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The Hobcast Book Show232: Ice and Crime - with Sólveig PálsdóttirIf you're beginning to think we're obsessed with Icelandic crime fiction here on The Hobcast Bookshow - you may be right. We're delighted to be joined this week by our third great Icelandic crime fiction writer in recent months, Sólveig Pálsdóttir, the author of the popular Ice and Crime series. As we explore in this wide-ranging interview, Sólveig enjoyed a varied career prior to becoming an author, including several years as one of Iceland's leading actors, before family life encouraged a switch to teaching, with the occasional appearance in TV dramas. But now her principal focu...
2025-08-121h 27RÚV English RadioEpisode 465 - ICELAND NOIR: SÓLVEIG PÁLSDÓTTIR & YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIRToday, RÚV English Radio delves into the literary darkness of Iceland Noir, which starts today.
Iceland Noir (https://icelandnoir.weebly.com/) is held in Reykjavík at the darkest time of year. Founded by authors Ragnar Jónasson and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, the festival started as a celebration of crime fiction in 2013. Although the name has stayed the same, the festival has evolved and grown and includes many genres, and events on film and television.
Darren spoke to Yrsa, and author Sólveig Pálsdóttir, who has taken part in the festival since it began.
RÚV English R...
2024-11-2034 minMannlegi þátturinnLeikárið í Þjóðleikhúsinu, vinkill um forystufé og Signý lesandinnVið héldum áfram yfirferð okkar um leik- og sviðslistahúsin, hvað verður á fjölum þeirra í vetur. Í dag var það Þjóðleikhúsið, Magnús Geir Þórðarson, Þjóðleikhússtjóri, kom og sagði okkur allt um það hvernig leikveturinn verður þar á bæ.
Við fengum vinkil frá Guðjóni Helga Ólafssyni í dag. Að þessu sinni fjallaði vinkillinn um forystufé. Það mun vera sérstakur fjárstofn, með sérstaka eiginleika sem útlistaðir verða. Auk þess verður gluggað í bók sem skrifuð var um miðja síðustu öld með það fyrir augum að varðveita sögur af forystufé, auk þess sem eins slík...
2024-09-1650 minMannlegi þátturinnLeikárið í Þjóðleikhúsinu, vinkill um forystufé og Signý lesandinnVið héldum áfram yfirferð okkar um leik- og sviðslistahúsin, hvað verður á fjölum þeirra í vetur. Í dag var það Þjóðleikhúsið, Magnús Geir Þórðarson, Þjóðleikhússtjóri, kom og sagði okkur allt um það hvernig leikveturinn verður þar á bæ.
Við fengum vinkil frá Guðjóni Helga Ólafssyni í dag. Að þessu sinni fjallaði vinkillinn um forystufé. Það mun vera sérstakur fjárstofn, með sérstaka eiginleika sem útlistaðir verða. Auk þess verður gluggað í bók sem skrifuð var um miðja síðustu öld með það fyrir augum að varðveita sögur af forystufé, auk þess sem eins slík...
2024-09-1650 minMannlegi þátturinnLeikárið í Þjóðleikhúsinu, vinkill um forystufé og Signý lesandinnVið héldum áfram yfirferð okkar um leik- og sviðslistahúsin, hvað verður á fjölum þeirra í vetur. Í dag var það Þjóðleikhúsið, Magnús Geir Þórðarson, Þjóðleikhússtjóri, kom og sagði okkur allt um það hvernig leikveturinn verður þar á bæ.
Við fengum vinkil frá Guðjóni Helga Ólafssyni í dag. Að þessu sinni fjallaði vinkillinn um forystufé. Það mun vera sérstakur fjárstofn, með sérstaka eiginleika sem útlistaðir verða. Auk þess verður gluggað í bók sem skrifuð var um miðja síðustu öld með það fyrir augum að varðveita sögur af forystufé, auk þess sem eins slík...
2024-09-1650 min
The Conversation with Nadine MathesonQuentin Bates: Author. Imposter Syndrome Is Part Of The JobSend us a textQuentin Bates is the author of Gunnhildur Mystery novels set in present-day Iceland – and as a translator he has worked with some of Iceland’s leading authors including Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Stella Blómkvist, Einar Kárason, Ragnar Jónasson, Jónína Leósdóttir, Óskar Guðmundsson and more.Quentin's latest book Cold Malice is out now.Cold MaliceReykjavík detective Gunnhildur Gísladóttir tries not to believe in ghosts. But when Helgi, one of her team is certain he's seen a m...
2023-12-121h 01
Crime Time FMJónína Leósdóttir, Sólveig Pálsdóttir & Quentin Bates In Person With PaulIcelandic authors JÓNÍNA LEÓSDÓTTIR, SÓLVEIG PÁLSDÓTTIR & translator QUENTIN BATES chat to Paul Burke about the novels DECEIT and HARMDECEIT: Reykjavík detective Soffía finds herself struggling to cope with a single-handed investigation into a spate of malicious acts taking place across the city, and enlists help from an unexpected direction. Her psychologist ex-husband Adam has advised the police before, but with Covid raging in the city, would prefer to stay holed up in his basement flat as he deals with challenges in both his working and private life.
2023-01-171h 01
Book Lover's Companion - The English VersionHarm: Haunted People, Icelandic Nature and the Quest for a Murderer. A conversation with Sólveig PálsdóttirFor this episode we had the pleasure of a conversation with returning guest Sólveig Pálsdóttir. We spoke about her newly published and translated book "Harm", the importance of mental health, how she is very much interested in people and why and how the become who they are and what they do. And so much more. Enjoy!
Find out more about Sólveig here:
https://corylusbooks.com/solveig-palsdottir-2/
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2022-11-141h 00
Crime Time FMBOGDAN HRIB In Person With Paul - Part 2Part II: BOGDAN HRIB chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE, Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture.RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work.But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more. This time it turns into a tangled web of shady business dealings an...
2022-03-3050 min
Crime Time FMBOGDAN HRIB In Person With Paul PART 1BOGDAN HRIB chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE, Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture. RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work.But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more. This time it turns into a tangled web of shady business dealings and international politics. Mo...
2022-03-2847 min
The Blood Brothers Crime Writing PodcastBlood Brothers Episode 77 - Iceland SpecialRob Parker talks to Sólveig Pálsdóttir and Óskar Guòmundsson about their books, the character of Iceland and the challenges it brings as a writer, Iceland Noir and the annual Book Flood.
2021-12-1757 min
Face Amassment of Full Audiobooks in Self Development, Health & WellnessSilenced - Sólveig PálsdóttirListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: SilencedAuthor: Sólveig PálsdóttirNarrator: Ann RichardsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8:23:34Language: EnglishRelease date: 12-14-2021Publisher: Tantor MediaGenres: Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, Noir, International MysterySummary:As a police team is called in to investigate a woman's suicide at the Holmsheiði prison outside Reykjavik, to detective Guðgeir Fransson it looks like a tragic but straightforward case.
It's only afterwards that the pieces begin to fall into place...
2021-12-148h 23Download Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveSilenced by Sólveig PálsdóttirPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552110to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Silenced
Series: #2 of Ice and Crime
Author: Sólveig Pálsdóttir
Narrator: Ann Richardson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Release date: December 14, 2021
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
As a police team is called in to investigate a woman's suicide at the Hólmsheiði prison outside Reykjavík, to detective Guðgeir Fransson it looks like a tragic but straightforward case. It's only afterwards that the pieces begin to fall into place and he takes a deeper interest in Kristín Kjarr's troubled background, and why she had found...
2021-12-148h 23
Tone up a Lot of Full Audiobooks in Self Development, Health & WellnessFox - Sólveig PálsdóttirListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: FoxAuthor: Sólveig PálsdóttirNarrator: Ann RichardsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7:49:45Language: EnglishRelease date: 11-23-2021Publisher: Tantor MediaGenres: Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, Noir, International MysterySummary:Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavik police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end job in a sm...
2021-11-237h 49Download Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveThe Fox by Sólveig PálsdóttirPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552043to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Fox
Series: #1 of Ice and Crime
Author: Sólveig Pálsdóttir
Narrator: Ann Richardson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Release date: November 23, 2021
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavík police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end job in a small town in eastern Iceland. His detective's instincts are triggered when he hears about a foreig...
2021-11-237h 49
Mín leið#6 Sólveig K. PálsdóttirGestur Ásthildar Ómarsdóttur í þessum þætti er Sólveig K. Pálsdóttir markaðs-og kynningarstjóriLjóssins sem hefur farið óvenjulega leið til þess að komast í gegnum glímuna við krabbamein.
2021-10-2822 min
Writer TypesEva Björg Ægisdóttir, Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Quentin Bates, Carin GerhardsenIt's an all Scandinavian special! Eric is joined by Icelandic authors Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (Girls Who Lie), Sólveig Pálsdóttir (Silenced) along with British author who writes about Iceland, Quentin Bates (the office Gunnhilder series), who also translates many books into English. And from Sweden, Carin Gerhardsen (Black Ice, the Hammarby series)All music used by permission. Music in this episode includes:Blueprint by JahzzarSelf Driving by SroBoots for Seven Miles by KielokazHindsight by Ian Sutherland Learn more about...
2021-06-1535 min
Book Lover's CompanionEpisode 33 - Krimispannung zwischen Island und den Schweizer Bergen und noch mehrIn dieser Episode geht es um Buchempfehlungen aus dem Krimi- und Thrillergenre und ein Buch, bei dem es dem Leser überlassen bleibt zu beurteilen, ob es eine Empfehlung ist oder nicht. Viel Spaß bei dieser Episode!
Bücher von Sólveig Pálsdóttir:
Eiskaltes Gift: Ein Island-Krimi
Tote Wale: Ein Island-Krimi
The Fox (Ice and Crime Book 1) (English Edition)
Silenced (Ice and Crime Book 2) (English Edition)
Bücher von Louise Mangos:
Strangers on a Bridge (English Edition)
Her Husband’s Secrets (English Edition)
2021-05-1732 minBook Lover's CompanionEpisode 33 - Krimispannung zwischen Island und den Schweizer Bergen und noch mehrIn dieser Episode geht es um Buchempfehlungen aus dem Krimi- und Thrillergenre und ein Buch, bei dem es dem Leser überlassen bleibt zu beurteilen, ob es eine Empfehlung ist oder nicht. Viel Spaß bei dieser Episode!
Bücher von Sólveig Pálsdóttir:
Eiskaltes Gift: Ein Island-Krimi
Tote Wale: Ein Island-Krimi
The Fox (Ice and Crime Book 1) (English Edition)
Silenced (Ice and Crime Book 2) (English Edition)
Bücher von Louise Mangos:
Strangers on a Bridge (English Edition)
Her Husband’s Secrets (English Edition)
2021-05-1732 min
Book Lover's Companion - The English VersionEpisode 31 - Silenced: A conversation with Sólveig PálsdóttirIn this episode we have a chat with the lovely Sólveig Pálsdóttir about her latest book "Silenced". She told a lot about what interests her in her characters, Iclandic culture and her upcoming projects. Enjoy!
Book by Sólveig Pálsdóttir:
The Fox (Ice and Crime Book 1)
Silenced (Ice and Crime Book 2)
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Music: English Country Garden by Aaron Kenny
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2021-05-1755 min
LímónutréðHvað segja nýútskrifaðir leikskólakennarar?Við áttum skemmtilegt samtal við þrjá nýútskrifaða leikskólakennara sem allar fengu viðurkenningu frá Reykjavíkurborg fyrir framúrskarandi meistaraverkefni. Þær Ingunn Heiða Kjartansdóttir, Sólveig Björg Pálsdóttir og Valdís Ingimarsdóttir segja okkur fá meistaraverkefnunum sínum og hvernig er að vera nýútskrifaður leikskólakennari í dag. Við í Límónutrénu erum bjartsýnar á framtíð stéttarinnar eftir þetta samtal.
2019-11-1651 min