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Enskar bókmenntagöngur 2013
05.06.2013
Guided Literary Walking Tours are Go
Reykjavík City Library's first literary walking tour of the summer is Thursday June 6th. The walk is offered weekly throughout August.



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Reykjavík Literally

12.10.2010
Dark Deeds in Reykjavík
Reykjavík City Library offers literary walking tours in downtown Reykjavík every Thursday in June, July and August at 5pm.


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Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson
Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson
Viktor's crime novels Flateyjargáta and Engin spor have recently been published in English...

Reykjavík, a City of Literature

Reykjavík Bókmenntaborg
Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature
The City of Reykjavik, Iceland, has been designated as UNESCO City of Literature. The Mayo...

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this morning as I woke
I saw a red rose had grown
out of my navel.
it smiled like a child.
 
I hurried out to fetch it water.
 
but when I returned it was gone
and you said you never saw
any flower
oh Paris!

- Ólafur Haukur Símonarson, "Paris '68".

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