We are proud to represent the winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize!
In the category of fiction, Hallgrimur Helgason received the prize for his bestselling novel Sixty Kilos of Knockouts, the stand-alone sequel to the award-winning novel Sixty Kilos of Sunshine, which won the prize in 2018.
“Hallgrimur Helgason’s novel is an imposing, powerful and imaginative work, rendered with a pithy and inventive brilliance, that views through a satirical, hyperbolic lens a series of tragic events where life and death hang in the balance at every turn. … Sixty Kilos of Knockouts is an ambitious novel that engages with a reality where one’s fate is determined by one’s origins and external circumstances together with sheer luck, good and bad.”
CITATION FROM THE FINAL SELECTION COMMITTEE OF THE ICELANDIC LITERARY PRIZE 2021
