The largest publishing house in Russia (AST) has purchased the rights to Yrsa Sigurðardóttir‘s first two novels.

The ninth Reykjavík International Literary Festival ended with a publishers' symposium and poetry.

A poetry collection dedicated to the five foremost modernist poets of Iceland will be published in the summer of 2011 in Germany.

held for the ninth time in Reykjavik 6-12 September 2009