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Glósubók Ævars vísindamanns

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Allir alvöruvísindamenn eiga glósubók og nú hefur Ævar vísindamaður úr Stundinni okkar gefið út flottustu glósubók sem sést hefur!
Stútfull af tilraunum, upplýsingum um furðuleg fyrirbæri, viðtölum við íslenska vísindamenn og bréfum frá krökkum á öllum aldri, auk fjölda annara upplýsinga fyrir forvitna krakka!

Skemmtileg bók fyrir alla - og sérstaklega þá sem langar til að verða vísindamenn þegar þeir verða eldri.

132 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2011

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About the author

Ævar Þór Benediktsson

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Since 2014, Ævar has been one of the most popular authors in Iceland. He has won several awards for his work, including the Icelandic Children's Book Awards, The Bookseller's Awards and a special award, by the Ministry of culture and education, in recognition of his contribution to work on the Icelandic language.
He was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize for Children and YA Books in 2016 (for The Robot Attack) and in 2017 (for Your Very Own Fairy Tale) and was finalist and first International Selection of the DeBary Outstanding Children’s Book Awards 2016 (for Dinosaurs in Reykjavik). In 2017 Ævar was chosen as one of the Aarhus39 - a collection of the 39 best emerging writers for young people from across Europe. On top of that he has won four Edda-awards for his TV-show, Ævar the Scientist.

In 2015, 2016 and 2017 Ævar launched annual nation-wide reading challenges for every child in Iceland between the ages of 5-13. At the end of each challenge five participants are randomly selected and as a reward get to be characters in the book series "The Young Adventures of Ævar the Scientist". Over 177 thousand books were read in the three challenges. In October of 2017 he was nominated for the ALMA (The Astrid Lindgren Memorial) award , as a "Promoter of reading".

He currently lives in Reykjavík, Iceland, with his fiancé and cat (not the same person, though).

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