Born 1959 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2021 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Sixty Kilos of Punches”
Hallgrímur Helgason · 62 when first published
Novel · 544 pages · Historical · Sextíu kílóa saga, book 2
AI-generated summary:Segulfjörður, 1906: the herring boom goes on, and the villagers' strange journey out of dark turf houses into electrically lit parlours continues.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2018 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Sixty Kilos of Sunshine”
Hallgrímur Helgason · 59 when first published
Novel · 461 pages · Historical, Family · Sextíu kílóa saga, book 1
AI-generated summary:Around 1900 a boy saved by a miracle grows up in a stagnant turf-house society on a northern fjord, until the herring arrives and with it money, Norwegians and the modern age.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2015 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Seasick in Munich”
Hallgrímur Helgason · 56 when first published
Novel · 325 pages · Autofiction, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In autumn 1981 a young Icelander who has quit art school in Reykjavík enrols at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and lives through a hard first winter away from home.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2011 · Shortlist
Konan við 1000°
Hallgrímur Helgason · 52 when first published
Novel · 400 pages · Historical, War, Family
AI-generated summary:Herbjörg María Björnsson, eighty and bedridden, lives alone in a garage in Reykjavík with a laptop and a hand grenade kept since the war; she books her own cremation and looks back on an extraordinary life.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2005 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Stormland”
Hallgrímur Helgason · 46 when first published
Novel · 391 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Back in Sauðárkrókur after ten years of study in Germany, the teacher Böddi is fired after making his students spend a night in Grettir's cave; a man of the spirit in a materialist age, he rages against society on his blog.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2001 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Author of Iceland”
Hallgrímur Helgason · 42 when first published
Novel · 510 pages
AI-generated summary:Iceland's foremost writer wakes on a slope in a remote valley as a small boy pokes him; carried by a surly farmer to a primitive croft where much seems familiar, he wonders whether he is dead, or inside his own book.