Gnarr Jón - The Outlaw

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LYTTON SMITH is the award-winning author of two books of poetry from Nightboat Books and several translations from the Icelandic, including Jn Gnarrs childhood memoir trilogy, The Indian, The Pirate, and The Outlaw (Deep Vellum); The Ambassador, by Bragi lafsson (Open Letter); and Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristn marsdttir (Open Letter). His translations of Gubergur Bergssons Tmas JnssonBestseller (Tmas Jnsson, metslubk) and feig Sigurssons rfi: The Wasteland, are forthcoming from Open Letter Books (2017) and Deep Vellum (2018) respectively. He is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Geneseo in upstate New York.

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AVAILABLE NOW FROM DEEP VELLUM

MICHLE AUDIN One Hundred Twenty-One Days

translated by Christiana Hills FRANCE

CARMEN BOULLOSA Texas: The Great Theft Before Heavens on Earth

translated by Samantha Schnee Peter Bush Shelby Vincent MEXICO

LEILA S. CHUDORI Home

translated by John H. McGlynn INDONESIA

ANANDA DEVI Eve Out of Her Ruins

translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman MAURITIUS

ALISA GANIEVA The Mountain and the Wall

translated by Carol Apollonio RUSSIA

ANNE GARRTA Sphinx Not One Day

translated by Emma Ramadan FRANCE

JN GNARR The IndianThe Pirate The Outlaw

translated by Lytton Smith ICELAND

NOEMI JAFFE What are the Blind Men Dreaming?

translated by Julia Sanches & Ellen Elias-Bursac BRAZIL

CLAUDIA SALAZAR JIMNEZ Blood of the Dawn

translated by Elizabeth Bryer PERU

JOSEFINE KLOUGART Of Darkness

translated by Martin Aitken DENMARK

YANICK LAHENS Moonbath

translated by Emily Gogolak HAITI

JUNG YOUNG MOON Vaseline Buddha

translated by Yewon Jung SOUTH KOREA

FOUAD LAROUI The Curious Case of Dassoukines Trousers

translated by Emma Ramadan MOROCCO

LINA MERUANE Seeing Red

translated by Megan McDowell CHILE

FISTON MWANZA MUJILA Tram 83

translated by Roland Glasser DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

ILJA LEONARD PFEIJFFER La Superba

translated by Michele Hutchison NETHERLANDS

RICARDO PIGLIA Target in the Night

translated by Sergio Waisman ARGENTINA

SERGIO PITOL The Art of FlightThe Journey The Magician of Vienna

translated by George Henson MEXICO

EDUARDO RABASA A Zero-Sum Game

translated by Christina MacSweeney MEXICO

MIKHAIL SHISHKIN Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories

translated by Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin, Mariya Bashkatova, Sylvia Maizell RUSSIA

BAE SUAH Recitation

translated by Deborah Smith SOUTH KOREA

JUAN RULFO The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings

translated by Douglas J. Weatherford MEXICO

SERHIY ZHADAN Voroshilovgrad

translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes & Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler UKRAINE

FORTHCOMING FROM DEEP VELLUM

EDUARDO BERTI Imagined Country

translated by Charlotte Coombe ARGENTINA

ALISA GANIEVA Bride & Groom

translated by Carol Apollonio RUSSIA

FOUAD LAROUI The Tribulations of the Last Sjilmassi

translated by Emma Ramadan MOROCCO

MARIA GABRIELA LLANSOL The Geography of Rebels Trilogy: The Book of Communities; The Remaining Life; In the House of July & August

translated by Audrey Young PORTUGAL

PABLO MARTN SNCHEZ The Anarchist Who Shared My Name

translated by Jeff Diteman SPAIN

BRICE MATTHIEUSSENT Revenge of the Translator

translated by Emma Ramadan FRANCE

SERGIO PITOL Selected Best Stories

translated by George Henson MEXICO

SERGIO PITOL Carnival Triptych: The Love Parade; Taming the Divine Heron; Married Life

translated by George Henson MEXICO

FEIGUR SIGURSSON rfi: The Wasteland

translated by Lytton Smith ICELAND

The aircraft lifted itself from the ground at Reykjavk Airport. It was only the second time Id been on a plane. Id gone to Norway with my mother and father. Id never been to Reykjavk Airportnever flown domestically. I had a limited understanding of Iceland in my mind, and was exceedingly oblivious as to its character. Id taken a road trip around the country with my parents, but everything seemed so utterly identical I couldnt work out where I was at any given moment. The country felt somehow alien to me. I could conjure up a picture of Iceland but I couldnt place myself within that picture. Id gone all the way to Akureyri, but didnt have a clue where to find it on a map. And now I was headed to safjrur. I knew nothing about the place and was struggling to imagine what it would be like. I guessed the town would be some podunk place like Bardalur; given the name, it was safe to assume it must always be freezing cold there in ice fjord. I bet people had gardens full of dockweed.