Halldór Guðmundsson (born 1956 in Reykjavík) is an

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its ...

ic author. He was also chairman of the publishing company

Mál og menning Mál og menning ('language and culture') is an Icelandic publishing house, established in 1937. The press has published the work of many of Iceland's best known authors, among them Þórbergur Þórðarson, Jóhannes úr Kötlum, Svava Jakobsdótti ...

and its successor after the merger with

JPV JPV was an Icelandic publishing house, established in 2001 by Jóhann Páll Valdimarsson, from whose initials the press takes its name. On 1 October 2007, JPV merged with the publishers Mál og menning, Vaka-Helgafell and Bókaútgáfan Iðunn ...

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. 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 ...

was awarded the

Icelandic Literary Prize The Icelandic Literary Prize ( Icelandic: ''Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin''), or Icelandic Literary Award, is an award which is given to three books each year by the Icelandic Publishers Association. The prize was founded on the association's cent ...

.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 Gunnar Gunnarsson (18 May 1889 – 21 November 1975) was an Icelandic author who wrote mainly in Danish. He grew up, in considerable poverty, on Valþjófsstaður in Fljótsdalur valley and on Ljótsstaðir in Vopnafjörður. During ...

, 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 financial crisis 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gudmundsson, Halldor 1956 births Living people Halldor Gudmundsson Halldor Gudmundsson Halldor Gudmundsson Halldor Gudmundsson