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An Assortment Of Good Reads
One US-based writer’s take Want to deepen your relationship with Icelandic literature in English translation but don’t know where to start? We’ve asked US-based professor of literature, Jenna Grace Sciuto, what she’d suggest. No journey into Iceland’s lush literary landscape would be…
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Best In Translation: Our Picks Of The 2018’s Best English-Translated Icelandic Literature
2018 was a year of travel for Icelandic fiction, with the number of titles published in translation tripling from a mere decade ago. Here are some favourites that we have been passing around the Grapevine offices this year. Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir –…
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Iceland’s President Addresses: “Pornography And Decline”
President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, as an honorary guest and a historian himself, will address an evening of talks about “Klám og hnignun” which means “pornography and decline.” Sögufélag Books, known for high-quality history-related books, has announced two new works that…
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The Book Flood Cometh: Iceland’s ‘Jólabókaflóð’ Arrives Once Again
The Icelandic Yuletide is a time for two things: Reading and eating—and you can only do so much eating. Every year, during the “Jólabókaflóð,” or Christmas book flood, Icelandic publishers release a high volume of new works to fill the shelves just…
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The Situation
Unlike most of Europe, Iceland escaped the ravages of World War II. With the exception of Hitler’s girlfriend, Eva Braun, who visited Ísafjörður and shot some ‘home videos’ that you can find on YouTube, the Nazis never showed up. Instead it was…