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Markús hét maðr...
📚 I translate from Icelandic 🇮🇸

Web: https://markioli.is
Mastodon: @markioli@zirk.us
Some #IcelandicLit for you as we head into the cold, dark days of winter! 😎🇮🇸📚
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Nadja in the sun on this lovely #Caturday 😀🐈‍⬛
August 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Book ❤️ for my hometown of Pittsburgh 😀
August 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I made a bread. 🍞😋
August 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Apparently some tourists in Iceland cooked rotten shark in a pan with garlic, thinking it was whale meat. It stank up the entire guest house and now, three weeks later, the smell is only just starting to dissipate. Having eaten a tiny cube of hákarl, I can't even imagine the stench... #Iceland
Ólíft í húsinu eftir að ferðamenn elduðu hákarl fyrir mistök - RÚV.is
Ferðaþjónustubóndi á Héraði hefur undanfarna daga staðið í ströngu við að ná óþef úr gistiaðstöðu.
www.ruv.is
July 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Freyja says practice Kana on your own time…
May 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My translation of an excerpt from the novel Death of a Forest (Dauði skógar) by Jónas Reynir Gunnarsson is part of the latest issue of Tupelo Quarterly 😀 Thanks to the folks at @tupelopress.bsky.social for introducing it. #Translation #IcelandicLit 😎🇮🇸📚
From Death of a Forest by Jónas Reynir Gunnarsson — Translated by Mark Ioli, Curated & Introduced by Abigail Ardelle Zammit
[T]he earth ran down the hillside and crumpled up like a blanket at the bottom of the slope,’ writes Mark Ioli in his translation of Jónas Reynir Gunnarsson’s Death of a Forest, which was nominated fo...
www.tupeloquarterly.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Have you ever been in a real relationship? Fríða Ísberg talks it out in Fingers, translated from Icelandic by @larissakyzer.bsky.social

www.fictionable.world/stories/fing...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast
May 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Wow...truly the end of an era. Bogi Ágústsson, a legend in Icelandic journalism, gave his final newscast tonight. I made much use of the RÚV website when I started learning Icelandic, and watched a *lot* of news, often with Bogi as anchor. Won't be the same, but what an amazing career. 🇮🇸📰
Hálf öld á skjánum: Bogi Ágústsson í sínum síðasta fréttatíma - RÚV.is
Bogi Ágústsson kveður fréttastofu RÚV í sínum síðasta fréttatíma í kvöld. Hann hefur starfað fyrir Ríkisútvarpið í tæpa hálfa öld og verið tíður gestur á skjám landsmanna nánast síðan hann hóf þar stö...
www.ruv.is
April 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Reykjavík International Literary Festival is underway! You can find information about the events and live streaming of the panels at their website 😎🇮🇸📚 bokmenntahatid.is/en/
Reykjavík International Literary Festival - Bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík
bokmenntahatid.is
April 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A happy «Нос» day to all the Gogol fans out there... 😀📚
March 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A visit back to my hometown is long overdue, but my pre-order of "Pittsburgh in 50 Maps" came early today, and I'm loving it so much 👍 A must-have for yinzers wherever you may be, thanks so much @beltpublishing.bsky.social and @chefstentor.bsky.social for this beautiful book! ❤️
February 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
From my modest translation archive, to celebrate the month of Þorri: "A Fresh Perspective" - short fiction by Aðalsteinn Emil Aðalsteinsson, excerpted from his collection "The Sleep Garden" 😎🇮🇸📚 #Translation #IcelandicLit

fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2022/02/fres...
Short fiction by Aðalsteinn Emil Aðalsteinsson
A very short story by Aðalsteinn Emil Aðalsteinsson, excerpted from The Sleep Garden and translated from Icelandic by Mark Ioli.
fortnightlyreview.co.uk
January 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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"Iceland, as you know, is quite progressive. We had a woman president before I was even born. We have so many brilliant women writers that I never assumed, growing up, writing was a man’s job. And yet . . . and yet, the vestiges of patriarchy remain, like pollution in the groundwater."
“Literature Is Iceland’s Cultural Legacy”: A Conversation with Thórdís Helgadóttir, by Adam Goldwyn
An interview with Icelandic poet, playwright, novelist, and short-story writer Thórdís Helgadóttir
www.worldliteraturetoday.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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My last read of the year was The Sinner and the Saint by Kevin Birmingham, a partial biography of Dostoevsky focused on the events and experiences that influenced Crime and Punishment, which will likely be my first (re)read of 2025 📚👍
December 31, 2024 at 2:44 PM
A happy Icelandic Language Day to all who celebrate, observed each year on November 16th, the birthday of poet Jónas Hallgrímsson. For the occasion I offer my translation of a poem by Gyrðir Elíasson, from his poetry collection Quasars (Dulstirni) #IcelandicLit 😀🇮🇸
November 16, 2024 at 2:55 PM
A little bit of aurora in Delaware …
October 11, 2024 at 2:30 AM
I created this image almost 7 years ago from a photo I took of Perlan in Reykjavík, in mid-October. It just has a photoshop filter applied, but I always liked how it turned out. #Iceland 🇮🇸
September 16, 2024 at 1:14 PM
I actually had occasion to take a #sqrlpix today in Battery Park, New Castle, DE. 😀
September 14, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Where's Freyja? 😀🐱 #Caturday
September 7, 2024 at 4:55 PM
For you Nordic Crime Fiction fans! #IcelandicLit #Translation 😎🇮🇸📚
August 19, 2024 at 1:16 PM
If you like creepy, spooky stories set in Reykjavík (and who doesn't?) I can recommend The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social translated by @maryrobinette.bsky.social - out in 2 weeks, but you can pre-order now 😎🇮🇸📚 #IcelandicLit #Translation us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Night Guest
Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.Iðunn is in y...
us.macmillan.com
August 18, 2024 at 5:36 PM
It's always such a challenge to get a good picture of Nadja, and this feels like a Monday that requires some cat pics.
July 1, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Freyja, little miss sunshine.... #Caturday
June 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM