Awards
2005.11.09
Believe me, I’d rather live somewhere else at the moment. Well, I know we shouldn’t take it too dramatically, I know that the press is focusing too much on those recent french events (I don’t dare calling them “riots”, even though they partially are), but anyway, they make me kind of nervous and anxious. To cap it all, I discovered yesterday morning that the tyre of my danish bike was flat. Not because it was too old (it was actually brand new), not because I had ridden the bike to some lousy place… just because “someone” had used some kind of knife to cut it… How funny it must be… So, to cheer up a little bit in spite of this hostile environment, I visited my favourite websites (those websites that make me feel like leaving France and moving to Iceland, for instance).
On the excellent Iceland Weather Report blog, I read that Arnaldur Indriðason won the Golden Dagger award for the best British crime novel of the year. Arnaldur Indriðason won it for his novel Silence of the Grave. Congratulations, Arny.
And for those of you interested in Icelandic literature, don’t forget to visit this website run by the Reykjavik City Library. You’ll find there many interesting details about Icelandic contemporary literature, as well as texts written by the authors themselves: look at this one, if you’re curious about Arnaldur Indriðason, his work and his views on icelandic literature.
On the almost-as-excellent Iceland Review Online, I read that Emiliana Torrini was number 45 on the annual Vogue List (British edition). Vogue describes the list as the “definite top 100: the trends, the people, the places and our predictions for the year ahead”. Emiliana was also featured in the August 29th issue of the US magazine the New Yorker.
November 9th, 2005 - 19:45
Arnaldur Indriðason absolutely deserves this. Many of his books have been translated to German in the past two years. My girlfriend discoverd him only recently, but I hope we will find the time to read more of his books.