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USA. In 2015 he received a honorable mention for creative
achievements jointly from Sumitra Mahajan, the speaker of
Lokh Sabha/Indian Parliament and The Indo-Icelandic Business
Association (IIBA), New Delhi.
He received an honorary two-year artist stipend from the Icelandic
government in 1999 and six months stipend in 2008 and 2010 as
well as a State travel grants several times. He has also received
several Icelandic and Italian architectural awards besides his
recent awards in India for his interior design, individual buildings
and urban planning and architectural nominations such as the
Icelandic DV cultural award several times.
Articles and interviews on Gudjon´s art, architecture and urban
views have appeared in The Times of India, Hindustan, The Indian
Express, The Hindu, The Telegraph and Shillong Times as well as
numeriously in Icelandic newspapers and other media e.g. as
in State Radio (RUV-2016) and TV (Mannamál, Hringbraut TV-
2016).
Essyas on Gudjon´s work have also apperared in international
professional magazines such as Art In America, NU, Inside Out
and Decoration Internationelle.
Gudjon was appointed a cultural advisor in 2013-2015 to
INTACH for the cultural and architectural enhancement for the
municipality of Pondicherry, India.
In the fall of 2017 Gudjon was re-elected on the governing board
of The Indo-Icelandic Business Association (IIBA), New-Delhi.
In 2016 Gudjon was one of the leading founders of the Icelandic-
Pondicherry Friendship Society (VIP) where he acts as a special
cultural advisor.
Gudjon is presently active in establishing an art and design
residency in Southwest-Iceland along with a international
sculpture park.
Nordic prize literature recipient author Thor Vilhjálmsson, wrote
a poem dedicated to Gudjon in 2006, published by Reykjavik Art
Museum. The poem “The Steel Ganesh”, a dedication to Gudjon
and his work is part of the book “The Glass House” a selection
of a poems by the distinguished poet, Doina Uregrau, published
by the American Library of Congress, 2015.
Furthermore, Gudjon´s character appears as a real persona
in the otherwise all fictional novel “SoHo Sins” by Richard
Vine, published in New York, 2016 by Hard Crime Books/Titan
publishers. Two anecdotes on Gudjon are to be found in the
collection “The Modern Movement: Pentimenti and other
Tectonic Fables” by Prof. Livio G. Dimitriu, published in 2017 by
the USA Institute, New York.
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