Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Eva Björg was born and raised in Akranes, the small town featured in her books. The Creak on the Stairs was her debut novel. The book went on to win the Blackbird Award and became an Icelandic bestseller. In 2021 The Creak on the Stairs won the British Crime Writers Association (CWA) New Blood Dagger.
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Emily Gunnis
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Thank you for checking out my author page. Even writing this is a dream come true for me.
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Vigdís Grímsdóttir
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
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Heiða Vigdís Sigfúsdóttir
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Awais Khan
Awais Khan is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Durham University. He has studied Creative Writing at Faber Academy in London.
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He is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (published by Simon & Schuster, Isis Audio and Hera Books) and NO HONOUR (published by Orenda Books).
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In The Man Who Died, Tuomainen displays a new side of his authorship and unveils his multifaceted ability in full. The novel, which combines Tuomainen’s trademark suspense with a darkly tinged humor, has won the hearts of readers and critics alike, and secured him the new title of King of Noir Comedy. The Man Who Died also became an international bestseller, shortlisting for the Petrona and Last Laugh Awards.
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He was co-founder and first editor of the English language paper Reykjavik Grapevine in 2003, which is still going strong. As correspondent for Associated Press and The Guardian, he covered such events as the return of Bobby Fischer, the economic crisis and the Eyjafjallajökull eruption. His previous novels include King of the North (2007) and The Last Lover (2013), both of which received excellent reviews.
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
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Ronald Bagliere
I write character driven stories that are placed in far away places that delve into the human condition, the things we do to survive, and to find meaning in our lives. The Nepal stories are based on my time there over the last ten years, and they strive to give the reader a glimpse of this fragile, yet beautiful and harsh land the people live in. You'll find a multitude of different characters in them, not only from Nepal, but from other places in the world that tell how and why they came there, and how the land and people affected their lives and changed them for ever.
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Steinunn Jóhannesdóttir
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Inger Wolf
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Inger Wolf is an International Bestselling Danish mystery and thriller writer.
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Venezia Miller
Engineer by day, writer by night—that's how I would describe myself. Since childhood, I have been fascinated with how writers can create entire worlds with simple words and draw others into their stories. I remember spending my summer holidays as a teenager reading detective stories and trying to write my own tales in the style of Agatha Christie on an old typewriter (yes, I'm that old!).
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In the evenings, I would read my freshly typed pages to my younger sister, always ending on a cliffhanger to keep her longing for more. Those were precious moments. But as I got older and my schedule filled up with a job, husband, and children, there was little time left for writing. Eventually, I realized that all those stories in my head had disappeared.
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Jónína Leósdóttir
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Torill Thorup
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Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Kristín grew up in Hafnarfjörður. She studied Literature and Spanish at the University of Iceland, then pursued Spanish at the Universities of Barcelona and Copenhagen. She has published poetry, novels, short stories and plays.
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Her first publication was the poetry book Í húsinu okkar er þoka (There is Fog in Our House) in 1987, and her first novel, Svartir brúðarkjólar (Black Wedding Dresses) came out in 1992.
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Ívar Örn Katrínarson
Ívar Örn Katrínarson is and Icelandic writer and musician.
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Formerly known as Dr. Mister from the notorious duo Dr. Mister & Mr. Handsome Ívar rose to fame in the Icelandic music scene in 2006. Ívar´s life took a turn soon after his music career started as he made a name for himself as a criminal in the Icelandic underworld.
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Auður Haralds
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Robert Conroy
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Þórdís Helgadóttir
Thordis Helgadottir is an Icelandic author.
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Her work has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literature Prize, The Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, Maístjarnan – The Icelandic Poetry Prize and won The Jón úr Vör Poetry Prize. She was the 2019-20 Resident Playwright at The Reykjavík City Theatre.
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Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1950. She finished her Matriculation Examination at the Reykjavík Higher Secondary Grammar School in 1968 and a BA in Psychology and Philosophy at the University College in Dublin in 1972.
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She published her first book, the poetry collection Sífellur (Continuances), 19 years old and received immediate attention. In 1995 she received the Icelandic Literature Prize for the novel Hjartastaður (Heart Place). Her books have been translated into other languages and a French movie based on the novel Tímaþjófurinn (The Thief of Time) premiered in 1999.
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Frida Nilsson
Frida Nilsson (born 1979) is a Swedish children’s writer whose first book was published in 2004. She has won numerous international shortlistings and prizes, including the August Prize, the German Youth Literature Prize, Expressens Heffaklump and the Astrid Lindgren Prize. She was chosen as one of the best emerging writers in Europe under 39. Nilsson’s writing is characterised by playfulness and sincerity. She has been compared to Roald Dahl and Barbro Lindgren.
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Cecilia Ekbäck
Cecilia was born in the north of Sweden; her parents come from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK.
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Einar Kárason
After finishing highschool in 1975, Einar studied literature at the University of Iceland, graduating in 1978. He worked a number of part-time jobs during his studies, but since 1978 Einar has been a full time writer.
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He sat on the board of the Writer's Union of Iceland from 1984 to 1986, was vice-chairman from 1986 to 1988 and chairman from 1988 to 1992. He has been one of the board members of the Reykjavík International Literary Festival since 1985.
Einar Kárason started his writing career by publishing poetry in literary magazines in the years 1978 – 1980, and his first novel, Þetta eru asnar Guðjón (These Are Idiots, Guðjón), appeared in 1981. He is best-known for his trilogy about life in one of the post war "barracks neighbourhoods" of -
Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir
Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir was born on January 21, 1949 in Hafnarfjörður. She graduated from Iceland's Teacher Training College in 1970 and received a B.A. degree in German and Icelandic from the University of Iceland in 1991. Kristín studied German at the Goethe Institut in Bremen in Germany from 1979 - 1980, took courses in education in Denmark 1985 - 1986 and a journalist course in Germany in 1992. She taught at the primary schools in Reykjavík from 1975 – 1988. In 1988 Kristín Marja switched jobs and started working as a journalist for the daily Morgunblaðið until 1995.
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Kristín Marja's first novel, Mávahlátur (Seagull's Laughter) was published in 1995. The book was adapted for the stage and shown in the Reykjavík City Theatre in 1998. T -
Lisa Sell
Lisa Sell is an author of mystery, thriller, and crime novels. Her novels can be dark, nostalgic, serious, and humorous.
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A sense of place in her writing is important to Lisa. Her books are often set in Oxfordshire and Dorset.
When she's not writing, Lisa is usually cat wrangling, adding cheese to most dishes, or tackling her to-be-read pile of books.
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Hallgrímur Helgason
Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic author, painter, translator, cartoonist and essayist. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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His most famous works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film, and Höfundur Íslands (Iceland's Author), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001. He was nominated for the prize again in 2005 for the novel Rokland (Stormland), along with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 101 Reykjavík and Rokland. -
Beth Lewis
Beth Lewis was raised in the wilds of Cornwall and split her childhood between books and the beach. She has travelled extensively and has had close encounters with black bears, killer whales, and Great White sharks. She has been, at turns, a bank cashier, fire performer, juggler, and is currently working publishing. Her debut novel, The Wolf Road, was shortlisted for the inaugural Glass Bell Award and her third novel, The Origins of Iris was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She lives in Oxford with her wife and daughter.
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Bradd Chambers
Bradd Chambers is a writer from Derry~Londonderry in Northern Ireland. He has an NCTJ Diploma in Journalism from his local North West Regional College, as well as a BA (Hons) degree in the same subject from Liverpool John Moores University. He has studied Creative Writing for years at colleges around the UK and currently writes for several online magazines.
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He started out setting his books in a fictional English town called Rong Valley, before relocating to his hometown of Derry. He's also set a book in Liverpool. If you're new to Bradd's books, he suggests reading them in order of publication, as there are some repeat characters and Easter eggs, as well as follow on events, but they can also be read easily as standalones. They are as follo -
Sara Blaedel
Sara Blaedel is the author of the #1 international bestselling series featuring Detective Louise Rick. Her books are published in thirty-seven countries. In 2014 Sara was voted Denmark’s most popular novelist for the fourth time. She is also a recipient of the Golden Laurel, Denmark’s most prestigious literary award.
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In 2016 she published the first book "The Undertakers Daughter" in a new trilogy set in Racine, Wisconsin:
Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father–who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago–has died. And he’s left her -
Stefán Máni
Stefán grew up in Ólafsvík and lived there until over the age of 20. After school he did general manual labour and service jobs. To name a few, he worked in the fishing industry, did building work, plumbing, gardening, was a security guard, a cleaner, worked with teenagers and cared for the mentally ill.
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Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
Guðrún Eva's first book, Sóley sólufegri, came out in 1998 in a very limited edition. In the same year the publishing house Bjartur published her short story collection Á meðan hann horfir á þig ertu María mey (While He Watches You, You are the Virgin Mary), to much acclaim. Since then Guðrún Eva has published five novels, a collection of philosophical stories for children published by The National Centre for Educational Materials and a book of poetry. She has also translated novels by foreign authors.
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Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir
Nanna Rögnvaldardottir is Iceland’s most popular cookbook author and food writer. Her first book, the food encyclopaedia Matarást (Love of Food), published in 1998, was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize for Non-Fiction and was named Reference Book of the Year by the Icelandic Librarians Association. In 2000, Nanna was a co-recipient of the Hagthenkir Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to her and food historian Hallgerdur Gisladottir "for remarkable, fundamental writing of high quality about cooking and cuisine, national and international."
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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir was born in Iceland in 1958, studied art history in Paris and has lectured in History of Art at the University of Iceland. Her earlier novel, The Greenhouse (2007), won the DV Culture Award for literature and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award. She currently lives and works in Reykjavik.
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Hugrún Björnsdóttir
Hugrún Björnsdóttir is an Icelandic writer and project manager. Her debut novel, "Rót alls ills" (e. The Root of All Evil) is a romantic thriller and was published by Storytel in July 2024. The novel introduced the protagonist Kamilla Brim, a forensic psychologist. Hugrún has already started writing the second novel in the Kamilla series, which is expected in 2025.
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When not writing fiction, Hugrún shares her passion for literature through Lestrarklefinn, a community of writers, editors and book enthusiasts, with their online platform lestrarklefinn.is dedicated to book and theatre reviews. -
Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir
Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir (f.1998) er skáld og tónlistarkona frá Reykjavík. Hún gaf út fyrstu skáldsögu sína Skotheld (2018) tvítug að aldri og hefur síðan gert það gott í tónlistarsenunni. Hún er stofnmeðlimur og einn aðaltextahöfundur hljómsveitarinnar Ólafur Kram sem sigraði músíktilraunir 2021. Moldin heit er hennar önnur skáldsaga. Fyrir hana hlaut hún Nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta.
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Skúli Sigurðsson
Skúli er höfundur spennubókanna Stóri bróðir (2022), Maðurinn frá São Paulo (2023), Slóð sporðdrekans (2024) og Ragnarök undir jökli (2025).
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Stóri bróðir hlaut Blóðdropann, íslensku glæpasagnaverðlaunin, og Maðurinn frá São Paulo var tilnefnd þeirra.
Skúli er menntaður lögfræðingur með reynslu af blaðamennsku, mannúðarstörfum hjá Sameinuðu þjóðunum og flóttamannarétti. -
Anna Margrét Sigurðardóttir
Anna Margrét Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic author who holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Iceland. Her debut novel, Hringferðin, was published in 2021 and received such acclaim that it sparked the creation of a crime series featuring the detective duo introduced in the book. The second book in the series, Örvænting, was released last year, followed by the third, Öskrið, earlier this year.
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In addition to her crime series, Anna Margrét has written a children's adventure story, Dularfulli Steinninn í Garðinum, which was published in November 2023. The novel was nominated for the Storytel Awards.
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Rwanda in 1979. She survived the genocide against the Tutsi people and in 1994 moved to France, where she still lives, to study political science. She has published novels and poetry.
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Bev Thomas
Bev Thomas was a clinical psychologist in the NHS for many years. She currently works as an organizational consultant in mental health and other services. She lives in London with her family.
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Kathryn Hughes
Kathryn Hughes was born in Altrincham, near Manchester. After completing a secretarial course, Kathryn met her husband and they married in Canada. For twenty-nine years they ran a business together, raised two children and travelled when they could to places such as India, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Kathryn and her family now make their home in a village near Manchester. The Letter, Kathryn's first novel, was an international bestseller, and her second The Secret has been highly acclaimed. Kathryn is now at work on her third novel, The Key.~ Headline Publishing
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Rúnar Helgi Vignisson
Rúnar Helgi studied English and Icelandic at the University of Iceland and got his BA in 1981. He studied French for a winter at the University of Grenoble, and German at the Goethe Institute in Freiburg the winter after. Rúnar Helgi stayed in Copenhagen for a year before getting his MA in Literary Studies from the University of Iowa in 1987. For the next two years, he continued studying there and also taught. He then moved to Chicago for a year, and then Perth in Australia. Since 1992 Rúnar Helgi has been a part-time teacher at the University of Iceland, as well as writing articles and working on the radio.
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His first novel, Ekkert slor (Nothing to Sneer At), came out in 1984. In 1990 his novel Nautnastuldur (Theft of Pleasure) was nominated -
Halldór Armand
Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (f. 1986) lauk meistaraprófi í lögum við Háskóla Íslands árið 2012 og hlaut nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta fyrir handritið að fyrstu skáldsögu sinni, Vince Vaughn í skýjunum (2013). Síðan þá hafa komið út Drón (2014), Aftur og aftur (2017), Bróðir (2020) og nú síðast Mikilvægt rusl (2024). Hann hefur einnig sent frá sér esseyjusafnið Við erum bara að reyna að hafa gaman (2022). Bækur hans hafa komið út á fjölda tungumála og pistlar hans um samfélagsleg málefni njóta mikilla vinsælda.
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Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (b.1986) is one of the young, extraordinary voices on the Icelandic literary scene. He completed a master’s degree in law at the University of Iceland in 2012 and received the Greenshots Award for -
Tryggvi Emilsson
Tryggvi Emilsson rithöfundur (1902-1993) bjó í Blesugrófinni frá 1947 til 1956. Æviminningar hans eru mikilvæg heimild um líf og baráttu verkafólks á Íslandi á tuttugustu öld en þetta eru bækurnar Fátækt fólk, Baráttan um brauðið og Fyrir sunnan. Þær komu út á árunum 1976 – 1979 og voru tvær fyrstu bækurnar tilnefndar til Bókmenntaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs.
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Eiríkur Bergmann
Eirikur Bergmann is Professor of Politics at Bifrost University, Iceland.
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Cari Thomas
I grew up in the Wye Valley area of Wales and moved to London in my twenties. I worked as a journalist for various publications and at a creative agency, before finally doing what I'd always wanted to do. I quit my job and wrote a book about magic.
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I split my days between freelance work and roaming London, writing in cafés and libraries and any hideouts I could find, eating far too much cake and imagining a magical world hidden within today's London. A world of wild, ancient witchcraft. A world of modern fairytale. A world where libraries made of books breathe dusty pages beneath the city and witch clubs serve up magical cocktails and vintage shops sell memories. A world where magic gleams both light and very, very dark. It was fun. It resu -
Jón Gnarr
Jón Gnarr Kristinsson is an Icelandic actor, comedian, and politician who became the Mayor of Iceland's capital city Reykjavík on 15 June 2010, and stepped down on 16 June 2014. Born Jón Gunnar Kristinsson, Jón legally changed his middle name in 2005 to the way his mother pronounced it when he was a boy. He is married to Jóhanna Jóhannsdóttir with whom he has five children. His daughter, Margret, is a fitness model and IFBB competitor.
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Jón Gnarr suffered from dyslexia and had learning difficulties as a child. Jón Gnarr recounts these experiences in his book The Indian, an autobiographical account of his childhood. Jón Gnarr has been diagnosed with ADHD and has actively discussed his life with ADHD publicly.
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Lilja Sigurðardóttir
Lilja´s newest book, Netið ((Tangle) was published by Forlagid publishing in October 2016 and is the second book in the Reykjavík Noir Trilogy.
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Lilja started her writing career in 2008 when she sent a manuscript of a novel to a competition run by the publishing house Bjartur whose aim was to find the Icelandic Dan Brown. Lilja got a publishing deal out of the competition and in 2009 her first book, the crime novel Spor (Steps), came out, which she wrote in her spare time. Her second book, Fyrirgefning (Foregiveness) was published a year later but after that Lilja wrote mostly for theatre for the coming years. She won the Icelandic Theatre Awards for Best Play of the Year in 2014 for her staged debut Stóru börnin (Big Babies). But in 2015 she -
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Gunnar Staalesen
Gunnar Staalesen is a Norwegian writer. Staalesen has a cand.philol degree from Universitetet i Bergen and he has worked at Den Nationale Scene, the main theater in Bergen.
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Eve Smith
Eve writes speculative fiction, mainly about the things that scare her.
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Longlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and described by Waterstones as "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", Eve Smith’s debut novel The Waiting Rooms, set during a global antibiotic crisis was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award and was a Guardian book of the month.
Her second thriller, Off Target, about a world where genetic engineering of children has become routine, was a pick of the month in The Times, who described it as: "an astute, well-researched and convincing novel of ideas".
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Rod Reynolds
Rod Reynolds was born in London and, after a successful career in advertising, working as a media buyer, he decided to get serious about writing. He recently completed City University's two-year Crime Writing Masters course and THE DARK INSIDE is his first novel. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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Ronnie Turner
Ronnie Turner grew up in Cornwall, the youngest in a large family. At an early age, she discovered a love of literature and dreamed of being a published author. Ronnie now lives in Dorset with her family and three dogs. In her spare time, she reviews books on her blog and enjoys long walks on the coast. She is currently working on her second novel.
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Ronnie's debut novel, Lies Between Us, will be published by HQ Digital in October 2018.
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Katie Allen
I grew up in Warwickshire and now live in South London with my husband, children, dog, cat and stick insects. My first novel, Everything Happens for a Reason, was published in 2021 and praised for its mix of humour, honesty and raw emotion. My second book, Happy is the One, will be published in January 2025.
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I write fiction with autobiographical elements, and I hope to touch on experiences that many of us grapple with. My upcoming novel, Happy is the One, draws on the challenges of caring for a sick parent and coming to terms with childhood losses.
My first novel drew on my experience of stillbirth - a topic I hope to bring out of the shadows. Our son, Finn, was stillborn in 2010, and my grief and the experience of being on maternity leave -
Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir
Icelandic author Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir (1974) studied history in Reykjavík and Salamanca and journalism at Columbia University in New York and previously worked in Copenhagen before moving back to Reykjavík, where she lives with her husband, children, and stepchildren. Her bestselling debut, Island (2016), was nominated for the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize in 2017. When she isn’t writing, Sigríður works as a journalist and television news anchor at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Her highly anticipated third novel, The Fires, is a bestseller and viral hit in Iceland.
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Thomas Enger
Thomas Enger was born in Oslo in 1973, but grew up in Jessheim. He has an education in journalism, and has also studied sports and history. He worked at the Norwegian online newspaper Nettavisen for nine years.
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He has composed music and written books since the age of 18. He is also working on a musical.
Enger's first book, Skinndød, was published in 2010. It is the first book in a series of at least six featuring crime journalist Henning Juul. The second installment, Fantomsmerte, was released in the fall of 2011; Blodtåke, the third book, is scheduled for a 2012 release. -
Ólafur Gunnarsson
Ólafur Gunnarsson was born in Reykjavík on July 18, 1948. He completed a commercial diploma from The Commercial College of Iceland in 1968. Ólafur worked for the merchant Ásbjörn Ólafsson hf. from 1965-1971 and was a driver with the Reykjavík medical emergency services from 1972-1978. Ólafur has worked as a writer since 1974.
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Poetry by Ólafur Gunnarsson had appeared in newspapers and magazines before his first novel, Milljón-prósent menn (Million-Percent Men), was published in 1978. He has published novels, short stories and children's books as well as a travel story about his road trip with author (and co-author of the book) Einar Kárason in the U.S.A. in 2006. His novel, Tröllakirkja (Troll's Cathedral, 1996) was nominated for the Icelandi -
Romy Hausmann
Romy Hausmann was born in the former GDR in 1981. At the age of twenty-four she became chief editor at a film production company in Munich. Since the birth of her son, Romy has been working as a freelancer in TV. DEAR CHILD is her thriller debut, and her second mind-bending thriller SLEEPLESS publishes in 2021. She lives with her family in a remote house in the woods near Stuttgart.
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Roy Huff
Roy Huff is a Hawaii-based best-selling author, peer-reviewed research scientist, and teacher. After overcoming significant childhood poverty in the US mainland, he moved to the islands and hasn't looked back.
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Despite his challenges, which include a family stricken by mental illness and the loss of a father to HIV/AIDS, he’s earned five degrees, trained on geostationary satellites for NASA's GOES-R Proving Ground, and has written numerous bestsellers.
Roy embraces optimism, science, and creativity and hopes you’ll come along for the amazing ride. You can download Roy Huff's free sci-fi short at https://www.royhuff.net/salvationship or connect with him on Twitter, Facebook, & Instagram @realroyhuff -
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic diplomat, as well as a former tour guide and TV, newspaper and radio journalist. Born and bred in Iceland, Nína Björk has spent a quarter of her life abroad, studying and working in various countries in Europe.
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She is the author of a book for children and young adults on Icelandic heroines throughout history, Íslandsdætur, published by Salka in 2020. Her English translation of the book, Daughters of Iceland, came out 2 years later, also published by Salka.
Nína Björk co-wrote How to Live Icelandic, with her childhood friend Edda Magnus, published in 2021 by Quarto. The book has since been translated and published in 2022 Dutch, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak.
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Eppu Nuotio
EN: Eppu Nuotio (real name Eija-Riitta Nuotio, maiden name Silvennoinen) is Finnish writer and actor. She grew up in Iisalmi and graduated from Iisalmi High School in 1981. Nuotio is married to musician and director Kurt Nuotio and has three children with him. The family lives in Southwest Finland.
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Her literary work concentrates mainly to children's literature. Part of her adult literature are series Varkaus and Pii Marin.
As an actor she has worked in several TV series. She has also written columns to newspapers and has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors since 2002. Nuotio has also worked as teacher of performing arts, translator, director and playwriter.
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Kristín Steinsdóttir
Kristín Steinsdóttir is best known as one of Iceland's most popular children's writers, but she has also written two books for adults.
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Suzy Aspley
South Shields born author Suzy Aspley began writing her first book after a prompt at a writing retreat in the Scottish Highlands, secrets rattling in a matchbox, reminded her of a story she once covered as a newspaper reporter.
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After pitching successfully at Dragon’s Pen in summer 2019, where all four panellists wanted to see her manuscript, she won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect competition in September 2019 and a month later was shortlisted in the DHH Literary Agency New Voices Award at the first Capital Crime festival in London.
In 2020 she was awarded a mentorship through Hachette's Future Bookshelf Initiative and was delighted to work with Hodder Executive Publisher Jo Dickinson on the manuscript for her debut novel into 2021. The boo -
Ingar Johnsrud
Ingar Johnsrud (b. 1974) is a renowned Norwegian journalist. Johnsrud made his literary debut in 2015 with the thriller Those Who Follow, the first installment in a planned trilogy. He has received massive attention for his sharp eye for detail, rich and innovative plotting, and confident prose. Praised by critics as a writer who will keep readers on the edge of their seats, Johnsrud has positioned himself as one of the rising stars on the Scandinavian crime fiction scene. Ingar Johnsrud lives with his wife and three children in Oslo.
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Bragi Ólafsson
Bragi studied Spanish at the University of Iceland and the University of Granada. He has had a number of different jobs in Reykjavík, at the post office, in a bank and in a record store. He was also a member of the Sugarcubes, and toured with them in Europe and America.
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Bragi's first published work, the poetry collection Dragsúgur (Draught), appeared in 1986. Since then, he has published other books of poetry, short story collections, plays and novels. His first novel, Hvíldardagar (Days of Repose) was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1999 and the next one, Gæludýrin (The Pets) also in 2001. He received the DV Cultural Prize for the novel Samkvæmisleikir (Party Games) in 2004 and his novel Sendiherrann (The Ambassador) was nomin -
Gerður Kristný
Gerður Kristný graduated in French and comparative literature from the University of Iceland in 1992. Her B.A. dissertation was on Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal. After a course in media studies at the University of Iceland from 1992-1993 she trained at Danish Radio TV. She was editor of the magazine Mannlíf from 1998 - 2004, but is now a full time writer.
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Awards for her work include 1st prize in the National Broadcasting Service short story competition 1986, 1st prize in a TV culture programme poetry competition 1992, the Children's Choice Book Prize in 2003 for her book Marta Smarta, the Halldór Laxness Literary Award in 2004, for her novel Bátur með segli og allt (A Boat With a Sail and All) and the Icelandic Journalist's Award for Myndin -
Soulla Christodoulou
Born in London to Greek Cypriot parents Soulla Christodoulou spent much of her childhood living carefree days full of family, school and friends. She was the first in her family to go to university and studied BA Hotel & Catering Management at Portsmouth University. Years later, after having a family of her own she studied again at Middlesex University and has a PGCE in Business Studies and an MA in Education.
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Soulla is a Fiction author and wrote her first novel Broken Pieces of Tomorrow over a few months while working full time in secondary education. She is a mother of three boys.
She is a compassionate and empathetic supporter of young people. Her passion for teaching continues through private tuition of English Language and Children’s Cre -
Böðvar Guðmundsson
Böðvar Guðmundsson was born on the farm Kirkjuból in Hvítársíða, West Iceland on January 9, 1939. After finishing his secondary education in Reykjavík, he studied Icelandic at the University of Iceland and received a Cand. Mag. degree in 1969. He studied further in Germany from 1964 – 1965 and in France 1972 – 1973. Böðvar was a teacher at Réttarholtsskóli in Reykjavík 1962 – 1963, and later taught at Christians Albrechts Universität in Kiel, the secondary school Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð in Reykjavík 1969 - 1974, the University of Iceland 1970 – 1972 and the secondary school Menntaskólinn á Akureyri 1974 - 1980. He was a sessional teacher at the Drama Academy of Iceland 1981 – 1983 and held the post of Icelandic guest lecturer at the Uni
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Jón Atli Jónasson
Jon Atli Jonasson has won the Icelandic drama prize (Griman) numerous times, as well as the Icelandic Film Prize for best script. His plays have been performed worldwide. He’s written several films, most notably The Deep, based on his own play, shortlisted for The 85th Academy Awards for best foreign feature 2015 and been nominated for The Nordic Film Prize on three occasions.
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He has written two novels, a short story compilation and a novella. He co-wrote the first season of the TV series Arctic Circle (Ivalo) in 2017 which was produced by Yellow film in Finland, Bavaria Films in Germany and distributed by Lagardère Studios France. He has various crime series projects in different stages of development with Warner Brothers TV in Germany, Tur -
Laila Brenden
1. Hannah, 2003-2010, (40 books)
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2. Fjellroser, 2011-
Children's books:
1. Lyder i natten, 2011
2. Gaupa på liv og død, 2011
3. Fnugg i verdsrommet, 2011
4. Smak av sjokolade, 2012
5. Fnugg i ørkenen, 2012
6. Fnugg i dypet, 2012
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A.C. Adams
A.C. Adams is the nom de plume of co-authors Anthony Leigh Adams and Christina Adams. They have written and produced film and television projects for numerous studios, including Disney, ABC, CBS, NBC, and OWN.
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Christina is a producer of the Emmy Award-winning series The Amazing Race and multiple programs for Oprah Winfrey. Anthony is the composer and co-writer of Sideways: The Musical, which is based on the Oscar-winning film and is in development as a Broadway musical.
The Adamses also wrote and produced the original musicals Love-In: A Musical Celebration and Primal Twang: The Legacy of The Guitar. Both shows were filmed and aired nationally on PBS. Primal Twang won Best Documentary Feature at the Rome International Film Festival. -
Kristín Björg Sigurvinsdóttir
Kristín Björg Sigurvinsdóttir útskrifaðist sem lögfræðingur frá Háskóla Íslands árið 2018 en ákvað svo að elta drauminn um að skrifa bækur. Dóttir hafsins var hennar fyrsta skáldsaga og var hún tilnefnd til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna árið 2020. Bronsharpan er önnur bókin í bókaflokknum og var tilnefnd til Fjöruverðlaunanna árið 2022 ásamt því að vera valin besta barna- og ungmennabók ársins 2022 af bóksölum. Orrustan um Renóru er lokabindið í Dulstafaþríleiknum.
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Fiona Limar
Ich lebe in Berlin und bin diplomierte Psychologin und Psychotherapeutin mit Erfahrung auf dem Gebiet der Eheberatung und Scheidungsmediation. Bisher habe ich mehrere Fach- und Ratgeberbücher veröffentlicht. Das Schreiben von Geschichten und Erzählungen ist für mich vor allem ein Ausgleich. Meine Kriminalromane erscheinen unter dem Pseudonym Fiona Limar.
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Karin Nordin
Karin Nordin has been a compulsive reader of thrilling stories since childhood and discovered her love of Scandinavian crime fiction during summers spent visiting family in Norway and Sweden. She has worked in healthcare and education, including as a pharmacy technician, karate instructor, and an English language teacher for the Dutch military. She completed the Creative Writing MSc from the University of Edinburgh with Distinction in 2019 and also holds an MA in Scandinavian Literary Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Born in ‘The Biggest Little City in the World’ and raised in America’s Rust Belt, she now lives in the Netherlands. Her first novel, Where Ravens Roost, will be published by HQ Digital, an imprint of Harper Collins UK,
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Stella Blómkvist
Nobody knows who Stella Blómkvist is. More than ten years have passed since the publication of her (or his) first book, Morðið í stjórnarráðinu (The Murder in the Ministry), but nobody has ever uncovered the mystery of who is behind the pen name. Many possible names have been suggested as the identity of Stella, including Davíð Oddson, the former Prime Minister of Iceland. However, these theories are pure speculation.
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Tina Kashian
Tina Kashian spent her childhood summers at the New Jersey shore, building sandcastles, boogie boarding, and riding the boardwalk Ferris wheel. She also grew up in the restaurant business where her Armenian parents owned a restaurant for thirty years. She worked almost every job—rolling silverware and wiping down tables as a tween, to hosting and waitressing as a teenager.
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After college, Tina worked as a NJ Deputy Attorney General, a patent attorney, and a mechanical engineer. Her love of reading fiction for pleasure helped her get through years of academia. Her law cases inspired an inquiring mind of crime, and since then, Tina has been hooked on mysteries. The Kebab Kitchen Cozy Mystery series launches with Hummus and Homicide (3/18), foll -
Andreas Franz
Andreas Franz (1954 - 2011) was a German author, best remembered for his numerous crime novels.
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The son of two musicians from East Germany, he later moved west with his family, and worked in numerous jobs. In 1997, he gave up his last job as a translator to become a full-time writer, quickly becoming popular through his Julia Durant series of crime/mystery novels. Franz lived near Frankfurt with his wife and four children until his death from heart failure at the age of 57. -
Doris Litz
Doris Litz, geboren in Hachenburg im Westerwald, lebt mit ihrem Mann in Neuwied. Früher war sie Redakteurin bei einer regionalen Tageszeitung, heute arbeitet die Journalistin als Pressesprecherin einer Behörde in Koblenz.
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Das Spiel mit Worten nimmt in ihrem Leben einen zentralen Platz ein: Seit nahezu vier Jahrzehnten verdient die Journalistin ihr tägliches Brot mit dem Schreiben von Texten. Und manchmal verdient sie auch kein Geld damit, sondern schreibt ehrenamtlich, vorzugsweise für „ihren“ Tierschutzverein, die Katzenhilfe Neuwied. Weil Texte über die kuscheligen Haustiger allein nur halb so schön sind, hat sich die Hobbyfotografin zur Expertin für das Ablichten der kamerascheuen Wesen entwickelt. Das Ergebnis präsentiert sie im jährlic