Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl was born in 1978 in Reykjavik, Iceland. He lives on Ísafjörður, a rock in the middle of the ocean, where he grew up, and occasionally in the lakeside town of Västerås, Sweden. He spent ten years on the continent, in Berlin, Helsinki and Oulu in Sweden. Author of nine poetry collections, six novels, two essay collections and a philosophical cookbook. He also pursues conceptual poetic projects: sound and performance poetry and poetic cinema. The novel Evil brought him international acclaim, and Der Spiegel points out that he “wrote a cruel, at times a cruelly comical book about how ideology and history penetrate the most intimate spheres.”
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