Eiríkur Örn NORÐDAHL

 

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl (1978) is an Icelandic poet and novelist. For his novel Illska (Evil, 2012) he was awarded The Icelandic Literary Prize and The Book Merchant’s Prize, as well as being nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award. In 2012 he was poet-in-residence at the Library of Water in Stykkishólmur and in 2013 he was chosen artist of the year in Ísafjörður.

Since his debut in 2002 he has published six books of poems, most recently Hnefi eða vitstola orð (Fist or words bereft of sense, 2013), four novels and two collections of essays. Eiríkur is also active in sound and performance poetry, visual poetry, poetry film and various conceptual poetry projects.

Eiríkur has translated over a dozen books into Icelandic, including a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn, but most recently Ida Linde’s Maskinflickans Testamente. 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.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
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  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
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  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Embassy of Sweden
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  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Swedish Institute
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute