Auður Jónsdóttir

Auður Jónsdóttir (2006)

Auður Jónsdóttir (born March 30, 1973 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic writer and freelance journalist .

Life

Auður made her debut as a writer in 1997 with the short story Gifting , which was published in the literary magazine Andblær ; since then she has published her short stories in newspapers and anthologies. In addition to novels, she also devotes herself to children's and youth literature; in 2002 she wrote a portrait of her grandfather, the Nobel Prize for Literature Halldór Laxness ( Skrýtnastur er maður sjalfur ). In 2004 she won the Icelandic Literature Prize for her novel Fólkið í kjallaranum , and in 2006 she was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel . In 2009 she worked as the house dramaturge for the Borgarleikhúsið (Reykjavík City Theater).

Auður lives with her husband Þórarinn Leifsson in the Icelandic capital Reykjavík , having previously lived in Copenhagen and Barcelona .

Works

• Gifting (Engl. The Wedding ; short story, 1997; published in German in: Franz Gíslason, Sigurður A. Magnússon, Wolfgang Schiffer (ed.): Wording Iceland: Isländische Gegenwartsliteratur, Wirtschaftsverlag Nw, Bremerhaven 2000, ISBN 978-3897015708 ).
• Stjornlaus lukka (English Bliss , Roman, 1998)
• Feita mamman ( The Fat mother , short story, 2001)
• Algjört frelsi (English Total freedom , children's / youth book, 2001)
• Litli lögfræðingurinn ( The Little lawyer , 2002)
• Skrýtnastur er maður sjalfur (Engl. One self is the strangest of all , children's / youth book, 2002)
• Casablanca (short story, 2003)
• Heillaráð Ófeigs ( Ofeigs good advice , short story, 2004)
• Gagga og Ari (English Gagga and Ari , children's / youth book, 2004)
• Fólkið í kjallaranum (Engl. The People in the Basement , Roman, 2004; German The People from Below , translated by Hartmut Mittelstädt, in: Theaterlandschaft Iceland. Five stage pieces . Edited by Hartmut Mittelstädt, Queich-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978- 3-939207-05-4 )
• Allt getur gerst ( Anything can happen , children's / youth book, 2005)
• Sögurnar ( The Stories , 2006)
• Tryggðarpantur (English Love Token , 2006)
• Vetrarsól (English Wintersun , 2008)
• German, translated by Kristof Magnusson : Beyond the sea lies the whole world , btb-Verlag, Berlin ISBN 978-3-442-75253-9

Web links

• Web presence
• Auður Jónsdóttir at Icelandic Literature , Reykjavík City Library (Engl./Isl.)

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .