Árni Þórarinsson
Árni studied comparitive literature at the University of East Anglia. He has worked as a journalist since 1971, and sat on several panels of judges at international film festivals.
Árni's first novel, Nóttin hefur þúsund augu (The Night Has a Thousand Eyes) was published in 1989, the first of a series about the investigative journalist Einar. He was one of the authors of Leyndardómar Reykjavíkur 2000 (The Reykjavík 2000 Mystery), along with other members of "Hið íslenska glæpafélag" (The Society of Icelandic Crime Writers). He has also written with Páll Kristinn Pálsson: crime novels, and scripts for television, including Dagurinn í gær (Yesterday), which aired in 1999, and 20/20, which Óskar Jónasson directed for RÚV in 2002. The latter was
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Sébastien Japrisot
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed "the Graham Greene of France".
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Famous in the Francophony, he was little known in the English-speaking world, though a number of his novels have been translated into English and have been made into films.
His first novel, Les mal partis was written at the age of 16 and published under his real name (see also author profile of Jean-Baptiste Rossi).