![]() Playwright Maya Ardal, like some other writers born in Iceland, left that country permanently and is now considered among Canadian playwrights. The films of these mysteries are even grimmer than the books. Arnaldur Indridasson, the most famous contemporary writer in Iceland, pens mysteries which are among the darkest, gloomiest, and most haunting ever written, the pinnacle of Nordic noir. ![]() ![]() “Hilarious” is certainly not a word that immediately comes to mind when thinking of Icelandic writing. “Can it really be him?…I almost feel as if I have seen a ghost, and I begin to imagine that died in the institution and his ghost has started knocking on people’s doors…I try to convince myself that what I thought I saw in this man’s movements was a mistake, I had only imagined the worst… there is only one person in the world who moves like this.”-Emil Halldorsson, on the stranger at his door. ![]()
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