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Gyrðir Elíasson

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Gyrðir Elíasson

Gyrðir Elíasson (b. 1961 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic poet and translator, brought up in Sauðárkrókur, a small village in the north of Iceland. Married, he has three daughters. His first book, a volume of poems, was published in 1983. Since then he has published many books of poetry, along with several novellas and collections of short stories and essays. He has translated some twenty books into Icelandic, primarily from English. 

Articles by Gyrðir Elíasson

Fragments from the Guidebook of the Dead
By Gyrðir Elíasson
There will come a time when / the planet will have had enough
Translated from Icelandic by Meg Matich
Mountain Hike
By Gyrðir Elíasson
the blue planet swam in the half-twilight of evening
Translated from Icelandic by Meg Matich
House No. 451
By Gyrðir Elíasson
She finds my writing bizarre; no one does it, especially not in a town like this.
Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
Multilingual
Inferno
By Gyrðir Elíasson
Strindberg had ended up after death here, in a branch of IKEA in Iceland.
Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
Multilingual