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With the former mayor of Reykjavik Jón Gnarr, the two US researchers produced a documentary, Not Ok, about the glacier’s disappearance last year, in an effort to show how the climate crisis is affecting ordinary people’s lives.

They met when Helgadóttir was an adviser to Jón Gnarr, a comedian who started a satirical political party and unexpectedly became the mayor of Reykjavík.

In this deft translation by Lytton Smith — translator of the work of Icelandic literary heavyweights like Jón Gnarr, Kristín Ómarsdóttir and Guðbergur Bergsson — Ólafsson’s voice shines through.

A year later, one of Iceland’s most noted TV sitcom actors, Jon Gnarr, would form a satirical political party, the Best Party, and become mayor of Reykjavik from 2010 to 2014.

That culture had already fueled the political rise of Jon Gnarr, a popular comedian who, on a lark and as a kind of performance-art gesture, ran for mayor of Reykjavik in 2010.