{"id":22341,"date":"2020-01-16T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T11:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/hofundakvold-jonas-eika-i-samtali-vid-isold-uggadottur\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:37:34","slug":"hofundakvold-jonas-eika-i-samtali-vid-isold-uggadottur","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/hofundakvold-jonas-eika-i-samtali-vid-isold-uggadottur\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author &#8211; Jonas Eika in conversation with \u00cdsold Uggad\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Danish writer Jonas Eika, <\/strong><strong>winner of the Nordic Council<\/strong><strong> Literature Prize<\/strong><strong> 2019, <\/strong><strong>in conversation with the Icelandic filmmaker \u00cdsold Uggad\u00f3ttir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event begins at 19:30 and everyone is welcome as long as there is room. The conversation moderated by writer Hanne Viemose will be in English. Free entrance. Welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Livestream<\/p>\n<p><em><iframe id=\"ls_embed_1579174317\" data-src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/14889744\/events\/8963217\/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_1579174317\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/assets\/plugins\/referrer_tracking.js\"><\/script>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonas Eika&#8217;s<\/strong> book <em>Efter solen<\/em> \/ <em>After the Sun<\/em> and <strong>Isold Uggad\u00f3ttir<\/strong>&#8216;s award-winning film work; <em>Andi\u00f0 E\u00f0lligen \/ And Breathe Normally<\/em> are both works of art that address current political issues in the world: In the film, it is asylum policy and refugees, while in the book it is a more abstract, yet recognizably unstable world.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Eika and \u00cdsold Uggad\u00f3ttir will meet in conversation about how they have worked on these issues and what considerations they have made along the way in relation to their artistic expression, both of which work with a social-realistic reality.<\/p>\n<p><em>After the Sun<\/em> is a bookmarking the global crisis. Exploitation and inequality, despairing conditions and violent, dark experiences are an important part of its substance. Yet one feels a sense of hope when it comes to the possibility of change. That another world is actually possible and that this world may already be here but requires being called alive and unfolded. If it is true that language is fossil poetry, then <em>After the Sun<\/em> initiates an intense and sustainable extraction of the fuel of the language, which in itself is breathtaking. But the book also sets a new, affirmative tone in the literature dealing with the issues that no one can avoid: the effects of global inequality, global warming and all the other crises that our world is full of.<\/p>\n<p><em>After the sun<\/em> has received Danish Fiction Writers&#8217; Prize Den sv\u00e6re Toer, Montana&#8217;s Literature Prize and the Michael Strunge Prize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eo1i9738.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22573 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eo1i9738-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eo1i9738-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eo1i9738-1220x813.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eo1i9738-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eo1i9738-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/427;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.norden.org\/en\/nominee\/2019-jonas-eika-denmark-efter-solen\">The Nordic Council Literature Prize<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The jury&#8217;s reasoning: \u201dThe recipient of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2019 is a very young writer whose short story collection <em>After the Sun<\/em> has surprised and enthralled the jury with its global perspective, its sensual and imaginative language, and its ability to speak into contemporary political challenges without way feels directed to a certain place. Jonas Eika writes about a reality that is recognizable, whether we are in Copenhagen, Mexico or Nevada &#8211; among financial speculators, homeless boys or people who believe in aliens. But there is poetic magic in the air. Reality opens up to other possibilities, other dimensions. There is something wonderful and hopeful in it that exactly reminds us why literature can do more than mirror what we already know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Image of Isold Uggad\u00f3ttir by Yrsa Roca Fannberg<br \/>\nImage of Jonas Eika by Magnus Fr\u00f6derberg, norden.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/hofundakvold\/\">Read more about Meet the Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Danish writer Jonas Eika, winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2019, in conversation with the Icelandic filmmaker \u00cdsold Uggad\u00f3ttir The event begins at 19:30 and everyone is welcome as long as there is room. 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