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Quentin Bates
@graskeggur.bsky.social
Writer of books and other stuff, translator of other people's books. Á það til að þusa á Íslensku. If you send me a DM, I won't see it. So please don't.
graskeggur.com
The view is fantastic. But it's proper brass monkeys chilly today.
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The best place to relax!
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Maybe they think they're being helpful?
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
English translation coming sometime soon-ish
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Í Hörpunni í dag, einhver gaur með tveim goðsögnum, Birgitta H Halldórsdóttir og Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Not that I ever met either of them, but these gentlemen were my first friends in print in Icelandic, Ásgeir Jak and Jónas Stýrimaður (Jónas the Seafarer).
graskeggur.com/small-world/
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Napurt...
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Timeline cleanse! Post a beautiful or adorable thing, please.
October 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Hvernig er uppskeran hjá þér í ár, @liljawriter.bsky.social ?
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
And there are aliens making themselves at home among the willows...
October 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
These mushrooms are growing so fast it's almost as if they're on a mission to take over. I for one welcome our new fungus overlords.
October 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Cardboard boxes are being worn tight around this hips this season
October 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The last of the last of this year's blackberries. As tradition (or superstition?) demands, left for the fairies.
September 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Petrona shortlist of seven Nordic crime novels translated into English is revealed. Congrats to all, and especially to Óskar Guðmundsson... The winner will be announced 16th October.
www.petronaaward.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Tinkering with old cameras and mono film again... Quite chuffed with this one, quietly spooky.
August 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This was my workspace. Right up until it wasn't.
August 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
But only one drekahvíslari (dragon whisperer)
August 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ljónatemjari (lion tamer) and geimfari (astronaut) are surprisingly popular, as is snillingur (genius).
But this gentleman has gone one step beyond as stór snillingur (über genius)
August 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This just dropped in... Looks intriguing! Spies, spookiness, WW2 Iceland. Ticks all the right boxes! @sydmoore.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Nothing like being ahead of the game... First draft of the sequel to Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken is in the bag. Edits, checking, proof-reading to come.
Yes, it's just as meaty as Broken, and this translator did a little dance of delight when the Groke showed up again.
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
No harm in reminding the old man that feeding time will come around soon.
July 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Lovely people, in monochrome, taken on film, a while ago... @ewashe.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Enough writing, already. Go to bed, foolish human.
June 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This was taken quite a few years ago... At midnight on the summer solstice from Ósvör, near Bolungarvík.
June 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM