NOVELS
GANGANDI ÍKORNI
A novel
Mál og menning
1987
The setting and characters seem conventional at first: a young boy in a remote country with an elderly couple, a trip to the market, visits to the doctor, farm work. But the reader soon finds a strange distance in this close cohabitation, something unspeakable happens with the boy.
SVEFNHJÓLIÐ
A novel
Mál og menning
1990
NOMINATION
The Icelandic literature prize 1990
A young man moves with a rickety suitcase and a typewriter into an old cottage in a small village. Soon strange events begin to happen, he has strange dreams, sees sea monsters and is repeatedly thought to be a ghost, regressive, or even related to old ghosts.
NÆTURLUKTIN
A novel
Mál og menning
2001
Næturluktin is an independent sequel to Gyrðir's first novel, Gangandi ikorni, which was published in 1987 and attracted a lot of attention.
HÓTELSUMAR
A novel
Mál og menning
2003
After a difficult divorce, the narrator returns to his hometown, and in the summer night light, he tries to reconnect with himself. Ghosts from the past cross his path and he has to deal with feelings that are at once unspeakable, complex and contradictory.
SANDÁRBÓKIN
pastoralsónata
A novel
Dimma
2007
A divorced painter settles in a trailer park and intends to focus on painting trees. He has suffered various setbacks in life and his stay in this peculiar settlement is another thread thought to tempt him to gain peace of mind. However, various things stand in the way.
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SUÐURGLUGGINN
A novel
Dimma
2012
NOMINATION
The Icelandic
literature prize 2012
A writer stays at a friend's cottage near a small village and struggles to write a novel - a work that constantly refuses to take on the form the author seeks to create. He has little work to do and the typewriter stands still for days.
SORGARMARSINN
A novel
Dimma
2018
NOMINATION
The French
Médicis Prize 2022
Sorgarmarsinn tells the story of a man whose second job is writing lyrics, but who mainly leans towards music and who has found refuge in a small village in the eastfjords.
