Olafsson first Icelander nominated for short story prize
Icelandic author Olafur Johann Olafsson has been short-listed for this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. Olafsson is the fi...
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Icelandic author Olafur Johann Olafsson has been short-listed for this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. Olafsson is the fi...
The Prime Minister of Iceland paid a visit to the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia last weekend and payed a special visit to a former Icelandi...
Iceland Music Export has announced the latest acts at this year’s Reykjavik Jazz Festival to be held in Iceland from August 29th to September 1st. Hig...
A team of clinical psychologists in Iceland have designed a new Internet safety and parental control program to make time spent online more secure and...
Reykjavík’s proximity to a plethora of geysers, waterfalls and other natural phenomena that are unlike anything found elsewhere in the world helps ear...
A new government-backed Icelandic music website was launched this week at www.icelandicmusic.is Icelandicmusic.is is a free and fully-comprehensive re...
A recent study comparing the quality of life in 30 European countries ranked Iceland as the place where residents are most likely to live long and hap...
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, the Foreign Minister for Iceland, met last week with the Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad,? and the? President, ...