Jul 16, 2017
Iceland is a paradise for writers, with its highly literate population, generous government grants, and total absence of cockroaches. Unfortunately, there are only 330,000 Icelanders, so even if they all bought your book, your horizons would be limited. Fortunately, that's why the novelist (and print-maker and translator and more) Hallgrimur Helgason visited America. A conversation at the International Print Center with music from Mamie Minch and a taste of Othello in Icelandic.