Icelandic Authors

A list of Icelandic authors and their books in translations.

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Authors

Snæbjörn Arngrímsson

Arabic Arabíska Barna– og ungmennabækur Children – YA Crime Fiction Danish Danska English Enska Glæpasögur Italian Ítalska Norska Norwegian Swedish Sænska

 

Snæbjörn Arngrímsson was born in Reykjavik, 1961. He studied psychology
and literature in the University of Iceland. His first book The Secrets of the Aban-
doned House won the Icelandic Children's Literature Prize 2019 and was nomi-
nated for the Icelandic Bookseller's Prize.

With his first thriller, One True Word, Arngrímsson attracted a lot of attention and he is now being published abroad. His follow-up, The Chosen One, is both an exciting thriller and a well-crafted study of human nature.


Works in translation

  • Eitt satt orð (One True Word) 2022 

Egypt (Al-Arabi Publishing), Iran (Ana Pol Publishing House), Italy (Carbonio Editore Srl), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS), United Kingdom (Pushkin Press Limited).

 

  • Rannsóknin á leyndardómum Eyðihússins (The Secrets of the Abandoned House) 2019

Denmark (ABC forlag) transl. Susanne Torpe; Sweden (ABC forlag) transl. Jenny Nilsson


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