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Hallgrimur Helgason Novelist Iceland
Hallgrimur Helgason is an Icelandic writer and artist born in 1959. He started out as a painter and has held numerous exhibitions in Iceland and abroad. For ten years he lived in New York and Paris. Since 1990 he has published seven novels and a collection of poetry, and in 2001 he was awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize for his novel, The Author of Iceland. His best known books are 101 Reykjavik (1996), which was filmed, and Stormland (2005) was made into a film with the same name in 2011. Both were nominated to the Nordic Literary Prize. He has also written for the stage, translated books including Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, and worked as a stand-up comedian for three months. In Iceland, he has been active in political debating and written countless articles for major newspapers for over 20 years. His best known artwork is his own alter-ego, the cartoon character, ‘Grim’.
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