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A number of books by Icelandic authors, or about Iceland, have been released in recent weeks.
Song of the Vikings: Snorri and The Making of Norse Myths by award-winning author Nancy Marie Brown was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
The book is described in a press release as “richly textured narrative of a fascinating world” that “brings to life the intrigue and power struggles of Snorri Sturluson’s world.”
The book was recently chosen as a December 2012 Indie Next Pick by independent booksellers. Brown has reportedly studied Icelandic literature and culture since 1978.
Arctic Blood by James Raven, released as an eBook for Kindle, is a thriller set in Iceland and Greenland. The description of the book reads: “What seems like a routine assignment for charter pilot John Preston turns out to be anything but. He’s suddenly drawn into a nightmare world of intrigue and violence.”
Crime story Flateyjargáta (2002) by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson was recently released in Italian as L’enigma di Flatey. The book was translated by Alessandro Storti and published by Iperborea. The book begins with the discovery of a dead body on an islet in Breiðafjörður Bay in 1960. The story unfolds on the island of Flatey.
The book is also among those released in English eBook versions by AmazonCrossing where it is available under the title Flatey Enigma.
Also, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s thriller I Remember You recently appeared on the British market where it has by praised by critics: The Independent compared it to the works of Stephen King.
“The book is genuinely bone chilling, and proves that as well as being the Queen of Icelandic crime fiction, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is a generator of fear quite as adroit as such writers as Stephen King. (At a recent crime fiction festival, she said gleefully ‘I really love making people’s flesh creep!’),” the review reads.
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Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is meeting with Prime Minister of Sweden Frederik Reinfeldt today, 
A three-meter long walrus was discovered on the shores by Eyri in the town of Reyðarfjörður in East Iceland yesterday.
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In 1915, women aged 40 and over were granted the right to cast a vote in all official elections held in Iceland.
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Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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