Icelandic Authors

A list of Icelandic authors and their books in translations.

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Authors

Rán Flygenring

Barna– og ungmennabækur Children – YA Danska Enska Faroese Færeyska Hebreska Hebrew Italian Ítalska Korean Kóreska Sænska

Rán Flygenring (b. 1987) is an award-winning illustrator, writer and graphic designer. Her books have been published in several countries and she has won awards for her unconventional and lively style of illustration. She has received the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the German-French Youth literature prize and the Jahres-Luchs prize, besides being nominated for the German Academy of Children’s and Youth Literature Illustration prize Serafina and the ALMA prize (Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award), to name but a few.


Works in translation

  • Álfar (Elves) Angústúra 2023 

Italy (Iperborea) 

 

  • Eldgos (Volcano) Angústúra 2022 

Estonia (Nordur Kirjastus), Sweden (Opal)

 

  • Vigdís. Bókin um fyrsta konuforsetann, Angústúra, 2019

Faroe Islands (Bókadeild Føroya Lærarafelags) transl. Sanna Dahl; Korea (Yellow Brick Books) transl. Hye Joung Park; Israel (Lesa Press) transl. Shai Sendik, World English (Helvetiq), Japan (Heibon-sha)

  • Sagan um Skarphéðin Dungal sem setti fram nýjar kenningar um eðli alheimsins (The Story of Benjamin Dunhill, who introduced a New Thesis on the Nature of the Universe) Angústúra, 2018

Korea (Yellow Brick Books) 

 

  • Fuglar (Birds) Angústúra, 2017

Italy (Quinto Quarto Edizioni ) transl. Silvia Cosimini

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