Pétur Gunnarsson

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• Leiðin til Rómar

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2002 · Shortlist

  Leiðin til Rómar

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Road to Rome”

  Pétur Gunnarsson · 55 when first published

  Novel · 175 pages · Historical · Skáldsaga Íslands, book 2

  AIAI-generated summary:Two stories intertwine: in the twelfth century all Europe is on the road to Rome to save its souls, while in the twenty-first a young man named Máni hitches his way there.

• Myndin af heiminum

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  Icelandic Literary Prize 2000 · Shortlist

  Myndin af heiminum

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Picture of the World”

  Pétur Gunnarsson · 53 when first published

  Novel · 182 pages · Historical · Skáldsaga Íslands, book 1

  AIAI-generated summary:Beginning, like a medieval chronicle, with the creation of the world, a novel pauses at turning points in the history of Iceland while its narrator has to face the great questions of existence in his own life.