Name Hugleikur Dagsson | ||
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Education Iceland Academy of the Arts Books Should You be Laughing, Is This Supposed to be Fun, Is This Some Kind of Joke?, Zombie Iceland, Avoid us | ||
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Þórarinn Hugleikur Dagsson ([huɣˈleiːkʰœr.̍daɣsɔːn]), nicknamed Hulli, born October 5, 1977 is an Icelandic artist. He received a B.A. degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002.
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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 three stage plays. The first Forðist okkur (Avoid us), is based on one of his books. It is a story about three dysfunctional families. The second, Leg (Uterus), is a musical about teenage pregnancy in the near future of Iceland. "Baðstofan" (Living Room) his third play, is a dark vision of Iceland in the 18th century. All plays received rave reviews and Hugleikur received "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, was published by Penguin Books in October 2007. Third book, Is This Some Kind of joke?, was published in 2008.
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