The Icelandic Literary Prize 2014
The award for fiction and poetry goes to Ófeigur Sigurðsson for his novel Öræfi (e. Wastelands – a novel).
The award for fiction and poetry went to Ófeigur Sigurðsson for his novel Öræfi (e. Wastelands – a novel).
The Icelandic Literary Prize 2014 was awarded on January 30, in three categories.
The award for fiction and poetry went to Ófeigur Sigurðsson for his novel Öræfi (e. Wastelands – a novel), published by Mál og menning / Forlagid.
The nonfiction prize went to Snorri Baldursson for Lífríki Íslands (e. Icelandic Nature – The Ecosystems of Land and Sea) published by Opna/Forlagid.
The new prize for books for children and young adults went to Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir for the novel Hafnfirðingabrandarinn (e. The Local Joke) published by Vaka Helgafell / Forlagid.
Öræfi (e. Wastelands - a novel) by Ófeigur Sigurðsson has received both the Icelandic Literay Prize 2014 and The Icelandic Book Seller Prize 2014 and in addition became a best selling novel in the year 2014 in Iceland.
Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir, the author of Hafnfirðingabrandarinn (e. The Local Joke) has received the three major Icelandic prizes for literature for her book in the category for books for Children and Young Adults, The Icelandic Literary Prize 2014, The Icelandic Book Sellers Prize 2014 and The Icelandic Women's Literature Prize 2015.
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For a complete list of this year's nominated works, click here.