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

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 do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

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

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

I usually leave Reykavik for two to three weeks to go to the South Coast of Iceland where I have a small fisherman's hut from the beginning of the last century. That's where I sit down and do the actual writing. I might write for 16 hours a day or something. That's how it happens.

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?"