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Jan 31, 2023 · But to truly understand Sjón and his multi-hyphenate roots requires a trip to Iceland in the ’80s. The Medúsa Group. Growing up in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, in the late ’70s and ’80s, Sjón became a founding member of a surrealist poet collective, Medúsa.
Oct 19, 2021 · In Sjón’s poem “an Icelandic economist in soho,” there’s a verse that says, “the gust of wind, that crosses the square, and is meant for him alone.” This holds a tincture of meaning in the film Lamb. What inspired Lamb? The general inspiration behind it is the world of Icelandic folklore.
Dec 12, 2023 · Inspired by the likes of Burroughs, Buñuel and the exploding UK punk scene, the group nurtured an anarchic spirit that briefly caused panic when a campaign to spoil ballots in a national election caught on with young people in the country.
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.
Dec 2, 2018 · CoDex 1962 is Icelandic author Sjón’s first new novel since Moonstone – The Boy Who Never Was, published in translation in 2013. I was not expecting anything straightforward from Sjón; he messes with your head. But I was not prepared for this unnerving, drawn-out waking dream.
Dec 16, 2016 · The powerful allegory of the book comes when the boy is found out. Sjón contrasts the pity and care elicited by the flu victims with the repugnance and pariahism cast upon gay men. When the unexpected reason for the story is revealed at the end of the book, it all but leaves a gasp in the throat.
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May 3, 2013 · The big U.S. debut being given to Sjón this month by the publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux is an affirmation of this broader, more inclusive sense of the figurative strange.
