Saturday, 3rd of July
Location: Gullkistan
Time: 14:30 Duration: 1h30m

Lauga Talks

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Jón Özur Snorrason

Literary scholar

Laugarvatn, the Saga

Jón Özur Snorrason is an educated Icelandic and literary scholar. We will discuss culture and art about Laugarvatn history and the present day. Jón will go on big in history, trying to find some thread from the first decade of the 20th century onwards of today. He will use images and text in the review and try to be fun and interesting. Jón lived at Laugarvatn with his wife Alda Sigurðardóttir and her son Völund from 1993 – 1995. Later He taught Icelandic for two years at ML 2013 – 2015 and since 2008 they have run Gullkistan – a residence place for creative people at Laugarvatn who has received 600 artists from all over the world.

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