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- EDITORIAL
- MEDITERRANEAN POETS: Achour Fenni
- Fatima Naoot
- Rana al-Tonsi
- Sabina Messeg
- Tal Nitzan
- Simone Inguanez
- Samira Negrouche
- Adrian Grima
- ICELANDIC POETS: Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir
- Sigurdur Pálsson
- Adalsteinn Ásberg Sigurdsson
- WELSH-BELGIAN POETRY WORKSHOP
- POETRY REVIEWS:Softly Creaking Englishes
- FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Sigurdur Pálsson
Sigurdur PálssonSigurdur Pálsson
The poet, novelist, playwright and translator Sigurdur Pálsson was born in 1948 at Skinnastadur, Iceland. He has worked as professor (University of Iceland and the National Academy of Dramatic Art) and cinema producer. His poetry has been translated into ten languages. Ten plays have been staged between 1975 and 2004, the last one a much acclaimed play on the life of Edith Piaf. He is also the author of tree acclaimed novels: Parísarhjól (The Big Wheel of Paris, 1998), Blár Thríhyrningur (Blue Triangle, 2000) and Naeturstadur (Night Lodging, 2002). His first book of memoirs, Minnisbók (Book of Memory) was published in 2007. He has produced award-winning features Á hjara veraldar (Rainbow's End) and Svo á jördu sem á himni (As in heaven) by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir, and directed three TV films and several theatre plays. He has translated twenty-two titles from French into Icelandic (works by Camus, Genet, Adamov, Arrabal, Ghelderode, Feydeau, Bailly, Carrère, Queffélec, Prévert, Éluard, Augé, Deforges, Châtelet, Vinaver, Anne, Kvaran, Schmitt and Cordelier) and two plays by Arthur Miller. Pálsson has received numerous awards in his native Iceland, most recent is the Icelandic Literature Award 2007 for Minnisbók. He was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 by the French Ministre de la Culture, Jack Lang. In 2007 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite by the President of the French Republic.
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