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Connect Newsletter Summer 2026 Releases
Summer brings bright sunny days and a chance to capture that perfect image on your camera, uh, phone! If you’re going to Iceland to see the eclipse, or the country, or the people, or, if you’ve taken a spectacular picture in Iceland, we’ve got an opportunity for you: share your great photo with the 2026…
Read MoreThe INLUS Photo Contest Returns in 2026
Iceland, Unfiltered There are moments in Iceland that don’t feel real until you look back at them. A sudden shift in weather that changes the entire landscape. Light breaking through at exactly the right second. A quiet scene that somehow feels enormous. You don’t plan for those moments. You just happen to be there,…
Read MoreHappy Iceland! Book Launch-INLUS Webinar
Happy Iceland: How Icelandic Strangers Taught a Miserable American the Secret to Lifelong Happiness. In 2016, on the precipice of turning 30, American writer Anne Marie Wells embarked on a quest to travel Iceland. Instead of following an itinerary, renting a car, and staying in hotels, she asked a random Icelandic worker at the Keflavik airport,…
Read MoreThe First Lady Next Door Book Release
Iceland’s Former First Lady, Eliza Reid, Releases Her Memoir in the United States on May 5, 2026. The First Lady Next Door, by Eliza Reid, is the memoir of her time as Iceland’s First Lady, while her husband, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson was Iceland’s President from 2016 to 2024. She subtitles the book “A Memoir…
Read MoreConnect Newsletter Spring 2026 Releases
Spring 2026 Connect Newsletter is Available Now! In a little more than a month, Iceland will celebrate the beginning of summer! Here in North America, we’re still thinking about Spring and with the changing of the seasons, the Icelandic National League of the United States has just posted its spring quarter newsletter, Connect. This issue…
Read MoreConnect Newsletter Winter 2025 Releases
Winter 2025 Connect is online! This winter the INLUS Connect opens with a look at cycling across Iceland in the summer months. Maybe you hadn’t considered such a challenge. Aaron Kennedy has several Iceland bike trips under his belt, and he offers a unique glimpse into what its like, and how to do it, in…
Read MoreAuthor’s Corner-Nola’s Icelandic Adventure Author’s Talk
Watch Author’s Corner Webinar With Emil Gretarsson Live on December 2, 2025. In her first book in The Tails of Nola series, Nola found her fur-ever home and settled in with her human family. Now the family, with Nola, is on their way to explore Iceland. Join Nola as she explores this beautiful island in…
Read MoreIntersecting Worlds-Author’s Corner With Jenna Grace Sciuto
Intersecting Worlds – Iceland and the U.S. South Professor of English, Jenna Grace Sciuto PhD, is the author of Intersecting Worlds which explores colonialist themes in Icelandic and U.S. Southern literature. Examining the work of twentieth-century Icelandic novelists, including Halldór Laxness, Svava Jakobsdóttir, Guðbergur Bergsson, and Fríða Áslaug Sigurðardóttir and U.S. Southern writers, like William Faulkner, Gayl…
Read MoreUpcoming INLUS Author’s Corner – Margaret Willson
Join us on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 as we help celebrate the release of Woman, Captain, Rebel. Margaret Willson will join us at 8:00 PM Eastern (GMT-5)/ 7:00 PM Central/ 6:00 PM Mountain/ 5:00 Pacific to talk about Thuridur and the Icelandic fishing environment during Thuridur’s life. History would have us believe the sea has always…
Read MoreHarpa International Music Academy USA
The Icelandic National League of the United States is pleased to introduce our members and friends to new cultural activities related to Iceland and Icelanders. A new event to the United States this year is the Harpa International Music Academy USA (HIMA USA). Founded by world-renowned violinist and Oberlin Conservatory professor Sibbi Bernhardsson, HIMA USA…
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