Kári Gíslason

Kári Gíslason is a writer and academic who teaches creative writing and literary studies at QUT. He is the author of The Promise of Iceland (UQP, 2011), which told the story of return journeys he’s made to his birthplace, and the novels The Ash Burner (UQP, 2015) and The Sorrow Stone (UQP, 2022). He is also the co-author, with Richard Fidler, of Saga Land (HarperCollins, 2017), which won the Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2018.

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His most recent book, a memoir about fatherhood and raising boys called Running with Pirates, was released with UQP in 2024. Kári's current projects are a crime novel set in Iceland and a history podcast co-presented with Richard Fidler entitled Viking Lives.