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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is crowded; every print run is sold.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is very expensive in Iceland, so I got some things done in India in the two months I was here. I visited the dentist, the optician, the tailor. When I go home, I'll have a new smile, a new wardrobe, and spectacles.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react when they get too much money too quickly and how it affects our culture.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time. That's when I began writing articles for newspapers back home about life in New York. This interest took over, and I moved from painting to writing.
- Landscapes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that it creates this great tension between the story being told and the style that it's written in. And it's just amazing that one of the best novels in English was written by a Russian.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020