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Jon Gnarr was born in 1967 in Reykjavik. He formed the Best Party
in 2009 and became the mayor of Reykjavik in 2010. His acting work
includes the movies The Icelandic Dream and A Man Like Me and the
television series The Night Shift, which aired on BBC4. As a child,
Gnarr was diagnosed with severe mental retardation due to dyslexia,
learning difficulties, and ADHD. He nevertheless overcame his
hardships and went on to become one of Iceland s most well-known
actors and comedians, and published the first two volumes in his
fictionalized autobiography in 2006, The Indian, and 2009, The
Pirate (the third volume, The Outlaw will be published in Iceland
in fall 2015Deep Vellum will publish the trilogy in full in
2015-2016).
In late 2009 Gnarr formed the joke Best Party with a number of
friends with no background in politics. The Best Party, which was a
satirical political party that parodied Icelandic politics and
aimed to make the life of the citizens more fun, managed a
plurality win in the 2010 municipal elections in Reykjavik, and
Gnarr became Major of Reykjavik (there s a great documentary on
Gnarr s campaign, which introduces you to Gnarr s unique and
inspiring personality, called Gnarr).
His term as mayor ended in June 2014 and he plans to use his
post-mayor years to continue writing and speaking on issues that
are most important to him: freedom of speech, human rights,
protecting the environment, and achieving international peace. Now
that his term as mayor is complete, he has moved to Texas to focus
on writing, speaking on issues he holds most dear (world peace,
sexual and gender equality, freedoms for writers and journalists),
and performing stand-up comedy again.
Lytton Smith (born 1982) is an Anglo-American poet and translator.
His most recent poetry collection is The All-Purpose Magical Tent
(Nightboat Books, 2009), which was selected by Terrance Hayes for
the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize in 2009, and was praised by
Publishers Weekly in a starred review as fantastic and earthy,
strange and inherited, classical and idiosyncratic, at once. He
also has a previous chapbook, Monster Theory, selected by Kevin
Young for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in
2008. Additionally, Smith s poetry has appeared in a number of
prominent literary journals and magazines such as The Atlantic,
Bateau, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin
House, and many others. Lytton Smith was born in Galleywood,
England. He moved to New York City, where he became a founder of
Blind Tiger Poetry, an organization dedicated to promoting
contemporary poetry. He has taught at Columbia University, Fordham
University, and Plymouth University, and is currently a professor
at SUNY-Oneonta. He has translated two other novels from Icelandic:
The Ambassador, by Bragi Olafsson (Open Letter 2010) and A Child in
Reindoor Woods by Kristin Omarsdottir (Open Letter, 2012)."
"A candid, anecdotal, and lighthearted approach to political speeches is what propelled Gnarr into popularity in the wake of Iceland’s 2008 financial crisis. His Best Party, composed of punk rockers, campaigned on free towels in all swimming pools and a polar bear for the capital’s zoo, among other things.” — Foreign Policy
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