. Steinunn Sigu...
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Steinunn Sigurdardottir - About me
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Steinunn has, in her writing for Icelandic newspapers, and in her radio broadcasts, not only focused on cultural subjects, including literature and cinema, she has also written extensively about political and environmental issues, opposing the industrialization of Iceland (aluminum smelters) and the ensuing destruction of nature. Steinunn Sigurðardóttir has spent time in the United States and Japan, and various European countries. She has lived in Sweden, Ireland, England and France, and most recentl...
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