Guðbergur Bergsson: Missir [Loss]
The latest addition to my website Guðbergur Bergsson's Missir [Loss]. This is a thoroughly gloomy novel about ageing (Bergsson was seventy-eight when it was published in Iceland), loss of a…
The latest addition to my website Guðbergur Bergsson's Missir [Loss]. This is a thoroughly gloomy novel about ageing (Bergsson was seventy-eight when it was published in Iceland), loss of a…
The latest addition to my website is Halldór Laxness's Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed). This is one of his later novels, written five years after he won the Nobel Prize and written…
The latest addition to my website is Guðbergur Bergsson's Svanurinn (The Swan), the only one of Bergsson's novels to be translated into English, though several have been translated into other…
The latest addition to my website is Steinunn Sigurðardóttir's Góði Elskhuginn [The Good Lover]. This is another excellent novel by Sigurðardóttir about the problems of love. Karl Ástuson has spent…
The latest addition to my website is Steinunn Sigurðardóttir's Tímaþjófurinn (The Thief of Time), the third Sigurðardóttir on the Iceland page of my website. This one is a sad love…
The latest addition to my website is Ragna Sigurðardóttir's Hið fullkomna landslag (The Perfect Landscape), the second Sigurðardóttir on the Iceland page of my website. I have always had a…
The latest addition to my website is Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir's Medan nóttin lídur (Night Watch). There seem to be several Icelandic writers with the patronymic Sigurðardóttir and Fríða will be…
The latest addition to my website is Hallgrímur Helgason's 101 Reykjavík (101 Reykjavik). If your idea of an Icelandic novel is one about the hardships of farming and fishing communities…
The latest addition to my website is Bergsveinn Birgisson's Svar við bréfi Helgu (Reply to a Letter from Helga). This novel take the form of a letter, written by Bjarni…
The latest addition to my website is Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's Rigning í nóvember (Butterflies in November), another quirky novel from this author. The unnamed narrator of this novel is a…