<b> In 2018, 2 residents stayed at HÖFN. Here they are:</b>

30 and 31. Thirtieth and thirty first residents, for three months, from the 8th of January until the 5th of April 2018, Fríða Ísberg and Tómas Ævar Ólafsson

This is the way they introduced themselves, first time they wrote to get some information about HÖFN:
"We are a couple from Reykjavík, both graduating from Háskóli Íslands, Tómas (28) in philosophy and me, Fríða (25), in Creative Writing. "

About Fríða Ísberg:

Fríða Ísberg was born in the Westman Islands in Iceland 1992.
She is a young author and reviewer living nowdays in Reykjavík.
Fríða studied Philosophy and Icelandic in the University of Iceland and continued there her graduate studies in Creative Writing.
She has been quite active in the poetry scene in Reykjavík, edited and published around dozen works of poetry or short fiction from 2015,
her work appearing also in various Icelandic magazines.
In 2016 she worked as an intern in London for the Times Literary Supplement, (known as the TLS).
Fríða is a member of the six female poetry collectiveThe Impostor Poets (in Icelandic: b]Svikaskáld/b
which published their first collective poetry manifesto in May 2017, named I’m not raising my hand (in Icelandic: bÉg er ekki að rétta upp hönd/b).
The Impostor Poets include Fríða Ísberg, Melkorka Ólafsdóttir, Ragnheiður Harpa Leifsdóttir,
Sunna Dís Másdóttir, Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir and Þórdís Helgadóttir.
In October 2017, Fríða’s debut collection of poetry, The Stretch Marks, (in Icelandic: Slitförin),
was published by Partus Press in Reykjavík.
The Stretch Marks received The Grassroots Grant 2017 from Icelandic Literature Center,
The Booksellers Choice Award for Poetry 2017
and a nomination for The Icelandic Women’s Prize of Literature in 2018.

Fríða came to Höfn to work (among many other projects!) on a short story collection, which stories encircle various themes such as :
anxiety, ambition, pornography, 4th generation of feminism, privilege, obsessive body disorders and egomania.
In the last week of March she hoped she could be joined by The Imposter Poets
to work on a new collective poetry collection, which could focus, (may be?) on female heritage in witchcraft, memory and empowerment.
The "rendez-vous" between them (almost) all in Marseille did work out!.....
They did not say much, keeping some secret about the fruit of this meeting, so nothernlike, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, but we know it WAS PROLIFIC!.
A beautiful and joyful evening, mainly devoted to Poetry, took place the 26th of March at HÖFN, gathering everybody together,
including Brigitte and Vincent who welcomed Melkorka Ragnheiður Harpa, Þóra et Sunna Dís for 4 days in their beautiful home...
HAVE A LOOK: AN EVENING DEVOTED TO ICELANDIC POETRY, the 26th of March 2018!

About Tómas Ævar Ólafsson :

Tómas Ævar Ólafsson was born in Iceland 1989.
He is a M.A graduate of philosophy from The University of Iceland,
focusing primarily on subjectivity research, the metaphysics of immanence and buddhist theory.
In 2015, 2016 and 2017 he wrote a series of short stories centering around the character Byltíngur
appearing in an Icelandic student journal of philosophy by the same name.
In 2016 he co-authored the article Kristín Svíadrottning (in English: Cristina, queen of Sweden)
with Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir, appearing in Árið með heimspekingum - 2016, a book that catalogs 52 women philosophers.
In 2016 he worked as assistant teacher in an overview-course on Asian philosophy.
In 2016 and 2017 he wrote articles and produced podcasts for the philosophy collective Heimspekiverksmiðjan (in English: The Philosophy Factory),
authoring such articles as Ryk (Dust), Stýring og ögun (Control and discipline)
and Er list leiðinleg? ((Is Art Boring?).
In 2017 he produced a radio show about the concept of nothingness
called Ekkert skiptir Máli (Nothing matters),
which ran over the summer on the Icelandic national radio, Rúv.

Tómas came to HÖFN to work on a few different projects:
- Two essays concerning the evolution of subjectivity within advanced capitalism from the 20th century and into the 21st.
- He also wanted to collect fragments of theory, music, soundscapes, poetry, fiction and direct experience for a metaphysical essay or a book
under the working title Harmónía, which would study the harmonic relations between all things corporeal, etherial or virtual.
He also wanted to use the opportunity to improve his French language skills and get to know the Hotel du Nord community.