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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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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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Get Your Read On: Land of Love and Ruins & The Stones Speak
Iceland is a famously literary nation, with the capital of Reykjavík being a UNESCO-certified City of Literature. There are a lot of titles on the market, but relatively few make it into English translation. For curious outlanders, here are a few that…
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Book Review: ‘Land of Love and Ruins’ by Oddný Eir
Oddný Eir’s ‘Land of Love and Ruins’ has been translated into English and published by Restless Books, after winning the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize and the EU Prize For Literature. The 240-page book is an intriguing mashup of literary styles, presented as…
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Icelandic Literature In 2016: The Complete Grapevine Guide
This article was printed as the introduction to our December 2016 edition: The Literature Issue. You can use the links to explore our articles on Iceland’s literature scene. Iceland is, famously, a literary country. Deprived of the means to create music or…
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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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The Collector’s Habit: Author Oddný Eir Takes It All In
Oddný Eir is a collector. That’s why autumn, she says, is her favourite season. “Autumn is the collecting moment. You collect everything—the berries, the sheep and the children for school. There is the anxiety that winter is coming, but that makes it…