Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson

Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson ( Olaf Olafsson, born August 26, 1962 in Reykjavík, Iceland ) is an Icelandic writer and manager. He is married, has three children and lives in the USA. The Icelandic writer Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson was his father.

Life

After high school graduation he went abroad to further study and graduated in 1985 as a physicist at the American Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

Following his studies Ólafur worked since 1985 for the U.S. subsidiary of electronics giant Sony. As president of the company founded in 1991 Sony Electronic Publishing Division, he organized Sony's entry into the video game industry. These included the activities of the Publishers Sony Imageworks, the acquisition of UK developer Psygnosis in 1993 and the launch of the PlayStation game console in Western markets in 1995.

From 1996 to 1999 he worked for the company Advanta and in 1999 Vice Chairman of Time Warner Digital Media.

Works

Nevertheless, Ólafur took time to write again. Initially, these were articles for scientific journals. In 1986 he published a collection of short stories under the title NIU lyklar. His first novel Markaðstorg guðanna appeared in 1988. Since then, he has written a number of novels and plays.

The novel Fyrirgefning syndanna (1991, German: forgiveness of sins, 1995, from the Icelandic by Moritz Kirsch ) was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize. The play had Fjögur hjörtu 1997 Lofstkastalinn theater premiere. An adaptation of his novel Sniglaveislan was premiered in 2001 by the Akureyri Drama Society. The novel slod fiðrildanna (1999, German: The way home, 2002, from the English by Christiane Winkler ) is to be filmed by Paloma Pictures in Hollywood.