Lilja Sigurðardóttir

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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

• Dauðadjúp sprunga (Deep as Death) 2023 

Finland (Docendo), World English (Orenda Books)

• Drepsvart hraum (Dark as Night) 2022

Finland (Docendo), World English (Orenda Books), Sweden (Modernista)

• Náhvít jörð (White As Snow) 2021

Germany (DuMont), France/Switzerland/Luxembourg/ Canada (Métailié), Sweden (Modernista), World English - Orenda Books, World Arabic (Al Arabi), Finland (Docendo)

• Blóðrauður sjór (Red as Blood) 2020

World English (Orenda Books), France/Switzerland/Luxembourg/ Canada (Métailié), Sweden (Modernista), Germany (DuMont), Finland (Docendo), World Arabic (Al Arabi), Estonia (Eesti Raamat)

 

• Helköld sól (Cold as Hell) 2019 

World English (Orenda Books), France/Switzerland/Luxembourg/ Canada (Métailié), Sweden (Modernista), Germany (DuMont), Finland (Docendo), World Arabic (Al Arabi), Estonia (Eesti Raamat)

 

• 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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