I wonder why they have so many crime writers
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
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.
My favorite fact about Iceland is that their horses are all members of a labour union.
I really want this to be true because it’s amazing. Do you have a source by chance?
They might be talking about FIEF.
My favorite fact about Iceland is that 2/3 of the names that got carved in stone about me, actually contain my real name.
I had 3 accounts when the EvE memorial got made.
There is almost a 0% chance that I will ever see that stone.
We booked a holiday to Reykjavik and I was SO excited to go find my name, but then realised we’d booked for almost exactly one month before the planned unveiling. Guess we’ll just have to go back one day!
Did get a cheesy photo of myself doing a thumbsup outside of CCP HQ. And you know, saw awe-inspiring natural wonders and stuff. So that counts for something I guess.
In case anyone else was OOTL about this like I was:
If you live on or near the East Coast, Play Air has round-trips from Dulles to Keflavík for less than 500. I just got back and Iceland was amazing!
Opposite side of the country. I’d have to go in late Aug, early Sep to not freeze the whole time.
It was surprisingly temperate. We drove the entire country and I would not recommend the NE corner as it was all snow, but the South usually stays around 8c and Reykjavik was hovering around 5c the whole time. The coldest I saw was at 1a in Þingvellir National Park and that was -8c (23f-ish).
The Northern Lights were absolutely breathtaking and going in summer keeps that from happening.
Sounds like he has a lucrative consulting career in his future.
I wonder if this is actually true? Like I could probably take the time to look this and verify its validity, but I won’t.
It is. 10% of the population are published writers. Not much to do there during the long and harsh winter…
