The Swedish Academy selects who gets the Nobel Prize in literature each fall, but in the spring they award their other literary prize, the nordiska pris (the Nordic Prize, reserved for Scandinavian authors) -- and they've announced that Einar Már Guðmundsson will get it this year.
(It has a solid list of previous winners, including Tomas Tranströmer, who picked it up in 1991, and, for example, Per Olov Enquist, who got it in 2010.)
transcript claims he: "is the most widely translated Icelandic author born in the post-war period" and, indeed, several Einar Már Guðmundsson titles have even been translated into English -- but they're not exactly readily available; but try, for example, to get Angels of the Universe from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
transcript claims he: "is the most widely translated Icelandic author born in the post-war period" and, indeed, several Einar Már Guðmundsson titles have even been translated into English -- but they're not exactly readily available; but try, for example, to get Angels of the Universe from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.