Iceland review - 2014, Síða 24

22 ICELAND REVIEW
in-law is a nurse and her sister too. His great grandfather was
a doctor in the Westfjords of iceland. His grandfather, Björn
Thorbjarnarson is married to a nurse from Toronto; he was
chief surgeon at the new York Hospital and a professor at
cornell university. Björn wrote the bestseller Surgery of the
Biliary Tract in 1975. Andri lives in reykjavík, he has four
children.”
After the short portrait session—you could sense that it
was not his first—we chatted in the hallway about iceland
today. And Andri Snær has a strong opinion on how to make
iceland a better place. Great to have a good writer like him on
that team, i thought to myself. With his words he can move
people... in the right direction. *
important market, are translations. Three of my books,
Dreamland, The Story of the Blue Planet, and LoveStar have
been published in english, and received awards. But what
surprised me is that only a few of my books have been
published in the nordic countries. Dreamland was pub-
lished in denmark, and only The Story of the Blue Planet
has been published in Sweden and norway, even though
it has been translated into more than 30 languages and
published in two editions in South korea. But you never
know where your books will draw the most interest. like
LoveStar, which has been published in the u.S., Japan,
egypt, France, Germany, Hungary and Turkey.”
When i stand up, to grab my camera for the portrait,
i ask him: “never sick?” He laughs. “So you have been
reading my homepage on the internet.” indeed i have,
and this is what’s written there: “Andri Snær comes from
a family of doctors and nurses. His father is a doctor, his
mother is a nurse, his sister is a brain surgeon, his brother
is in computers, but his wife is a nurse. Andri Snær is
married to a nurse, her sister is a doctor, and his mother-
literature