Contributors:
Abigail Cooper, originally from Somerset, England, marticulated at
Háskóli Íslands 2007-2014.
‘Abi’ is a Project Manager and translator at the University of Iceland.
Andrew Lloyd lives half way up a mountain in the Sunny South East of Ireland. He taught at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, as well as hewing wood, tending sheep and fetching water on his farm.
He has blogged at Science matters since 2012.
Angus Miranda works professionally as a technical writer in the Philippines, where he writes, edits, and maintains user manuals. He managed the blog Book Rhapsody, where he wrote about books and shared literary reviews.
Angus lives in Manila.
Arie Amaya-Akkermans is a freelance writer, occasional journalist,
and curious traveler of lesser known corners of modern Europe. He is an independent researcher, and art critic who specializes in the intersection of contemporary art, archaeology, and the politics of memory.
Arie 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. A multilingual writer and translator, she has degrees in Cultural Anthropology, French Literature and Linguistics. Caroline’s 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.
Chay lives in Illinois.
Darien Fisher-Duke is a “berserker.”
She co-founded Laxness in Translation, sharing her enthusiasm for Halldór
in a series of book review “challenges” in the blog Icelandic Fever.
A retired librarian, Darien lives in a log cabin in Virginia.
David S. Baldwin is a Professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine
at the University of Southampton.
He also serves as the Head of the University’s Department of Psychiatry.
David lives in the UK.
Emily Lethbridge holds a PhD in Old Norse literature from the University of Cambridge. Currently a member of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, she has also taught medieval Icelandic literature and culture at the University of Iceland and has published numerous articles on Icelandic cultural history.
Eric Hinkle is a passionate addict of world literature.
An amateur reviewer, his favorite novel is Independent People.
Eric hails from Wisconsin, USA, but currently lives in Osaka, Japan, teaching preschool and completing a Masters in TESOL.
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 currently serves as the Chief Classical Music Critic for The Spectator and is a frequent contributor to major publications such as Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Bachtrack, and The Critic.
Richard is based in Lichfield, Staffordshire, UK.
Robbie authored a book blog 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.
Stephen is based in Anoka, Minnesota with occasional sojourns 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 novel, In Valhalla’s Shadows, is a sociological mystery set in Canada.
His contributions to LIT were first published in wdvalgardson's kaffihaus.
His work is also featured on YouTube.
This page was created by Stephen.
