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Issued on: 17/04/2026 - 16:22
From the show
The annual Paris Book Festival is honouring Iceland this year, and Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson will be doing a book signing. He tells us about his latest novel, "Celestial Bodies at the Edge of the World", which sheds light on a little-known dark chapter in Icelandic history. He also tells us why Icelandic literature is booming in France.
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We also talk about a controversy that overshadowed the festival's opening: the firing of the CEO of French publishing house Grasset and a walk-out by over 100 authors against Grasset's billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré, who is close to the far right in France.
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