An Interview with Yrsa Sigurðardóttir by John Tucker
ABSTRACT: In her responses to the interview questions, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir emerges as a writer keenly aware of her audience and the traditions to which she belongs, but governed by her own priorities and concerns, a long-standing delight in stories of mystery. Her novels, as she says, can be divided...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:7e835bc441dc4a409fd774071e43bf67 2023-07-02T03:32:43+02:00 An Interview with Yrsa Sigurðardóttir by John Tucker Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan104 https://doaj.org/article/7e835bc441dc4a409fd774071e43bf67 EN FR eng fre University of Alberta Library https://scancan.net/index.php/scancan/article/view/104 https://doaj.org/toc/0823-1796 https://doaj.org/toc/2816-5187 doi:10.29173/scancan104 0823-1796 2816-5187 https://doaj.org/article/7e835bc441dc4a409fd774071e43bf67 Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, Vol 22 (2014) History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia DL1-1180 Language and Literature P article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan104 2023-06-11T00:34:56Z ABSTRACT: In her responses to the interview questions, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir emerges as a writer keenly aware of her audience and the traditions to which she belongs, but governed by her own priorities and concerns, a long-standing delight in stories of mystery. Her novels, as she says, can be divided into crime novels and novels of suspense. But they are all marked by a taste for the chilling, a characteristic but not a defining feature of Nordic Noir. Iceland is important to her, providing a familiar but unusual geography. Her characters too are real people, but in the Icelandic way unusually interconnected and marked by a shared culture and a shared history. Though she has succeeded in creating a successful heroine in Þóra, “a very typical Icelandic woman,” she has chosen to set her aside for the moment in order to explore new avenues in her most recent books. As her answers make clear, she is a serious writer committed to exploring new narrative challenges. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 22 134 143 |
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ABSTRACT: In her responses to the interview questions, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir emerges as a writer keenly aware of her audience and the traditions to which she belongs, but governed by her own priorities and concerns, a long-standing delight in stories of mystery. Her novels, as she says, can be divided into crime novels and novels of suspense. But they are all marked by a taste for the chilling, a characteristic but not a defining feature of Nordic Noir. Iceland is important to her, providing a familiar but unusual geography. Her characters too are real people, but in the Icelandic way unusually interconnected and marked by a shared culture and a shared history. Though she has succeeded in creating a successful heroine in Þóra, “a very typical Icelandic woman,” she has chosen to set her aside for the moment in order to explore new avenues in her most recent books. As her answers make clear, she is a serious writer committed to exploring new narrative challenges. |
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