Iceland Noir: This sounds like great fun! A new Crime Fiction Conference. The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland. Weekend of November 22-23, 2013
Featured AUTHORS
ANN CLEEVES
Bestselling and award winning British author of the Vera Stanhope crime series and the Shetland crime series, both of which have recently been filmed for British television.
JOHN CURRAN
Award winning Irish author of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks and Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making, and leading authority on the works of Agatha Christie.
YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR
Bestselling Icelandic author of the Thóra mystery series and Glass Key nominated crime/horror novel “I Remember You”, which is being turned into a Hollywood film.
QUENTIN BATES
British author of the “superior crime fiction” (The Times) Iceland-set Officer Gunnhildur crime novels.
RAGNAR JONASSON
Icelandic author of a crime series set in and around the northernmost town in Iceland, in the process of being developed as a TV series.
VIKTOR ARNAR INGÓLFSSON
Icelandic Glass Key nominated author of The Flatey Enigma, House of Evidence and Daybreak.
Friday: Scheduled tours which may include:
Northern lights tour
Blue lagoon tour
Geysir / gullfoss tour
Saturday: The Nordic House, Full day of panels and author interviews
Saturday Evening: Dinner at an Icelandic Restaurant.
Sunday: Scheduled Tours
Registration Required. No Registration Fee. Tours and dining are additional.
To Register, go HERE.
HT: Ann Cleeves
1 comment:
Wish I could! Incredible country with fascinating history. The Icelandic Sagas are some of my favorite stories, an opinion shared by Tolkien who used them for his own. Hmmm...
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