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Kristin marsd ttir (Author) Kristin marsd ttir is the author of novels, poetry, short stories and plays. She has won numerous awards including the DV Cultural Award for Literature, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and the Icelandic national prize for playwright of the year. She has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Award and twice for The Nordic Council Literary Prize, most recently in 2019. Vala Thorodds (Translator) Vala Thorodds is director of Partus Press and managing editor of Oxford Poetry. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and her poetry and translations have appeared in the White Review, Guardian, Granta and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem.
One of the most original authors in contemporary Icelandic literature...known for subverting traditional binaries like fantasy and realism, feminine and masculine, good and evil, and the animal and the human. * Ord um baekur * One of [this country's] most respected authors. -- Egill Helgason * Kiljan * A master of the unexpected. -- Steingerdur Steinsdottir * Vikan * Kristin is a singular author...she is in a league of her own. -- Fridrika Benonysdottir * Kiljan * Kristin does everything at once - enchants, terrifies, devastates and delights. -- Ulfhildur Dagsdottir * Bokmenntavefurinn *
