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The Icelandic Translation Awards 2013

Awarded to Kristín Guðrún Jónsdóttir for her translation of The Black Sheep and Other Fables by Augusto Monterroso

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Children's Literature Prize presented in Höfði House

Awarded for the 41st time and now to Anna Heiða Pálsdóttir for her book Mitt eigið Harmagedón (My Own Harmagedón)

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Rúnar Helgi Vignisson received the 2012 DV Culture Prize

for his short story collection, Ást í meinum (Love and Other Complications).

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New Icelandic Titles in English Translation

27 books from Iceland

Take a look at the 27 Icelandic works in new English translations: children's books, novels, Sagas, poetry, crime fiction, non-fiction, short stories, cartoons and a book about children and sleep - just take your pick!

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Book of the Month

The South Window

“I am becoming more and more interested in what distinguishes the individual, the life that flutters within him, from the world at large,“ says writer Gyrðir Elíasson. He has just completed a new novel, Suðurglugginn (The South Window), which has been nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize.

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Bókasýningin - Final

Impressions – Frankfurt Book Fair 2011

Impressions from five eventful days as the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011.

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