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Larissa Kyzer is a writer and Icelandic to English literary translator. Her translation of Kristín Eiríksdóttir’s A Fist or a Heart won the American Scandinavian Foundation’s 2019 translation prize. The same year, she was one of Princeton’s Translators in Residence. She has translated poetry, short stories, kid lit, theatrical works, nonfiction, novels and, in 2021, guest-edited a spotlight on new Icelandic writing for Words Without Borders. Larissa is a former co-chair of PEN America’s Translation Committee, an at-large board member for ALTA, and runs the virtual Women+ in Translation reading series ...more

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message 1: by Carolyn
Oct 29, 2011 07:04PM

Carolyn A big thank you, Larissa, for recommending McSweeney's Magazine #15. It arrived last week from Malmo, not New Jersey as I'd imagined. The writing was generally good - I am a bit of a short story fan. But Fridrick and the Eedjit, by Sjon, was as brilliant a short story as I have ever read. It was so poetic and rich in humanity. I have a copy of The Mouth of the Whale that I will read when I've finish Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness.
So thanks again, Larissa!


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