WRITER

Sjón

1962 - Today

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Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson (born 27 August 1962), known as Sjón ( SHOHN; Icelandic: [sjouːn]; meaning "sight" and being an abbreviation of his first name), is an Icelandic poet, novelist, lyricist, and screenwriter. Sjón frequently collaborates with the singer Björk and has performed with The Sugarcubes as Johnny Triumph. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sjón has received more than 763,455 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Sjón is the 6,298th most popular writer (down from 6,014th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Iceland (up from 111th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Icelander Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 760k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Söngur steinasafnarans
2007
Ég man ekki eitthvað um skýin
1991
Rökkurbýsnir
2009
Stálnótt
1987
Engill, pípuhattur og jarðarber
1989
Augu þín sáu mig
1994
Bjork Post
1995
Moonstone
Teenage boys, Fiction, Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of coal and the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in the small capital goes on as always. Sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn lives for the movies. Awake, he lives on the fringes of society. Asleep, he dreams in pictures, the threads of his own life weaving through the tapestry of the films he loves. When the Spanish flu epidemic comes ashore, killing hundreds of townspeople and forcing thousands to their sick beds, the shadows that linger at the edges of existence grow darker and Mani is forced to re-evaluate both the society around him and his role in it. Evoking the moment when Iceland's saga culture met the new narrative form of the cinema and when the isolated island became swept up in global events, this is the story of a misfit transformed by his experiences in a world where life and death, reality and imagination, secrets and revelations jostle for dominance.
2016
From the mouth of the whale
Heresy, Social conditions, Superstition
2011
The Whispering Muse
Fiction, general
2013
The whispering muse
Caeneus (Greek mythology), Fiction, Sea stories
Invited to sail on a Danish merchant ship in 1949, eccentric Icelander Valdimar Haraldsson discovers the second mate on the ship is none other than Caeneus, the hero of Greek mythology, who regales his fellow shipmates with tales of the Golden Fleece.
2012
Red Milk
Germanic literature, Nazis, Fiction
2021

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sjón ranks 6,298 out of 7,302. Before him are Tim O'Brien, Abby Mann, Paul Klebnikov, Delfina Bunge, Lascelles Abercrombie, and Colleen Hoover. After him are Iskandar Khatloni, Caryl Churchill, Lynne Cox, Kate Morton, Joanna Baillie, and Wayne C. Booth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Sjón ranks 488. Before him are George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, Jeff Dunham, Arnold Scholten, Seiji Maehara, Yevgeny Roizman, and Corrado Lorefice. After him are Arsen Fadzaev, Mehdi Jomaa, Aminata Touré, Kaoru Wada, Michelangelo Rampulla, and Jerry Rice.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Sjón ranks 99 out of 190. Before him are Magnús Guðmundsson (1879), Gyrðir Elíasson (1961), Jón Páll Sigmarsson (1960), Atli Eðvaldsson (1957), Steingrímur J. Sigfússon (1955), and Gylfi Sigurðsson (1989). After him are Kolbeinn Sigþórsson (1990), Heimir Hallgrímsson (1967), Einar Arnórsson (1880), Hera Björk (1972), Hannes Þór Halldórsson (1984), and Hildur Guðnadóttir (1982).

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Among WRITERS In Iceland

Among writers born in Iceland, Sjón ranks 25. Before him are Einar Már Guðmundsson (1954), Hallgrímur Helgason (1959), Þórbergur Þórðarson (1888), Snorri Hjartarson (1906), Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir (1940), and Gyrðir Elíasson (1961). After him are Jónína Leósdóttir (1954).

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