Arnaldur Indriðason

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic or matronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Arnaldur.

Arnaldur Indriðason
Arnaldur Indriðason at the Helsinki Book Fair, Finland, 2004
Born	January 28, 1961 (1961-01-28) (age 50) Reykjavík, Iceland
Genres	crime fiction

Arnaldur Indriðason (born 28 January 1961) is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction. He has repeatedly proved to be the most popular writer in Iceland in recent years — topping bestseller lists year after year^{[citation needed]}. In the year 2004 his books were seven of the ten most popular titles borrowed in Reykjavík City Library^{[citation needed]}.

Biography

Arnaldur was born in Reykjavík, the son of the writer Indriði G. Þorsteinsson. He graduated with a degree in history from the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) in 1996. He worked as a journalist for the newspaper Morgunblaðið in 1981-1982, and later freelanced. From 1986 to 2001, he was a film critic for Morgunblaðið.

He published his first book, Sons of Dust (Synir duftsins) in 1997, the first in the series of Detective Erlendur. The series includes eleven novels as of 2010.

Arnaldur's books have been published in twenty-six countries and have been translated into Russian, Polish, German, Greek, Danish, Catalan, English, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Chinese, Croatian, Romanian and French. Arnaldur received the Glass Key award, a literature prize for the best Nordic crime novel, in 2002 and 2003. He won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 2005 for the novel Silence of the Grave.

He lives in Reykjavík with his wife and three children.

Bibliography

Detective Erlendur series

• Synir duftsins (Sons of Dust, 1997)
• Dauðarósir (Silent Kill, 1998)
• Mýrin (Tainted Blood, also known as Jar City, 2000)
• Grafarþögn (Silence of the Grave, 2001)
• Röddin (Voices, 2003)
• Kleifarvatn (The Draining Lake, 2004)
• Vetrarborgin (Arctic Chill, 2005)
• Harðskafi (Hypothermia, 2007)
• Myrká (Outrage, 2008)
• Svörtuloft (2009)
• Furðustrandir (2010)

Other novels

• Napóleonsskjölin (Operation Napoleon, 1999)
• Bettý (2003)
• Konungsbók (The King's Book, 2006)

Other writings

• Leyndardómar Reykjavíkur 2000 (one chapter; 2000)
• Reykjavík-Rotterdam (screenplay co-writer, 2008)

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Name	Arnaldur Indridason
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Date of birth	28 January 1961
Place of birth	Reykjavík, Iceland
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