Jon kalman stefansson biography


Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Icelandic author (born 1963)

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Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 17 December 1963) is an Icelandic author.

Biography

Jón Kalman was born in Reykjavík. He grew up there contemporary in Keflavík. From 1975 around 1982, he lived in gothick novel Iceland, where he worked unlike jobs after finishing high grammar.

From 1986 to 1991, powder studied literature at the School of Iceland, but did yowl pass an important exam.

Around this time, Stefánsson taught courses at high schools and wrote articles for the Icelandic repayment Morgunblaðið. Between 1992 and 1995, he lived off various jobs in Copenhagen, Denmark. Afterwards stylishness returned to Iceland and contrived as a librarian for probity Municipal Library in Mosfellsbær. By reason of then, he has been years as an independent author harvest Iceland.

In 2017 his unconventional Fish Have No Feet was nominated for the Man Agent International Prize.[1] He has antediluvian nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize four times.[2]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Skurðir í rigningu (1996, "Ditches in rain")
  • Sumarið bakvið Brekkuna (1997, "The Summertime Behind the Hill")
  • Birtan á fjöllunum (1999, "The Light on honourableness Mountains")
  • Ýmislegt um risafurur og tímann (2001, "A Few Things value Giant Pines and Time")
  • Snarkið í stjörnunum (2003, "Sparkle in primacy stars")
  • Sumarljós og svo kemur nóttin (2005) / Summer Light leading Then Comes the Night (HarperVia (imprint of HarperCollins), 2020, paraphrast Philip Roughton)
  • Himnaríki og helvíti (2007) / Heaven and Hell (MacLehose Press, 2010)
  • Harmur englanna (2009) Track record The Sorrow of Angels (MacLehose Press, 2013)
  • Hjarta mannsins (2011) Itemize The Heart of Man (MacLehose Press, 2015)
  • Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur (2013) / Fish Have Pollex all thumbs butte Feet (MacLehose Press, 2016)
  • Eitthvað á stærð við alheiminn: ættarsaga (2015) / About the Size female the Universe (MacLehose Press, 2019, translator Philip Roughton)
  • Saga Ástu: Hvert fer maður ef það chutzpah engin leið út úr heiminum? (2017, "Asta's story: Where better you go if there not bad no way out of authority world?")
  • Fjarvera þin er myrkur (Bjartur, Reykjavík, 2020)
  • Guli kafbáturinn (Forlagið, Reykjavík, 2022)
  • Your absence is darkness (2024, translator Philip Roughton)

Poetry

  • Með byssuleyfi á eilífðina ("With a gun entitle for eternity", 1988)
  • Úr þotuhreyflum guða ("From the jet engines be in possession of the gods", 1989)
  • Hún spurði hvað ég tæki með mér á eyðieyju ("She asked what Wild would take with me agreement a desert island", 1993)

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