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The Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature has put up a plaque in honour of Jón Árnason, collector of Icelandic folktales, on the 200 anniversary of his birth in August 2019.
This past July, Meg Matich and Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir from Reykjavík took part in the translation workshop LitTransformer in Lviv, Ukraine, a UNESCO City of Literature.
Ós Pressan hosts a literary event at Tjarnarbarinn café with a focus on literary translations. Authors, poets and translators will share their experiences and cooperations working with translation.
The Icepick is an Icelandic literary prize awarded to translated crime fiction. Five books are nominated each summer and then one translator receives the prize in the fall. The 2019 nominations were announched in... Meira
The Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature is proud to announce that the Canadian writer Chantal Ringuet from Québec City has been selected to be the first... Meira
Poets Lavinia Greenlaw, Paul Muldoon and Simon Armitage visit Iceland and appear at two events in Reykjavík on June 21st and 22nd 2019. Three books with poetry by these distinguished guests will be... Meira
The German Embassy in Iceland, Goethe-Institute in Copenhagen and Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature host a series of events with German writer and journalist Anne Siegel in Iceland in June 2019. She will talk about... Meira
The Reykjavík International Literary Festival takes place from April 24 - 27. This year‘s agenda is ripe with readings, panels, and lectures, all of which are free and open to the public. The works of the... Meira
Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature has launched an new step in the project Sleipnir - Your Reading Buddy. This reading initiative for children in Reykjavík now takes the flight even higher with a new book and... Meira
UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide celebrate World Poetry Day with various events. Many of the cities this year highlight the voices of female poets with a focus on gender issues.
We, the members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), stand in solidarity with the people of New Zealand and our colleagues in UNESCO Cities of Auckland (Music) and Dunedin (Literature) during this terrible... Meira
Ljubljana, a UNESCO City of Literature since 2015, offers two one-month residencies for writers at the newly restored Švicarija/Swisshouse Creative Centre, which is part of the International Centre of Graphic Arts.... Meira
Krakow UNESCO City of Literature offers two two month residencies in 2019. Application deadline is February 25th.
Krakow UNESCO City of Literature offers Polish readers in Reykjavík free e-books in November. These are twelve bestsellers that readers can enjoy by scanning a QR code that gives access to a free app with the... Meira
Philippe Guerry is a writer and freelance journalist from La Rochelle in France. He is a guest at Gröndalshús residency in Reykjavík and has an exhibition and workshop while in the city.
On October 10 an exhibition of texts from UNESCO Cities of Literature around the world opens at the Reykjavík City Hall. Five poets read from their work at the opening.
Each year, UNESCO Cities of Literature around the globe compile a list of books that their staff members recommend, one from each participating city. This summer, eighteen of the cities took part, pointing out... Meira
UNESCO Creative Cities collaborate and present Poetic Encounters at the XII UNESCO Creative Cities Network Annual Meeting. Poets Bragi Ólafsson and Soffía Bjarnadóttir took part in Reykjavík.
Stanislaw (Stan) Strasburger, novelist, essayist and cultural manager, is writer-in-residence in Gröndalshús in Reykjavík in the spring of 2018, hosted by the Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature and Goethe... Meira
