Halldór Guðmundsson (born 1956 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic author. He was also chairman of the publishing company Mál og menning and its successor after the merger with JPV, Forlagið."Jóhann Páll útgefandi Forlagsins og Halldór Guðmundsson stjórnarformaður", Morgunblaðið 31 August 2008
His biography of Halldór Laxness was awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize.Íslensku Bókmenntaverðlaunin: Tilnefndar bækur og verðlaun , Icelandic Publishers Association The book has also appeared in English and German.
Halldór's 2006 book Skáldalíf, about the 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 (2009), he discusses how the 2008 financial crisis affected ten different Icelanders, including an architect, a politician and a kindergarten nurse.Ben Quinn, "Iceland's children paying for slump", The Guardian, 24 January 2011.
In Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte, published in German, he tells the story of restaurant operator Marianne Kowalew."Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte - ich bin nicht verrückt aber extravagant", FachBuchKritik.de
Publications Loksins, loksins: vefarinn mikli og upphaf íslenskra nútímabókmennta. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 1987. OCLC 22972223 Halldór Laxness—ævisaga. Reykjavík: JPV, 2004. . English ed. trans. Philip Roughton: The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness. London: Maclehose Press, Quercus, 2008. Skáldalíf: ofvitinn úr Suðursveit og skáldið á Skriðuklaustri. Reykjavík: JPV, 2006. Mamutschkas Lebensrezepte. Ed. and trans. Regina Kammerer. Munich: Random House-Bertelsmann, 2010.
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