Biography of Brian FitzGibbon

Brian's one-act play "The Papar", was staged by the Abbey Theatre at the Peacock in Dublin in 1997, and subsequently adapted into a short film called "Stranded" (watch film), premiered at the Tribeca Film Center in New York one year later. An Icelandic translation of the play was broadcast on Icelandic radio in 2005 and nominated for a Icelandic Gríman Award the same year. His full-length play, "Another Man", was a finalist at the Playwrights Slam at the 2005 Chichester Theatre Festival in the UK. A radio adaptation of the play was broadcast on Icelandic State radio in the spring of 2008 and nominated for an Icelandic Gríman Award. He has also translated a vast array of film scripts, treatments, stage plays and novels from Italian, French and Icelandic. His translation of the Icelandic cult novel "101 Reykjavik" by Hallgrimur Helgason, published by Faber & Faber in the UK and Scribner in the US in 2002, was hailed by the Guardian as "dazzling" (read Guardian review) and the New York Times as "lucid"(read NYT review).