Philip Roughton
Philip Roughton was born in the US in 1965 and now lives in Iceland.
He is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of modern Icelandic literature, having translated works by numerous Icelandic writers, including the Nobel prize-winning author Halldór Laxness. His translation of The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness by Halldór Guõmundsson was published by MacLehose Press in 2008.
- By
- Jón Kalman Stefánsson
- Translated by
- Philip Roughton
- Published by
- MacLehose Press
Jón Kalman Stefánsson's poetic, elemental yet modern Icelandic family saga spans the whole of Iceland's 20th-century history. Translated by Phil Roughton.