Icelandic Literature Prizes 2015
Einar Már Guðmundsson received the Icelandic Literary Prize 2015 for his novel Hundadagar / Dog Days and Auður Jónsdóttir received the Boookseller's Prize for her novel Stóri skjálfti / Grand Mal.
Einar Már Guðmundsson received the Icelandic Literary Prize 2015 for his novel Hundadagar / Dog Days and Auður Jónsdóttir received the Boookseller's Prize for her novel Stóri skjálfti / Grand Mal. Icelandic Literary Prize in Children's and Young Adult category was awarded to Mamma klikk! / My Crazy Mom by Gunnar Helgason.
The Icelandic Literary Prize 2015
The Icelandic Literary Prize was awarded in February 2016 in three categories. Below are the titles and authors who received the prize in each category.Fiction and poetry
Hundadagar (e. Dog Days) by Einar Már Guðmundsson. Publisher: Mál og menning / Forlagið.Children's and Young Adult Books
Mamma klikk! (e. My Crazy Mom) by Gunnar Helgason. Publisher: Mál og menning / Forlagið.
Non-Fiction
Þegar siðmenningin fór fjandans til, Íslendingar og stríðið mikla 1914-1918 (e. When Civilization Went to Hell. Icelanders and the Great War, 1914 – 1918) by Gunnar Þór Bjarnason. Publisher: Mál og menning / Forlagið.
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 Einar Már Guðmundsson |
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 Gunnar Helgason |
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The Icelandic Bookseller's Literary Prize 2015
The Icelandic Bookseller's Literary Prize 2015 were announced in December 2015 in Kiljan literature programme on RUV tv - The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. The Icelandic Bookseller's Association hands out the prize, and the winners are picked by the staff of the country's bookstores. Awards were annonuced in nine categories of both original works in Icelandic as well as translations into Icelandic.Below is a list of those awarded the prize for original works in Icelandic in 6 categories.Fiction
Stóri skjálfti (e. Grand Mal) by Auður Jónsdóttir. Publisher: Mál og menning / Forlagið.
Teenagers and Young Adult Books
Skuggasaga: Arftakinn (e. Shadow Saga – The Heir) by Ragnheiður Eyjólfsdóttir. Publisher: Vaka-Helgafell / Forlagið.
Children‘s Books
Koparborgin (e. City of Bronze) by Ragnhildur Hólmgeirsdóttir, publisher: Bókabeitan.
Mamma klikk! (e. My Crazy Mom) by Gunnar Helgason, publisher Mál og menning / Forlagið.
Non-Fiction
Stríðsárin 1938–1945 ( e. The War Years 1938-1945) by Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson. Publisher: JPV / Forlagið.
Biography
Munaðarleysinginn (e. The Orphan) by Sigmundur Ernir Rúnarsson. Publisher: Veröld.
Poetry
Frelsi (e. Freedom) by Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir. Publisher: Mál og menning / Forlagið.
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 Auður Jónsdóttir |
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The Icelandic Women's Literature Prize 2016
The winners of the 2016 Icelandic Women's Literature Prize (or Fjöruverðlaunin), were announced in Höfði House in Reykjavík in January. The prize, an annual event for ten years running, was awarded in three categories: fiction and poetry, books for children and young adults, and nonfiction.
Fiction and Poetry
Tvöfalt gler (e. Double Glass) by Halldóra Kristín Thoroddssen. Publisher: Kind/Sæmundur.Children's and Young Adult Books
Vetrarfrí (e. Winter Break) by Hildur Knútsdóttir. Publisher: JPV / Forlagið.
Non-Fiction
Heiður og huggun – Erfiljóð, harmljóð og huggunarkvæði á 17. öld (e. Honour and consolation. funeral poems, funeral elegies and consolation poems in seventeenth-century Iceland) by Þórunn Sigurðardóttir. Publisher: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.
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 Halldóra Thoroddsen |
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 Hildur Knútsdóttir |
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DV - Newspaper Cultural Prize 2015
Most recently, the DV Cultural Prize was also handed out. The prize is awarded in numerous categories across the cultural spectrum, two of them pertaining to the written word.
The DV – Newspaper Cultural Prize for Literature 2015
Frelsi (e. Freedom) by Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir. Publisher: Mál og menning / Forlagið.
The DV – Newspaper Cultural Prize for Non-fiction 2015
Heiður og huggun – Erfiljóð, harmljóð og huggunarkvæði á 17. öld (e. Honour and consolation. funeral poems, funeral elegies and consolation poems in seventeenth-century Iceland) by Þórunn Sigurðardóttir. Publisher: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.
The Hagþenkir Non-fiction Prize 2015
Hagþenkir, the Association of Non-Fiction and Educational Writers in Iceland, has hosted this prize since 1987. It is awarded for non-fiction and educational material of all sorts, as well as for research. This year the prize was awarded to:
Stríðsárin 1938–1945 ( e. The War Years 1938-1945) by Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson. Publisher: JPV / Forlagið.