Mød digteren: Natasha S.
Meet Natasha S., a Russian-born writer based in Iceland who works across Icelandic, English, and Swedish. In this lesson, Natasha will discuss her journey as an exophonic poet, her literary work, and how writing in a second language shapes creativity, identity, and expression. She also introduces the concept of poetic distance, which can function as both a challenge and a creative tool in your practice.

 

 

 

Pólífónía af Erlendum Uppruna book and authors

Natasha literary career began with the anthology Polifónía af erlendum uppruna (Polyphony of Foreign Origin, 2021), which she initiated to highlight immigrant voices in the Icelandic literary scene.

 

 

In 2022, she published her debut poetry collection Máltaka á stríðstímum (Language Acquisition in War Times), which received the Tómas Guðmundsson Literary Prize and marked her as the first foreign-born writer to receive this recognition.

 

 

Bogen »Writers Adrift«

In 2023, she co-edited and co-authored the essay collection by ten foreign-born authors Skáldreki (Writers Adrift), published in both Icelandic and English.

 

 

Her second poetry collection, Mara kemur í heimsókn (Mara Comes to Visit), was published in 2025 and won the Icelandic literary prize Maístjarnan (“The May Star”), which is awarded annually to the best published Icelandic poetry collection. It has been translated into several languages, including Swedish, into which Natasha translated it herself.

 

 

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