Location: Iceland
Óskar Guðmundsson
One of the rising stars of Icelandic crime fiction, Óskar Guðmundsson has been writing since he was a youngster, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that his novel Hilma was published – and was an immediate success, winning the Drop of Blood award for the best Icelandic crime
novel of 2015. TV rights to Hilma have been acquired by SagaFilms. The Commandments is a standalone novel which appeared in Iceland in 2019 and was the first to be translated into English. His latest book is The Dancer, which has been published simultaneously as an ebook, audiobook and paperback – accompanied by an original song in which Óskar’s words have been put to music featuring some of Iceland’s leading musicians.
