JgNaGNARR was born in 1967 in ReykjavYk. He formed the Best Party in 2009 and became the mayor of ReykjavYk in 2010. His acting work includes the movies The Icelandic Dream and A Man Like Me and the television series The Night Shift, which aired on BBC4. In 2014, at the end of Gnarr's mayoral term, the Best Party will be dissolved. Its members, however, have formed a new political party- Bright Future, which in 2013 won six seats in the Icelandic parliament. ANDREW BROWN'sarecent translations include works by Proust, Zola, Flaubert, Stendhal, Rabelais, and Baudelaire.