My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

What is the ratio of crime writers to actual crime?

Sounds like a wonderful opportunity for a forensic pathologist who speaks Icelandic!

I love that his solution was to find a way to help writers more efficiently, instead of telling them all to leave him alone.

i love him what a guy

I’m imagining a very exasperated man begging Yrsa Sigurðardóttir to please stop calling and let him get back to his autopsies.

Does the pathologist show up in a bunch of books but just slightly obfuscated to be a different person

I really want to attend the Iceland Noir conference next year!

Have you seen this?

I love this so much. (I also can’t wait to go back to Iceland. The landscape feels like looking back in time at my country a few hundred million years ago. I kept getting enormously charmed by like…moss on volcanic rock like “omg hi, one day you could be PEAR!!!”)

That's hilarious!