Stage adaption of "The people in the Basement" is a huge success
Ólafur Egilsson and Audur Jónsdóttir were named Best Playwrights for the adaptation of the latter’s novel Fólkid í kjallaranum for Reykjavík City Theater. The show was immensely successful with full houses every night in the winter of 2010-2011 and will be staged again this autumn.
More about the play: http://stage.is/index.php?option=com_leikhus&do=syning&syning_id=79
Short sample text from the play: http://jonsdottir.com/node/120
See slideshow from Reykjavik City Theatre here:
The People in the Basement
Fólkið í kjallaranum (The People in the Basement) won the 2004 Icelandic Literature Prize followed by a nomination for The Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2006. It came out and was very well received in Denmark and Sweden in the same year.