Ævar Örn Jósepsson has a new crime novel out. His favored prose-style? Less of the pretty, more of the nitty-gritty.

“There´s a definite air of excitement about,” says Jón Ómar Erlingsson of the printing firm Oddi, now in the midst of the frenzied “Christmas book flood.”

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir receives the Jónas Hallgrímsson Prize on the Day of the Icelandic Language. “I'm deeply touched that my life's work has attracted attention,” she told Sagenhaftes Island.

A turn-of-the-century woman called Ljósa has been on Kristín Steinsdóttir's mind for fifteen years. Now the novel is out.

“Each day, you experience something new, think of something that has never occurred to you before,” says the indefatigable Einar Kárason of his newest work, titled I Am Amused.

Warm words for Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir's The Big Dipper in the Danish newspaper Information.

Þorgrímur Þráinsson's Are You God, Grandpa? is a winner.

A new novel by the crime titan Arnaldur Indriðason appeared in Icelandic stores on November 1. The book marks the return of Indriðason's most famous creation, Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson.

Praise and prizes rain down on Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's Rosa candida in France.