Heimska sold to Marpress, Poland

Marpress headquarters, Gdańsk. Photo credit: Artur Andrzej

Marpress editors in Poland have bought the publishing rights to the novel Heimska (Stupidity), to be published in spring 2025. Heimska is a dystopic novel about a pair of married writers in a performatistic, vanity-driven near-future who happen to write the same book. It has previously been translated to Swedish (John Swedenmark, Rámus) and French (Eric Boury, Editions Metailie), where it won the Transfuge literary award for best Scandinavian fiction. The polish translation will be in the hands of Jacek Godek.

In unrelated news I will be travelling to Poland in october for Przestrzen Slowa Festival (Space of Word Festival) in Sosnowiec.

The Natural Laws sold to Sweden

With publisher Per Bergström in Malmö. Photo: Nadja Widell.

The rights to my latest novel, Náttúrulögmálin (The Natural Laws), have been sold to Sweden. As per usual the publisher is the tremendous Rámus – with its incredible catalogue of authors such as Goran Vojnovic, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Louise Gluck, Ilya Kaminsky, Jacques Roubaud, Terezia Mora and the list goes on and on. Translated by the phenomenal John Swedenmark the book is to be expected during the second half of 2025.

Nomination to the Icelandic Literary Award!

My new novel, The Natural Laws, has been nominated to the Icelandic Literary Award 2023. The jury's motivation said: „Full of humour and written with great eloquence. The story is brimming with cheerful story-telling, stylistic artistry and an off-beat plot. Its vitality and ease notwithstanding, it wrestles with grand philosophical questions resulting in a substantial and remarkable novel.“

The book has been unanimously well received, after a country-wide book tour of 38 stops last month. In the newspaper Heimildin it received four stars: „An immensely ambitious philosophical novel and social depiction that deals with the biggest question of the kingdom of God and man.“

The critics of the TV show Kiljan said (amongst other things): „Incredibly entertaining“, „bursting with life“ and quite simply „Wow and bravo!“.

Newspaper Morgunblaðið gave it four and a half stars and said: „It's doubtful I will read a funnier novel this year.“