Pritchard, Dafydd (11 September 2016). "Swansea City 2–2 Chelsea". BBC Sport . Retrieved 3 November 2016. Until then, however, we spend a little too much time with Jon John, who is less a character and more a mouthpiece for the queer community in the 1960s.

Congratulations to the new Miss Universe Iceland 2018 Katrin Lea Elenudottir!". Miss Universe Iceland. 22 August 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Apart from Jon, all the male characters of the novel are shrouded in various forms of sexism. Hekla’s boyfriend Starkadur is an aspiring poet who feels threatened both by her close friendship with Jon (even though he knows that he’s gay) as well as her prodigious literary talent (when he discovers the writing that she first hides from him). Yet these men are not evil in the sense we usually think of villains – they’re simply blinded by their own privilege, lost in a fog of self-indulgent misogyny. And they’re redeemable. In the end, Starkadur’s meek acceptance of Hekla’s superior talent and independent lifestyle is what opens the door to his redemption, both as a man in her life as well as a writer. We even get a foreword by Sjón, arguably Iceland’s most famous and celebrated modern novelist (featured further down this list). Quake by Auður Jónsdóttir We’ve already talked extensively about the power and importance of Halldór Laxness’ fiction, as Iceland’s Nobel Prize winner. So if anyone is going to be featured twice, it’s going to be Laxness.On 4 October 2023, nearly three years since his last appearance for the national team, Gylfi was called up for UEFA Euro 2024 qualification matches against Luxembourg and Liechtenstein on 13 and 16 October respectively. [93] He scored a brace in the Liechtenstein match and reached his 27th international goal, becoming Iceland's all-time top scorer. [94] Personal life Upplýsingar um keppnina" (in Icelandic). Archived from the original on 15 July 2007 . Retrieved 25 May 2007. For a book written in 1996, Reykjavik 101 vividly reminds us of modern-day internet incel culture. Björn is a creepy, porn-addicted misogynist who struggles with everyday conversation. To judge from surface impressions such as these, the lovely island nation presents as a progressive utopia. So it’s useful that books like Miss Iceland exist to remind us of the bigotry and harassment lurking beneath the surface; the micro-aggressions perpetuating sexism and homophobia which lie not far beneath the civilized facade of even the most progressive-seeming nations. s graceful and quiet tale of feminism, alienation, and artistic expression centers around Hekla, a young Icelandic woman who wants to become a writer in a male-dominated literary world…Ólafsdóttir tenderly explores how these authentic characters help each other overcome their fears and doubts. This winning tale of friendship and self-fulfillment will inspire readers.”— Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review)

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Hekla plays her cards so close to her chest that she doesn't even tell her boyfriend, a preening, pedantic poet, that she too is a writer, for she knows full well that what he wants is a decorative, subservient girlfriend. After he pries the truth out of her, he transfers his jealousy of her close friendship with Jón John, whom he invariably refers to as "the freak" or "the queer," to her disciplined output and clearly superior talent. "You'd drain your own veins if you ran out of ink," he says, echoing a line variously attributed to several mid-20th century sports columnists: "Writing is easy. You just open a vein and bleed." Myhrvold Simensen, Henrik (17 April 2023). "- En forferdelig situasjon"[- A terrible situation]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian) . Retrieved 31 July 2023. Hilmarsson, Guðmundur (1 January 2012). "Gylfi Þór til Swansea City". Morgunblaðið . Retrieved 1 January 2012. So many of the authors here are powerful, brilliant writers, but Nobel Prize-winner Halldór Laxness is a true legend of the literary form, and Independent Peopleis heralded as his finest work of fiction. In this excellent introduction to her work, Ólafsdóttir creates a world where either escape or hiding one's true nature are the only choices." - Library Journal