Quentin Bates
@graskeggur.bsky.social
Writer of books and other stuff, translator of other people's books. Á það til að þusa á Íslensku. If you send me a DM, I won't see it. So please don't.
graskeggur.com
graskeggur.com
Í Hörpunni í dag, einhver gaur með tveim goðsögnum, Birgitta H Halldórsdóttir og Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Í Hörpunni í dag, einhver gaur með tveim goðsögnum, Birgitta H Halldórsdóttir og Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir.
Not that I ever met either of them, but these gentlemen were my first friends in print in Icelandic, Ásgeir Jak and Jónas Stýrimaður (Jónas the Seafarer).
graskeggur.com/small-world/
graskeggur.com/small-world/
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not that I ever met either of them, but these gentlemen were my first friends in print in Icelandic, Ásgeir Jak and Jónas Stýrimaður (Jónas the Seafarer).
graskeggur.com/small-world/
graskeggur.com/small-world/
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Timeline cleanse! Post a beautiful or adorable thing, please.
October 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Timeline cleanse! Post a beautiful or adorable thing, please.
Hvernig er uppskeran hjá þér í ár, @liljawriter.bsky.social ?
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hvernig er uppskeran hjá þér í ár, @liljawriter.bsky.social ?
And there are aliens making themselves at home among the willows...
October 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
And there are aliens making themselves at home among the willows...
These mushrooms are growing so fast it's almost as if they're on a mission to take over. I for one welcome our new fungus overlords.
October 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
These mushrooms are growing so fast it's almost as if they're on a mission to take over. I for one welcome our new fungus overlords.
Cardboard boxes are being worn tight around this hips this season
October 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Cardboard boxes are being worn tight around this hips this season
The last of the last of this year's blackberries. As tradition (or superstition?) demands, left for the fairies.
September 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The last of the last of this year's blackberries. As tradition (or superstition?) demands, left for the fairies.
The Petrona shortlist of seven Nordic crime novels translated into English is revealed. Congrats to all, and especially to Óskar Guðmundsson... The winner will be announced 16th October.
www.petronaaward.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
www.petronaaward.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The Petrona shortlist of seven Nordic crime novels translated into English is revealed. Congrats to all, and especially to Óskar Guðmundsson... The winner will be announced 16th October.
www.petronaaward.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
www.petronaaward.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
Tinkering with old cameras and mono film again... Quite chuffed with this one, quietly spooky.
August 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Tinkering with old cameras and mono film again... Quite chuffed with this one, quietly spooky.
This was my workspace. Right up until it wasn't.
August 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This was my workspace. Right up until it wasn't.
But only one drekahvíslari (dragon whisperer)
August 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
But only one drekahvíslari (dragon whisperer)
Ljónatemjari (lion tamer) and geimfari (astronaut) are surprisingly popular, as is snillingur (genius).
But this gentleman has gone one step beyond as stór snillingur (über genius)
But this gentleman has gone one step beyond as stór snillingur (über genius)
August 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ljónatemjari (lion tamer) and geimfari (astronaut) are surprisingly popular, as is snillingur (genius).
But this gentleman has gone one step beyond as stór snillingur (über genius)
But this gentleman has gone one step beyond as stór snillingur (über genius)
This just dropped in... Looks intriguing! Spies, spookiness, WW2 Iceland. Ticks all the right boxes! @sydmoore.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This just dropped in... Looks intriguing! Spies, spookiness, WW2 Iceland. Ticks all the right boxes! @sydmoore.bsky.social
Nothing like being ahead of the game... First draft of the sequel to Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken is in the bag. Edits, checking, proof-reading to come.
Yes, it's just as meaty as Broken, and this translator did a little dance of delight when the Groke showed up again.
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
Yes, it's just as meaty as Broken, and this translator did a little dance of delight when the Groke showed up again.
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Nothing like being ahead of the game... First draft of the sequel to Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken is in the bag. Edits, checking, proof-reading to come.
Yes, it's just as meaty as Broken, and this translator did a little dance of delight when the Groke showed up again.
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
Yes, it's just as meaty as Broken, and this translator did a little dance of delight when the Groke showed up again.
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
No harm in reminding the old man that feeding time will come around soon.
July 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
No harm in reminding the old man that feeding time will come around soon.
Lovely people, in monochrome, taken on film, a while ago... @ewashe.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Lovely people, in monochrome, taken on film, a while ago... @ewashe.bsky.social
Enough writing, already. Go to bed, foolish human.
June 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Enough writing, already. Go to bed, foolish human.
This was taken quite a few years ago... At midnight on the summer solstice from Ósvör, near Bolungarvík.
June 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This was taken quite a few years ago... At midnight on the summer solstice from Ósvör, near Bolungarvík.
We got a mention in the Strong Words newsletter at the weekend, @corylusbooks.bsky.social. I'm ridiculously chuffed.
June 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We got a mention in the Strong Words newsletter at the weekend, @corylusbooks.bsky.social. I'm ridiculously chuffed.
Pretty chuffed with this one, which goes on sale on the big river place on Friday. A few challenges in the translation, and there's some ink-black humour in there that's always interesting.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7
It doesn't do any harm that the author has been great to work with...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7
It doesn't do any harm that the author has been great to work with...
June 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Pretty chuffed with this one, which goes on sale on the big river place on Friday. A few challenges in the translation, and there's some ink-black humour in there that's always interesting.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7
It doesn't do any harm that the author has been great to work with...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7
It doesn't do any harm that the author has been great to work with...
If you're travelling in Iceland this summer – or next winter, for that matter – add this one to your cultural reading list. www.penninn.is/is/book/arou...
This was so much fun to translate, and so educational!
@onefootiniceland.bsky.social had a hand in this as well...
This was so much fun to translate, and so educational!
@onefootiniceland.bsky.social had a hand in this as well...
June 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you're travelling in Iceland this summer – or next winter, for that matter – add this one to your cultural reading list. www.penninn.is/is/book/arou...
This was so much fun to translate, and so educational!
@onefootiniceland.bsky.social had a hand in this as well...
This was so much fun to translate, and so educational!
@onefootiniceland.bsky.social had a hand in this as well...