New Voices from Iceland: Translingualism and Translation

Speakers: Mao Alheimsdóttir (writer), Helen Cova (writer), Ewa Marcinek (writer), Natasha S. (poet, translator, journalist, editor ), Francesca Cricelli (ILCS)
13 March 2024
In 2016 the novelist, poet and screenwriter Sjón edited a special issue of the prestigious Icelandic journal ‘Tímarít Máls og menningar’, addressing the question “What is an Icelandic writer?”. He included in the selection a few foreign-origin texts in translation. From then on the awareness of a new translingual reality has been successfully brewing in the country. This event, ‘New Voices from Iceland: Translingualism and Translation’, will bring to a wider audience the works of four contemporary women writers who have successfully occupied a space in the literary scene in Iceland, either writing in Icelandic or writing in English and having their works translated into Icelandic. The four authors, who will be reading from and discussing their work, are Ewa Marcinek (Poland), Helen Cova (Venezuela), Natasha Stolyarova (Russia) and Mao Alheimsdóttir (Poland). The event is supported by ‘UNESCO Reykjavík City of Literature’.