The Author of Iceland (2001)

A diverse and dramatic novel, funny and sensitive, featuring highly vivid characters with sharply defined personalities. A great novel in every sense. A famous Icelandic writer, Einar J. Grimsson, dies at the age of 88, only to wake up in a novel he wrote some 40 years ago. At first, he is unaware of both his death, and the fact that he´s now living in a world of his own creation. The old novel is set at a remote farm in the east part of Iceland and one day the old man is found lying out in the fields, like he just fell to earth. The farmer carries him into the house where the writer gradually comes to terms with his afterlife. Einar J. Grimsson is partly based on the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who received the Nobel Prize in 1955, and the novel he’s trapped in is inspired by Laxness’s biggest novel,