26. April, 2025
12:00Dinçer Güçyeter is a German poet and the founder of Elif Publishing, which specializes in poetry publishing and is the largest publishing house for Icelandic poetry outside of Iceland. He has published four poetry books and one novel, and has received numerous awards for his works, including the Literature Prize at the Leipzig Book Fair.
Knut Ødegård studied theology and philology at the Universities of Oslo and Cambridge. He’s been living in Reykjavik since 1984, partly also in his hometown Molde where he is taking care of his Norwegian duties. He is a poet and writer who published his first poetry book in 1967, since then he has published 44 books (poetry, novels, childrens books, essays, also three books about Iceland). His poetry books are translated into 43 languages, more than any other contemporary Norwegian poet.
Ödegaard organized the first international literary festival of Norway and also the literary academy (both named after the Nobel prize winner Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson). When moving to Iceland in 1984, he was offered the position as director of Nordic House and as such he was the founder – together with Thor Vilhjálmsson and Einar Bragi – of the Reykjavík International Literary Festival in 1984.
Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson moderates a conversation about poetry.
