Olaf Olafsson

Books on prize lists

• Snerting

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2020 · Shortlist

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  Snerting

  Olaf Olafsson · 58 when first published

  Novel · 272 pages · Love

  AIAI-generated summary:As the pandemic forces him to close his Reykjavík restaurant, Kristófer receives a friend request that sends him back fifty years to London, and to the people who vanished without saying goodbye.

• Aldingarðurinn

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2006 · ★ Winner

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  Aldingarðurinn

  Olaf Olafsson · 44 when first published

  Short stories · 224 pages · Love

  AIAI-generated summary:Twelve stories, each named after a month of the year and linked in theme and structure, about love and time: loyalty and betrayal, happiness and grief, suspicion and passionate longing.