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'It's just cold and silent': Ragnar Jónasson and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir on the rise of Icelandic Noir
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As crime fiction continues to dominate Iceland's book charts, two of its best selling authors — Ragnar Jónasson and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir — sat down with Euronews Culture to discuss why one of the safest countries in the world is so drawn to literary darkness.
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