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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
Read moreChildren'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)
Read moreRúnar Helgi Vignisson received the 2012 DV Culture Prize
for his short story collection, Ást í meinum (Love and Other Complications).
Read more- Nordic Cool 2013 and new Icelandic titles in English translation
- The Women's Literature Prize 2013
- Icelandic Literary Prize 2012 awarded
- Icelandic Literature Center established
- Merry Christmas!
- Nominations for the Icelandic Literary Prize 2012
- Nominations for Nordic Council Literature Prize
- A life of Nonni
- Critical Essays on Icelandic Books Published in German
- Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir in Normandy
- The first e-book Christmas
- Literary retreats in Reykjavík
- The Survivors' Saga travels far
- German-Icelandic collaboration wins Children's Book Award
- “I couldn't be more happy about it”
- Iceland at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012
- Andri Snær to be published in USA
- In the wake of the big one
- Jón Kalman in Italy
- Focus on Nordic countries at the Gothenburg Book Fair
- Icelandic literature abroad
- Auður Ava nominated for French literary award
- A miraculous story of everyday life
- Kristín Ómarsdóttir published in the US by Open Letter
- Sjón and Cribb shortlisted for Independent Fiction Prize
- Between the Trees up for Jean-Monnet prize
- Italian nomination for Heaven and Hell
- Einar Már receives Nordic Prize for Literature
- Women's Literature Prize awarded
- Big story, little book
- Icelandic Literary Prize awarded
- Recesses of the Mind
- Dot Dot Comma Dash is WDR2's book of the year
- Nominations for the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize
- Icelandic nominations for Nordic Council Literature Prize
- New outing from Iceland's queen of crime
- Nominations for the Icelandic Literature Prize
- Ófeigur receives EU Prize for Literature
- Austrians adapt Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning to stage
- Jónas Hallgrímsson Prize awarded
- Gyrðir receives Nordic Council Literature Prize
- “The best in a long time”
- The Pavilion on Sunday
- Fabulous Iceland gives final press conference
- The Icelandic Pavilion on Saturday
- Reconciliation in Frankfurt
- AmazonCrossing to publish 10 Icelandic titles
- The Frankfurt Book Fair 2011 opens
- Events in Frankfurt this week
- 19th Century Iceland on the iPad
- “And thus the world sometimes discovers faraway isles”
- “Erró. Portrait and Landscape” in the Schirn
- Icelandic architecture featured at DAM
- “Crepusculum” opens at the Schirn
- Jón Kalman receives Swedish prize
- Well-attended saga festival concludes in Corvey
- Icelandic design in Frankfurt
- The sagas come alive in Corvey
- The Reykjavík International Literary Festival begins
- “Dark literary confections” palatable to Danish media
- Exhibitions at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
- Reykjavik designated as UNESCO City of Literature
- Iceland's Atom Poets
- The works of Þorsteinn frá Hamri published in Germany
- Katla Travel pitches in
- Njál's Saga from the saddle
- Yrsa wins crime fiction prize
- Sponsorship agreement with Actavis
- Icelandic children's literature in Cologne
- Press conference in Frankfurt
- A Day of Icelandic Poetry
- Icelandic literature in Peking
- New film website launches
- Icelandair Cargo supports Sagenhaftes Island
- Steinunn Sigurðardóttir in French
- Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir receives Canadian Prize
- Warm words for Sjón in the TLS
- Gabríela's Crepusculum
- God of the silver screen
- A window to the Faroe Isles
- Gyrðir receives Nordic Council Literature Prize
- Winners on the way to Frankfurt
- Icelandic Women's Literature Prize awarded
- All of Laxness' titles available in German
- Glowing reviews for Sjón
- A good week for Icelandic literature
- Nordic focus at the Paris Book Fair
- They come in all shapes and sizes
- Iceland at the Leipzig Book Fair
- Nominations for Women's Literature Prize announced
- The EU's Culture programme supports Sagenhaftes Island
- Young authors in Basel
- Sagenhaftes Island and The Blue Lagoon make sponsorhip agreement
- Thor Vilhjálmsson dies at 85
- Cintamani supports Sagenhaftes Island
- Morning Verse in the Grass
- Winners of Icelandic Literary Prize
- Packed reading at the Berlin embassy
- Attention, book hoarders
- A greeting from Coetzee
- Finally, an Icelandic fantasy
- The sandwich generation
- 800 years in the making
- It's not that complicated, really
- Oddi and Landsbankinn support Sagenhaftes Island
- The Icelandic Literary Prize
- Wish you were here
- A big slice of the pie
- Yrsa's work to be filmed
- In plain talk, please
- The pressure is on
- Day of the Icelandic Language
- Caught in the crossfire
- Einar Kárason is amused
- “The power of empathy”
- The Icelandic Children's Book Award 2010
- Strange Shores
- “Literary discovery of the year”
- Because the sagas aren't set in Schwarzwald
- Yrsa among the best
- A shot in the arm for poetry
- Eiríkur goes to Berlin
- A sword becomes a dishwashing brush
- “And thus the world sometimes discovers faraway isles...”
- Icelandic short-films at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.
- Press conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair
- The Kunststiftung NRW contributes to saga translation project
- Iceland in Frankfurt 2010
- “I don't read much crime fiction”
- What's in a name?
- “Scintillating images in the midst of winter darkness,”
- My Soul to Take nominated for Shamus Prize
- Highway 1 revisited
- A mouse-click away from the Middle Ages
- Rucksack reads for the curious traveler
- The Ship pronounced crime novel of the year in France
- The Blood Drop awarded to Helgi Ingólfsson
- A German treasure trove of Icelandic literature
- Literary festival in Romania
- Útkall to be published in Germany
- Bankster in German
- A leg up for emerging talent
- On the saga trail
- Untamed nature
- Slam event
- An unlikely bestseller
- A harbinger of spring
- Art Festival
- Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir dies at 69
- A bleak moral portrait
- Friends of literature sign up in Germany and Iceland
- Seven Days' Darkness
- Slam poetry out of the Icelandic sagas
- "I never think, I just write"
- Future of football
- Hugleikur Dagsson's Popular Hits
- Yrsa's fifth crime-novel in German
- Icelandic poetry in India
- Eggert Pétursson's flower prize
- Five novels by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir now in paperback in German
- 'Fjöruverðlaun' literary prizes
- Sixty Icelandic books for publication in Germany
- Cultural tourism in Iceland
- Fabulous Iceland at the Leipzig Book Fair
- Fabulous Iceland at the ITB in Berlin
- France falls for Jón Kalmann
- 'The Rune Cabal' to Germany
- Andri Snær Magnason receives KAIROS award
- The Icelandic Literary Prize
- Support for Iceland in Frankfurt
- Friends of "Sagenhaftes Island"
- Major paperback contract in Germany
- Success in Scandinavia
- Merry Christmas!
- Two new books from Gyrðir Elíasson
- RAX in New York Times
- Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir nominated for the Gourmand Prize
- Der Spiegel recommends Auðnin (Bleakness) By Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
- Literary award nominations
- Jón Leifs - a new biography
- Icelandic authors in Graz
- Andri Snær Magnason receives the KAIROS prize
- Þorsteinn frá Hamri is awarded the Jónas Hallgrímsson prize
- Foreign publishers compete for Jón Kalman Stefánsson
- Óttar M. Norðfjörð in Spanish
- The Black Cliffs (1929) by Gunnar Gunnarsson re-issued in Germany
- Thirty Icelandic writers have German publishers
- Icelandair supports Sagenhaftes Island
- Yrsa in Russian
- Next Reykjavík International Literary Festival: 2011
- The atom poets in German
- Reykjavík International Literary Festival
- The Arnamagnaean Manuscript Collection
- Success for Gerður Kristný's Garden
- Stefán Máni's success in Denmark
- Father's big secret
- Laxness in Arabic
- All's Well that Ends Well...
- Jón Kalman Stefánsson on a Reading Tour in Germany
- Linguistic ambassadors in Reykjavík and Suðursveit!
- International translators' conference in Reykjavík
- Fabulous Iceland at the Leipzig Book Fair
- Fabulous Iceland
- New complete edition
- Guest of Honour
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