I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying them. Then just over a month ago she asked me if I would like to be the third author to join the library.
A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive pe… - Sjon
A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive pe…
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The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and… - Sjon
The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and…
All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future. - Sjon
All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.
Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together. - Sjon
Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.
Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are comi… - Sjon
Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are comi…
Literature acknowledges that life is complicated. - Sjon
Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.
I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously … - Sjon
I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously …
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. - Sjon
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.
[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize. - Sjon
[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.
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