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.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
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  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Swedish Institute
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Commission européenne
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
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  • Czech Centre Brussels
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  • Embassy of Ireland
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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