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“I suddenly realised that in high school I once only got
a B in Icelandic instead of an A, and that was in the
course where we read the Eddic poetry and Njáls saga.
Now I travel around the world telling people about this
very same literature and people are buying tickets to
listen to me. I found it rather funny and ironic.”
Gerður Kristný, who was recently named Inter-
national Writer-In-Residence at the University
of Iowa’s prestigious writing programme,
provides hope for all of us aspiring Nobel Prize
biochemists who couldn’t quite scrounge up that
B+ in high school.
“September 1942 the inhabitants of Reykjavík had
breakfast in a state of shock.”
The cause of the simultaneously shattered
coffee mugs around the country? Iceland had
been featured in an American movie…but not
in a good way. What film could have painted
Iceland so poorly as to have been described as
“absurd” and “stupid”? We take a look back to
a time before Game Of Thrones and Bon Iver
music videos.
“You are supposed to be insulting people. You're in
drag. You're 200% of what you are mimicking. It's all
done to push buttons. If people are getting shocked,
good, then it's working. If gay people are shocked, good,
then it's better. Somebody has to kick our butts some-
times.”
What’s the state of drag in Iceland? What’s
it like to organise this year’s Icelandic Drag
Competition? We talk to Georg Erlingsson
Merritt a.k.a. Keiko to find out the answers.
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