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Spring is on its way and the program for the sixteenth Reykjavík International Literary Festival…

The 16th Reykjavík International Literary Festival is just around the corner and promises to be…

Applications are now open for the Reykjavík Fellowship Program and you can apply by filling…

There is nothing new in dreaming about an island. But this hopeful vision continues to…

“If Iceland didn’t exist, it would have been invented,” said Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkow in…

Katrín Jakobsdóttir forsætisráðherra afhendir Andrej Kúrkov Alþjóðleg bókmenntaverðlaun Halldórs Laxness við hátíðlega athöfn miðvikudaginn 7.…

Due to huge interest, the keynote event with Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie has been moved to…

The Festival Program is available on one sheet, perfect to print, but can also be…

The Reykjavik International Literary Festival will celebrate its opening on Wednesday, September 8, and will…

Since the year 2000, when Reykjavík was one of the European Capitals of Culture, the…

The biannual Reykjavík Fellowship Program, held since 2000, is scheduled to take place during the…

The application form for the Reykjavík Fellowship Program can be found here. Applications are open…

On Thursday September 19th, Ian McEwan was awarded the first Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize.…

At a symposium on Halldór Laxness hosted by the Reykjavík International Literary Festival, Icelandic Prime…

A new international literary prize, named after Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, will be awarded for…