Europe
Iceland
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This page gathers the books whose story is set in Iceland. In Jules Verne’s “A Journey to the Centre of the Earth” (1864) the descent begins in the crater of the Snæfellsjökull volcano, while Arnaldur Indriðason’s crime novels, such as “Jar City” and “Silence of the Grave”, are set in Reykjavík. The Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
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An author's country is their citizenship in Wikidata or, where none is recorded, the country they were born in; a story's setting comes from Wikidata too. Obvious errors and gaps are corrected by hand. Authors are ordered by the number of reader ratings. Country shapes: Natural Earth.