Náttúrulögmálin er söguleg skáldsaga þar sem brugðið er á leik með heimildir og staðreyndir svo úr verður karnivalísk og bráðskemmtileg frásögn af kaupstaðarlífi Ísafjarðar á miklum umbreytingatímum í sögu þjóðarinnar og heimsbyggðarinnar allrar. Snemmsumars árið 1925 kallar yngsti, fegursti og jafnframt óviljugasti biskup Íslands, séra Jón Hallvarðsson, til prestastefnu á Ísafirði. Megintilgangurinn virðist vera að storka þjóðtrú landans og sýna mátt kristindómsins frammi fyrir hindurvitnum, spíritisma og náttúruöflum. En með uppátæki sínu hleypir biskup af stað ófyrirsjáanlegri sjö daga atburðarás þar sem náttúra staðarins kallast á við náttúru mannsins.
Author
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl (1978) is an Icelandic experimental poet and novelist. His work – about a dozen novels, a dozen poetry books, a couple of essay books, a couple of plays, a cook book, a children's christmas splatter, video poems, sound poems and various conceptual projects – have been published in over a dozen languages and won numerous awards in several countries, including the Icelandic Literary Award, the Transfuge award for best nordic fiction (in France), the DV Cultural Award, the Zebra Poetry Film Festival Special Mention, Sparibollinn Award for Romantic Fiction and the Book Merchant's Prize. They have also been shortlisted for awards such as the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Nordic Council Literary Award. Eiríkur has translated over a dozen books into Icelandic, including a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (for which he received the Icelandic Translation Award). He lives in Ísafjörður, Iceland, a rock in the middle of the ocean, and spends much of his time in Västerås, Sweden, a town by a lake.
