Hugleikur Dagsson

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Þórarinn Hugleikur Dagsson, nicknamed Hulli, born October 5, 1977 is an Icelandic artist. He was a film critic in a popular Icelandic radio program on Radíó X and hosted another program called Hugleikur on the same station. Hugleikur is known for all kinds of visual and video art. He is most famous for his satirical comics filled with black humor, which have been published as books and in The Reykjavik Grapevine Magazine. Hugleikur has written two stage plays. The first Forðist okkur (Avoid us) is based on one of his books. It's a story about three dysfunctional families. The second, Leg (Uterus) is a musical about teenage pregnancy in the near future of Iceland. Both plays got rave reviews and Hugleikur was named "the playwright of the year" award for Forðist okkur. In 2006 Penguin Books published Should You Be Laughing at This?, which is a collection of cartoons previously published as Forðist okkur (Avoid us) by JPV books in Iceland. Is This Supposed to be Funny?, the second cartoon book, is published by Penguin Books in October 2007.

[edit] Bibliography

• Stage plays
  • Forðist okkur (English: Avoid Us), 2006
  • Leg (English: Uterus, the musical), 2007
  • Baðstofan (English: Living room), 2008

• Comic books
  • Elskið okkur (English: Love us) 2002
  • Drepið okkur (English: Kill us) 2003
  • Ríðið okkur (English: Fuck us) 2004
  • Forðist okkur (English: Avoid us). A collection containing, Love, Kill and Fuck Us 2005
  • Bjargið okkur (English: Save us) 2005
  • Fermið okkur (English: Confirm us) 2006
  • Should you be laughing at this? The English translation of Forðist okkur, published by Penguin Books 2006
  • Is This Supposed to be Funny? Published by Penguin Books October 2007
  • Fylgið okkur (English: Follow us) 2006
  • Eineygði kötturinn Kisi og hnakkarnir (English: Kisi, the one-eyed cat, and the backheads ("Hnakkar" is an icelandic slang for Metrosexual men) 2006
  • Ókei bæ! (English: Okay bye!) 2007
  • Is this supposed to be funny? The English translation of Bjargið okkur okkur, published by Penguin Books 2007
  • Eineygði kötturinn Kisi og Leyndarmálið (English: Kisi, the one-eyed cat, and the secret) 2007
  • Kaupið okkur (English: Buy us) 2007
  • Garðarshólmi 2008 (a comic story printed on every page in the Icelandic Telephone Registry)

[edit] Trivia

According to the appendix of Dagssons first book "Should I be lauging at this?" his full name, Thorarinn Hugleikur Dagsson means "Thor's eagle mind game son of day."

He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002.

His first play "Avoid Us" won him the best playwright award in 2006 at Griman, the Icelandic Theatre Awards.

An electrician named Friðrik Sólnes wrote the foreword for most of Dagsson's books.