11 Feb 2022Secret of the Sprakkar: One Small Island Nation, the Women Who Live There, and How They Are Changing the World, by Iceland’s first lady, Eliza Reid, was featured Tuesday In the What to Read section of The New York Times.
30 Jan 2022Author Kolbrún Valbergsdóttir Valby and her husband Einar Ingi Einarsson moved to the village Raufarhöfn, Northeast Iceland, last year — a move they’re glad to have made.
24 May 2021A new book by journalist and teacher Egill Bjarnason, How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island, has just been published by Penguin Books.
20 Sep 2017Icelandic author and poet Sigurður Pálsson died at the National University Hospital in Reykjavik last night aged 69 after a three-year-long battle with cancer. A great amount of Icelanders are paying homage to this well-loved and respected man.
6 Jun 2017BBC's The Arts Hour is coming to Reykjavik, in the week of the longest day, to explore how the extreme climate and dramatic landscape shape culture in Iceland.
15 Mar 2017Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson has been nominated for the prestigious Booker prize for his novel Fish Have No Feet, a story of two romances set in a tiny Icelandic town.
6 Mar 2017A recent translation of Makt myrkranna (Powers of Darkness) by Hans de Roos has seemingly unearthed an earlier Swedish version of Dracula, Mörkrets makter, which appears to shed new light on de Roos' theory that Stoker collaborated with Icelandic writer Valdímar Ásmundsson.
