Biographie d'Arnaldur Indridason
Arnaldur Indriðason was the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the top crime novel of the year in the English language for Silence of the Grave. He also has the rare distinction of having won the Nordic Crime Novel Prize two years running. The Shadow District - the first book in the Reykjavík Wartime Mystery series - won the Premio RBA de Novela Negra, one of the world's most prestigious crime fiction prizes.
Indribason's novels have sold over IS million copies worldwide, in over forty languages. The Darkness Knows is the first novel in the series about Detective Konrád. The Girl by the Bridge is the second novel in the series. Philip Roughton is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of modern Icelandic novels, having translated works by numerous Icelandic writers, including, the Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness.