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. Ragnar was also an executive producer of the CBS Studios TV series “The Darkness”, based on the first novel in his Hulda series, starring Lena Olin and directed by Lasse Hallström. His novel “Outside” is being developed for the screen by Ridley Scott.
The Times selected The Darkness as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers since 1945, and Snowblind has been selected as one of Top 100 Crime Fiction of all time.
His books have been on bestseller lists across Europe and the USA, and won multiple prizes. He has also won a special jury recognition for his poetry in Iceland.
Ragnar has furthermore translated fourteen of Agatha Christie’s novels into Icelandic, starting at the age of 17.
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