Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

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

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

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.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and a friendship was made.

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.