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Victoria Cribb

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Victoria Cribb

Victoria Cribb is a freelance translator of Icelandic literature. Her translations of Icelandic authors published in English include crime novels by Arnaldur Indriðason, The Blue Fox and From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón, and Stone Tree by Gyrðir Elíasson....

She has an MA in Icelandic and Scandinavian Studies from UCL and a BPhil in Icelandic from the University of Iceland, and lived and worked in Reykjavík for a number of years as a publisher, journalist, and translator. She is currently completing a PhD in Old Icelandic at the University of Cambridge.

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Articles by Victoria Cribb

House No. 451

By Gyrðir Elíasson

She finds my writing bizarre; no one does it, especially not in a town like this.

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

Multilingual

Inferno

By Gyrðir Elíasson

Strindberg had ended up after death here, in a branch of IKEA in Iceland.

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

Multilingual

2093

By Andri Snær Magnason

He’ll eat anything except people and foxes.

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

Multilingual

Patriotic Poem

By Gerdur Kristný

The cold makes me / a lair from fear.

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

Multilingual

Skagafjörður

By Gerdur Kristný

I try to be / kind to the children / so they’ll tend my grave

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

Multilingual