Born 1961 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Journey's End”
Arnaldur Indriðason · 63 when first published
Novel · 267 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Iceland's national poet Jónas Hallgrímsson breaks his leg in a fall one night and, gravely ill in hospital, looks back on his life and on strange events in the valley where he grew up.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Clockwork”
Arnaldur Indriðason · 60 when first published
Novel · 315 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:An Icelandic watchmaker restoring an old clock in the Danish king's palace is visited one evening by the sidelined King Christian VII, and tells him how his father and foster mother were executed.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2004 · Shortlist
Kleifarvatn
Arnaldur Indriðason · 43 when first published
Novel · 312 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:When the water of Kleifarvatn sinks after an earthquake, a skeleton tied to a radio transmitter with Russian lettering appears on the lakebed, and the investigation leads Erlendur and his colleagues decades back in time.