JPV was an Icelandic publishing house, established in 2001 by

Jóhann Páll Valdimarsson Jóhann is a masculine given name. It is the Icelandic and Faroese form of the name Johann, a form of the Germanic and Latin given name "Johannes". The English-language form is John. The Icelandic surname Jóhannsson is a patronymic surname meani ...

, from whose initials the press takes its name. On 1 October 2007, JPV merged with the publishers Mál og menning, Vaka-Helgafell and Bókaútgáfan Iðunn under the name

Forlagið Forlagið (meaning "The Publishing House") is the largest publishing house in Iceland. It publishes around 150 titles a year under five different imprints: JPV, Mál og menning, , , and Ókeibækur. It is also publishes maps. The company was cr ...

. However, books continue to be published under the JPV imprint.Mál og Menning og JPV sameinast
(25 November 2007).

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External links

Official website
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