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Grapevine Events: Holiday Opening Hours, Blaze & Brakes, JÓLASAMPL
Staring out of this office window into the pitch-black sky, we can’t help but count down the hours until this week ends and we start enjoying the holidays. Nevertheless, we have jobs to do today, and ours is to tell you what’s…
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Grapevine Events: Glacier Generations, Spacestation Release Show & More
If you’re ready to hit the weekend running, we’ve got some suggestions for you: The University of Iceland’s Intelligent Instruments Lab will be celebrating its 100th Open Lab at 12 Tónar at 18:00. La Dimensión at RVK Tónabíó will bring a night…
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Reflecting On A Moment In History: ‘Apausalypse’ Captures Iceland During The Great Pause
Our contemporary idea of the word ‘Apocalypse’ describes an inescapable end; for example, for many, COVID-19 brought an end to humanity as we understood it—a societal apocalypse. However, such a designation is narrow in its perspective and Apausalypse, the new documentary by…
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Time, Water and Viruses: Andri Snær Magnason Talks Translation, The Pandemic And The “Apausalypse”
“COVID-19 has almost suffocated the discussions surrounding global warming, but perhaps that’s the distraction that’s needed to change the course of all of the oil ships in the world,” writer Andri Snær Magnason states. His celebrated book ‘On Time And Water’ just…
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The Grapevine Bookclub: Sperm Banks And Erotic Sheep
Driving the Ring Road means a lot of downtime in the car. Pick up one of these books to enrich your mind while you get those kilometres in. LoveStar By Andri Snær Magnason, 2013 If you are an Icelander and have already…
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We Are A Fire Cult: Andri Snær Magnason Talks Oil, Humans As Volcanoes & Pancake Sci-Fi
“At first, people think I am messing around. But it’s all about the journey around the black hole,” laughs Andri Snær Magnason, discussing his new book ‘Um Tímann og Vatnið’ (‘About Time and Water’). The writer, performer, and activist is one of…
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Why Iceland Held A Glacier Funeral: Andri Snær Magnason On Memorializing Ok Glacier & The Climate Crisis
“I don’t have ambitions to be a glacier undertaker,” says Andri Snær Magnason, who authored the text for Ok glacier’s memorial plaque last weekend. “But I would attend future memorials if I could.” On August 18th, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and…
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There Is No Brightness Without Darkness: Andri Snær’s New Children’s Book Now In English
Andri Snær Magnason is one of Iceland’s most famous writers on the international stage, and he always has a lot of irons in the fire. He has written novels, plays, children’s books, poems, a full-length documentary, and he has even dabbled a…
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Making Of An Artist: Old School Techno And Kurt Vonnegut With Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is one of Iceland’s best known writers. His books and plays have been published or performed in over 30 countries; his book about Icelandic nature, ‘Dreamland,’ had profound impact on the Icelandic nation. Some say that his novel ‘LoveStar’…
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Bónusljóð: Supermarket Poetry Now Available In English
One of Iceland’s most celebrated authors, Andri Snær Magnason, has just released an English translation of his book “Bónusljóð”–one of Iceland’s most sold books of poetry. Furthermore, it has also been republished in Italian, German and Icelandic. The book was first published…
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Get Your Read On: Where To Start In The Icelandic Book Store
For the unacquainted, it can be hard to know where to start with Icelandic literature. Should you begin with a weighty medieval saga—and if so, which one? Should it be a Laxness tome? Maybe a slim volume of concise, lyrical fiction by…
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There Can Be Only One: Iceland’s Highlands In Thoughts & Pictures
The vast, desolate highlands of Iceland are the largest area of uninhabited and largely undisturbed nature in Europe. They sit in the centre of the country, extending over much of the island’s landmass, towering above the shelf of land that forms most…
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President Leading In Polls
The results of a new poll show incumbent President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson with a considerable lead, although author Andri Snær Magnason has gathered considerable support in a short amount of time. The poll, conducted by Market and Media Research from April 22…
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#AIRWAVES15 DEEP ANALYSIS
Welcome to this, our second advent into text message reporting about Iceland Airwaves. In it, you may find words from the one and only Mr. Silla and Andri Snær Magnason! Great! Mr. Silla, aka Sigurlaug Gísladóttir, had this to say:
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Icelandic Play Opens To Rave Reviews In Chicago
The play, Blue Planet, by Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason has opened to rave reviews in Chicago, reports Vísir. The Chicago Stage Standard gave the play, three and a half stars out of a possible four and called the play “out of…
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WHERE WERE WE? WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
To mark the beginning of a new year, we posed two questions to dozens of Icelanders, old and new. Representatives of every single political party, ministers, mayors and machinists alike (as per usual, the governing parties mostly ignored our queries). We asked…
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Somewhere Between Worried And Cynical
The world’s mood is very strange and Iceland swings along. The post-crash era was interesting in many ways: offering promises of social innovation, the rise of small businesses and a general optimism—a euphoric feeling that anything might be possible. This situation caused…
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Poetry Takes Over Harpa
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, what a woman! Having interviewed her for the current feature story of Grapevine (in stores now, soon to be online) about the literary scene in Reykjavík, but never having heard or read any of her poetry, I was excited…
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UKLA Award For Icelandic Author
The English translation of Andri Snær Magnússon’s “The Story Of The Blue Planet” has won the UK Literacy Association (UKLA) award. Andri Snær shared the news of the award, for the category of literature for children aged 7 to 11, which honours…
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Mayonnaise In Memoriam
For just a few weeks in July 2004, an enormous replica of a Gunnars Mayonnaise tub stood alongside Iceland’s national highway (Route 1). The rather sizeable advert was quickly nixed by local authorities, who determined that standing where it did, the tub…
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Airwords: Poets Bring Voice to the Party
The Airwords event offered an interesting new angle to Airwaves ’13 by bringing, some of Iceland’s most notable writers to the party. The event was a mix of readings and music sets. Harpa Kaldalón was a comfortable and classy room for the…
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Hearing The Airwords With Andri Snær Magnason
This week, visiting American sound artist Burke Jam spoke with Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason, the mind behind Airwords. An accomplished author, director and an interesting personality, Andri’s idea for the Airwords event was to bring together writers and musicians in a…
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Number Of Jobs Created By Heavy Industries Disputed
Andri Snær Magnason refutes the Icelandic Association of Aluminium Producers’ claims that aluminium and heavy industries create a lot of jobs, Mbl reports. Andri believes Samál, the Icelandic Association of Aluminium Producers, is falsely attributing the jobs created to its industries. From…