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 buy your book your horizons are limited. Fortunately that’s why the novelist (and print-maker, and translator and more) Hallgrímur Helgason visited America. A conversation at the International Print Center with music from Mamie Minch and a taste of Othello in Icelandic.
PERSON: Halldór Laxness
PLACE: 46th & 9th
THING: his hat
RANDY’S PERSON: Odysseus
