Next application deadline is September 15th.

Sjón, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Auður Jónsdóttir, Eliza Reid, Jón Gnarr, Sigríður Hagalín and Hallgrímur Helgason were among guests.

Icelandic Literature Center took part in a yearly meeting with the network of Nordic Literary Centers.

We look forward to returning to The London Book Fair and introduce new selected titles from Iceland! 

The Icelandic Literature Center announces the new annual booklet, Books from Iceland 2022 , which includes selected Icelandic titles from last year.

The awards are given in three categories; for fiction, non-fiction and children's- and young-adult books. The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, presented the prize in the presidential recidence Bessastaðir on the 25th of January. The event was televised live on RÚV.

The winners of the Icelandic Literary Prize 2021 will be announced by the end of January. The categories are three; Fiction, non-fiction and children's/young-adult books.

Works by renowned authors such as  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Colson Whitehead, Virginia Woolf, Rachel Cusk, Primo Levi, Sally Rooney og Mariana Enriquez will be published in Iceland in the coming year.

Warm holiday wishes from Icelandic Literature Center and a happy new year, filled with books! 

The numbers show that Icelanders still read quite a lot and people are interested in reading. However the number of people who do not read at all is increasing.