His translations of The Gisli of Gisli Sursson and The Saga of the Sworn Brothers have appeared in Penguin Classics (2004 and 2013). Among his recent publications are Inside Voices: Outside Light, a critical introduction to the poems of Sigurdur Palsson (Arc Publications, 2014) and An Intimacy of Words (Univ. of Iceland Press, 2015, ed.). He is currently completing the volume on tragedy for the Routledge Critical Idiom Series and a critical edition of Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse and No Man’s Land in Icelandic translation, both due to appear in 2016. He was recently elected as the first president of the newly founded Nordic Society for Shakespeare Studies (NorSS). Listen to Martin’s talk on Shakespeare and Modernist Theatre in the Shakespeare and Modernism series in Spring 2015.