Sindri Freysson (born 23 July 1970 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic novelist and poet.
[1] His first book, a collection of poems entitled Fljótið sofandi konur (The River Sleeping Women), was published in 1992.
[2] His first novel, Augun í bænum (The Town has Many Eyes) received the Halldór Laxness Literature Prize in 1998,[2] and his second book of poetry, Harði kjarninn (The Hard Core), subtitled Spying on my own life,[3] was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1999.
[2] His second novel, Flóttinn (The Escape),[4] a vivid account of the adventures and perils that a young German faces in Iceland during World War II, was published in 2004 to a critical success.
[5] In October 2011 Sindri Freysson received the 2011 Reykjavík City Poetry Prize for his book Í klóm dalalæðunnar (Prisoner of the Ground-Mist).His fourth novel, Blindhríð (Whiteout),[6] was published to a critical acclaim in November 2013, and was nominated for the DV Cultural Prize for Literature and the Icelandic Red Feather-award for writing.