Bjarni Bjarnason is an Icelandic writer born November 9, 1965 in Reykjavík. He started writing poetry in his teens and by twenty had a play. He has received the Tómas Guðmundsson Award, Halldór Laxness Literature Award, and in 1996 was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize.[1] In year 2001 his 12th book was published. [2]. As this is written (in August 2011) his 17th is on it´s way into the bookstores. See more on Bjarni Bjarnason and all his books in GOPfrettir.net/open/BB. [3]