Contributors:
Abigail Cooper, originally from England, marticulated at
Háskóli Íslands 2007-2014.
She is a Project Manager and translator at the University of Iceland.
Angus Miranda “waxed rhapsodic” about books in his blog Book Rhapsody.
He is a technical writer, living in the Philippines.
Arie Amaya-Akkermans is a freelance writer, occasional journalist,
and curious traveler of lesser known corners of modern Europe.
He lives in Turkey.
Ayaz Rasool Nazki is a writer, poet, painter, and scholar. He was also the regional director of the Kashmir office of The Indian Council for Cultural Relations. His most recent book is Satisar-The Valley of Demons.
Ayaz lives in Kashmir and remains involved in the human rights movement.
Caroline Couderc is a Franco-Italian who lives in the German speaking part of Switzerland. She’s a multilingual writer and translator and has degrees in Cultural Anthropology, French Literature and Linguistics. Her works have been featured in: War, Literature and the Arts; The Antigonish Review; The Boston Literary Magazine; The Airgonaut; and many more publications.
Chay Lemoine is a Laxness scholar and an Adjunct Professor in the English Department, Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.
He lives in Illinois.
Darien Fisher-Duke is a “berserker” from Virginia.
She co-founded Laxness in Translation, initially sharing her passion for Halldór
in a series of book review “challenges” in her blog Icelandic Fever.
David S. Baldwin is a Professor of Psychiatry.
Clinical and Experimental Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
Emily Lethbridge holds a PhD in Old Norse literature from the University of Cambridge. She is currently a member of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and has been featured in films and TV. Emily has also taught medieval Icelandic literature and culture at the University of Iceland and has published numerous articles on Icelandic cultural history.
Eric Hinkle hails from Wisconsin, USA, but has been living abroad for some years. He is currently in Osaka, Japan, teaching preschool and completing a Masters in TESOL. He is a passionate addict of world literature and an amateur reviewer when in the right mood.
His favorite novel is Independent People.
John L. Murphy is:
a Medievalist turned humanities professor; an unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; an overconfident accumulator of books & music; an over-curious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica.
He lives and teaches in California.
Lisa is a sagaholic living in Virginia.
Lucy Lehmann is the author of The Showgirl and the Brumby, (Vintage, 2002)
She began playing music publicly in 2005 and is currently developing other literary works.
Lucy lives in Australia.
Marthe Bijman is an author, composer, reviewer, blogger and poet.
She lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Michael Black is: an educator, quondam monk, sailor, financial hack,
and theological academic. He reviews books on his blog The BlackOxford Mind.
Michael lives in Oxford, England.
Niranjana Iyer is: a writer, book critic and founder of The Compelling Story,
a writing consultancy.
She lives in California.
[P] is a book reviewer concentrating mostly on classic translated literature.
He lives in England.
Richard Bratby is an English classical music writer, critic, consultant, and amateur contrarian. He is a regular contributor to The Critic.
Richard is based in Lichfield, Staffordshire, UK.
Robbie was a book blogger at Pink Sheep Cafe.
He is a house-sitter in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Silja Aðalsteinsdóttir is a writer, translator and editor. She was the publishing director of Mal og menning and is the drama reviewer for TMM. In 1994 and 2005 she won The Icelandic Literary Prize.
Silja lives in Reykjavík.
Stephen Cowdery is a writer, photographer, archivist, and music producer. He is the co-founder and administrator of the Laxness in Translation website.
He lives in Anoka, Minnesota with the occasional sojourn to Reykjavík, Seattle, and Santa Fe.
Tamara Agha-Jaffar has been in academia all her professional life. In 2004 she was named Kansas Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and received its CASE Award for the Advancement of Teaching.
In 2010 she received The President’s Call to Service Award for her volunteer work in the community. Tamara has written six books.
William Valgardson is a writer based in Victoria, B.C.
His latest book, In Valhalla’s Shadows, is a sociological mystery set in Canada. His contributions to LIT were first published in wdvalgardson's kaffihaus. His work has also been featured on YouTube.
This page was created by Stephen.
