Bestselling Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardottir's thriller "stands comparison with the finest contemporary crime writing anywhere in the world." (The Times Literary Supplement).Named one of the top t
The Great Weaver from Kashmir is Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness' first major novel, the book that propelled Icelandic literature into the modern world. Shortly after World War One, Steinn Ellidi,
“Oddny Eir is an authentic author, philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between r
Winner of the VISA Cultural Prize and the Icelandic National Literature Prize. Single mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical description is like no other Icelander: so small she self-depr
Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldor Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At
