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    The Indian
    The Indian
    The Indian
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    The Indian

    By Jón Gnarr

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  • Has received three-year visa to stay, live, work, and travel in the US.
  • Will be in Houston, Texas for a writing fellowship at Rice University in the first several months of 2015.
  • Active online presence: already participated in two Reddit AMAs in January 2014 and December 2012.
  • Appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in August 2014.
  • Gnarr is participating in the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas in August 2014.
  • A "prequel" to the story of Gnarr's four years as mayor of Reykjavik, which forms the basis of his 2014 bestselling political memoir "Gnarr!"
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
    Release dateApr 13, 2015
    ISBN9781941920138
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      Childhood memoir of Icelandic actor, comedian, and politician (mayor of Reykjavik).

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