I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that is spoken by 330,000 people.

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are coming from all over. It is still changing society in a good way.