Born in 1962, Sjón is today one of the best-known representatives of Icelandic culture. He is a poet and and a novelist and has also written songs for Björk. In his two novels,The Blue Fox (Rivages, Prix littéraire du Conseil nordique in 2005) and the Sur la paupière de mon père, he shows his capacity to appropriate the myths of his country and to mix them with stories which are as poetic as they are crazy.