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An evening of Icelandic film and literature with Agust Borgthor Sverrison
A rare opportunity to hear one of Iceland's most exciting writers, and author of the acclaimed, Twice in a Lifetime.
Tonight's reading will be accompanied by the screening of two short films based on Icelandic short stories. Vera Juliusdottir's The Magician based on a short story by Jon Atli Jonasson, and Heimir Freyr Hlöðversson's Disappear (Hverfa), based on Agust's own short story 'Disappearing into the World'.
Thursday 24th January
MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN
7pm
Free entry
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'A splendid collection... Sverrisson is a great author who cunningly masters the spare form of the short story.' — Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson
'The stories in this collection brilliantly draw a world through brief details and coincidence.' - The Manchester Review
Ágúst Borgþór Sverrissonhas published five collections of short stories - Twice in a Lifetime being his latest - plus a short-novel, Hliðarspor (Sidestep) in 2007. He is widely regarded as one of Iceland’s most accomplished practitioners of the short form. His stories have been translated into English and German, and two of those featured in this collection, 'Disappearing into the World' and 'The First Day of the Fourth Week', are high-school set texts in his home country. 'Disappearing into the World' won the Strik.is prize in 2001. Agust has worked as a journalist, copywriter and translator and is a well-known blogger and commentator in Iceland on literature and politics.
Supported by Arts Council England
Katie Slade
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Comma Press
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[00 44] 7890 494 626
Comma Press
www.commapress.co.uk
MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN, UK
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