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"I never think, I just write"
"Iceland is mainly just nature, with a few human beings scattered here and there," says Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson in an interview with Sagenhaftes Island, which will appear on the project´s website on Friday. In the interview, Jón Kalman readily answers questions about nature as it appears in his work, and expounds on Iceland´s newest manuscript, the 2600 page official report on the country's recent financial meltdown. He is, however, for the most part unwilling to discuss the book he is currently working on.
"One shouldn´t talk," he says, "but write."
- Your latest novels, Himnaríki og Helvíti / Heaven and Hell and Harmur englanna / Sorrow of Angels, form two-thirds of a larger story. Did you think of it as a trilogy from the start?
"I never think, I just write. I'm a shepherd who has turned to writing after losing his flock," Jón Kalman says.