Born 1948 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Poems Remember a Voice”
Sigurður Pálsson · 68 when first published
Poetry · 81 pages
AI-generated summary:Late, personal poems about the elements of life, earth, fire, air and water, and about voices and shadows, light and dark, setting imagination against destruction and death.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2007 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Notebook”
Sigurður Pálsson · 59 when first published
Nonfiction · 295 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A poet's memoir of his years in France from 1967 to 1982, from arriving in Paris as a nineteen-year-old pastor's son from the north in a time of unrest to going home a fully formed writer.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2001 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Search for Poem-Time”
Sigurður Pálsson · 53 when first published
Poetry · 70 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems in search of the time of the poem: the moments that matter most in life, shining moments of beauty and longing, written between order and chaos, firm structure and flow.