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Career. He was one of the founding members of the neo-surrealist group Medúsa and became significant in Reykjavik's cultural scene. [4]
Jan 31, 2023 · Growing up in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, in the late ’70s and ’80s, Sjón became a founding member of a surrealist poet collective, Medúsa. “We were all influenced by the do-it-yourself energy of punk and the new wave,” Sjón says of the collective.
Jan 13, 2022 · Sjón’s new novel, “Red Milk,” is his most direct engagement with Nazism. It started when he discovered that a neo-Nazi cell thrived in Reykjavík around the time of his birth.
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Born in Reykjavik in 1962, Sjón is a celebrated Icelandic novelist. He won the Nordic Council's Literary Prize for his novel 'The Blue Fox' (the Nordic countries' equivalent of the Man Booker Prize) and the novel 'From The Mouth Of The Whale' was shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign ...
Sep 13, 2018 · And the third is a science-fiction story set in contemporary Reykjavik that concerns the fate of humankind. I spoke with Sjón by Skype about the Icelandic myths that inspired him, the role of social justice in his fiction, the rise of nationalism, and his pact with the Maharal of Prague.
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.
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Sjón. Sjón (born 1962, Reykjavik, Iceland) began his literary career at the tender age of fifteen when his first poetry collection, Sýnir (Visions), was published in 1978. He was one of the founding members of the neo-surrealist group Medúsa and early on acquired a high profile on the Reykjavík cultural scene.
