Halldór Guðmundsson (born 1956 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic author. He was also chairman of the publishing company Mál og menning and its successor after the merger with JPV, Forlagið.[1][2]

His biography of Halldór Laxness[3][4][5] was awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize.[6] The book has also appeared in English and German.[7]

Halldór's 2006 book Skáldalíf, about the Icelandic writer Gunnar Gunnarsson,[8] was chosen best biography of the year by the Icelandic Booksellers' Association and nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize.[6]

In We are all Icelanders (2009), he discusses how the financial crisis affected ten different Icelanders, including an architect, a politician and a kindergarten nurse.[9]

In Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte, published in German, he tells the story of restaurant operator Marianne Kowalew.[10]

Publications

  • Loksins, loksins: vefarinn mikli og upphaf íslenskra nútímabókmennta. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 1987. OCLC 22972223
  • Halldór Laxness—ævisaga. Reykjavík: JPV, 2004. ISBN 9979-781-61-0. English ed. trans. Philip Roughton: The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness. London: Maclehose Press, Quercus, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84724-284-6
  • Skáldalíf: ofvitinn úr Suðursveit og skáldið á Skriðuklaustri. Reykjavík: JPV, 2006. ISBN 978-9979-798-06-4
  • Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte. Ed. and trans. Regina Kammerer. Munich: Random House-Bertelsmann, 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-75228-7

References

  1. ↑ "Halldór Guðmundsson". Vielseitig. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "Jóhann Páll útgefandi Forlagsins og Halldór Guðmundsson stjórnarformaður", Morgunblaðið 31 August 2008 (in Icelandic)
  3. ↑ Shakespeare, Nicholas (9 August 2008). "Review: The Islander by Halldór Guđmundsson". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  4. ↑ Binding, Paul (13 October 2008). "The Islander, By Halldor Gudmundsson, trans. Philip Roughton". The Independent on Sunday. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  5. ↑ "Poet comes in from the cold". The Irish Times. 13 September 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  6. 1 2 Íslensku Bókmenntaverðlaunin: Tilnefndar bækur og verðlaun Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Icelandic Publishers Association (in Icelandic)
  7. ↑ "New Releases of Icelandic Books". Iceland Review Online. 28 September 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  8. ↑ "Hitler in Iceland?". Iceland Review Online. 15 November 2006. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  9. ↑ Ben Quinn, "Iceland's children paying for slump", The Guardian, 24 January 2011.
  10. ↑ "Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte - ich bin nicht verrückt aber extravagant", FachBuchKritik.de (in German)
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