{"id":583,"date":"2017-04-03T09:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T09:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/?page_id=583"},"modified":"2017-06-21T07:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T07:04:20","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-widget-area awb-widget-area-element fusion-widget-area-1 fusion-content-widget-area\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#000000;\"><div id=\"menu-widget-7\" class=\"widget menu\"><style type=\"text\/css\">#menu-widget-7{text-align:center;}#fusion-menu-widget-7 li{display:inline-block;}#fusion-menu-widget-7 ul li a{display:inline-block;padding:0;border:0;color:#000;font-size:14px;}#fusion-menu-widget-7 ul li a:after{content:\"|\";color:#000;padding-right:25px;padding-left:25px;font-size:14px;}#fusion-menu-widget-7 ul li a:hover,#fusion-menu-widget-7 ul .menu-item.current-menu-item a{color:#7a060c;}#fusion-menu-widget-7 ul li:last-child a:after{display:none;}#fusion-menu-widget-7 ul li .fusion-widget-cart-number{margin:0 7px;background-color:#7a060c;color:#000;}#fusion-menu-widget-7 ul li.fusion-active-cart-icon .fusion-widget-cart-icon:after{color:#7a060c;}<\/style><nav id=\"fusion-menu-widget-7\" class=\"fusion-widget-menu\" aria-label=\"Secondary navigation\"><ul id=\"menu-about\" class=\"menu\"><li id=\"menu-item-2192\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2192\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/about\/\">About<\/a><\/li><li id=\"menu-item-2195\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2195\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/about\/cv\/\">CV<\/a><\/li><li id=\"menu-item-2196\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2196\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/about\/interviews\/\">Interviews<\/a><\/li><li id=\"menu-item-2194\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2194\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/about\/gallery\/\">Gallery<\/a><\/li><li id=\"menu-item-2193\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2193\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/about\/author-photos\/\">Author Photos<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><div class=\"fusion-additional-widget-content\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;width:48%; margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Hallgrimur Helgason is an Icelandic writer and artist born in Reykjavik in 1959. He spent a year at the Art School of Iceland and another one at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. Since 1983 he has been working as an independent artist and writer. Helgason started out as a painter, and has held over 30 solo shows and participated in over 30 group exhibitions home and abroad. As a struggling artist he lived in Boston 1985-86, in New York 1986-89 and in Paris 1990-1995. Helgason published his first novel in 1990 and got his international breakthrough as a writer with the publication of 101 Reykjavik in 1996.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;width:48%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element in-legacy-container\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1443\" height=\"934\" title=\"hallgrimur-helgason\" src=\"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallgrimur-helgason.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-1654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallgrimur-helgason-200x129.jpg 200w, https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallgrimur-helgason-400x259.jpg 400w, https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallgrimur-helgason-600x388.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallgrimur-helgason-800x518.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallgrimur-helgason-1200x777.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hallgrimur-helgason.jpg 1443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>In 2001 he was awarded the Icelandic Prize of Literature for his novel The Author of Iceland. His best known books are The Hitman\u2019s Guide to Housecleaning (2008), which he wrote in English, and Woman at 1000 Degrees (2011). Two of his novels have been filmed, 101 Reykjavik (2000) and Stormland (2011), and four of his novels have been put on stage. He has also written two books of poetry, worked for film and theatre, and translated two of Shakespeare\u2019s plays into Icelandic. In 1995 Helgason had a short career as a stand-up comedian, introducing the genre to his countrymen. The same year saw the birth of his alter ego Grim, a cartoon character he has been working with ever since. Helgason has also published two books of poetry and for two decades he has been an active participant in the political debate of Iceland, a country that has not been short on dramatic events, from the corrupt reign of Dav\u00ed\u00f0 Oddsson (1991-2008) to the economic crash of 2008 and the Panama Papers scandal of 2016. On these and other matters Helgason has written countless articles for Icelandic and international newspapers and magazines.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-583","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallgrimurhelgason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}