My story “The Husband and his Brother” is now featured at Words Without Borders in their new Icelandic Issue, along with recent works by authors Þórdís Helgadóttir, Fríða Ísberg, Haukur Ingvarsson, Eva Rún Snorradóttir, Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir, Steinunn Helgadóttir and Bergrun Anna.
I love how WWB have presented the work in such a way that by clicking around you can read the Icelandic and the English texts side by side and even listen to a recording of myself and the other authors reading an extract from their original texts.
“The Husband and his Brother” first appeared in my 2017 short story collection “Smáglæpir” (Misdemeanours), and I guess you might say that it is a fairly grim tale of family/nationality and how inaction leads to complicity.
All translations in the Icelandic Issue are by Larissa Kyzer and Meg Matich.
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