Lit in Translation

Kristín Eiríksdóttir

Born 1981 · Iceland

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Icelandic Literary Prize 2022 · Shortlist

    Tól

    Title translated by AI:“Tools”

    Kristín Eiríksdóttir · 41 when first published

    Novel · 349 pages

    AI-generated summary:At a documentary festival in Stockholm, filmmaker Villa Dúadóttir struggles to answer questions about her film on a whaler called Dimmi, and about the woman she cut out of it.

  • In English

    Icelandic Literary Prize 2017 · Winner

    A Fist or a Heart

    Elín, ýmislegt

    Kristín Eiríksdóttir · 36 when first published

    Novel · 202 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:Elín, past seventy and still living for her work making props and prosthetics for film and theatre, takes on a new play by a young writer whose path once crossed hers in terrible circumstances.

  • No English yet

    Icelandic Literary Prize 2014 · Shortlist

    Kok

    Title translated by AI:“Throat”

    Kristín Eiríksdóttir · 33 when first published

    Poetry · 116 pages · Love

    AI-generated summary:Sequences of poems interwoven with the poet's own drawings about connection and disconnection, love and loathing, desire and indifference.