{"id":25165,"date":"2020-06-30T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/hofundakvold-med-nina-hemmingsson-og-thordisi-gisladottur\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:20:24","slug":"hofundakvold-med-nina-hemmingsson-og-thordisi-gisladottur","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/hofundakvold-med-nina-hemmingsson-og-thordisi-gisladottur\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author \u2014 Nina Hemmingsson and \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"

The event begins at 19:30 and everyone is welcome as long as there is room. The conversation will be in Swedish. Free entrance. Welcome!<\/p>\n

Two Nordic writers will discuss their authorship. Icelandic \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir has invited Swedish Nina Hemmingsson to the Nordic House, where they invite the audience into a conversation about their interests, themes, writing styles, discoveries and sources of inspiration.<\/p>\n

Nina Hemmingsson<\/strong> (1971) is one of Sweden’s most recognized cartoonists. She is also a poet and publisher, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim. She mainly draws shorter comics, often comics with political and social criticism. An example of Hemmingsson’s work is B\u00e4st i b\u00f6rjan<\/em> \/ B\u00e4st in the beginning. Her work has been published in the magazines Galago and Bang, the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo, and the newspaper Aftonbladet. She has also published books, Hj\u00e4lp!<\/em> (2004), Jag \u00e4r din flickv\u00e4n nu<\/em> (2006) and Demoner – ett bestiarium<\/em> (2007). Prior to the 2010 wedding between Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling, she made an anti-royalist cartoon called Prinsessan & Gem\u00e5len<\/em> for Aftonbladet.<\/p>\n

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\u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir<\/strong> (1965) is an Icelandic children’s book author and novelist, poet and translator of well-known Swedish authors. She is educated in Nordic studies from the University of Iceland and Uppsala. G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir debuted in 2010 with the poetry collection Leyndarm\u00e1l annarra<\/em> and has also appeared with the lyric collections Vel\u00far<\/em> (2014) and \u00d3vissustig (2016). She is known for the children’s books on Randal\u00edn og Mundi<\/em> (2012, 2013, 2015) and Doddi<\/em> (2016, 2017). She has worked as a literary critic, taught and lectured at schools in Iceland and abroad, written articles in Icelandic and foreign magazines, made broadcasts and delivered canons at R\u00daV, worked as web editor for the Nordic Council and the Icelandic magazine B\u00f6rn og menning.<\/p>\n

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The event begins at 19:30 and everyone is welcome as long as there is room. The conversation will be in Swedish. Free entrance. Welcome! Two Nordic writers will discuss their authorship. Icelandic \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir has invited Swedish Nina Hemmingsson to the Nordic House, where they invite the audience into a conversation about their interests, themes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25163,"template":"","event-categories":[8],"class_list":["post-25165","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-literature","event_tags-meet-the-author","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/25165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=25165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}