Icelandic Literature Center operations during the first half of 2013
During the first half of 2013, ILC staff attended book fairs in Leipzig and London as part of a follow-up to the Sagenhaftes Island/Fabulous Iceland project and in order to maintain contacts that had already been established.
During the first half of 2013, ILC staff attended book fairs in Leipzig and London as part of a follow-up to the Sagenhaftes Island/Fabulous Iceland project and in order to maintain contacts that had already been established.
Each year, publishers, agents and the public flock to book fairs in order to buy and sell translation rights, and to gather information on the main trends and currents in the world of books. It is essential for publishers as well as those who organise promotion of Icelandic literature abroad to attend such book fairs in order to meet their colleagues and to establish new contacts in the international publishing world. Representatives of Icelandic publishing houses have for many years attended the principal book fairs for this purpose, including the ones in Frankfurt, London, Gothenburg and Bologna. Fabulous Iceland has also attended the book fair in Leipzig as part of its work on literature promotion in Germany, and as follow-up to the project after it was completed.
Three Icelandic authors, who recently had their works published in English, participated in the literature programme of the Kennedy Center's Nordic Cool 2013 international festival in February/March, in Washington, D.C. Nordic Cool was a month-long festival where a wide spectrum of the diverse cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden as well as the territories of Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Áland Islands, were highlighted.