Icelandic novelist and poet shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012
The acclaimed Icelandic novelist and poet Sjón has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 for his novel From the Mouth of the...
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Developing world students lose chance to study in Finland
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Finnair CEO apologises to shareholders
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Denmark has first ‘saviour sibling’
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