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Hallgrímur Helgason (born February 18, 1959, Reykjavík) is an Icelandic painter, novelist, translator, and columnist.〔"...says Hellgrimur Helgason, who writes an outspoken newspaper column which exposes feuds between Iceland's ruling class and its entrepreneurs. He is also the author of 101 Reykjavik, a popular novel populated by 'Krutt-kynslotin' characters." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/iceland.creditcrunch〕 ==Biography== Hallgrímur studied at the Art Academy of Iceland, and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He has worked independently as an artist and writer since 1982, and has held over twenty solo exhibitions in Iceland, Boston, Paris and Malmö.〔http://www.sagenhaftes-island.is/en/icelandic-literature/authors/nr/236〕 His work has also been displayed in over 30 group exhibitions in various countries. His first novel ''Hella'' came out in 1990. His best-known works are ''101 Reykjavík'', which was made into a popular film of the same name, ''Höfundur Íslands'' (The Author of Iceland), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001, and ''The Hitman's Guide to House Cleaning''. Hallgrímur was also nominated for the Icelandic Prize in 2005 for his novel ''Rokland''. He has also been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for both ''101 Reykjavík'' and ''Rokland''. Hallgrímur's novel from 2008, ''10 ráð til að hætta að drepa fólk og byrja að vaska upp'', was first written in English as ''The Hitman's Guide to House Cleaning''. It was published by Amazon Crossing in January 2012. Only days after publication it reached the top spot on the Amazon Kindle bestsellers list for Thrillers. Helgason's latest novel, "The Woman at 1000°", was published first in Germany in September 2011, by Tropen Verlag, and in Iceland the month after. It was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize and the rights has been sold to 12 countries. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hallgrimur.is )〕 Commenting on Hallgrímur's breakthrough works ''101 Reykjavík'' and the earlier ''Þetta er allt að koma'', Ástráður Eysteinsson and Úfhildur Dagsdóttir have commented that: 'loose and baggy in their undisciplined structure, these novels are irreverent and satiric in their postmodern mix of ingredients, not the least of which is a host of jokes and word games, some of them clever and sharp, some facile and silly, and this spectrum is perhaps in line with the cultural vision of these works.'〔Ástráður Eysteinsson and Úfhildur Dagsdóttir, 'Icelandic Prose Literature, 1940--2000', in ''A History of Icelandic Literature'', ed. by Daisy Nejmann, History of Scandinavian literatures, 5 (University of Nebraska Press: 2007), pp. 404--70 (p. 466).〕 He currently lives and works in Reykjavík. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hallgrímur Helgason」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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