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Hallgrímur Helgason just finished a mini-tour of the Literature houses in Norway with his novel Sixty Kilos of Sunshine. He was "bookbathed" on stage, as they call it there, in Oslo, Stavanger and Bergen. He also visited bookstores, signed books, appeared on Norway's biggest morning radio show, Nitimen, recorded an episode [...]

The first volume of Hallgrímur's big trilogy, The Sixty Kilo Saga, is now the biggest selling book in Norway, according to the official Norwegian bestseller list Boklista. Sixty Kilos of Sunshine was published in early January by Kagge Forlag in Oslo and instantly got great reviews in the Norwegian press, four newspapers c [...]

Hallgrímur has published a new collection of poetry illustrated by himself. The book is titled "Drungabrim í dauðum sjó", roughly translated as "Ghostly Surf in a Sea of Calm". It is a compilation of his poetry written in the 21st century, poems done in the classical meters of the great Icelandic tradition, with the age ol [...]

Hallgrímur's exhibition "War í lofti" or "War Is In the Air" opened on 27. September 2025 in Gallery Port in Hallgerðargata in Reykjavik. Here the artist shows 11 new paintings, all done this year. All works are comments on the state of world affairs, the horrors of ongoing wars and the ongoing fear of a world war breaking [...]

The third and final volume of The Sixty KIlo Saga is out in Iceland, titled Sixty Kilos of Sundays. It carries on and completes the saga of Gestur and the herring adventure in Segulfjörður (Siglufjörður), Iceland's northernmost and most isolated town. It takes us through events from 1918 to 1932, winding through the class [...]

An overview of Hallgrímur Helgason's art career has opened in The Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir Branch. Curated by museum director Ólöf Kristín Sigurðardóttir and art historian Aldís Snorradóttir, the exhibition showcases about 70 paintings from the start of Hallgrímur's career in 1985 until the present day, includi [...]

Hallgrímur Helgason opened an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen on February the 10th, 2024, the exhibition space in Christianshavn dedicated to the far north countries of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The title of the exhibit is "Group Portrait of the Self"; most o [...]

On March 11th Hallgrímur Helgason opened his exhibition at Listamenn Gallery in Reykjavik, "Group Portraits of the Self", consisting of new paintings and drawings done in the years 2021 and 2022. According to the artist all the works are self portraits, depicting groups of characters that live inside him. "It's like a new [...]

Hallgrímur Helgason participated in the conference “Iceland and the Faroe Islands seen from within and without - cross-cultural perspectives, 17th-21st century” that was held in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, on the 14th and 15th of June, 2022. Among participants were historians and professors from Iceland, Faroe Islands, Denmar [...]

Hallgrímur Helgason has won the Icelandic Literary Prize in fiction for his novel “Sixty Kilos of Knockouts”, the second volume in his Sixty Kilo-series. He also won the same prize for the first volume back in 2018, Sixty Kilos of Sunshine. This then is the third time Hallgrímur wins the prize, he also won in 2001, for his [...]

In collaboration with author/illustrator Rán Flygenring, Hallgrímur Helgason has published a children’s Christmas poetry book that plays on the local classic “Jólin koma” (Christmas Are Coming) by renown poet Jóhannes úr Kötlum, a book that was originally published in Iceland in 1932. It tells the stories of the thirteen Y [...]

Hallgrímur Helgason’s sequel to his award winning 2018 novel, Sixty Kilos of Sunshine, has just been published. The title is Sixty Kilos of Knockouts. It carries on with the saga of Gestur and his people in Segulfjörður Fjord, in the north of Iceland, at the turn of the twentieth century. The herring boom takes off for rea [...]