But in 2009, book loans at the Reykjavík City Library totaled 1.2 million — in a city of only 200,000 people. There's a popular TV show in Iceland, Kiljan, which is devoted entirely to books.

Iceland is probably the only country where books get a primetime TV show, “Kiljan”, while movies and cinema get relegated to a radio show aired at odd hours.

Kiljan, a prime-time television show, is devoted to books. The government-supported Icelandic Literary Fund supports publishers, translators, and writers.

The books ordinarily on sale are schoolbooks, isolated specimens of Danish, English, French, and German works, and a number of the better known Icelandic publications.

Iceland isn't the only country known for a seasonal surge in new book releases; France has a similar trend called Le rentrée littéraire.

In Iceland, the most popular Christmas gifts aren’t the latest iProducts or kitchen gadgets—they’re books. Each year, Iceland celebrates what’s known as Jólabókaflóðið: the annual ...

Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in two Icelanders writes books. This literary ...

Up until the 2010s, "Makt Myrkranna" remained untranslated from Icelandic and was presumed to be simply a shortened translation of Stoker's original English text. However, de Roos discovered that ...

Let's move to Iceland: According to the BBC, Iceland is experiencing a book boom, boasting a statistic that one in 10 of its residents will publish a book.

Iceland agrees with me. The country came up with a holiday tradition during World War II that has stuck around like the pages of a book accidentally dropped in a tub: Jólabókaflód.

Icelanders have a beautiful tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is so deeply ingrained in the culture that it is the reason ...