Author Seamás O'Reilly says he's been invited to a real-life Icelandic Fish Festival, after making one up in school.On Twitter, he wrote:"When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about 'world cultures' for school over the weekend."I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the 'Icelandic Fish Festival', figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.
"I was on the front cover of Iceland's paper of record yesterday, it was my entire story translated into Icelandic.He says he will go when the festival resumes in 2023."If I do get to the Fiskidagurinn Mikli, which is the great fish festival in Dalvík, then I will be sure to give a more accurate telling of what actually goes down there".
"It was unclear from the piece as it got longer and longer: was I actually there? Did I start the festival? Do I go there every year? "The second - in fact the literal, atomic instant - that I handed it to her, I realised she’d not asked us to write this at all."So I'd just written, and presented, this breezy eight-page memorandum on the Icelandic Fish Festival for absolutely no reason.""A lot of people reacted to it, a lot more than I expected, and also tens of thousands of replies at this stage now.