{"id":283446,"date":"2011-04-13T18:20:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/04\/13\/2011-nordic-council-literature-prize-other-awards-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:24:00","slug":"2011-nordic-council-literature-prize-other-awards-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/04\/13\/2011-nordic-council-literature-prize-other-awards-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Nordic Council Literature Prize [Other Awards: Part III]"},"content":{"rendered":"

As announced yesterday,<\/a> Icelandic author Gyr\u00f0ir El\u00edasson has won the 2011 Nordic Council Literature Prize for his short story collection Milli trj\u00e1nna.<\/em><\/p>\n

From the Adjudicating Committee (! — great name . . . we don’t use the word “adjudicating” near enough in our modern vernacular):<\/p>\n

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“The Icelandic author Gyr\u00f0ir El\u00edasson has won the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2011 for his short story collection Milli trj\u00e1nna<\/em> for stylistically outstanding literary art which depicts inner and outer threats in dialogue with world literature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a bit from J\u00f3n Yngvi J\u00f3hannsson’s write-up<\/a> of Milli trj\u00e1nna<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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If anyone wonders where August Strindberg ended up after his death, the answer can be found in Gyr\u00f0ir El\u00edasson’s latest collection of short stories, Milli trj\u00e1nna<\/em>. Here we meet Strindberg sitting all alone in the canteen in IKEA<\/span> in Iceland surrounded by shoppers stuffing themselves with Swedish meatballs and cowberry jam. The short story is called Inferno, of course! In some of the book’s other short stories the reader meets the saddened musical brothers who are burying their father, the undertaker, amongst the potatoes in his kitchen garden, another musician who discovers a blank gravestone in his boxroom and last but not least, a black dog. The characters and the surroundings have become familiar to Icelandic readers with a knowledge of the author’s previous works but will probably seem a little strange to foreign readers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The short stories are woven into each other, and there are references to Gyr\u00f0ir El\u00edasson’s previous writings as well as older literature, not least Nordic. From the beginning of his career Gyr\u00f0ir El\u00edasson has built up a unique universe, a world where individual texts are reinforced by the whole that they form a part of, almost as if all his production is a colossal borderless text that grows with each new poem or tale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s worth noting that in 2008, Gyr\u00f0ir El\u00edasson’s Stone Tree<\/em> was translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb and published in the UK by Comma Press.<\/a> <\/p>\n

And for more info on Icelandic Literature, be sure to check out Fabulous Iceland<\/a> a special website that was created to promote Icelandic lit and culture before the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair, where Iceland will reign supreme as the Guest of Honor.<\/p>\n

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As announced yesterday, Icelandic author Gyr\u00f0ir El\u00edasson has won the 2011 Nordic Council Literature Prize for his short story collection Milli trj\u00e1nna. From the Adjudicating Committee (! — great name . . . we don’t use the word “adjudicating” near enough in our modern vernacular): “The Icelandic author Gyr\u00f0ir El\u00edasson has won the Nordic Council […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[27386,6046,28956],"class_list":["post-283446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-gyrdir-eliasson","tag-icelandic-literature","tag-nordic-council-literature-prize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345486,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283446\/revisions\/345486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}