Brian FitzGibbon
þýðandi/translator
Translations from Icelandic, Italian and French into English
Þýðingar úr íslensku, frönsku og ítölsku yfir á ensku
Translated works ~ Þýdd verk
Lúna, a play by Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson
Animal Life (Dýralíf) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Grove Atlantic & Pushkin Press
"Deftly translated by Brian FitzGibbon"
"A probing, discursive meditation on the implications of a midwife as 'mother of light' ... FitzGibbon seamlessly handles many such lexical allusions and double meanings, and deserves special mention for the straightforward beauty of Fífa's writings and the novel's final poetic page."
"Animal Life is smoothly translated by Brian FitzGibbon, with a charming quirkiness retained in words such as “pipsqueak”.
Truflunin (Disturbance) by Steinar Bragi
Forlagið, 2020
Nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize
Samfeðra (All My Father’s Children)
by Steinunn G. Helgadóttir
Reykjavik Literary Agency
Miss Iceland (Ungfrú Ísland) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Grove Atlantic & Pushkin Press
Longlisted for 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award
Woman at 1000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason
The hottest new book from Iceland is ‘Woman at 1,000 Degrees’
...”Brian FitzGibbon’s dexterous translation...”
Hotel Silence (Ör) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Grove Atlantic & Pushkin Press
Winner of the 2018 Nordic Council Literature Prize
“Eloquently translated from the Icelandic”
“Superbly translated”
Butterflies in November (Rigning í nóvember) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
“...an evocative, humorous novel, beautifully translated from Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon”
“...Excellent introduction to Icelandic fiction”
New York Times
Listed for
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014
The Greenhouse (Afleggjarinn) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Amazon Crossing
“...Excellent introduction to Icelandic fiction”
New York Times
101 Reykjavik by Hallgrímur Helgason
“Dazzlingly translated”
“A lucid translation”
The Flatey Enigma by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson
Amazon Crossing
Translated stage plays
Swans mate for Life, a play by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Easy now Electra, a play by Hrafnhildur Hagalín Gudmundsdóttir
The Golden Chain (Gullregn), a play by Ragnar Bragason
The Priest’s Black Dog, a play by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
The Deadly Sins, loosely based on Dante’s Inferno
The Grandad, a play by Bjarni Haukur Thorsson
Dynamite, a play by Birgir Sigurdsson
Slammer, a play by Hávar Sigurjónsson
Brim, a play by Jón Atli Jónasson
Vesturport 2004
The Deep, a play by Jón Atli Jónasson
Translated screenplays
from Icelandic
Italian screenplays translated into English
Evilenko by David Grieco.
Stars over the City by Massimo Trabaldo Togna
Giobbe by Sandro di Robilant
Slave by Giacomo Battiato
Under the Angel's Wings by Massimo Trabaldo & Phillip Hill
Un bene che non perdona by Alfredo Giannetti
The Sound of Silence by David Grieco
Margherita by Giulio Paradisi
The Passion Game by Alberto Bevilacqua
Mine Ha-Ha by Alberto Lattuada & Ottavio Iemma
Blood Therapy by David Grieco & Giulio Questi
Mike the Angel by Folco Quilici
Mother Fear by David Grieco & Giulio Questi
The Voyeur by Tinto Brass