Bragi Ólafsson

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• Staða pundsins

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2019 · Shortlist

  Staða pundsins

  AITitle translated by AI:“The State of the Pound”

  Bragi Ólafsson · 57 when first published

  Novel · 271 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1976 a widow in her mid-thirties and her teenage son, newly obsessed with music, travel to England to visit an old friend of the dead father on a farm of artists and anarchists south of London.

• Handritið að kvikmynd Arnar Featherby og Jóns Magnússonar um uppnámið á veitingahúsinu eftir Jenný Alexson

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2010 · Shortlist

  Handritið að kvikmynd Arnar Featherby og Jóns Magnússonar um uppnámið á veitingahúsinu eftir Jenný Alexson

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Screenplay for Örn Featherby and Jón Magnússon's Film About the Commotion at the Restaurant, by Jenný Alexson”

  Bragi Ólafsson · 48 when first published

  Novel · 464 pages · Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:Örn Featherby inherits nearly two hundred pairs of shoes from his father, an old sailor in Hull; with his friend Jón, a librarian trained as a film director, he sails to England with a draft screenplay in his luggage.

• Sendiherrann

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2006 · Shortlist

  The Ambassador

  Sendiherrann

  Bragi Ólafsson · 44 when first published

  Novel · 298 pages · Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:The Icelandic poet Sturla Jón Jónsson travels to a poetry festival in Lithuania, where his country's cultural ambassador must cope with mishaps, unpoetic reality and the criminal who lives in all of us.

• Gæludýrin

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2001 · Shortlist

  The Pets

  Gæludýrin

  Bragi Ólafsson · 39 when first published

  Novel · 157 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:A tragicomic novel about people who have to make small but important decisions, where saying yes or no turns out to be far harder than one tends to imagine.