Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón Kalman Stefánsson is an Icelandic author.Biography
Jón Kalman was born in Reykjavík. He grew up there and in Keflavík. From 1975 to 1982, he lived in western Iceland, where he worked in different jobs after having finished high school.
From 1986 to 1991, he studied literature at the University of Iceland, but did not pass an important exam. During this time, Stefánsson taught courses at high schools and writing articles for the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið. Between 1992 and 1995, he lived off various jobs in Copenhagen, Denmark. Afterwards he returned to Iceland and worked as a librarian for the Municipal Library in Mosfellsbær. Since then he has been living as an independent author in Iceland.
In 2017 his novel fish have no feet was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. He's been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize four times.Novels
- Skurðir í rigningu
- Sumarið bakvið Brekkuna
- Birtan á fjöllunum
- Ýmislegt um risafurur og tímann
- Snarkið í stjörnunum
- Sumarljós og svo kemur nóttin
- Himnaríki og helvíti / Heaven and Hell
- Harmur englanna / The Sorrow of Angels
- Hjarta mannsins / The Heart of Man
- Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur / Fish Have No Feet
- Eitthvað á stærð við alheiminn: ættarsaga
- Saga Ástu: Hvert fer maður ef það er engin leið út úr heiminum?
Poetry
- Með byssuleyfi á eilífðina
- Úr þotuhreyflum guða
- Hún spurði hvað ég tæki með mér á eyðieyju
