Inspiring Young Readers
posted on 05 Dec 2024
An Interview with Ævar Þór Benediktsson
The Letterpress Project has asked authors and illustrators to think about what has inspired them as artists, what their favourite books are and how they relate to their audience - we've also asked them if they themselves are book collectors.
We are delighted to present an exclusive interview with Ævar Þór Benediktsson who is an author and actor from Iceland. In his home country he has written close to 40 books for children and teenagers, along with plays and TV shows. His first book in English, Stranded! A (Mostly) True Story From Iceland was published in 2023 by Barefoot Books to great acclaim. The book was awarded The Margaret Wise Brown Prize Honor Book for 2024 and selected for the Extraordinary Book Prize at The International Literature Festival in Berlin earlier this year. Ævar lives in Reykjavík, Iceland with his fiancée, their six year old son and their no-one-knows-how-old-he-actually-is cat.
You can read what he had to tell us by clicking on the link below: