Monika Fagerholm is one of the strongest Finnish-Swedish writers of our time. She is an award-winning author and a pioneer in the world of Nordic literature. Fagerholm is one of…
Eliza Reid is the author of the book Secrets Of The Sprakkar: Iceland’s extraordinary women and how they are changing the world, which is expected to be published in Icelandic…
Ingólfur Eiríksson recently published the book Clone: A Tragi-Comicbook. Clone is a story of interconnected poems, illustrated by Elín Edda Þorsteinsdóttir. The subject of the book is the life of…
Kristof Magnusson is a German-Icelandic writer and translator living in Berlin. He is known for his novels, plays, short stories and articles. Magnusson’s first novel Das war ich nicht was…
Alexander Dan’s first novel, Hrímland, was published in 2014 and he immediately established himself as one of the country’s leading science fiction novelists. However, the path to publication was not…
Egill Bjarnason is an Icelandic journalist and the author of How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island, published by Penguin Books in 2021. He reports…
Margrét Lóa’s first book, a collection of poetry with the name Glerúlfar, was published in 1985. Since then Margrét has published 10 books of poetry as well as one novel….
Þórarinn Eldjárn is one of Iceland’s most beloved authors among children and adults equally. His career has been both long and successful. His first book Kvæði was published in 1974…
Mao Alheimsdóttir received the New Voices Grant from the Center for Icelandic Literature in 2021 for her novel Veðurfregnir og jarðarfarir, which is her first book. Her writing has previously…
Bergþóra Snæbjörnsdóttir broke through with the widely acclaimed novel Svínshöfuð in 2019 and won the Fjöru Award in the category of fiction. Svínshöfuð is a generational story with a broad…
Joachim Schmidt is originally from Grisons in Switzerland, but has lived and worked in Reykjavík since 2007. He is a journalist and author of three novels and numerous short stories….
Helene Flood entered the book market like a whirlwind with her first novel, Therapeuten (The Therapist) in 2019. Flood studied psychology and works as a psychologist in Oslo, where she…
Barbara Demick is an award-winning American journalist and writer best known for her work on human rights and economic and social unrest in Eastern Europe and Asia. She previously headed…
Saša Stanišić was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina and has a Bosnian mother and Serbian father. At the age of fourteen, in 1992, he fled the war at home and settled with…
Leïla Slimani is a French writer of Moroccan descent. She made waves all around the world with the psychological thriller Chanson Douce, which tells the story of a family and…
Gerður Kristný is a prolific writer and one of Iceland’s most beloved authors. She has published books in various literary genres; children’s books, novels, short stories and journalism, to name…
Halla Þórlaug Óskarsdóttir has a diverse educational and professional background. After devoting herself to the study of physics during her high school years, she changed course and went to art…
María Elísabet Bragadóttir has a degree in philosophy from the University of Iceland, has written articles for Fréttablaðið, read her stories on 101 radio and been a columnist for Víðsjá….
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a Professor and her…
Swedish author Nina Wähä has published three novels in her home country and is also an actress and singer in the indie rock band Lacrosse. Nina Wähä’s third novel, Testamente (Testament),…
Khaled Khalifa is a Syrian writer and one of the leading authors of the Arabic language. He was born in Aleppo, Syria. He studied law at university, is a poet,…
Patrik Svensson is a Swedish journalist and author of one of the most interesting books of recent years in Sweden, if not worldwide, Ålevangeliet, (The Gospel of the Eels). The…
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels. She is a bestselling author in many countries around the world and her work…
