My grammar teacher asked the class: “Who can form the longest word, where the letter a and a consonant alternate?”
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A petition urging the government to reconsider a proposed bill, in which the terms of the law requiring fishing companies to pay a tariff for their use of Iceland’s fishing resources are to be changed, has been signed by more than 11,000 people.
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Chinese entrepreneur and poet Huang Nubo has founded the China Iceland Cultural Fund with the purpose of strengthening cultural collaboration between Iceland and China. Special emphasis will be placed on literature, especially poetry.
From China. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.
According to Fréttabladid, Huang studied with Hjörleifur Sveinbjörnsson, an Icelandic translator of Chinese, at Peking University and was his roommate there in the 1970s.
The fund is intended to operate for ten years and a grant of USD 1 million (ISK 130 million, EUR) has been contributed to secure its operations, eyjan.is reports.
The fund’s first project will be a poetry convention in the Nordic House in Reykjavík in early October this year. Four Icelandic poets and five other Nordic poets have been invited to attend the convention, along with six Chinese and two Japanese poets.
Huang, who is the CEO of Zhongkun Group, serves as the fund’s chairman. Other board members are Kristín A. Árnadóttir, the Icelandic Ambassador in China, and Professor Xie Mian, the director of the Peking University’s center for poetry.
A task force in Iceland has also been appointed, which is chaired by Sveinbjörnsson.
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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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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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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