Kristín Ómarsdóttir (Author) Kristín Ómarsdóttir is the author of novels, poetry, short stories and plays. She has won numerous awards including the DV Cultural Award for Literature, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and the Icelandic national prize for playwright of the year. She has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Award and twice for The Nordic Council Literary Prize, most recently in 2019.Vala Thorodds (Translator) Vala Thorodds is director of Partus Press and managing editor of Oxford Poetry. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and her poetry and translations have appeared in the White Review, Guardian, Granta and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem.

'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell

Kristín Ómarsdóttir (Author) Kristín Ómarsdóttir is the author of novels, poetry, short stories and plays. She has won numerous awards including the DV Cultural Award for Literature, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and the Icelandic national prize for playwright of the year. She has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Award and twice for The Nordic Council Literary Prize, most recently in 2019.Vala Thorodds (Translator) Vala Thorodds is director of Partus Press and managing editor of Oxford Poetry. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and her poetry and translations have appeared in the White Review, Guardian, Granta and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem.

'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell

Kristín Ómarsdóttir (Author) Kristín Ómarsdóttir is the author of novels, poetry, short stories and plays. She has won numerous awards including the DV Cultural Award for Literature, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and the Icelandic national prize for playwright of the year. She has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Award and twice for The Nordic Council Literary Prize, most recently in 2019.Vala Thorodds (Translator) Vala Thorodds is director of Partus Press and managing editor of Oxford Poetry. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and her poetry and translations have appeared in the White Review, Guardian, Granta and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem.

'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell