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Fréttir
Sunday 29. Dec 2019
The new year will be celebrated with poetry readings in Gröndal's House from dawn to dusk on January 1st 2020.
Fréttir
Tuesday 22. Oct 2019
Harpa Rún Kristjánsdóttir is the winner of the 2019 Tómas Guðmundsson Poetry Prize for her poetry script Edda. The book was published today by publising house Sæmundur.
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Þórbergur Þórðarson
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