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Magnus Sigurdsson (c. 1115 – 12 November 1139), also known as Magnus the Blind, was King of Norway (being Magnus IV) from 1130 to 1135 and again from 1137 to 1139. His period as king marked the beginning of the civil war era in Norway, which lasted until 1240.
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Oct 15, 2015 · Meg Matich is the recipient of a 2015 PEN/Heim translation fund for her translation of Cold Moons, a collection of poems by Magnús Sigurðsson. Read an excerpt of the translation here.
Jul 8, 2021 · July 8, 2021. The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Translator’s Note. The short story “Death of the Translator” is excerpted from Magnús Sigurðsson’s book An Icelandic Reader ( Íslensk lestrarbók ), and appealed to me particularly for its portrayal of the pain, frustration, and perseverance that often accompany the act of translation.
Apr 18, 2017 · Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, rendered with perfect tone by award-winning translator Meg Matich, Sigurdsson creates tiny but arresting artifacts—fragments that scale an instant to an aeon, and a thousand millennia to a second.
Magnús Sigurðsson (1984) is a poet and translator. Born in a small fishing village in Iceland's remote Westfjords, in 2019 he received his PhD for a dissertation on Emily Dickinson's reception in Icelandic literature. His debut was a translation of Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos, published by the University of Iceland Press in 2007.
MAGNUS O. SIGURDSSON, then a graduate student at Rice University, Houston, Texas, was awarded a grant in April 2018 to aid research on ‘Behind the Scenes of the Paris Agreement: Service-Power, International Civil Servants and the UNFCCC,’ supervised by Dr. Dominic C. Boyer.
