Domesticity on Earth is Dagur Hjartarson’s eighth book. Thoughtfully crafted writing considers the everyday elements of life, everything that inspires happiness. The poems are personal, precise and potent in their simplicity, but leave behind the bittersweet notion of the transciene in everything around us.
“I think [Dagur] captures, in such a beautiful way, the calm, the still, the loveliness in the world.” SUNNA DIS, KILJAN, ICELANDIC NATIONAL TV
(b.1986) is amongst Iceland’s most interesting writers. His first novel, The Last Confession of Love, was shortlisted for The European Union Prize for Literature 2016. Hjartarson has also been awarded the Tomas Gudmundsson Poetry Prize and the Icelandic Literature Center’s Newcomer’s Grant as well as More about the author