{"id":287616,"date":"2011-10-14T18:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/10\/14\/amazoncrossing-makes-huge-commitment-to-icelandic-literature-icelandic-news\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:16:54","slug":"amazoncrossing-makes-huge-commitment-to-icelandic-literature-icelandic-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/10\/14\/amazoncrossing-makes-huge-commitment-to-icelandic-literature-icelandic-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AmazonCrossing Makes Huge Commitment to Icelandic Literature [Icelandic News]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a press conference earlier this week, AmazonCrossing and Fabulous Iceland announced that Amazon would be publishing ten Icelandic titles in the near future, starting with <em>The Greenhouse<\/em> (which we featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=3660\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagenhaftes-island.is\/en\/news\/nr\/3203\">official announcement:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Icelandic series from AmazonCrossing will ensure that the guest country will still be present on the international book market once the Book Fair has come and gone,\u201d said Halld\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson, director of Fabulous Iceland, at a press conference given to announce that AmazonCrossing, a new imprint of Amazon Publishing dedicated to foreign works in translation, had resolved to publish ten Icelandic titles in the near future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The series will kick off with <em>The Greenhouse<\/em> by Au\u00f0ur Ava \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir and Hallgr\u00edmur Helgason&#8217;s <em>The Hitman&#8217;s Guide to Iceland<\/em>. Both authors appeared at the conference. Also slated for publication are works by Viktor Arnar Ing\u00f3lfsson, \u00c1rni \u00de\u00f3rarinsson, Vilborg Dav\u00ed\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir and Steinunn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, with more to be announced in early 2012.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Translated books comprise less than three percent of titles published in the United States and United Kingdom. \u201cThis figure is too small, by a long shot,\u201d Jon Fine of AmazonCrossing said, adding that the imprint&#8217;s aim was to improve the ratio of foreign translation on the English-speaking market. \u201cThere are wonderful stories in Iceland and around the world that are not accessible to English speakers. We want to translate these extraordinary international literary works and authors and introduce them to new audiences worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/5-olafsson#pets\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/132.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a press conference earlier this week, AmazonCrossing and Fabulous Iceland announced that Amazon would be publishing ten Icelandic titles in the near future, starting with The Greenhouse (which we featured here). Here&#8217;s the official announcement: &#8220;The Icelandic series from AmazonCrossing will ensure that the guest country will still be present on the international book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[32746,43546,42996],"class_list":["post-287616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-amazoncrossing","tag-icelandic-news","tag-icelandic-week"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342656,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287616\/revisions\/342656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}