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TOVÁBB Középszintű angol érettségi 2015. október - 3. olvasott szöveg értése feladat.
PUBLISH A BOOK
Iceland is experiencing a book boom. This island nation of just over 300,000 people has more writers, more books published and more books read, per head, than anywhere else in the world. It is hard to avoid writers in Reykjavik, the capital city, hosting the festival I visited. "Does it get rather competitive?" I ask the young novelist, Kristin Eirikskdottir. "Yes. Especially as I live with my mother and partner, who are also full-time writers. But we try to publish in alternate years so we do not compete too much."
Special saga tours show us public buildings, on the walls of which you can see some of these old stories. Dating from the 13th Century, Icelandic sagas tell the stories of the country's Norse settlers, who began to arrive on the island in the late 9th Century. Sagas are written on napkins and coffee cups. Our guide stands up mid-tour to recite his own poetry – our taxi driver's father and grandfather write biographies.
Reykjavik is flooded with writers when it is book festival time. "They write everything - modern sagas, poetry, children's books, literary and erotic fiction - but the biggest boom is in crime writing," Agla Magnusdottir, head of the new Icelandic Literature Centre, tells me. That is perhaps no surprise in this Nordic nation. "Writers are respected here, they live well. Some even get a salary."
She also tells us about Iceland's Nobel Literature Laureate, Halldor Laxness, whose books are sold in petrol stations and tourist centres. Locals name their cats after Laxness and visit his home. "When Laxness won the Nobel Prize in 1955 he put modern Icelandic literature on the map," she tells me. "He gave us confidence to write."
But some fear a book crisis, too. Iceland has so many writers that there is huge pressure on publishers.
Suddenly I notice some famous people. One of them, Iceland’s musical superstar Bjork attends several of the festival events. "It is a small place. We have grown up together," she says. "We support each other."
(www.bbc.co.uk)
10 percent of the people in Iceland C
The festival
Sagas
Crime stories
Aglas Magnusdottir
Halldor Laxness
Publishers
Visitors to the festival
PUBLISH A BOOK
Iceland is experiencing a book boom. This island nation of just over 300,000 people has more writers, more books published and more books read, per head, than anywhere else in the world. It is hard to avoid writers in Reykjavik, the capital city, hosting the festival I visited. "Does it get rather competitive?" I ask the young novelist, Kristin Eirikskdottir. "Yes. Especially as I live with my mother and partner, who are also full-time writers. But we try to publish in alternate years so we do not compete too much."
Special saga tours show us public buildings, on the walls of which you can see some of these old stories. Dating from the 13th Century, Icelandic sagas tell the stories of the country's Norse settlers, who began to arrive on the island in the late 9th Century. Sagas are written on napkins and coffee cups. Our guide stands up mid-tour to recite his own poetry – our taxi driver's father and grandfather write biographies.
Reykjavik is flooded with writers when it is book festival time. "They write everything - modern sagas, poetry, children's books, literary and erotic fiction - but the biggest boom is in crime writing," Agla Magnusdottir, head of the new Icelandic Literature Centre, tells me. That is perhaps no surprise in this Nordic nation. "Writers are respected here, they live well. Some even get a salary."
She also tells us about Iceland's Nobel Literature Laureate, Halldor Laxness, whose books are sold in petrol stations and tourist centres. Locals name their cats after Laxness and visit his home. "When Laxness won the Nobel Prize in 1955 he put modern Icelandic literature on the map," she tells me. "He gave us confidence to write."
But some fear a book crisis, too. Iceland has so many writers that there is huge pressure on publishers.
Suddenly I notice some famous people. One of them, Iceland’s musical superstar Bjork attends several of the festival events. "It is a small place. We have grown up together," she says. "We support each other."
(www.bbc.co.uk)
Írd be a hiányzó szövegrészek betűjeleit!
10 percent of the people in Iceland C
The festival
Sagas
Crime stories
Aglas Magnusdottir
Halldor Laxness
Publishers
Visitors to the festival
| A) | was awarded a prize in the last century. |
| B) | was interviewed by the author of the article. |
| C) | can be considered writers. |
| D) | include celebrities. |
| E) | may be challenged by the large number of writers. |
| F) | takes place in the capital. |
| G) | have been painted on some houses. |
| H) | sponsored a lot of people. |
| I) | are produced in the greatest numbers. |