- Icelandic Literary Prize 2001 · Winner
Höfundur Íslands
“The Author of Iceland” (title translated by AI)
Hallgrímur Helgason (born 1959)
English editions
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Iceland's foremost writer wakes on a hillside in a remote valley to a little boy poking him with a finger. Where is he? Is he alive or dead? His bewilderment only grows when a heavy-footed, ill-tempered farmer lifts him up and carries him home to a primitive croft where much is strangely familiar. Has he landed in his own work? The journey leads through the Icelandic cultural world of the past century and turns on questions about author and work, reality and fiction, life and death, as a reckoning with the twentieth century.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 510 pages in the original
- Set in
- Iceland
- First published
- 2001 by Mál og menning
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
9789979322405 (original)