Hallgrimur Helgason Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Hallgrimur Helgason:

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

Hallgrimur Helgason

You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.

Hallgrimur Helgason

I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse than men.

Hallgrimur Helgason

In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry.

Hallgrimur Helgason

Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed.

Hallgrimur Helgason

In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.

Hallgrimur Helgason

I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react when they get too much money too quickly and how it affects our culture.

Hallgrimur Helgason