Sjón

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Sjón

Sjón , with full name Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson , (born August 27, 1962 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic author and artist .

He was best known for his song lyrics for Björk , especially Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark .

life and work

He grew up in a suburb of Reykjavík , where he claims to have found poetry through the lyrics of David Bowie and the Icelandic sagas . He published his first volume of poetry at the age of 15. From 1980 to 1986 he belonged to the surrealist , performance- oriented group of poets “Medúsa”. During this time he published several volumes of poetry before his first novel Stálnótt was published in 1987 .

As a musician, Sjón appeared as "Johnny Triumph" (a play on words with the translation of his first name Sigurjón) among others with the Sugarcubes in the hit "Luftgitar".

In 1989/90 he lived in the Netherlands and in the mid-1990s in London , where he mainly worked with Björk . He has now returned to Reykjavík.

At the 2001 Academy Awards , Sjón was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Song category together with Björk and Lars von Trier . The song "I've Seen It All" from the movie Dancer in the Dark could not prevail against " Things Have Changed " from The WonderBoys by Bob Dylan .

In 2005 he was for Skugga-Baldur with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize awarded.

On May 27, 2006 he performed at "Weltklang - Night of Poetry" during the Berlin Poetry Festival . In 2006, Kleinheinrich Verlag published one of his volumes of poetry in German for the first time: “Gesang des Steinesammlers” (isl. “Söngur steinasafnarans”). Several texts by Sjón have been included in the anthology “Wortlaut Iceland”.

In 2007 Sjón held the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship for Literature at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin .

In November 2008 his new novel " Rökkurbýsnir " was published.

theatre

  • Tóm ást (1988)
  • Wedge Pillow (1990)
  • Ástir Bjartmars Ísidórs (1991)

Poetry

  • Sýnir: yrkingar (1978)
  • Hvernig elskar maður hendur? (1981)
  • Reiðhjól blinda mannsins (1982)
  • Sjónhverfingabókin (1983)
  • Oh! (1985)
  • Leikfangakastalar sagði hún það er ekkert til sem heitir leikfangakastalar (1986)
  • Drengurinn með röntgenaugun (anthology) (1986)
  • Ég man ekki eitthvað um skýin (1991)
  • Myrkar fígúrur (1998)
  • söngur steinasafnarans (2007)
  • ljóðasafn 1978–2008 (anthology) (2008)
  • Movable Mountains , German by Tina Flecken and Betty Wahl , Edition Rugerup, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-942955-66-9 .

Novels

  • Stálnótt (1987)
  • Engill, pípuhattur and jarðarber (1989)
  • Augu þín sáu mig ( Your Eyes Saw Me ) (1994)
  • Með titrandi tár , glæpsaga. (2001)
  • Skugga-Baldur (2003)
  • Argóarflísin (2005)
  • Rökkurbýsnir (2008)
    • German by Betty Wahl: The glistening night. Roman , Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-10-075132-4 .
  • Manasteinn. Drengurinn sem aldrei var til (2013)
    • German by Betty Wahl: The boy who didn't exist. Roman , Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978-3-10-002239-4 .
  • CoDex 1962 (contains Augu þín sáu mig and Með titrandi tár ) (2016)

Comic

  • Ævintýri Tinnu og Hreins Borgfjörð 1937 (1989)

See also

Web links

Commons : Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Infectious screen dreams in FAZ from July 1, 2015, page 10


Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Sjón
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic writer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík