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Iceland’s Thriving Literary Scene with Author Andri Snær Magnason’ with Rain Taxi at Open Book
May 5 | 3 - 5 PM | Open Book | 1011 S Washington Ave #101, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Author Andri Snær Magnason will discuss his wide ranging work that includes supermarket poetry, science fiction, and critical writings about current issues in Iceland. Andri is one of Iceland's leading literary voices and his novel LoveStar won the leading science fiction awards in France 2016 – Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and a Philip K. Dick Citation of Excellence in the United States. Andri has won the Icelandic literary awards for fiction, non-fiction and YA/childrens’ books. His next book, The Casket of Time, comes out in April 2019. Andri is also currently the chairman of Reykjavík, Unesco City of Literature. The event with be hosted by Eric Lorberer of Rain Taxi literature journal.