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
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Halldór Guðmundsson". Vielseitig. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ "Jóhann Páll útgefandi Forlagsins og Halldór Guðmundsson stjórnarformaður", Morgunblaðið 31 August 2008 (in Icelandic)
- ^ Shakespeare, Nicholas (9 August 2008). "Review: The Islander by Halldór Guđmundsson". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ Binding, Paul (13 October 2008). "The Islander, By Halldor Gudmundsson, trans. Philip Roughton". The Independent on Sunday. Retrieved 13 February 2011.[dead link]
- ^ "Poet comes in from the cold". The Irish Times. 13 September 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b Íslensku Bókmenntaverðlaunin: Tilnefndar bækur og verðlaun Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Icelandic Publishers Association (in Icelandic)
- ^ "New Releases of Icelandic Books". Iceland Review Online. 28 September 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ "Hitler in Iceland?". Iceland Review Online. 15 November 2006. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ Ben Quinn, "Iceland's children paying for slump", The Guardian, 24 January 2011.
- ^ "Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte - ich bin nicht verrückt aber extravagant", FachBuchKritik.de (in German)
External links
edit- "Halldór Guðmundsson (personal page)". Retrieved 20 June 2020.