Fridrik Erlings is a novelist, screenwriter, graphic designer, and musician. In 1986 he founded the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes with Bjork before leaving music to pursue his writing. He has written and translated lyrics as well as ?lm and television scripts and is the author of the Icelandic classic Benjamin Dove. He says that Fish in the Sky is about the extreme pains and joys of being a teenager, the curious period in our lives that we all experience in more or less the same way, regardless of our culture, country, race, or gender. Perhaps it is the one time in our whole lives when we are in fact the most perfect human beings we ll ever become. The question is: where will we go from there? Fridrik Erlings lives with his wife on a farm in Iceland s wide-open South.
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Nominated for the IBBY Honour List 2010 Josh Stephenson's 13th year starts with a baffling series of events. As he begins to question the meaning of life and creation, everything changes, not least himself. Fish in the Sky not only constructs a movi... SEE MORE