466:) criticises capitalism and contemporary Western Europe through a dystopian story where pollution and starvation are rampant, Reykjavík is covered by glass and the Icelandic language is being replaced by English. Eyvindur tried to find a publisher for the novel for ten years before he self-published it in 2007.
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Iceland in 1990. He has written around 40 works of literature, including poetry collections, novels and plays. According to the literary scholar Bjarki
87:(born 13 December 1935) is an Icelandic writer. He has written poetry, novels and plays. His works address concerns about modern alienation and the relationship between man and nature, often approached with dark humour. His novel
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set the poems to music and the book was published with a CD. The poems in this collection concern nature and contrast its beauty with the ego of modern man, which they associate with decline and alienation.
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Valtýsson, Eyvindur's poetry is characterised by warmth and intimacy, resulting from his tendency to not take himself too seriously despite having a clear message. Eyvindur's first book of poetry,
402:, with no clear protagonist among the cast of characters, and depicts a raw, unromantic struggle for survival. Eyvindur received the Halldór Laxness Literary Prize and was nominated for the
267:, without becoming politically programmatic. Similar themes of how mankind has become too detached from its roots in nature, treated with humour and irony, appear in the poetry collections
446:), the protagonist is back in Iceland and is confronted with powers that inhibit nature. All three novels concern the relationship between man and nature in different ways. The novel
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on 13 December 1935. His parents were Eiríkur A. Guðjónsson (1908–2007), who was a farmer, fisherman and labourer, and Gunnvör Rósa Samúelsdóttir (1905–1967). Eyvindur grew up in
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