Halldór Guðmundsson Explained
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. . 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
- News: Halldór Guðmundsson. 2010. Vielseitig. 13 February 2011.
- http://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2007/08/31/johann_pall_utgefandi_forlagsins_og_halldor_gudmund/ "Jóhann Páll útgefandi Forlagsins og Halldór Guðmundsson stjórnarformaður"
- News: Review: The Islander by Halldór Guđmundsson . Shakespeare. Nicholas. 9 August 2008. The Telegraph. 13 February 2011.
- News: The Islander, By Halldor Gudmundsson, trans. Philip Roughton. Binding. Paul. 13 October 2008. The Independent on Sunday. 13 February 2011.
- News: Poet comes in from the cold. 13 September 2008. The Irish Times. 13 February 2011.
- http://www.bokautgafa.is/index.php/verelaun-og-tilnefningar Íslensku Bókmenntaverðlaunin: Tilnefndar bækur og verðlaun
- News: New Releases of Icelandic Books. 28 September 2009. Iceland Review Online. 13 February 2011.
- News: Hitler in Iceland?. 15 November 2006. Iceland Review Online. 13 February 2011. 13 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110713001653/http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=244889. dead.
- Ben Quinn, "Iceland's children paying for slump", The Guardian, 24 January 2011.
- http://www.fachbuchkritik.de/html/mamutschkas_lebensrezepte.html "Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte - ich bin nicht verrückt aber extravagant"
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