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Ólafur Gunnarsson

ÓLAFUR GUNNARSSON was a medical emergency driver before publishing his first novel, Milljón-prósent menn (Million-Percent Men), in 1978. He has since published novels, short stories and children‘s books. His novel, Tröllakirkja (Troll‘s Cathedral, 1996) was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Award in 1992 and the English translation was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literature Award in 1997. An adaptation for the stage premiered at The National Theatre in 1996. In 2003, he received the Icelandic Literature Prize and the Icelandic Bookseller’s Prize for his novel Öxin og jörðin (The Axe and the Earth). His children‘s book Fallegi flughvalurinn (The Beautiful Flying Whale, 1999) has been published in Britain, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and The Faeroe Islands, and was nominated for the Nordic Children‘s Literature Award in 1990. Gunnarsson has also translated various works of fiction into Icelandic, including Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Dashiel Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon. He lives and works on a small farm a few miles out of Reykjavík, Iceland.

THE THAW by Ólafur Gunnarsson (translated from the Icelandic by Ólafur Gunnarsson and Steven Meyers)

October 1, 2010 Contributed By: Ólafur Gunnarsson, Steven Meyers

The brothers were handy men who took on all kinds of odd jobs. Ragnar, the older one, was a balding, scrawny man in his fifties who suffered from rheumatism, and it showed in the way he carried himself. Jonas, the younger one, had been subjected to his brother’s tyranny ever since he could remember, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Translation Posted On: October 1, 2010

Contributor Bios for Issue 3 Fall 2010

October 1, 2010 Contributed By: Adam Novy, Aditi Machado, Alistair Noon, Ani Kopaliani, Catullus, Chris D. Harvey, Christopher Higgs, Corey Mesler, Daniel Liebert, David Macey, Duff Brenna, Emilia Snyder, Gabriel Welsch, Heather Kirn, J. Patrick Lewis, Jan Kochanowski, Joe Wilkins, John Guzlowski, Joy Al-Sofi, Kathleen Hellen, Kelly Daniels, Leonard Kress, M. Lynx Qualey, Maggie Glover, Mark DeCarteret, Maya Sarishvili, Miriam Kotzin, Nena Giorgadze, Ólafur Gunnarsson, Osip Mandelshtam, Piotr Siwecki, Raina Kostova, Raul Clement, Ray De Angelo Harris Sr., Robert MacCready, Sanna Stegmaier, Scott Elliott, Sean Karns, Shane E. Bondi, Sivan Butler-Rotholz, Steven Klepetar, Steven Meyers, Timothy Kercher, Tony Brinkley, Travis Schneider, Vanessa Blakeslee, Yu-Han Chao

Issue 3 Fall 2010 JOY AL-SOFI currently teaches English in Hong Kong. She has worked in the high-tech industry and before that practiced law in both Oregon and Texas. Her work includes poetry, fiction and non-fiction and she has been published in the USA and Hong Kong. She has done theater reviews for community radio […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 3 Fall 2010

October 1, 2010 Contributed By: Adam Novy, Aditi Machado, Alistair Noon, Ani Kopaliani, Catullus, Chris D. Harvey, Christopher Higgs, Corey Mesler, Daniel Liebert, David Macey, Duff Brenna, Emilia Snyder, Gabriel Welsch, Heather Kirn, J. Patrick Lewis, Jan Kochanowski, Joe Wilkins, John Guzlowski, Joy Al-Sofi, Kathleen Hellen, Kelly Daniels, Leonard Kress, M. Lynx Qualey, Maggie Glover, Mark DeCarteret, Maya Sarishvili, Miriam Kotzin, Nena Giorgadze, Ólafur Gunnarsson, Osip Mandelshtam, Piotr Siwecki, Raina Kostova, Raul Clement, Ray De Angelo Harris Sr., Robert MacCready, Sanna Stegmaier, Scott Elliott, Sean Karns, Shane E. Bondi, Sivan Butler-Rotholz, Steven Klepetar, Steven Meyers, Timothy Kercher, Tony Brinkley, Travis Schneider, Vanessa Blakeslee, Yu-Han Chao

FEATURED ARTIST Robert MacCready UNTITLED STATEMENT BY THE ARTIST notes on life and work TRANSLATIONS epigrams by Catullus, translated from the Latin by David Macey   1 : : 85 fiction by Ólafur Gunnarsson, translated from the Icelandic by Ólafur Gunnarsson and Steven Meyers THE THAW poetry by Jan Kochanowski and Adam Mickiewicz, translated from […]

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