Career
He was also chairman of the publishing company Mál og menning and its successor after the merger with JPV, Forlagið. The book has also appeared in English and German. In We are all Icelanders (2009), 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.
