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Draumalandið - Sjálfshjálparbók Handa Hræddri þjóð
''Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation'' (in the original is, Draumalandið — Sjálfshjálparbók handa hræddri þjóð, italic=yes) is a book by the Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason. It became the number one best-selling book in Iceland in 2006, and was winner of the Icelandic Literary Award, and the Icelandic Bookseller Prize the same year. The English edition of the book has a foreword by the Icelandic artist Björk. Content ''Dreamland'' is Andri Snaer Magnason's critique against the current decision taken by the Icelandic government to dam Iceland's rivers in order to produce energy that can be delivered to Economy of Iceland#Aluminium, aluminium smelters. Magnason describes how Iceland's government actively have pursued the idea to attract foreign aluminium companies to Iceland with the promise of the "cheapest energy in the world". The government advertisement described Iceland's energy potential as 30 TWh/year (3.4 GW annual mean). Magnason a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason (born 14 July 1973) is an Icelandic writer. He has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, and essays. Andri is also a director and producer of three documentary films that have premiered in IDFA and CPH:DOX. His work has been published or performed in more than 40 countries. He has received the Icelandic Literary Prize in all categories, fiction, non-fiction and for children's literature. The first time in 1999 for the children's book ''The Story of the Blue Planet'', and again in 2006 for the non-fiction book '' Dreamland'', a critique of Icelandic industrial and energy policy. He also won the prize for his 2013 book, Tímakistan, The Casket of Time. Andri wrote an obituary for the first glacier Iceland lost to climate change, Ok-glacier in 2019 with these words: “Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |