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And finally, as promised, an exclusive from the Master of Minimalist Literature, John Crace. It was the body of a seventy-year-old man. His head battered by an ashtray. Erlendur knew the victim’s name was Holberg but nothing more. “It’s just another typical senseless Icelandic murder,” said
Most publishers assumed that, like all trends, the appetite for Nordic Noir would wane and another genre would slip into its place; however, this certainly hasn’t been the case. Definers and certainly parents of the genre, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, led the Scandi crime fiction wave with their
Poems by Sigurdur Pálsson (translated by Martin Regal, Arc Publications, 2014) to commemorate the great Icelandic poet who died in September 2017. This book presents poems from Pálsson’s ten collections written between 1980 and 2008. Swirling with imagery, they reveal a poet committed to unearth
And another Riveting Exclusive! Our thanks to Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson, his translator, Philip Roughton and publisher, Benedikt Publishing. The Story of Ásta is told by a dying man, Sigvaldi. He and Helga, Ásta’s parents, chose her name – “love” in Icelandic – while she
Yo-Yo, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir’s award-winning novel, brought to English readers in the translation by Rory McTurk, is the chronicle of a successful oncologist whose life, despite outward appearances, is marked by the double childhood trauma of an assault and later the accidental death of his cl
