Born 1962 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2016 · Shortlist
Ég er sofandi hurð
Sjón · 54 when first published
Novel · 528 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Josef Löwe, born in 1962, the year more nuclear bombs were exploded than ever before, remembers everything since he came to life on a basement kitchen table in Reykjavík; the trilogy reaches its final part.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2013 · Winner
Mánasteinn
Sjón · 51 when first published
Novel · 160 pages · Historical, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Reykjavík, 1918: while the Katla eruption lights the sky and Iceland prepares for sovereignty, a boy on the fringes of society lives for the cinema, until the Spanish flu reaches the town.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2008 · Shortlist
Rökkurbýsnir
Sjón · 46 when first published
Novel · 271 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1635, when the earth is still the centre of the universe, the self-taught writer and image-maker Jónas Pálmason the Learned is convicted of spreading witchcraft and exiled to an island, where he looks back on his life.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Song of the Stone Collector”
Sjón · 45 when first published
Poetry · 47 pages
Icelandic Literary Prize 2003 · Shortlist
Skugga-Baldur
Sjón · 41 when first published
Novel · 112 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1868 a teenage girl with a learning disability, Abba, is found in the hold of a ship stranded off Reykjanes; the naturalist Friðrik takes her in, and after her death he comes into conflict with the parish priest Baldur.