I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously try to write something that is timeless?"

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everything literature can do when tackling difficult issues.

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?"

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.