Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 17 December 1963) is an Icelandic author.

Biography Jón Kalman was born in Reykjavík. He grew up there and in Keflavík. From 1975 to 1982, he lived in western Iceland, where he worked different jobs after finishing high school.

From 1986 to 1991, he studied literature at the University of Iceland, but did not pass an important exam. During this time, Stefánsson taught courses at high schools and wrote articles for the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið. Between 1992 and 1995, he lived off various jobs in Copenhagen, Denmark. Afterwards he returned to Iceland and worked as a librarian for the Municipal Library in Mosfellsbær. Since then, he has been living as an independent author in Iceland.

In 2017 his novel Fish Have No Feet was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. He has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize four times.