{"id":4833,"date":"2016-08-19T15:53:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=4833"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:03:11","slug":"athena-farrokhazd-eirikur-orn-norddahl","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/athena-farrokhazd-eirikur-orn-norddahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author &#8211; Athena Farrokhzad &#038; Eir\u00edkur \u00d6rn Nor\u00f0dahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Meet the Author<\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0October\u00a04.\u00a0at 7:30pm. \u00a0Free entrance.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The program will take place in a Scandinavian\u00a0languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Livestream<br \/>\n<iframe id=\"ls_embed_1473784271\" data-src=\"\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/14889744\/events\/6340605\/player?width=560&amp;height=315&amp;autoPlay=true&amp;mute=false\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-embed_id=\"ls_embed_1473784271\" src=\"\/\/livestream.com\/assets\/plugins\/referrer_tracking.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATHENA FARROKHZAD <\/strong>(1983) is a Swedish poet, literary critic, translator, playwright and teacher of creative writing at Biskops-Arn\u00f6 folk high school. She was born in Iran and grew up in Sweden. In 2013, Athena Farrokhzad published the collection of poems titled <em>Vitsvit<\/em> (<em>White Blight<\/em>), which has since been translated into many languages. An Icelandic translation is expected later this year. <em>Vitsvit <\/em>was even dramatized for Radioteatern as well as staged at the Unga Klara theatre in Stockholm. In <em>Vitsvit<\/em>, a family\u00b4s story is told by a choir of voices: the daughter, mother, father, brother, uncle and grandmother all get their say, and through their voices, a story about war takes shape, how war shapes people and how they construct their own story of war. <em>Vitsvit <\/em>also deals with family relations, violence, power and mutual dependence. The book was nominated for the 2013 August Prize in the category Fiction and in the same year, Athena Farrokhzad was awarded the Karin Boye Literary Prize. Farrokhzad has published several poetry anthologies, of which the latest is a collaboration with Romanian poet Svetlana C\u00e2rstean. The book is titled <em>Trado<\/em> and will even be published in Romania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EIR\u00cdKUR \u00d6RN NOR\u00d0DAHL<\/strong> (1978) is an Icelandic writer, poet and translator. He published his first collection of poems <em>Heilagt str\u00ed\u00f0: runni\u00f0 undan rifjum drykkjumanna <\/em>in 2001. Since then, he has published several collections of poems and four novels, including <em>Eitur fyrir byrjendur <\/em>from 2009 and <em>Illska <\/em>from 2012. Eir\u00edkur \u00d6rn Nor\u00f0dahl was awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize for <em>Illska <\/em>in 2012, which was also nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in the same year. The book has been described as a mixture of a European historical novel and an Icelandic contemporary novel, interlarded with poetry, non-fiction, philosophy, history and political theory. Eir\u00edkur \u00d6rn burst on the international scene with his experimental poetry and his renowned spoken word readings and has received, among other things, an Honorable Mention at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Author \u00a0October\u00a04.\u00a0at 7:30pm. \u00a0Free entrance.\u00a0The program will take place in a Scandinavian\u00a0languages. Livestream ATHENA FARROKHZAD (1983) is a Swedish poet, literary critic, translator, playwright and teacher of creative writing at Biskops-Arn\u00f6 folk high school. She was born in Iran and grew up in Sweden. 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