Congratulations to Reykjavik which has been designated a UNESCO City of Literature joining Edinburgh, Melbourne, Iowa City and Dublin.The city of Reykjavik boasts foremost an outstanding literary history with its invaluable heritage of ancient medieval literature, the Sagas, the Edda and the Íslendingabók, Libellus Islandorum (Book of Icelanders). This longstanding tradition has naturally cultivated the city’s strength in literature education, preservation, dissemination and promotion. Several Reykjavík writers have received international and Nordic awards. Halldór Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955 and several have won the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, including Thor Vilhjálmsson, Einar Már Gudmundsson and Sjón. For more information, visit http://www.literature.is/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4271/7228_read-23051/