I wonder why they have so many crime writers
When I visited (so take it with a grain of salt) a local (who was a friend of a friend and showed us around) said that culturally there is a lot of encouragement to be creative in various forms. Be interested if any Icelandic people would either confirm or deny this.
I think there are many writers in general. There are 300,000 people, and 1 in 10 will publish a book in their lifetimes.
Okay, but one guy writing 1000 books would skew that number substantially.
You get 20 doing 10 that’s still a large portion changing the statistics.
Is it actually 1/10 or is just 30000 books from the population.
That’s ‘1 in 10 Icelanders will write and publish at least one novel at some point in their life’, not ‘one book written for every 10 Icelanders’.
It’s a stat you’ll see floating around the internet, though I haven’t seen the ultimate source.
Seems to be a few writing a lot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Icelandic_crime_fiction_writers
