Kristian Guttesen, b. 1974, is the author of eleven poetry books in Icelandic, having published his first book in 1995. He was nominated for The 2007 Icelandic Translation Prize, for a translation of the Norwegian novel The Hill (n. Skråninga, by Carl Frode Tiller). His work has been translated into Albanian, Danish, English, French, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Norwegian, Serbian, Spanish & Ukrainian.