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Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson (born 27 August 1962), known as Sjón (/ ʃ oʊ n / SHOHN; Icelandic:; meaning "sight" and being an abbreviation of his first name), is an Icelandic poet, novelist, lyricist, and screenwriter.
Jan 13, 2022 · Sjón’s full name is Sigurjón Birgir Sigurdsson — a cascade of soft G’s and rolling R’s that sounds, when he says it, like a secret liquid song, sung deep in his throat, to a shy baby horse.
“Sjón’s work is unlike anything else in contemporary fiction. Strange—but stunning.” “Sjón is more than a novelist; he is a storyteller in the ancient tradition, and this work may be remembered as his masterpiece.”
Sjón is the president of the Icelandic PEN Centre and former chairman of the board of Reykjavik, UNESCO city of Literature. His novels have been published in thirty five languages. Follow me on Twitter
Dec 16, 2016 · A Novel Without Myth Is Impossible: An Interview With Icelandic Writer Sjón. The Culture Trip talks to the Iceland novelist Sjón about the themes explored in his new novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was — sexual identity, taboo love, and the divide of disease. Catastrophe begets catastrophe.
Sigurjón Birgir Sigurdsson who made his name as Sjón, is one of the best-known of Iceland\'s younger poets, and, according to those in the know, one of the best. He is a highly productive poet and writer as well as a performer: since his 1978 début he has published 11 books of poetry, several novels and plays, scripts for films and ...
Jan 31, 2023 · Tags: Björk Lamb lars von trier Sjón the northman. With writing credits on The Northman and Lamb, we look at how Icelandic novelist-poet Sjón came of age in a conservative Reykjavik in the '80s.
