The Icelandic Literary Prize (Icelandic: Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin), or Icelandic Literary Award, is an award which is given to three books each year...
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This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards. Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 Hugo Award...
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Andri Snær Magnason (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
published or performed in more than 40 countries. He has received the Icelandic Literary Prize in all categories, fiction, non-fiction and for children's literature...
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Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (category Icelandic women philosophers)
the Icelandic Literary Prize. In 2006 she was awarded the DV Culture Prize for the novel Yosoy. In 2012, she was awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize for...
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Hildur Knútsdóttir (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
(born 16 June 1984 Reykjavík) is an Icelandic writer and politician. In 2016, she won the Icelandic Literary Prize for children's books for her novel Vetrarhörkur...
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with success outside of Iceland. Icelandic Literary Prize List of Icelandic writers Nordic Council's Literature Prize Icelandic Christmas book flood As...
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as well as Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir (2010), a feminist retelling of Skírnismál that won the 2010 Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction...
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Halldór Laxness (category Pages with Icelandic IPA)
Kiljan Laxness (Icelandic: [ˈhaltour ˈcʰɪljan ˈlaksnɛs] ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner...
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Guðbergur Bergsson (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
children's literature. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize twice. In 2004, he won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the 'little Nobel'. Bergsson...
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Sigrún Pálsdóttir (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
titled Dyngja. "Sigrún Pálsdóttir". Saga (in Icelandic). "Icelandic Authors". "Sigrún Pálsdóttir | EU Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Archived...
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Iceland has a rich literary history, which has carried on into the modern period. Some of the best known examples of Icelandic literature are the Sagas...
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The Swan (novel) (category Icelandic novels)
The Swan (orig. Icelandic Svanurinn) is a novel written by the Icelandic writer Guðbergur Bergsson in 1991. The story is about a nine-year-old girl sent...
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Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
recipient of the O. Henry Award and the Icelandic Literary Award, was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize, and has twice been nominated for the IMPAC...
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Arndís Þórarinsdóttir (category Icelandic children's writers)
IBBY Iceland by 2008, and was its president around 2011. In 2019, her novel Nærbuxnanjósnararnir was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in the...
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Bankster (category Icelandic novels)
first novel by Guðmundur Óskarsson and the 2009 winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction. The novel takes the form of a diary by its protagonist...
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Steinunn Sigurðardóttir (category 20th-century Icelandic novelists)
becoming rather well known in her country. In 1995, she received the Icelandic National Prize for Literature for her novel Hjartastaður (Heart Place). In this...
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Gerður Kristný (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2007. In 2010, Gerður Kristný won both the West Nordic Council's Children and Young People's Literature Prize in 2010...
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Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir (category Icelandic children's writers)
an Icelandic author and illustrator. In 2020, she won the Icelandic Literary Prize and the West Nordic Council's Children and Youth Literature Prize for...
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Illska (category Icelandic novels)
Mál og menning in 2012, is an Icelandic novel, the fourth by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl. It won the 2012 Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction, and was chosen...
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Auður Jónsdóttir (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
you[citation needed] 1998 - Icelandic Literary Prize (Nomination): Bliss Iceland portal List of Icelandic writers Icelandic literature "Auður Jónsdóttir...
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great narrative art of Iceland." He is the first and only Icelandic recipient of the Nobel prize in all categories. The literary critic Sveinn Hoskuldsson...
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From the Mouth of the Whale (category Articles containing Icelandic-language text)
2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. and the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award. 2008 in literature Icelandic literature Tonkin, Boyd (2012-04-13)...
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The Icelandic Children's Book Prize (Íslensku barnabókaverðlaunin) is a literary prize which is awarded annually (when sufficiently good entries present...
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Halldór Guðmundsson (category Articles with Icelandic-language sources (is))
awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize. The book has also appeared in English and German. Halldór's 2006 book Skáldalíf, about the Icelandic writer Gunnar...
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figurative painter who brought the figure back into Icelandic painting in 1968. He is a pioneer in the Icelandic art scene and art education. He has been called...
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Thorarinn Leifsson (category Icelandic children's writers)
Leifsson (born 29 July 1966) is an Icelandic author, illustrator and tour guide. He graduated from the Icelandic Academy of Arts in 1989. In that same...
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The Lion has Many Ears (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
nominated for the fiction category of the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2010, and for the 2011 Blóðdropinn prize for Icelandic crime fiction — though in the view...
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Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
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Kristín Eiríksdóttir (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
bókaverslana 2014". Miðstöð íslenskra bókmennta (in Icelandic). Retrieved 27 September 2019. "Icelandic Literary Prize". www.fibut.is. Retrieved 27 September 2019...
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Þór Whitehead (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
Ísland í sídari heimsstyrjöld [Iceland in the Second World War] (in Icelandic). Vol. I–IV. The Icelandic Literary Prize, 1995. Whitehead, Þór (1988). Íslandsaevintýri...
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