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The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness
by Halldór Guðmundsson, translated by Philip Roughton.
MacLehose, 486 pp., £25, September 2023,978 1 5294 3373 9 Show More
by Halldór Guðmundsson, translated by Philip Roughton.
MacLehose, 486 pp., £25, September 2023,
“... to be one of the best translations I have ever read. Little is known about the translator, J.A. Thompson, who was born in 1910, studied Nordic languages and English at Leeds, worked briefly as a schoolteacher in Akureyri in 1931-32, and translated nothing else. Laxness worked with him on the translation in Dewsbury in 1936, and later poked fun at ... ”