Óratorrek er kraftmikil ljóðabók eftir Eirík Örn Norðdahl sem geymir 23 mælsk og flæðandi ljóð um málefni samtímans, meðal annars „Ljóð um hörmungar“, „Ljóð um fátækt“ og „Ljóð um skýrar kröfur byltingarinnar“. Eiríkur hefur lagt stund á hljóðaljóðlist, myndljóð og kvikljóð, og sent frá sér sjö ljóðabækur. Ljóð hans hafa birst á yfir 20 tungumálum og hann er reglulegur gestur á ljóðahátíðum um víða veröld.
Author
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl (1978) is an Icelandic experimental poet and novelist. His work – about a dozen novels, a dozen poetry books, a couple of essay books, a couple of plays, a cook book, a children's christmas splatter, video poems, sound poems and various conceptual projects – have been published in over a dozen languages and won numerous awards in several countries, including the Icelandic Literary Award, the Transfuge award for best nordic fiction (in France), the DV Cultural Award, the Zebra Poetry Film Festival Special Mention, Sparibollinn Award for Romantic Fiction and the Book Merchant's Prize. They have also been shortlisted for awards such as the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Nordic Council Literary Award. Eiríkur has translated over a dozen books into Icelandic, including a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (for which he received the Icelandic Translation Award). He lives in Ísafjörður, Iceland, a rock in the middle of the ocean, and spends much of his time in Västerås, Sweden, a town by a lake.
