Ævar Þór Benediktsson
@aevarthor.bsky.social
Icelandic actor, children's book author and voice artist. / My new book, STRANDED!, is out! / Ambassador to Unicef Iceland / He/him.
Will post both in Icelandic and English.
www.AevarWritesBooks.com
Will post both in Icelandic and English.
www.AevarWritesBooks.com
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Tramell Tillman has won his first-ever Emmy for his performance in ‘SEVERANCE’
See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25
See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25
September 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Cover reveal!
THE PRINCIPAL - Out on October the 2nd!
#ævarsbækur #childrensbooks #iceland #skolastjorinn
THE PRINCIPAL - Out on October the 2nd!
#ævarsbækur #childrensbooks #iceland #skolastjorinn
September 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Cover reveal!
THE PRINCIPAL - Out on October the 2nd!
#ævarsbækur #childrensbooks #iceland #skolastjorinn
THE PRINCIPAL - Out on October the 2nd!
#ævarsbækur #childrensbooks #iceland #skolastjorinn
New book alert! 🍭
Your Own Story: The Gingerbread City. YOU decide what happens! More than 10 different endings. Pictures by @evanakisa.bsky.social. Lets gooo! 🍬
#ævarsbækur #evanakisa #þíneigin #iceland #childrensbooks #gingerbread #witches
Your Own Story: The Gingerbread City. YOU decide what happens! More than 10 different endings. Pictures by @evanakisa.bsky.social. Lets gooo! 🍬
#ævarsbækur #evanakisa #þíneigin #iceland #childrensbooks #gingerbread #witches
August 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
New book alert! 🍭
Your Own Story: The Gingerbread City. YOU decide what happens! More than 10 different endings. Pictures by @evanakisa.bsky.social. Lets gooo! 🍬
#ævarsbækur #evanakisa #þíneigin #iceland #childrensbooks #gingerbread #witches
Your Own Story: The Gingerbread City. YOU decide what happens! More than 10 different endings. Pictures by @evanakisa.bsky.social. Lets gooo! 🍬
#ævarsbækur #evanakisa #þíneigin #iceland #childrensbooks #gingerbread #witches
New book! “Our World: Iceland”
Come spend a day with us as we travel to the Icelandic countryside to visit amma and afi. Perfect for the youngest readers in the family. ☺️
@barefootbooks.bsky.social @loaboratorium.bsky.social
#ævarsbækur #loaboratorium #barefootbooks #childrensbooks #iceland
Come spend a day with us as we travel to the Icelandic countryside to visit amma and afi. Perfect for the youngest readers in the family. ☺️
@barefootbooks.bsky.social @loaboratorium.bsky.social
#ævarsbækur #loaboratorium #barefootbooks #childrensbooks #iceland
July 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
New book! “Our World: Iceland”
Come spend a day with us as we travel to the Icelandic countryside to visit amma and afi. Perfect for the youngest readers in the family. ☺️
@barefootbooks.bsky.social @loaboratorium.bsky.social
#ævarsbækur #loaboratorium #barefootbooks #childrensbooks #iceland
Come spend a day with us as we travel to the Icelandic countryside to visit amma and afi. Perfect for the youngest readers in the family. ☺️
@barefootbooks.bsky.social @loaboratorium.bsky.social
#ævarsbækur #loaboratorium #barefootbooks #childrensbooks #iceland
Á hverju ári fæ ég ótal pósta þar sem krakkar sem eru að reyna að safna öllum stóru Þín eigin-bókunum finna Þína eigin þjóðsögu hvergi. Ástæðan er einföld: Hún er uppseld!
EN! Barnaloppan og GH eru fullkomnir staðir til að finna eintök. Svona fyrir þá sem eru að leita... 🤓
#ævarsbækur #þíneigin
EN! Barnaloppan og GH eru fullkomnir staðir til að finna eintök. Svona fyrir þá sem eru að leita... 🤓
#ævarsbækur #þíneigin
July 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Á hverju ári fæ ég ótal pósta þar sem krakkar sem eru að reyna að safna öllum stóru Þín eigin-bókunum finna Þína eigin þjóðsögu hvergi. Ástæðan er einföld: Hún er uppseld!
EN! Barnaloppan og GH eru fullkomnir staðir til að finna eintök. Svona fyrir þá sem eru að leita... 🤓
#ævarsbækur #þíneigin
EN! Barnaloppan og GH eru fullkomnir staðir til að finna eintök. Svona fyrir þá sem eru að leita... 🤓
#ævarsbækur #þíneigin
Reposted by Ævar Þór Benediktsson
If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
June 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
Reposted by Ævar Þór Benediktsson
"Morning, Jim!"
"Hey, Tom."
"Hey, Tom."
June 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Morning, Jim!"
"Hey, Tom."
"Hey, Tom."
An evening walk in Iceland…
April 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
An evening walk in Iceland…
Fàránlega töff!
Strandaglóparnir halda áfram að hrúga verðlaunum og viðurkenningum til sín á Surtsey. Í vikunni var bókin tilnefnd til Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland Association of School Librarians), sem besta myndabókin!
Á ekki til orð. Þetta er ótrúlegt! 🤯
#ævarsbækur #stranded
Strandaglóparnir halda áfram að hrúga verðlaunum og viðurkenningum til sín á Surtsey. Í vikunni var bókin tilnefnd til Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland Association of School Librarians), sem besta myndabókin!
Á ekki til orð. Þetta er ótrúlegt! 🤯
#ævarsbækur #stranded
April 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fàránlega töff!
Strandaglóparnir halda áfram að hrúga verðlaunum og viðurkenningum til sín á Surtsey. Í vikunni var bókin tilnefnd til Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland Association of School Librarians), sem besta myndabókin!
Á ekki til orð. Þetta er ótrúlegt! 🤯
#ævarsbækur #stranded
Strandaglóparnir halda áfram að hrúga verðlaunum og viðurkenningum til sín á Surtsey. Í vikunni var bókin tilnefnd til Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland Association of School Librarians), sem besta myndabókin!
Á ekki til orð. Þetta er ótrúlegt! 🤯
#ævarsbækur #stranded
Post a pic of who you wanted to be as a little kid
April 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Post a pic of who you wanted to be as a little kid
Reposted by Ævar Þór Benediktsson
And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
April 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
March 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
March 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Frumsýning á miðvikudaginn!
February 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Frumsýning á miðvikudaginn!
KAFTEINN FRÁBÆR - FYRSTA KITLA!
Halló! ☺️ 12. febrúar frumsýni ég í Tjarnarbíói breskan einleik um föðurhlutverkið, karlmennsku, einmannaleika, sorg, missi og ofurhetjur.
Örfáar sýningar. Nælið ykkur í miða á tix.is og fylgið okkur á instagram.com/kafteinnfrabaer
🎥: Björgvin Sigurðarson
#fràbær
Halló! ☺️ 12. febrúar frumsýni ég í Tjarnarbíói breskan einleik um föðurhlutverkið, karlmennsku, einmannaleika, sorg, missi og ofurhetjur.
Örfáar sýningar. Nælið ykkur í miða á tix.is og fylgið okkur á instagram.com/kafteinnfrabaer
🎥: Björgvin Sigurðarson
#fràbær
January 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
KAFTEINN FRÁBÆR - FYRSTA KITLA!
Halló! ☺️ 12. febrúar frumsýni ég í Tjarnarbíói breskan einleik um föðurhlutverkið, karlmennsku, einmannaleika, sorg, missi og ofurhetjur.
Örfáar sýningar. Nælið ykkur í miða á tix.is og fylgið okkur á instagram.com/kafteinnfrabaer
🎥: Björgvin Sigurðarson
#fràbær
Halló! ☺️ 12. febrúar frumsýni ég í Tjarnarbíói breskan einleik um föðurhlutverkið, karlmennsku, einmannaleika, sorg, missi og ofurhetjur.
Örfáar sýningar. Nælið ykkur í miða á tix.is og fylgið okkur á instagram.com/kafteinnfrabaer
🎥: Björgvin Sigurðarson
#fràbær
Get ekki beðið eftir að sjà nýju Deadpool & Wolverine-myndina!
November 30, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Get ekki beðið eftir að sjà nýju Deadpool & Wolverine-myndina!
Einleikur. Tjarnarbíó. 12. febrúar 2025.
Miðasalan er hafin à tix.is.
Við erum à instagram.com/kafteinnfrabaer
Sjáumst í leikhúsinu!
#frabaer
Miðasalan er hafin à tix.is.
Við erum à instagram.com/kafteinnfrabaer
Sjáumst í leikhúsinu!
#frabaer
October 16, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Einleikur. Tjarnarbíó. 12. febrúar 2025.
Miðasalan er hafin à tix.is.
Við erum à instagram.com/kafteinnfrabaer
Sjáumst í leikhúsinu!
#frabaer
Miðasalan er hafin à tix.is.
Við erum à instagram.com/kafteinnfrabaer
Sjáumst í leikhúsinu!
#frabaer
Reposted by Ævar Þór Benediktsson
Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:
September 27, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:
August 31, 2024 at 12:06 PM
August 7, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Yay! Our short film, Krampuss (the one about the gigantic hungry Icelandic Yule Cat), just won best screenplay at the Children Cinema Awards! It was written by yours truly and the director (and brother), Gudni Lindal. #krampuss
August 2, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Yay! Our short film, Krampuss (the one about the gigantic hungry Icelandic Yule Cat), just won best screenplay at the Children Cinema Awards! It was written by yours truly and the director (and brother), Gudni Lindal. #krampuss
Hello USA!
I will be at Book No Further this Saturday, reading from my book Stranded!, talking about my other works and (probably) buying waaay too many books. See you there! ☺️
#ævarsbækur #stranded #barefootbooks #childrensbooks #childrenspublishing #iceland #volcano #surtsey
I will be at Book No Further this Saturday, reading from my book Stranded!, talking about my other works and (probably) buying waaay too many books. See you there! ☺️
#ævarsbækur #stranded #barefootbooks #childrensbooks #childrenspublishing #iceland #volcano #surtsey
July 16, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Hello USA!
I will be at Book No Further this Saturday, reading from my book Stranded!, talking about my other works and (probably) buying waaay too many books. See you there! ☺️
#ævarsbækur #stranded #barefootbooks #childrensbooks #childrenspublishing #iceland #volcano #surtsey
I will be at Book No Further this Saturday, reading from my book Stranded!, talking about my other works and (probably) buying waaay too many books. See you there! ☺️
#ævarsbækur #stranded #barefootbooks #childrensbooks #childrenspublishing #iceland #volcano #surtsey
The moment right before you read your book on Zoom for libraries across the US. Special shoutout to librarians! ❤️ The video will be online soon. ☺️
#ævarsbækur #stranded #strandaglópar
#ævarsbækur #stranded #strandaglópar
June 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
The moment right before you read your book on Zoom for libraries across the US. Special shoutout to librarians! ❤️ The video will be online soon. ☺️
#ævarsbækur #stranded #strandaglópar
#ævarsbækur #stranded #strandaglópar