Arnadur Indridason (b. January 28, 1961) is the author of 9 fast-paced detective stories and one thriller. He is a historian and former journalist and film critic. Indridason specialized in writing on films and bestsellers and mainly worked for Morgunbladid, the biggest newspaper in Iceland, for 20 years.
When finishing his degree in history at the University of Iceland his dissertation was on Icelandic films. In 1991 he was one of two authors of an Icelandic movie guide where 2,000 films were reviewed. He has also written articles on Icelandic films for Eurimage and The International Film Guide.
Indridason has through his work studied the narrative technique of films and bestsellers, and the methods used to keep the reader/viewer interested throughout. When his first book was published he said on TV: “You learn a lot from bad movies – how one should not tell a story!”
His father, Indridi G. Thorsteinsson was one of the most prominent Icelandic writers in the twentieth century so one might say that it was quite natural for Indridason to follow his father’s example, although their writings are very different.
Arnaldur lives in Reykjavik with his wife and three children.
In Russia the rights to the informal trilogy Jar City, Silence of the Grave and Voices have been acquired by Corpus/AST Publishing, Russia.
Jar City
Original title: Myrin
Genre: Novel
Pages: 290
Year: 2000
Publisher: Iceland, Forlagid
Rights sold
Russia (Corpus Books, AST)/UK/Australia/New Zealand/South-Africa (Random House/Harvill Press)/USA /Philipines (St. Martin?s Press/Thomas Dunne Books)/
Germany/Switzerland/Austria (Verlagsgruppe Lubbe)/The Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg (Querido)/France/Monaco/Switzerland/Luxembourg/Belgium/Canada/Andorra/Mexico/Brazil, Israel/Italy/Spain/Martinique/Algeria/Benin/Burkina Faso/Le Caillou/Cameroun/Central African Republic/Chad/Congo/Comor Islands/Cote d’Ivoire/Dakar/Djibouti/Guinea/Guadalupe/Gabon/Madagaskar/Mali/Marocco/Mauritania/Mayonette/Niger/Reunion/Senegal/Togo/Tunis (Editions Metailie)/Italy, San Mariono (Longanesi/Ugo Guanda)/Spain/Andorra/Argentina/Bolivia/Mexico/Chile/Columbia/Costa Rica/Cuba/Ekvador/Guiana/Honduras/Nicaragua/Peru/Panama/Puerto Rico/Surinam/Uruguay/Venesuela//USA (RBA)/Brazil (Editora Record/Portugal (Livraria Civilizacao Editora)/Finland (Blue Moon Kirjat Oy)/Denmark (Rosinante)/Sweden (Norstedts/Prisma)/Norway (Cappelen)/Faroe Islands (Sprotin)/Bulgaria (Infodar)/Croatia (Edicije Bozicevic) /
Czech Republic (MOBA) /
Hungary (Animus) /
Poland (WAB) /
Rumenia (Editura Historia) /
Slovenia (Didakta) /
Israel (Keter) /
Greece/Cyprus (Livani Publishing) /
Turkey (Sinemis Yay?nlar?) /
Estonia (Nynorden) /
Japan (Sony Magazine) /
China, Hong Kong, Singapure (People's Literature Publishing House) /
Taiwan (Crown) Korea (Younglim Cardinal Inc.)
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Silence of the Grave
Original title: Grafarbögn
Genre: Novel
Year: 2001
Publisher: Iceland, Forlagid
Rights sold
Russia (Corpus Books, AST)
Voices
Original title: Röddin
Genre: Novel
Year: 2002
Publisher: Iceland, Forlagid
Rights sold
Russia (Corpus Books, AST)
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