Bjarki Karlsson is an Icelandic poet, translator, linguist, and systems analyst. His first poetry collection, Árleysi alda, won the Bókmenntaverðlaun Tómasar Guðmundssonar for 2013. and the Bókmenntaverðlaun starfsfólks bókaverslana in the poetry category in the same year. The book was Iceland's best-selling poetry collection in 2013. His poem Þúsaldarháttur is satirical in nature: