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Sep 10

Heimska sold to Marpress, Poland

Marpress editors in Poland have bought the publishing rights to the novel Heimska ( Stupidity ), to be published in spring 2025. Heimska...

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Aug 13

The Natural Laws sold to Sweden

The rights to my latest novel, Náttúrulögmálin ( The Natural Laws ), have been sold to Sweden. As per usual the publisher is the...

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Dec 4, 2023

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...

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Sep 13, 2023

New Novel: The Natural Laws

In the early summer of 1925, the youngest, most beautiful and most reluctant bishop in the history of Iceland summons the country’s...

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Aug 5, 2022

Author's Reading Month

I was in Slovakia and the Czech Republic last month for a festival called the Author's Reading Month, where Iceland was the guest of...

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Oct 26, 2021

Blues Triptych for Scrypth

I was recently invited by the inimitable Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset to do three works for the SCRYPTH research initiative. After some...

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Oct 22, 2021

Interview in LaPresse – Canada

The french speaking magazine LaPresse interviewed me recently about my novel Hans Blær – Troll, in french, just out from Editions...

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Oct 5, 2021

Interview for the Author's reading month festival in the Czech Republic

More info (in Czech) here.

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Sep 28, 2021

New book in Icelandic: Earnest

My new novel, Einlægur Önd (literally "Sincere Duck" – but for now called "Earnest" in English) is out in Icelandic in a few weeks....

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