"A beautifully crafted narrative about a turn of the
nineteenth-century poet whose life on, and of, the land challenged
him to hold to his roots in Iceland while yet wrestling with the
vicissitudes of transplantation to the emerging cultures of North
America. This book is as much about the transformative particulars
of place as it is about the man whose extraordinary poetic record
of them reveals a soul torn by alternating turmoil and peace." -
John H. Wadland, Professor Emeritus, Department of Canadian
Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
About the author: Vioar Hreinsson, an independent literary
scholar, grew up on a farm in the North of Iceland. A lecturer on
various aspects of Icelandic literary and cultural history at
universities in Iceland, Denmark, and Canada, he also acted as
general editor of the acclaimed five-volume series The Complete
Sagas of Icelanders, published in 1997. His two-volume biography of
Icelandic-Canadian literary giant Stephan G. Stephansson was
published in Icelandic in 2002 and 2003. Volume I was nominated for
the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2002 and the completed work
received the 2003 Award for Excellence in Scholarly Writing. An
outspoken environmental and political activist and former Director
of the Reykjavik Academy, Vioar Hreinsson has since written two
biographies and worked on developing new and critical approaches to
Icelandic literary and cultural history.
About Stephan G. Stephansson: Comparative valuation may be
premature and unprofitable, but it is quite possible that he will
someday be acknowledged as the earliest poet of the first rank,
writing in any language, to emerge in the national life of Canada."
Watson Kirconnell President, Acadia University "Canada's Leading
Poet Stephan G. Stephansson" University of Toronto Quarterly Vol.
V, No. 2, January 1936
Reviews: "Yet the man who emerges from this portrait is
complicated and real. Hreinsson's Stephansson is proud, questioning
and sagacious an Icelandic heir to Emerson, Whitman or Thoreau. ...
A deferential, unsentimental portrait that ably captures
Stephansson's life and legacy." Kirkus Reviews
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vidar-hreinsson/wakeful-nights/
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