The author of Iceland. Helgason H.

“The author of Iceland” is an original innovative novel that fascinates the reader on an incredible journey through the world of Icelandic culture of the past century. Hatlgrim Helgason created this book based on his sleep, in which the Nobel laureate Halldour Laxes (1902-1998) after his death falls into his own novel “Independent People”. Having placed a storyteller hero in such circumstances, the author touches on questions about the relationship of the writer and his work, reality and artistic fiction, life and death.

Hatlgrim Helgason (r. 1959)-one of the most famous modern Icelandic writers, Laureate of many literary awards, cavalier of the Order of the Arts and the elegant literature of France (2021). For the novel "The author of Iceland" was awarded the National Literary Prize (2001). In Russian, the books “101 RAYAKYAVIK”, “Ten Tips for Household for the Murderer”, “Woman at 1000 ° C”, “Sixty kilograms of sunlight”.