Halldór Guðmundsson

Halldór Guðmundsson (* 1956 in Reykjavík , Iceland ) is an Icelandic writer.

Life

Halldór studied literature and has been the publishing director of the largest Icelandic publishing house Mál og menning and JPV , Forlagið , which was created after a merger, since 1984 . He has published various books and articles, of which the biographies of Halldór Laxness and Gunnar Gunnarsson ( Skáldalíf ) received special attention. Since 2006 he has been editor of the cultural magazine Skírnir, which was founded in 1827 and is still published today .

In 2011 he was responsible for Iceland's appearance as a guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair .

Awards

• 2004: Icelandic Literature Prize for Halldór Laxness. A biography
• 2006: Nomination for the Icelandic Literature Prize for Skáldalíf

Publications

• Loksins, loksins: vefarinnmikli og upphaf íslenskra nútímabókmennta , Mál og menning, Reykjavík 1987.
• Halldór Laxness - ævisaga. JPV, Reykjavík 2004, ISBN 997-9781610 .
  • German: Halldór Laxness. A biography. Translated by Helmut Lugmayer; btb, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-442-73918-9 .
  • Halldór Laxness: Life and Work. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-88243-997-1 .
  • Halldór Laxness: His Life. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86930-235-5 .
• Skáldalíf: ofvitinn úr Suðursveit og skáldið á Skriðuklaustri. JPV, Reykjavík 2006, ISBN 978-997-9798064 .
• We are all Icelanders. Of the pleasure and frustration of being in a crisis. btb, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-75248-5 .
• Mamutschka's recipes for life. I'm not crazy, but extravagant. btb, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-75228-7 .
• Text together with Matthias Wagner K for Iceland by Ulrike Crespo , Kehrer, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86828-777-6 .

Web links

• Author's website (Icelandic)
• Short biography on the Random House website
• The Icelandic sagas and literature today - Halldór Guðmundsson in conversation , Deutschlandfunk, October 9, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review: Hitler in Iceland? In: Iceland Review November 15, 2006. Retrieved March 1, 2014.

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .