{"aliases":[],"awards":[],"biography_summary":"Th\u00f3rarinn Leifsson (born 29 July 1966) is an Icelandic author, illustrator and tour guide. He graduated from the Icelandic Academy of Arts in 1989. In that same period he was a street painter in western Europe. Th\u00f3rarinn Leifsson worked as an illustrator and web designer before making his literary debut with Father\u2019s Big Secret in 2007 \u2013 a dark tale for children about a cannibal father and his complicated relationship with his children. In 2009 Th\u00f3rarinn published Grandmother's Library, a story inspired by the Icelandic bank crisis of 2008. The book was awarded the Reykjav\u00edk Children Books Prize in 2010 and nominated for the Nordic Children's Book Prize in 2011 \u2013 an award given out every two years by librarians in the Nordic countries. In 2001 Th\u00f3rarinn published an autobiographical novel called The Street Painter, based on his experiences as a vagabond in southern Spain and Morocco in the late eighties. The Man Who Hated Children, was published in the autumn of 2014 and nominated for The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize in 2015. The setting is a twisted present-day Reykjav\u00edk with elements of crime fiction in the storyline. Film rights were acquired by The Icelandic Film Company. Shooting is expected to start in the summer of 2025. The Man Who Hated Children was also nominated for The Icelandic Literary Prize. \u2018'Kaldakol'\u2019, The evacuation of Iceland, was published in 2017. A fictional scenario, though upon closer scrutiny it corresponded with contemporary Iceland in many respects. \u2018'Killing Tourists'\u2019 was published in 2017.","birth_date":"1966-07-29","birth_place":"Reykjav\u00edk","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":64.1475,"longitude":-21.935},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q1764","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1764","canonical_name":"Thorarinn Leifsson","canonical_url":"https://ko.instaget.online/people/1a0ad50fed42600453b0d5f8","citizenships":["Iceland"],"death_date":null,"description":"author and illustrator","external_ids":{"isni":{"id":"0000000359801577","url":"https://isni.org/isni/0000000359801577"},"loc":{"id":"n2003092874","url":"https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003092874.html"},"viaf":{"id":"220637731","url":"https://viaf.org/viaf/220637731/"}},"full_name":"Thorarinn Leifsson","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":[],"birth":[],"native":[],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["writer","children's writer"],"official_websites":[],"photo":{"author":"Albin Olsson","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","source":"Wikimedia Commons","source_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%9E%C3%B3rarinn_Leifsson_2015-09-24_A_(crop).jpg","url":"https://instaget-public-commons.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/public/commons/007668074bf0661b49e7ba5d554b1adf426dad929715d3a20f203f39781005e5"},"profile_url":"https://ko.instaget.online/people/1a0ad50fed42600453b0d5f8","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T06:07:22Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7796155"},"public_hash":"1a0ad50fed42600453b0d5f8","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{},"tags":[{"key":"category:arts-and-culture","label":"Arts and culture","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:writer","label":"writer","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:children's writer","label":"children's writer","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:reykjav\u00edk","label":"Reykjav\u00edk","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:iceland","label":"Iceland","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q7796155","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7796155","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorarinn_Leifsson"}