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Sjón

The latest news and reviews of Sjón, the Icelandic author Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson.

June 2022

  • ‘Making the future present for us now’ … David Mitchell prepares to lodge, Oslo.

    Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo

    David Mitchell, Sjón, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Karl Ove Knausgård join inaugural celebration of project housing works that will remain unseen until 2114

August 2020

  • People seek help during the flu pandemic in San Francisco, California, 1918.

    The Covid novels are arriving. And they'll be a warning to future generations

    Laura Spinney
    We remember the horrors of the first world war but not the 1918 Spanish flu, which was mostly ignored by literature, says the author Laura Spinney

July 2020

  • image of an origami globe made from pages of a book on an open book

    Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic

    Covid-19 has exposed social and political fault lines from Brazil to Iceland to South Korea. Here, seven acclaimed writers share their lockdown experiences

August 2018

  • Sjón author

    Book of the day
    CoDex 1962 by Sjón review – a wild odyssey from the Icelandic trickster

  • Street of Crocodiles by the Brothers Quay

    Top 10s
    Sjón's top 10 artificial humans in fiction

October 2017

  • Christina Patterson

    Notebook
    They're patient, complex and poetic – so stop calling them snowflakes

    Christina Patterson
  • children playing in Nuuk, Greenland.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 modern Nordic books

May 2017

  • A beautiful landscape over looking the small island of Koltur as seen from the Island of Streymoy in the Islands. The island of Koltur seen in the picture is only populated by 2 people. Fog Faroe Islands, Denmark, mist

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Islands and literature, from Iceland to Jamaica - books podcast

    As the Brexit boat prepares to set sail, writers from islands around the world explain what it means to be from a small place surrounded by sea

March 2017

  • Sjón.

    Paperback writer
    Sjón: 'Behind my book lies another I will never write'

    The novelist recounts the bleak story of a psychic that led him, circuitously, to a story of a gay teenager making his way in flu-struck Reykjavik in 1918

October 2016

  • The challenge has ‘game-like qualities’ … Iceland’s Sjón.

    Sjón is Future Library's next recruit to become a 22nd-century author

  • Future library

    Books blog
    Sjón: why Oslo’s Future Library is a fairytale come true

June 2016

  • Sjón

    A life in ...
    Sjón: I’m one of the few people who’ve had Björk as a backing singer

    The Icelandic writer self-published poems at 15, was Oscar-nominated for his lyrics for Lars von Trier and gave Björk’s Sugarcubes a hit – but novels are his bedrock

May 2016

  • A scene from Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires (1915)

    Book of the day
    Moonstone by Sjón review – a glittering fable of sex and cinema

    Dreams colonise reality in the Icelandic author’s story of an outsider in early 20th-century Reykjavik

August 2012

  • CIF Interviews: Sjon

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Nell Freudenberger, Sjon, Jess Richards and Michael Sandel

    In our podcast from day three of the festival, Nell Freudenberger talks about her novel The Newlyweds, and Jess Richards and Sjon discuss islands in literature, and Michael Sandel considers Paul Ryan's place on the US presidential campaign

June 2012

  • Replica of Argo ship sails into Corinth canal

    The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review

    Michel Faber enjoys a playful mixture of myth and fish from a unique Icelandic voice

April 2012

  • Umberto Eco

    Independent foreign fiction prize shortlist announced

    Chinese novel about Aids scandal up against Umberto Eco for £10,000 prize

September 2011

  • People and power
    Icelandic writer Sjón: 'It will be a good thing for Iceland that our image has been tarnished' - video

    Comment is free interviews: Novelist Sjón talks about modern folk tales and shifting Icelandic identity, and asks: 'Who wants to be a music-loving elf for ever'

June 2011

  • Faroe Islands

    Top 10s
    Sjón's top 10 island stories

  • From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón - review

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