Bókmenntagrein
Þýðendur á erlend mál
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
- Catalonian
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Greenlandic
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
Authors
Halldóra K. Thoroddsen
Halldóra K. Thoroddsen (1950-2020) was born in Reykjavík. She studied psychology in the University of Copenhagen and graduated as a teacher from Kennaraskólinn í Reykjavík. Later she studied arts and craft in Iceland and worked as a graphic designer and exhibited her paintings two times. She wrote numerous texts and articles for newspapers, radio and art brochures.
Halldóra published poetry, flashfiction, short stories, and two novels. Her novel Tvöfalt gler (Double Glass, 2016) won Fjöruverðlaunin (The Icelandic Women's Literature Prize) in 2016 and The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) in 2017. Tvöfalt gler has been translated to many languages.
Works in translation
- Tvöfalt gler (Double Glass 2016) Sæmundur
Albania (Botime Pegi); Bulgaria (Colibri Publishers); Croatia (Hena com); Denmark (Jensen & Dalgaard); France (Les Éditions Bleu et Jaune); Italy (Iperborea); Macedonia (Izdavac Antolog); Romania (Editura Darclée)