Nordic Prize Awarded to Icelandic Author Einar Már Guðmundsson

We failed to mention that a few days ago the Swedish Academy announced that Einar Már Guðmundsson is the recipient of the Nordiska Pris.


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Guðmundsson was born in 1954 and perhaps is best-known for the novel Englar alheimsins (Angels of the Universe, 1993). He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1995.