I had the chance to email back and forth with Kristín Ómarsdóttir on the occasion of her new novel:
Given her prolific career as a novelist, poet, and playwright, I feel as if I’m late to arrive at the wonderful work of Kristín Ómarsdóttir via her newly translated novel, Swan Folk. Unfortunately only one other of Ómarsdóttir’s novels—about which she was interviewed here at The Rumpus in 2012—has, as yet, been translated into English. May that change! But those lucky enough to read her in her native Icelandic (or any of the many other languages into which her thirteen novels, poems, and plays have been translated) will find a writer fascinated by and in love with language, whose own enchantment in the act of writing comes through in her ability to enchant the reader.
Read the full interview at The Rumpus and check out Kristín Ómarsdóttir's work!
