Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
Guðrún Eva's first book, Sóley sólufegri, came out in 1998 in a very limited edition. In the same year the publishing house Bjartur published her short story collection Á meðan hann horfir á þig ertu María mey (While He Watches You, You are the Virgin Mary), to much acclaim. Since then Guðrún Eva has published five novels, a collection of philosophical stories for children published by The National Centre for Educational Materials and a book of poetry. She has also translated novels by foreign authors.
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Valur Gunnarsson (b.1976) is a historian, author, and journalist. His childhood was divided between Iceland, Norway and Great Britain, and as a teenager he spent his summers in Saudi-Arabia in the aftermath of the First Gulf War.
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He was co-founder and first editor of the English language paper Reykjavik Grapevine in 2003, which is still going strong. As correspondent for Associated Press and The Guardian, he covered such events as the return of Bobby Fischer, the economic crisis and the Eyjafjallajökull eruption. His previous novels include King of the North (2007) and The Last Lover (2013), both of which received excellent reviews.
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Bergsveinn Birgisson
Bergsveinn has a PhD in Nordic Studies from the University of Bergen. He has published two volumes of poetry, Íslendingurinn (The Icelander) and Innrás liljanna (The Invasion of the Lilies), and four novels, Landslag er aldrei asnalegt (Landscape is Never Stupid), Handbók um hugarfar kúa (A Handbook on the Attitude of Cows), Svar við bréfi Helgu (Answer to Letters from Helga), and Den Svarte Vikingen (The Black Viking) which is written in Norwegian.
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He has also helped with the Norwegian translation of the Icelandic medieval saga Flateyarbók
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Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Kristín grew up in Hafnarfjörður. She studied Literature and Spanish at the University of Iceland, then pursued Spanish at the Universities of Barcelona and Copenhagen. She has published poetry, novels, short stories and plays.
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Her first publication was the poetry book Í húsinu okkar er þoka (There is Fog in Our House) in 1987, and her first novel, Svartir brúðarkjólar (Black Wedding Dresses) came out in 1992.
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Niviaq Korneliussen was born in 1990 in Nuuk and grew up in Nanortalik, a small town in Southern Greenland. She participated in 2012 in the short story competition Allatta! (let us write!) for young unpublished authors in Greenland, where she was appointed as one of ten winners. Her short story "San Francisco" was published the following year in the short story collection Young in Greenland – Young in the World (trans. title). This led to invitations to several Nordic literary events – among these was an invitation to lead one of the workshops in the newly started festival for Nordic literature, txt.ville 2014, in Copenhagen. All the while she was still active in Greenland where she co-arranged Poetry Slams as well as literary debates in Nu
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Þórdís Helgadóttir
Thordis Helgadottir is an Icelandic author.
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Her work has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literature Prize, The Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, Maístjarnan – The Icelandic Poetry Prize and won The Jón úr Vör Poetry Prize. She was the 2019-20 Resident Playwright at The Reykjavík City Theatre.
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Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1950. She finished her Matriculation Examination at the Reykjavík Higher Secondary Grammar School in 1968 and a BA in Psychology and Philosophy at the University College in Dublin in 1972.
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She published her first book, the poetry collection Sífellur (Continuances), 19 years old and received immediate attention. In 1995 she received the Icelandic Literature Prize for the novel Hjartastaður (Heart Place). Her books have been translated into other languages and a French movie based on the novel Tímaþjófurinn (The Thief of Time) premiered in 1999.
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Magnús Sigurðsson
Magnús Sigurðsson (b. 1984) is an Icelandic poet and translator. Sigurðsson’s first book of poems, Fiðrildi, mynta og spörfuglar Lesbíu (2008), received the Tómas Guðmundsson Poetry Prize. In 2013, Sigurðsson received the prestigious Jón úr Vör Poetry Prize. Sigurðsson’s translations include a collection of poems by the Norwegian Tor Ulven, Steingerð vængjapör (2012), Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos (2007), and a Spanish translation from the Icelandic, together with Laía Argüelles Folch, of Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir’s seminal book of poems, La cabeza de la mujer (2011). Sigurðsson’s third book of poems, Cold Moons, translated by Meg Matich, was published by Phoneme Media in 2017. Sigurðsson’s most recent collection of poems, Veröld hlý og góð,
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Sigurður Pálsson
Sigurður studied French in Toulouse and Paris 1967-1968, and drama and literature studies in the Institut d'Etudes Théâtrales, Sorbonne, Paris 1968-1973 and again from 1978-1982, obtaining maîtrise and D.E.A. degrees. He studied also in the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français, obtaining a cinema direction diploma. Pálsson works mainly as writer and translator. He has also worked as professor (University of Reykjavik and the National Academy of Dramatic Art) and cinema producer.
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Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature in 1993. Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1995, 2001 and again in 2007 for Minnisbók (Notebook from Memory) for which he finally got the Prize. Minnisbók is a memoir of his stay in France during 196 -
Ófeigur Sigurðsson
Ófeigur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic poet, novelist and translator. He was born in Reykjavík on November 2, 1975.
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Ófeigur studied philosophy at the University of Iceland and graduated in 2007, writing a thesis on the work of Georges Bataille. In 2001 he published his first book of poetry, Skál fyrir skammdeginu, with the avant-garde press Nykur. Ófeigur has to this date published seven books of poetry, four novels and several translations.
Ófeigur was the first Icelander to be awarded the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) in 2011 for the novel Jon.
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Hallgrímur Helgason
Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic author, painter, translator, cartoonist and essayist. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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His most famous works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film, and Höfundur Íslands (Iceland's Author), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001. He was nominated for the prize again in 2005 for the novel Rokland (Stormland), along with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 101 Reykjavík and Rokland. -
Hallgrímur Helgason
Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic author, painter, translator, cartoonist and essayist. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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His most famous works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film, and Höfundur Íslands (Iceland's Author), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001. He was nominated for the prize again in 2005 for the novel Rokland (Stormland), along with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 101 Reykjavík and Rokland. -
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
AKA: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.
Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.
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Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir
Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir was born on January 21, 1949 in Hafnarfjörður. She graduated from Iceland's Teacher Training College in 1970 and received a B.A. degree in German and Icelandic from the University of Iceland in 1991. Kristín studied German at the Goethe Institut in Bremen in Germany from 1979 - 1980, took courses in education in Denmark 1985 - 1986 and a journalist course in Germany in 1992. She taught at the primary schools in Reykjavík from 1975 – 1988. In 1988 Kristín Marja switched jobs and started working as a journalist for the daily Morgunblaðið until 1995.
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Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until t
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Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Kristín grew up in Hafnarfjörður. She studied Literature and Spanish at the University of Iceland, then pursued Spanish at the Universities of Barcelona and Copenhagen. She has published poetry, novels, short stories and plays.
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Her first publication was the poetry book Í húsinu okkar er þoka (There is Fog in Our House) in 1987, and her first novel, Svartir brúðarkjólar (Black Wedding Dresses) came out in 1992.
Kristín has won many awards for her work, including the DV Cultural Prize for Literature for her 1998 novel Elskan mín ég dey (I Will Die, my Love).
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Ragnar Jónasson
Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series.
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His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France.
Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation.
Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK.
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Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir
Nanna Rögnvaldardottir is Iceland’s most popular cookbook author and food writer. Her first book, the food encyclopaedia Matarást (Love of Food), published in 1998, was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize for Non-Fiction and was named Reference Book of the Year by the Icelandic Librarians Association. In 2000, Nanna was a co-recipient of the Hagthenkir Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to her and food historian Hallgerdur Gisladottir "for remarkable, fundamental writing of high quality about cooking and cuisine, national and international."
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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
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Satu Rämö
My name is Satu Rämö. I'm a Finnish-Icelandic author of the nordic blue crime book series called HILDUR.
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Here you can find my interview in Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
I was born in Finland in 1980 and moved to Iceland twenty years ago and started writing books.
I have published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in my native Finland, ranging from travel guides to Iceland, to inspirational memoirs and an Icelandic knitting book.
My crime fiction debut Hildur (2022) changed the game for me as an author, totally. HILDUR-series is Icelandic-Finnish nordic blue crime fiction that takes place in a small village in the Westfjords of Iceland. Nordic blue is similar to nordic noir but more human. The stories ar -
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Arnaldur’s novels have sold over 14 million copies worldwide, in 40 languages, and have won numerous well-respected prizes and received rave reviews all over the world. -
Halldór Armand
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Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (b.1986) is one of the young, extraordinary voices on the Icelandic literary scene. He completed a master’s degree in law at the University of Iceland in 2012 and received the Greenshots Award for -
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
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Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir
Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir (f.1998) er skáld og tónlistarkona frá Reykjavík. Hún gaf út fyrstu skáldsögu sína Skotheld (2018) tvítug að aldri og hefur síðan gert það gott í tónlistarsenunni. Hún er stofnmeðlimur og einn aðaltextahöfundur hljómsveitarinnar Ólafur Kram sem sigraði músíktilraunir 2021. Moldin heit er hennar önnur skáldsaga. Fyrir hana hlaut hún Nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta.
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Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir
Nanna Rögnvaldardottir is Iceland’s most popular cookbook author and food writer. Her first book, the food encyclopaedia Matarást (Love of Food), published in 1998, was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize for Non-Fiction and was named Reference Book of the Year by the Icelandic Librarians Association. In 2000, Nanna was a co-recipient of the Hagthenkir Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to her and food historian Hallgerdur Gisladottir "for remarkable, fundamental writing of high quality about cooking and cuisine, national and international."
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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir was born in Iceland in 1958, studied art history in Paris and has lectured in History of Art at the University of Iceland. Her earlier novel, The Greenhouse (2007), won the DV Culture Award for literature and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award. She currently lives and works in Reykjavik.
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Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir
Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir (f.1998) er skáld og tónlistarkona frá Reykjavík. Hún gaf út fyrstu skáldsögu sína Skotheld (2018) tvítug að aldri og hefur síðan gert það gott í tónlistarsenunni. Hún er stofnmeðlimur og einn aðaltextahöfundur hljómsveitarinnar Ólafur Kram sem sigraði músíktilraunir 2021. Moldin heit er hennar önnur skáldsaga. Fyrir hana hlaut hún Nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta.
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Knud Rasmussen
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879–1933) was a Greenlandic/Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.
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Elisabeth Åsbrink
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Auður Jónsdóttir
Auður Jónsdóttir was born on March 30, 1973. She is a writer and freelance journalist and has published articles, essays and interviews in various journals and newspapers.
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Her first published work of fiction is the short story "Gifting" (Marriage), published in the literary magazine Andblær in 1997. Other short stories have appeared in magazines and collections since then. Auður's first novel, Stjórnlaus lukka (Uncontrollable Luck, 1998), was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in the same year. Since then, she has published other novels as well as books for children and teenagers, among them a book about her grandfather, Halldór Laxness. Her novel Fólkið í kjallaranum (The People in the Basement), received the Icelandic Literature Pr -
Rúnar Helgi Vignisson
Rúnar Helgi studied English and Icelandic at the University of Iceland and got his BA in 1981. He studied French for a winter at the University of Grenoble, and German at the Goethe Institute in Freiburg the winter after. Rúnar Helgi stayed in Copenhagen for a year before getting his MA in Literary Studies from the University of Iowa in 1987. For the next two years, he continued studying there and also taught. He then moved to Chicago for a year, and then Perth in Australia. Since 1992 Rúnar Helgi has been a part-time teacher at the University of Iceland, as well as writing articles and working on the radio.
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Halldór Armand
Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (f. 1986) lauk meistaraprófi í lögum við Háskóla Íslands árið 2012 og hlaut nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta fyrir handritið að fyrstu skáldsögu sinni, Vince Vaughn í skýjunum (2013). Síðan þá hafa komið út Drón (2014), Aftur og aftur (2017), Bróðir (2020) og nú síðast Mikilvægt rusl (2024). Hann hefur einnig sent frá sér esseyjusafnið Við erum bara að reyna að hafa gaman (2022). Bækur hans hafa komið út á fjölda tungumála og pistlar hans um samfélagsleg málefni njóta mikilla vinsælda.
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Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (b.1986) is one of the young, extraordinary voices on the Icelandic literary scene. He completed a master’s degree in law at the University of Iceland in 2012 and received the Greenshots Award for -
Tryggvi Emilsson
Tryggvi Emilsson rithöfundur (1902-1993) bjó í Blesugrófinni frá 1947 til 1956. Æviminningar hans eru mikilvæg heimild um líf og baráttu verkafólks á Íslandi á tuttugustu öld en þetta eru bækurnar Fátækt fólk, Baráttan um brauðið og Fyrir sunnan. Þær komu út á árunum 1976 – 1979 og voru tvær fyrstu bækurnar tilnefndar til Bókmenntaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs.
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Eiríkur Bergmann
Eirikur Bergmann is Professor of Politics at Bifrost University, Iceland.
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Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir
Icelandic author Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir (1974) studied history in Reykjavík and Salamanca and journalism at Columbia University in New York and previously worked in Copenhagen before moving back to Reykjavík, where she lives with her husband, children, and stepchildren. Her bestselling debut, Island (2016), was nominated for the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize in 2017. When she isn’t writing, Sigríður works as a journalist and television news anchor at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Her highly anticipated third novel, The Fires, is a bestseller and viral hit in Iceland.
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Kristín Eiríksdóttir
KRISTIN EIRIKSDOTTIR (b.1981) made her mark on the literary scene in a big way with her collection of short stories, Doris Dies in 2010.
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Fríða Ísberg
Fríða Ísberg is an Icelandic author based in Reykjavík.
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Her novel THE MARK won The P.O. Enquist Award, The Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize for Fiction, The Icelandic Booksellers Choice Award, and she is the 2021 recipient for The Optimist Award, handed by the President of Iceland to one national artist. Her short story collection ITCH was nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2020.
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Gerður Kristný
Gerður Kristný graduated in French and comparative literature from the University of Iceland in 1992. Her B.A. dissertation was on Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal. After a course in media studies at the University of Iceland from 1992-1993 she trained at Danish Radio TV. She was editor of the magazine Mannlíf from 1998 - 2004, but is now a full time writer.
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Awards for her work include 1st prize in the National Broadcasting Service short story competition 1986, 1st prize in a TV culture programme poetry competition 1992, the Children's Choice Book Prize in 2003 for her book Marta Smarta, the Halldór Laxness Literary Award in 2004, for her novel Bátur með segli og allt (A Boat With a Sail and All) and the Icelandic Journalist's Award for Myndin -
Sigrún Pálsdóttir
Sigrún Pálsdóttir is a writer and historian. Born in Reykjavík in 1967, she completed a PhD on the history of ideas at the University of Oxford in 2001, after which she was a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Iceland. She worked as the editor of Saga, the principal peer-reviewed journal for Icelandic history, from 2008 to 2016, and she has been a freelance writer since 2007. She first came to prominence as a writer of historical biographies. Her debut in 2010 was the acclaimed Þóra biskups (Thora: A Bishop’s Daughter), followed by Ferðasaga (Uncertain Seas) in 2010, the story of a young couple and their three children who were killed while sailing from New York to Iceland aboard a ship torpedoed by a German submarine in 1944
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Ben Waggoner
I've been studying Old Norse (close to modern Icelandic) in my copious spare time since about 2006. Now I translate, study, annotate, and periodically publish Old Norse sagas (longish prose narratives that come in a great many "genres"). Why? It's fun if you like that sort of thing, and someone has to do it. . . My focus has been on the fornaldarsögur or "sagas of olden time" -- legendary narratives set in Scandinavia, some of which transmit very old legendary material.
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For the record, I am *not* the Ben Waggoner who's written books on video file compression. I'm sure he's a great guy, but he's not me. -
Guðmundur Andri Thorsson
Guðmundur Andri Thorsson was born in Reykjavík on December 31st 1957. He graduated from M.S. high school in 1978 and with a B.A. degree in Icelandic and comparative literature from The University of Iceland in 1983. He did his Cand.mag studies at the same school from 1983 - 1985.
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Guðmundur Andri worked as a journalist and literary critic at DV newspaper and Þjóðviljinn for some time and has for years hosted his own radio program, Andrarímur, at The Icelandic National Radio. He was editor of literary journal Tímarit Máls og menningar from 1986 - 1989 and again from 2009. He also worked as an editor for Mál og menning publishing house (later Edda) from 1987 - 2004. Guðmundur Andri plays the guitar and sings with his companions in the band Hini -
Ida Pfeiffer
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author. She was one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into seven languages.
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