Andri is also a director and producer of three documentary films that have premiered in IDFA and CPH:DOX.

He has received the Icelandic Literary Prize in all categories, fiction, non-fiction and for children's literature.

At the time the Kárahnjúkar dam was being built in Eastern Iceland, damaging one of the last and largest intact wilderness in Europe.

Andri has collaborated with various artists in film, music, theatre, architecture, activism and design.

Collaborators include múm, Högni, Anni Ólafsdóttir, Eivör Pálsdóttir, Björk, Þorleifur Arnarson, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Ásta Fanney, Bjarke Ingels and more.. Andri was vice-president of The Icelandic Writers Union and a board member of The Culture House in Reykjavik.

In 2021, he won the Writers Award from the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service RÚV.