Valur Gunnarsson

Valur Gunnarsson (b.1976) is a historian, author, and journalist. His childhood was divided between Iceland, Norway and Great Britain, and as a teenager he spent his summers in Saudi-Arabia in the aftermath of the First Gulf War.
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.
He has been interested in World War II ever since his grandmother, who worked for the phone company, told him

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