Drífa Viðar

Drífa Viðar (born March 5, 1920 in Reykjavík , † May 19, 1971 ibid) was an Icelandic writer.

Life

Drífa Viðar was the daughter of the bank clerk Einar Viðar and the piano teacher Katrín Viðar (nee Norðmann) and grew up in Reykjavík. The composer Jórunn Viðar (1918-2017) was her sister. In 1938 Drífa Viðar graduated from high school . She engaged in fine art painting in Iceland, as well as in the United States and France . She became cand. Phil. and worked as a teacher. Since 1947 she was married to the doctor Skúli Thoroddsen and lived as a housewife in Reykjavík. The couple had four children.

Drífa wrote the novel Fjalldalslilja and published a volume of stories under the title Dagar við vatnið . She also made plays and radio plays for children.

Works

• Fjalldalslilja . Heimskringla, Reykjavík 1967.
• Dagar við vatnið . Heimskringla, Reykjavík 1971.

literature

• Bruno Kress (Ed.): Short biography of Drifa Viðar . In: Explorations - 27 Icelandic Storytellers . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1980, p. 278.
• Drífa Viðar - Minning . In: Morgunblaðið . No. 116 , May 26, 1971, pp. 22 ( timarit.is ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katrín Viðar (Katrín Norðmann) ( Icelandic ) In: Ísmús . December 12, 2014. Accessed May 31, 2018.

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 .