Biography

Sjón is an internationally acclaimed Icelandic author, working in various literary forms and in all genres of film. His most recent work for the screen is the screenplay for The Northman, a Viking revenge drama, co-written with its legendary director Robert Eggers. Premiering to great acclaim in April 2022, it went on to become a top ten grossing film in the US that year. In 2021 he co-wrote the screenplay for Lamb, the first Icelandic film to make the top ten list in the US. Picking up a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and at numerous festivals over the world, Lamb then went on to the shortlist for the Best International Film Oscar. Currently, Sjón is writing and developing a number of scripts with former collaborators and some new ones.

Sjón's novels and poems have been translated into more than 40 languages. Among his books are The Blue Fox, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone and CoDex 1962, for which he has won international awards and nominations, including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Icelandic Literary Prize. In 2017 Sjón became the third writer to be chosen to contribute to Future Library - following Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell - a public artwork based in Norway spanning 100 years. At the 2001 Oscars ceremony, Sjón was nominated for an Academy Award for his lyrics in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark. Sjón lives and works in Reykjavík.
- IMDb mini biography by: Behind The Scene