Salman Rushdie Visits the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Author Salman Rushdie recently traveled to Iceland to receive the Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize. During his trip, he toured the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, where Director Guðrún Nordal and Professor Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson introduced him to some of the institute’s most notable manuscripts.

Bald man wearing a dark suit and glasses with one glass tinted and a woman with shoulder-length hair, wearing a white coat over a black dress are having a conversation. A medieval manuscript rests on a black pillow on the table in front of them. — Author Salman Rushdie and Guðrún Nordal, director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.

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A grey-haired man in a dark blazer and a light-coloured shirt and trousers displays a manuscript resting on a black pillow. At his side is a bald man with glasses (one glass tinted) and a woman with shoulder-length hair, wearing a white coat over black clothes. — Research Prof. Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson, author Salman Rushdie, and Guðrún Nordal, Director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

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Salman Rushdie Visits the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies