Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are critically acclaimed, international bestsellers — and have been translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields…
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, Admiring Silence, By The…
Anne Carson, poet, essayist, translator, was born in Canada and has taught ancient Greek for many years. She now lives partly in Iceland.
Andrev Walden is a Swedish journalist and author whose debut novel, Jävla karlar, became a literary sensation in Sweden. The book follows the story of a fatherless boy raised by…
Annette Bjergfeldt is a Danish creative virtuoso. Besides writing bestselling fiction, she’s an award-winning and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and recording artist with six albums under her belt, a colorist painter, and…
Brynja Hjálmsdóttir is a poet and author from Iceland. She is the 2022 recipient of the Ljóðstafur Jóns úr Vör poetry prize, and of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Encouragement Award. Her…
Caterina Zaccaroni was born in Forlì. She studied and taught 20th Century German Literature at the Università Cattolica in Milan and continued her studies at Cambridge, the Sorbonne and Münster….
Dinçer Güçyeter is a German theatre maker, poet, editor, and publisher. In 2012, he founded ELIF Verlag, a publishing house that focuses on poetry, with many Icelandic poets being published…
Einar Lövdahl (b.1991) holds a degree in Icelandic from the University of Iceland and has worked as a journalist but is also involved in the music world. Many of his…
Erika Fatland is a Norwegian anthropologist who has gained great popularity for her narrative non-fiction works. She has written seven books that have won numerous awards and been translated into…
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (b. 1976) was born in Reykjavik and spent her childhood partly in the city, partly in various villages around the country. In her youth, she was a…
Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of two novels published in thirty-seven languages. His debut, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award,…
Hervé Le Tellier is a French writer and linguist who began his career as a science journalist. He is a member of the group of writers and mathematicians known as…
Knut Ødegård studied theology and philology at the Universities of Oslo and Cambridge. He’s been living in Reykjavik since 1984, partly also in his hometown Molde where he is taking…
Kuluk Helms is an Inuk-Danish performing artist, poet, PhD student, and cultural bearer. Her work is often characterized by curiosity, love, and a gentle disruption of norms. Kuluk’s first poetry…
Pajtim Statovci, born in Kosovo to Albanian parents, fled the Yugoslav Wars as a child and his family settled in Finland. His debut novel, My Cat Yugoslavia, won the Helsingin…
Ragnar Jonasson is the award winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series, the Dark Iceland series, and standalone crime fiction, with five million copies sold across 36 territories….
Satu Rämö is one of the bestselling Finnish authors of the 21st century. The first 4 titles of her Nordic Crime Hildur-series. Rämö moved to Iceland twenty years ago as an…
Thomas Korsgaard, born in Viborg, Denmark, studied Nordic languages and literature at Aarhus University without completing his studies. In 2017, he published his debut novel Hvis der skulle komme et…
