Colson Whitehead’s remarkable career as a novelist has earned him numerous accolades and international acclaim. His impressive list of works includes The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, The Colossus of New…
Lea Ypi is a Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A native of Albania, she studied Philosophy and later Literature at the University…
Gyrðir Elíasson is the author of numerous novels, poetry books, collections of short stories and translations. He has been active on the Icelandic literary scene since 1983, when he published…
Örvar Smárason is a poet, writer, composer and musician. He is one of the founding members of the band múm in addition to playing with bands such as FM Belfast…
Mariana Enriquez is one of the most spellbinding narrators in Latin American literature. Her debut novel Bajar Es Lo Peor (1995) was published when she was a teenager, followed by…
Hildur Knútsdóttir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in the year 1984. She writes fiction for both adults and teenagers, as well as plays, screenplays and short fiction. Hildur is known…
Boualem Sansal is a writer, engineer, and economist born in Algeria. He began writing at the age of fifty after retiring from his job as a high-ranking official in the…
Júlía Margrét Einarsdóttir has an MA degree in writing from the University of Iceland and an MFA degree in screenwriting from the New York Film Academy. Júlía has written and…
Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous Sunday Times bestselling novels and has won various awards for her writing, including the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, the RNA Romantic…
Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir is an Icelandic poet, writer and historian. She has been active on the Icelandic literary scene since 2007, when she published her first book of poetry: Blótgælur…
Natasha S. is a writer and translator of Icelandic literature into Russian. In 2021, she edited the book Pólífónía af erlendum uppruna, a collection of poems by immigrants in Iceland….
Pedro Gunnlaugur Garcia is an Icelandic writer known for his poignant and introspective works, use of magical realism and exploration of the complexities of human relationships and the challenges of…
The author Vigdis Hjorth is one of the strongest voices in contemporary Norwegian literature. She grew up in Oslo and studied philosophy, literature, and political science. She published her first…
Haukur Már Helgason studied philosophy in Reykjavik and Berlin. He has authored, translated, edited and published a wide range of works, journalistic and literary. Outside his native Iceland, Helgason’s writings…
Kirsten Hammann is a Danish author who published her first novel, Vera Winkelvir, in 1993. In 2004 her novel From my own little El Dorado was shortlisted for The Nordic…
Alejandro Palomas has a degree in English Philology from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Poetry from the New College of San Francisco. He has collaborated with…
Jan Grue was born in 1981 in Oslo. He holds a PhD in Linguistics and is Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Oslo. He is the author of…
Ewa Marcinek is a Polish author who has lived and worked in Iceland since 2013. She is one of the founding authors of Ós Pressan, a non-profit initiative and a…
Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda, Angola in 1970 and teaches Theory of Science in Lisbon. Nobel Laureate José Saramago stated: In thirty years’ time, if not before, Tavares…
Kim Leine is a Danish-Norwegian writer. He made his debut in 2007, an autobiographical novel, and has published more than ten novels since then, among them the historical Colonial trilogy…
Benný Sif Ísleifsdóttir has both BA and MA degrees in ethnology and a diploma in applied Icelandic from the University of Iceland. She made quite a splash on the Icelandic…
Bragi Ólafsson is a prolific writer and musician. From 1987-1992 he was a member of the pop group The Sugarcubes which toured extensively throughout the world and recorded three albums….
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir published her first novel, The Creak on the Stairs, in 2018. The book was an immediate success and went on to win the CWA Debut Dagger, the…
Alexander McCall Smith CBE was Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh before he became a full-time author. He has written and contributed to more than 100 books,…
Dina Nayeri is the author of two novels and a book of creative nonfiction, The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), winner of the Geschwister Scholl Preis and finalist for the Los Angeles…
Kristín Eiríksdóttir’s first book of poetry, Kjötbærinn, was published in 2004. Even before this debut, Kristín had published in magazines and newspapers and managed to position herself as one of…
Åsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones. Her notable works include The Bookseller of Kabul, her…
Hannah Kent’s first novel, the international bestseller, Burial Rites, was translated into over 30 languages and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book…
