Ari Trausti Guðmundsson
Ari Trausti Guðmundsson
Ari Trausti, fæddur 1948, er rithöfundur, skáld, jarðvísindamaður, útvarps- og sjónvarpsmaður. Hann hefur skrifað fjölda bóka á ýmsum málum um jarðfræði og náttúru Íslands. Hann hefur hlotið fjölda viðurkenninga og verðlauna fyrir bækur sínar.
Salka gefur út tvær bækur þar sem Ari Trausti er meðhöfundur; Kjarni Íslands og Focus on Iceland. Í þá fyrrnefndu skrifar Ari prósa og ljóð við myndir Kristjáns Inga Einarssonar, ásamt því að veita land- og jarðfræðiupplýsingar við myndirnar. Í þá síðarnefndu ritar Ari Trausti texta við allar myndirnar og reynir að þýða flest örnefni og útskýra söguleg og landfræðileg merkilegheit viðkomandi staðar.
Ari Trausti er einnig meðhöfundur Enjoy, veitingahúsavísis um Reykjavík, ásamt dóttur sinni, Helgu Aradóttur.
Ari Trausti Guðmundsson (b. 1948 in Reykjavík) has chiefly been active as a non-fiction writer in the fields of geology, volcanology, astronomy, environmental science and mountaineering, with over 20 published boook titles. His parental family stems from Iceland and Germany/Austria.
Educated as a geophysicist in Norway and Iceland, Ari Trausti is well known in Iceland not only as an author but also from radio and television programs and documentaries he has written and hosted. He is also noted as a mountaineer, Arctic traveller and contributor to scientific exhibitions and museums. He is an international member of the Explorers Club.
Ari Trausti has published poetry and short stories in magazines and anthologies since the 1970's but in 2002 he received the Laxness literary prize for his collection of twelve short stories (Roadlines). He has published three collections of poems (in 2004, 2006 and 2008) and two novels, in 2006 and 2007 (The Land of Silence).
Ari Trausti received, besides the Laxnes Prize, the Aurelio Pecei Prize (Italy) in 1998, The Honorary Literary Prize for non-fiction from The Library Fund in 1999 and was nominated for the Literary Prize of Iceland in 2001. He received the Prize for Communication in Science from the Icelandic Centre for Research in 2007.
