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

Web: https://markioli.is
Mastodon: @markioli@zirk.us
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Some #IcelandicLit for you as we head into the cold, dark days of winter! 😎🇮🇸📚
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Nadja in the sun on this lovely #Caturday 😀🐈‍⬛
A black cat with green eyes lying in a sunbeam.
August 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Book ❤️ for my hometown of Pittsburgh 😀
August 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I made a bread. 🍞😋
A round loaf of bread sits atop a cooling rack.
August 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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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
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Freyja says practice Kana on your own time…
Arm holding a pen trying to write in a notebook filled with Japanese kana, as a striped tabby cat chews on the end of the pen.
May 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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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...
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May 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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fictionable.bsky.social
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
A portrait of the writer Fríða Ísberg, with a quote from her short story Fingers, translated by Larissa Kyzer: 'This has nothing to do with you. It really is me…'
May 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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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...
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April 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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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
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April 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A happy «Нос» day to all the Gogol fans out there... 😀📚
Picture of a book showing the opening page of the short story "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol, in Russian. Illustration included in the short story "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol. A man in a top hat walking dow the sidewalk is peering into a carriage, while a woman nearby stares at him. A long building with a steeple is in the background. Text at the bottom reads (in Russian): «Нос» Кукрыниксы. 1937.
March 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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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! ❤️
The book "Pittsburgh in 50 Maps" opened to the page on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, some text and part of a map are visible.
February 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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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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hildur.bsky.social
"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
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January 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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My latest blog post: lessons I learned in the process of promoting my first book-length translation. I hope this is helpful to #emergingliterarytranslators.
#Brazilianliterature #literarytranslation #bookpromotion
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Publishing a book-length translation: Lessons learned
Happy New Year!In 2024, I saw a decade-long dream come true: the publication of a book-length translation of mine. My translation of The Book of Affects, a short story collection by Brazilian author M...
www.ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:16 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 📚👍
Cover of the book The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece, by Kevin Birmingham
December 31, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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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 😀🇮🇸
A poem by Icelandic author Gyrðir Elíasson, from his collection Quasars. A FEW WORDS ON NATURAL BEAUTY for the occasion It is undoubtedly strange, but I find more than enough beauty in crushed and withered grass, in a barren field of rock, in moss on a stone, in dooryard dock reaching up from burnt soil. The mountains need not be soaring, the sea need not always be blue, and the trees, though nice, are not indispensable. And there can be rain, and wind, and whatever else the everyday cares to bring with it.
November 16, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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A little bit of aurora in Delaware …
A pinkish purple glow of aurora above trees at night.
October 11, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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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 🇮🇸
An "oil painting" style image of Perlan in Reykjavík, during autumn. The building is in the distance, while vegetation fills the foreground in fall colors.
September 16, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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I actually had occasion to take a #sqrlpix today in Battery Park, New Castle, DE. 😀
Squirrel on a tree limb munching on an acorn.
September 14, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Where's Freyja? 😀🐱 #Caturday
Cat peeking our from under the corner of a bed, only her white paws and face are visible.
September 7, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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For you Nordic Crime Fiction fans! #IcelandicLit #Translation 😎🇮🇸📚
August 19, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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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...
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August 18, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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It's always such a challenge to get a good picture of Nadja, and this feels like a Monday that requires some cat pics.
Black cat lying on a bed, one paw slightly raised.
July 1, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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Freyja, little miss sunshine.... #Caturday
Tabby cat lying on the back of a couch basking in a sunbeam.
June 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM