Short Icelandic novel guaranteed to spark anxiety in anyone involved in academic research
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Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón (Iceland)
Translated by Victoria Cribb EUROPE Book 14 of my #20booksofsummer21 Time is whizzing by and I’m not sure if I’m going to get through all the 20 books on my list. I wish I’d counted the three “extra” books I read earlier in the summer! (Though that would mean going back and writing reviews.) Set …
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119: Some Kind of Peace by musician Ólafur Arnalds (Iceland)
Beautifully sprawling and mesmeric Icelandic album
Review no 107: On Time and Water by Andri Snaer Magnason (Iceland)
Uncomfortable read on climate change in Iceland and the likelihood of impending environmental disaster
Review no 4: Olafur Eliasson, In Real Life
@ Tate Modern, London, UK from July 2019 until January 2020 DENMARK – ICELAND : EUROPE Olafur Eliasson, born in 1967, is an exciting and accessible contemporary artist, who was brought up in Denmark and Iceland. In the 1990s he moved to Berlin, Germany, where he established the Studio Olafur Eliasson. In 2003 I visited his …
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