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'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

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.

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.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

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