Halldór Guðmundsson (born 1956 in Reykjavík) is an
Iceland
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ic author. He was also chairman of the publishing company
Mál og menning and its successor after the merger with
JPV,
Forlagið.
His biography of
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and sh ...
was awarded the
Icelandic Literary Prize.
[Íslensku Bókmenntaverðlaunin: Tilnefndar bækur og verðlaun]
, Icelandic Publishers Association The book has also appeared in English and German.
Halldór's 2006 book ''Skáldalíf'', about the Icelandic writer
Gunnar Gunnarsson, was chosen best biography of the year by the Icelandic Booksellers' Association and nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize.
[
In ''We are all Icelanders'' (2009), he discusses how the ]2008 financial crisis
The 2008 financial crisis, also known as the global financial crisis (GFC), was a major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States. The causes of the 2008 crisis included excessive speculation on housing values by both homeowners ...
affected ten different Icelanders, including an architect, a politician and a kindergarten nurse.
In ''Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte'', published in German, he tells the story of restaurant operator Marianne Kowalew."Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte - ich bin nicht verrückt aber extravagant"
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Publications
* ''Loksins, loksins: vefarinn mikli og upphaf íslenskra nútímabókmennta''. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 1987. OCLC 22972223
* ''Halldór Laxness—ævisaga''. Reykjavík: JPV, 2004. . English ed. trans. Philip Roughton: ''The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness''. London: Maclehose Press, Quercus, 2008.
* ''Skáldalíf: ofvitinn úr Suðursveit og skáldið á Skriðuklaustri''. Reykjavík: JPV, 2006.
* ''Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte''. Ed. and trans. Regina Kammerer. Munich: Random House-Bertelsmann, 2010.
References
External links
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1956 births
Living people
Halldor Gudmundsson
Halldor Gudmundsson
Halldor Gudmundsson