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Andri Snær Magnason

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Andri Snaer Magnason

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Career and activity

Andri Snær Magnason studied at Menntaskólinn við Sund and University of Iceland. The recorded working language is Icelandic.

The field of work recorded is literature, children's and young adult literature and literary activity.

Distinctions recorded are Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel.

Andri Snær Magnason worked in literature, children's and young adult literature, literary activity, poetry and non-fiction literature.

Identity

Andri Snær Magnason is recorded as writer, environmentalist, film director and poet.

Reception

Andri Snær Magnason is recorded as having received Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel.

Week 6. Andri Snær Magnason speaker at Austurvöllur. The Kitchenware-Revolution in Iceland was organize by Hördur Torfason and "Raddir Fólksins". It started in the wake of the collapse of the banking system followed be the decimation of Icelandic economy in the beginning of October 2008. It resulted in the resignation of Geir H. Haarde and his cabinet on January 26. 2009. The protest meetings were

Week 6. Andri Snær Magnason speaker at Austurvöllur. The Kitchenware-Revolution in Iceland was organize by Hördur Torfason and "Raddir Fólksins". It started in the wake of the collapse of the banking system followed be the decimation of Icelandic economy in the beginning of October 2008. It resulted in the resignation of Geir H. Haarde and his cabinet on January 26. 2009. The protest meetings were

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Life and career

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  1. 1973

    Andri Snær Magnason was born in 1973 at Reykjavík.

  2. 2016

    LoveStar (2016) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

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  • Reykjavík
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Catalogued output

Catalogued works

  • A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation

  • LoveStar

  • The Story of The Blue Planet

  • Tímakistan

  • Um tímann og vatnið

  • Bónus

  • On time and water

  • A Ilusão do Tempo

  • Draumalandið

  • Maður undir himni

  • Sagan af bláa hnettinum

  • Engar smá sögur

Literature

Literature

  • Andri Snær Magnason O VREMENU I VODI – JE LI KASNO DA SPASIMO SVIJET?, Socijalna ekologija, 2025

  • Andri Snær Magnason: Draumalandið - sjálfshjálparbók handa hræddri þjóð, Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla, 2006

  • Memories for the Future?

  • An Ecocritical Reading of Andri Snær Magnason’s On Time and Water

  • A History of Our Future (2019), Scandinavistica Vilnensis, 2023

  • Die Auslöschung des Subjekts Biomacht in Andri Snær Magnasons Roman LoveStar und Ninni Holmqvists Roman Die Entbehrlichen, NORDEUROPAforum - Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien, 2016

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