Iceland

  • The city of Reykjavik framed in the foreground by a lake and in the background by cloud-capped mountains

    One Week in Reykjavík

    December 3, 2019 Alizah Holstein
    I stepped out of Keflavík airport at 4:30 a.m. Far off in the dimly lit parking lot was the bus to Reykjavík—parked, empty, still off-duty. Winds buffeted me from above, the cold air curling its way u…
  • Books leaning on a shelf

    Keeping the foreign in translated literature, Iceland’s “hidden poets,” and more

    December 2, 2016 WLT
    News, Reviews, and Interviews  WLT contributing editor and Best Translated Book Award judge George Henson writes for Three Percent about the Neustadt Prize and keeping the foreign in transla…
  • Book folded open

    Book awards, women in translation, and more

    November 20, 2015 WLT
    News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Awards winners were announced Wednesday night. The winners were Adam Johnson in fiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates in nonfiction, Robin Coste Lewis in poetry, a…

  • Two Poems

    June 15, 2015 Marc Vincenz
    Dissipating Cloudcover Stormbreak                         distances unseen                          from the storehouse  lap of rain                          on the shingles  sky                      …
  • Alda Sigmundsdottir

    Investigating the Icelandic Book Flood: A Q&A with Alda Sigmundsdóttir

    June 20, 2013 Michelle Johnson
    Photo: Annie Atkins Last Christmas Day, NPR ran a story about the preeminence of the book among Christmas gifts in Iceland. In a country that has the most books per capita in the world, publishers re…