Árni Ibsen wrote:
>Who is your favourite author?
>
>– A string of meaningless names to English speaking poets.
I had the immense pleasure of meeting three Icelandic authors in
September, at the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
An amazing playwright named Hávar Sigurjónsson, who presented an
English reading of his play Angels. Daring, brilliant stuff. And
Hávar was an extremely nice and interesting guy.
A young poet and novelist named Andri Snaer. Also a nice guy! Are all
you Icelandic folks really nice? He had some very innovative
approaches to spreading the poetry to the public. Unfortunately, I
missed his reading, which, I believe, was from a huge-selling
children's book he wrote and illustrated (charming drawings!).
A novelist named Hallgrímur Helgason, author of 101 Reykjavik. He was
there for a screening of the film of the same name. He was big and
scarey-looking, and I didn't talk to him very much. I don't know if
he was nice.
I wanna go to Iceland.
Stu
in Toronto
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Stuart Ross
Poet, fictioneer, editor, writing instructor *
Razovsky at Peace (ECW Press, 2001) *
Stay tuned for Hey, Crumbling Balcony!
New & Selected Poems (ECW Press, 2003)
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