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Icelandic Short Stories and Films with Agust Borgþor Sverrisson

Short Stories

Title: Icelandic Short Stories and Films with Agust Borgþor Sverrisson
Location: MadLab
Date: 24-01-2013
Start Time: 19:00
End Time: 21:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Juliasdottir’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’.

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One Response to “Icelandic Short Stories and Films with Agust Borgþor Sverrisson”

  1. Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house « lipstick socialist says:
    20 January 2013 at 11:40

    [...] Watch…….films about Iceland and hear some short stories from author Agust Borgpor Sverrisson. Agust has worked as a journalist, copywriter and translator and is a well-known blogger and commentator in Iceland on literature and politics. He is an acclaimed Icelandic author and the two films are based on short stories by Jon Atli Jonasson and Agust’s own short story Disappearing into the World. See them on 24 January at 7-9pm at Madlab. Further info see [...]