Halld�r Gu�mundsson is an Icelandic author. He was also chairman of the publishing company M�l og menning and its successor after the merger with JPV, Forlagi�. His biography of Halld�r Laxness was awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize. The book has also appeared in English and German. Halld�r's 2006 book Sk�ldal�f, about Icelandic writer Gunnar Gunnarsson, was chosen best biography of the year by the Icelandic Booksellers' Association and nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize. In We are all Icelanders, he discusses how the financial crisis affected ten different Icelanders, including an architect, a politician and a kindergarten nurse. In Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte, published in German, he tells the story of restaurant operator Marianne Kowalew. 

January 1st, 1956 in Reykjavik (Age 68)