{"id":19852,"date":"2019-07-23T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/hofundakvold-med-turid-sigurdarsdottir-og-malan-manersdottir\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T13:34:48","slug":"hofundakvold-med-turid-sigurdarsdottir-og-malan-manersdottir","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/hofundakvold-med-turid-sigurdarsdottir-og-malan-manersdottir\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Authors Turi\u00f0 Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir og Malan Marnersd\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This evening, the Faroe Islands&#8217; most talented literature researchers will tell us about the islands&#8217; exciting writers and literary history.<\/strong>The event begins at 19:30 and everyone is welcome as long as there is room. The conversation, led by G\u00edsli Magn\u00fasson, Associate Professor in Danish at the University of Iceland, will be in Danish. Free entrance. Welcome!<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"ls_embed_1563894004\" data-src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/14889744\/events\/8758993\/player?width=640&amp;height=360&amp;enableInfoAndActivity=true&amp;defaultDrawer=&amp;autoPlay=true&amp;mute=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"> <\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-embed_id=\"ls_embed_1563894004\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/assets\/plugins\/referrer_tracking.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turi\u00f0 Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/strong> (1946) is a literary historian, linguist, author and translator. She holds a master&#8217;s degree in literature and a BA degree in Icelandic language and history. Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir teaches at the University of the Faroe Islands in literary literature and translation and researches in the Faroese literature history, including children&#8217;s literature and poetry. She is a member of the Faroese Language Council, is a member of the jury for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and she has been chairman of the Faroese Authors&#8217; Association. Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir has published books and articles on Faroese writers and literary history, as well as textbooks in Icelandic. She is co-editor of a Norwegian anthology about Faroese short stories. She has also translated a large number of authors into Faroese from Icelandic, Swedish and English, including works by Halld\u00f3r Laxness and Astrid Lindgren. One of her most extensive publications is the author Simun of Skar\u00f0i&#8217;s works in seven volumes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malan Marnersd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> (1952) is an award-winning Faroese non-fiction author and has university degrees in French and Danish. Marnersd\u00f3ttir teaches Faroese and Nordic literature as well as mass communication at the Faroe Islands University, and her research area is female writers and their role in Faroese society. She has been principal at the Faroe Islands University and has written about Faroese literature and Faroese female writers for various journals, for the encyclopedia Nordic Women&#8217;s History and the literary magazine Br\u00e1, where she has been a co-editor. She has, together with Laura Joensen, written the play Logi, logi eldur m\u00edn about the Faroese writer J\u00f3hanna Maria Skylv Hansen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/letterstedskapforeningen.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19783 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/letterstedskapforeningen.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"116\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/116;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/\">The Nordic House Event Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, the Faroe Islands&#8217; most talented literature researchers will tell us about the islands&#8217; exciting writers and literary history.The event begins at 19:30 and everyone is welcome as long as there is room. The conversation, led by G\u00edsli Magn\u00fasson, Associate Professor in Danish at the University of Iceland, will be in Danish. Free entrance. 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