Transcript invites you to tour The Islands of the North beginning in Grafarvogur, a suburb of Reykjavik, and continuing on to Shetland, Orkney and Scilly.
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in this issue
- Editorial
- ISLANDS OF THE NORTH
- Life in a Reykjavik Suburb
- Streaker Disrupts Iceland v. Albania
- Writing in Shetland
- Orkney's George Mackay Brown
- David Constantine of Scilly
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE FROM SCANDINAVIA
- Josefine Ottesen
- Charlotte Blay
- Tove Jansson
- Children's Literature in Finland in the 1990s
- NEWS
- Contributions
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Islands of the North
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Einar Már GudmundssonEinar Már Gudmundsson is one of Iceland's leading writers. Read his poem Homer, Singer of Tales, and his shortstory 'Streaker Disrupts Iceland v. Albania'.
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David ConstantineDavid Constantine speaks to Transcript about the influence of Scilly on his work. 'What will tumble in our broken bay tomorrow?' he asks in Oranges, a poem about unexpected bounty.
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László MártonTranscript features Crossing Glass, The True Story of Jakob Wunschwitz and The Shady Highstreet, three books by László Márton, the virtuoso Hungarian novelist.
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Josefine OttesenJosefine Ottesen's On the Furthest Island, is the tells the story of Odd and his struggle to make his dream come true. Journey with the youthful warrior to the otherworld!
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The International Writers' Reunion of LahtiThe International Writers' Reunion of Lahti takes place this year from the 15th - 18th of June. This year the theme of the reunion is the question: 'What is Sacred?'
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