Icelandic Authors

A list of Icelandic authors and their books in translations.

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Authors

Lilja Sigurðardóttir

Arabic Arabíska Armenian Armenska Crime Fiction Czech Danish Danska English Enska Franska French German Glæpasögur Macedonian Makedónska Norska Norwegian Polish Pólska Romanian Rúmenska Swedish Sænska Tékkneska Þýska

Lilja Sigurðardóttir is an award-winning playwright, and an author of six crime novels. She has won the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award for her last two novels, Cage and Betrayal, and both titles represented Iceland at the Nordic Crime Fiction Awards. Sigurðardóttir has also been longlisted for a CWA International Dagger Award, Prix du Meilleur Polar at Points and Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award. The film rights to her Reykjavik Noir trilogy (Snare, Trap and Cage) have been bought by Palomar Pictures in California.

 

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Works in translation

  • Blóðrauður sjór (Red as Blood) 2020

World English (Orenda Books) transl. Quentin Bates

 

  • Helköld sól (Cold as Hell) 2019 

World English (Orenda Books) transl. Quentin Bates

 

  • Svik (Betrayal) 2018 

World English (Orenda Books) transl. Quentin Bates; France (Éditions Métailié) transl. Jean-Christophe Salaün; Poland (Wydawnictwo Kobiece) transl. Jacek Godek

 

  • Búrið (Cage) 2017 

Denmark (ArtPeople) transl. Nanna Kalkar; France/ Switzerland/Luxembourg/Canada (Éditions Métailié) transl. Jean Christophe Salaün; Poland (Wydawnictwo Kobiece) transl. Jasek Godek; World English (Orenda Books) transl. Quentin Bates; Sweden (Bigarråbok); Germany (DuMont)

 

  • Netið (Trap) 2016 

Denmark (ArtPeople) transl. Nanna Kalkar; France/ Switzerland/Luxembourg/ Canada (Éditions Métailié) transl. Jean Cristophe Salaün; Poland (Wydawnictwo Kobiece) transl. Jacek Godek; World English (Orenda Books) transl. Quentin Bates; Sweden (Bigarråbok); Germany (DuMont)

 

  • Gildran (Snare) 2015 France/Switzerland/Luxembourg/Canada (Éditions Métailié) transl. Jean Christophe Salaün; Norway (Font); Czech Republic (Leda); World English (Orenda Books) transl. Quentin Bates; Denmark (ArtPeople) transl. Nanna Kalkar; Egypt (Al Arabi); Macedonia (Bata Press); Poland (Wydawnictwo Kobiece) transl. Jacek Godek; Sweden (Bigarråbok); Germany (DuMont); Romania (Crime Scene Press); Armenia (Guitank) Film rights sold to 66 Degrees North/Palomar Pictures

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