The photography book Extraordinary Child published by the National Museum of Iceland, containing photographs of disabled children by Mary Ellen Mark and Ívar Brynjólfsson, has been nominated for the 2007 Icelandic Literary Awards.
Today is the last day before Christmas, known as Thorláksmessa (“The Mass of St. Thorlákur,” Iceland’s patron saint). The day is celebrated by eating putrefied skate and buying the last Christmas presents.
Farmers Market – Iceland, a company which sells clothing and accessories made of Icelandic wool and other raw natural materials, has made it to the finals in an international ISPO competition entitled “Brand New Award.”
According to a study comparing cleanliness in 14 different Nordic and Baltic cities, undertaken last summer by Denmark’s Wonderful Copenhagen marketing office, foreign tourists determined that Reykjavík was the cleanest of them all.
Icelandic artist Gudrún Lilja Gunnlaugsdóttir will open solo exhibitions around the world in the coming months, in Paris on January 24, in Milan in April, in New York in May and in Tokyo in June.
Minister of Finance and acting Minister of Justice Árni M. Mathiesen appointed Thorsteinn Davídsson as District Judge yesterday, despite an assessment committee concluding that three other applicants were better qualified.
The price of milk and dairy products will increase between 2.8 and 3.5 percent on January 1, 2008. One liter of milk will thus cost ISK 87 instead of ISK 85. The decision was made by the Price Committee of Farm Products on Wednesday.
A Polish citizen, who is suspected of having raped a woman in Selfoss, south Iceland, and breached a travel ban issued upon him by leaving the country on December 5, was caught on the border between Poland and Germany by the Polish police on Monday.
About 200 liters of nitric acid leaked from a tank on the premises of cleaning service Tandur in Reykjavík yesterday. The Capital Region Fire Department (SHS) was called to the scene and managed to stop the leak. No one was harmed.
According to a committee, comprised by 17 musical experts working for daily newspaper Fréttabladid, Mugiboogie by Örn Elías Gudmundsson, a.k.a. Mugison, is by far the best album in Iceland this year.
