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Austrians adapt Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning to stage
In a truly international turn of events,
Hallgrímur Helgason's dark farce about a Croatian hitman masquerading as
American televangelist in Iceland is now an Austrian play.
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Jónas Hallgrímsson Prize awarded
"It is in the most dog-eared and perused books that the language flourishes," stated the jury for the Jónas Hallgrímsson Prize upon awarding it to Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir for extraordinary service to the Icelandic language."
Gyrðir receives Nordic Council Literature Prize
“When I was a teenager reading Vesaas and Heinesen, little did I suspect I would stand here, in the footsteps of these wonderful authors,” Gyrðir Elíasson said upon receiving the Nordic Council's Literature Prize on November 2.
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