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Below is Icelandic novelist and poetSjons list.
Constantly entertaining and unpredictableThe Hearing Trumpetis infused with warmth and rebellion in equal measures.
From their gravesides he goes into the world to become a singer.
Not that he didnt hope to write and publish more.
And there is nothing simple about that.
In my teens I got to know Garcia Lorcas poems in Icelandic translations.
Wonders happen when the poet travels over the Atlantic and tests his poetic tools in America.
In its uneasy atmosphere there are echoes from Tarkovskys filmStalker, as well as from golden-age private-eye novels.
I dont hesitate to state that no one becomes a great writer without drinking from the spring of fables.
It has nestled there ever since, radiating with beauty and wonder, irony and horror.
For a second I wondered if he would come for me, too.
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