Margrét Tryggvadóttir

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  Gunnar Helgason

  GUNNAR HELGASON (b.1965) is a popular actor and well known for all kinds of entertaining material for children which has enjoyed great popularity for some years. Amongst other things he has directed a popular children’s program on Icelandic State TV. He received the IBBY Spring Winds award 2013 for his contribution to children’s culture in Iceland. All the books in Great Football Adventure series are written with advice from Reykjavik Child Services as well as the Icelandic Football Association. Stories about the footballer Jon Jonsson have been mainstays on Icelandic bestseller lists for the past years.
  
  

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  Margrét Örnólfsdóttir

  Margrét "Magga" Örnólfsdóttir (b. 1967) is a former member of the Sugarcubes, mother of five and author of four novels for children and young adults. She is also a script writer and wrote the script to Regina, a popular musical film for kids. Örnólfsdóttir received the the Icelandic Literary Prize for Women’s Fiction in 2012 for Made in China, and was nominated for the West Nordic Children’s Literature Prize for the same book.
  
  Bibliography: Young adult fiction; Made in China, 2011: Bjartur Athens – What is Happening in Haiti?, 2010: Bjartur Athens (Not the Capital of Greece), 2009: Bjartur.

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  Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir

  Kristín Helga studied at the University of Barcelona, and later obtained a BA in Spanish and Media Studies from the University of Utah.
  She has worked as a travel and tour guide, been an air stewardess and a reporter on Icelandic news programmes. Since 1998 she has concentrated on writing and journalism.
  Her first book, Elsku besta Binna mín (I Love you, Binna my Dearest), came out in 1997 and since then Kristín Helga has become one of Iceland's best loved children's authors.

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  Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir

  Kristín Helga studied at the University of Barcelona, and later obtained a BA in Spanish and Media Studies from the University of Utah.
  She has worked as a travel and tour guide, been an air stewardess and a reporter on Icelandic news programmes. Since 1998 she has concentrated on writing and journalism.
  Her first book, Elsku besta Binna mín (I Love you, Binna my Dearest), came out in 1997 and since then Kristín Helga has become one of Iceland's best loved children's authors.

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• Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir

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  Ragnar Jónasson

  Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series.
  
  His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France.
  
  Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation.
  
  Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK.
  
  Rights to the Dark Iceland series have been sold to UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Po

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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.
  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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• Sofie Sarenbrant

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• Hildur Knútsdóttir

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  Olaf Olafsson

  Olaf Olafsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1962. He studied physics as a Wien Scholar at Brandeis University. He is the author of three previous novels, The Journey Home, Absolution and Walking Into the Night, and a story collection, Valentines. His books have been published to critical acclaim in more than twenty languages. He is the recipient of the O. Henry Award and the Icelandic Literary Award, was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize, and has twice been nominated for the IMPAC Award. He is the Executive Vice President of Time Warner and he lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
  http://www.facebook.com/olafsson.author

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  Satu Rämö

  My name is Satu Rämö. I'm a Finnish-Icelandic author of the nordic blue crime book series called HILDUR.
  
  Here you can find my interview in Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
  
  I was born in Finland in 1980 and moved to Iceland twenty years ago and started writing books.
  
  I have published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in my native Finland, ranging from travel guides to Iceland, to inspirational memoirs and an Icelandic knitting book.
  
  My crime fiction debut Hildur (2022) changed the game for me as an author, totally. HILDUR-series is Icelandic-Finnish nordic blue crime fiction that takes place in a small village in the Westfjords of Iceland. Nordic blue is similar to nordic noir but more human. The stories ar

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  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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  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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• Steindór Ívarsson

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• Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir

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• Joachim B.Schmidt

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• Ragnhildur Þrastardóttir

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