Pølse&Poesi

Welcome to this year’s Pølse&Poesi!

This year we will have visitors from Sweden and a few poets, who participated in The Nordic House´s writing course as a warm-up number. As usual, there will be hot dogs, drinks, mingling and readings. The theme is soil/membrane and is linked to the exhibition in Hvelfing. Everyone is welcome and the readings will be in Icelandic, Swedish and Norwegian. 

Warm-up poets:

Sóldís, Embla og Marta 

Guest poets: 

Anna Hallberg was born in 1975 and made her debut in 2001 with the poetry collection Friktion. She has won several prizes and been nominated for even more. AN is her tenth poetry collection, and it is the third time she has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize having previously been nominated for the poetry collections Colosseum Kolosseum (2010), and På era platser (2004). In addition to her lyrical writing, for many years she has been an influential and respected literary critic and lyric debater among the Swedish public.  

Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir was born in 1973. Her first book, the poetry collection Blálogaland, was published in 1999, but she has since published several more poetry collections, plays and prose works. Sigurbjörg has received several awards for her work, including the poetry collection Blysfarir, which received the Fjöruverðlaunin in 2008 and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. The poetry book Brúðurwas also nominated for the DV Cultural Award 2010. Sigurbjörg’s poems have been translated into numerous languages in connection with literary conferences, poetry festivals and the publication of anthologies across Europe.  

Jörgen Gassilewski born 1961, is a trained visual artist, but is also active as a poet, novelist, critic, translator and cultural journalist. He debuted with the poetry collection Du in 1987. Gassilewski has been nominated for the August Prize and in 2021 he received the Erik Lindegren Prize. In 2011, a collected edition of Gassilewski’s poetry, Hittills samlad poesi 1983–2009, was published. He has contributed to P1’s Lyrikmagasinet and served on the editorial board of the poetry magazine OEI. He also teaches and holds writing courses. 

Sölvi Halldórsson was born in 1999 and was raised in Akureyri. He holds a BA in Icelandic and Danish from the University of Iceland  and a MA in Creative Writing from the same university. Sölvi published the poetry collection Þegar við vorum hellisbúar  a couple of years ago. He has written literary reviews for the radio programme Víðsjá and published poetry in the Pastel series and various anthologies, most recently Munnbita Ástarsogufélagins. Sölvi lives in Reykjavík and is a member of the poetry collective MÚKK.  

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