(b.1987) has garnered much attention for his novels Connecting Flight, Starfish, and Death of a Forest, the last of which was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature. He has received the Tomas Gudmundsson Literary
Award and the May Star Poetry Prize for his poetry books.

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“…it is no longer possible to call Jonas Reynir
promising as he has already become one of the
most interesting writers of his generation.”
EINAR FALUR INGOLFSSON, MORGUNBLADID DAILY
(ON STARFISH)

“I didn’t read this book – I absorbed it. An uncomfortably
convincing portrait of contemporary Iceland.“
HALLGRIMUR HELGASON (ON THROUGH FLIGHT)