Guðrún Helgadóttir

Guðrún Helgadóttir (born September 7, 1935 in Hafnarfjörður , Iceland ) is an Icelandic children's author and former politician .

Life

Guðrún attended the Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík high school, where she graduated from high school in 1955 ( isl. Stúdentspróf). Between 1957 and 1967 she worked there as a secretary. Between 1973 and 1980 Guðrún was a department head at the State Social Insurance Agency (Tryggingastofnun ríkisins).

For the then People's Alliance ( Alþýðubandalag ) Guðrún sat on the city council of Reykjavík between 1978 and 1982 . From 1979 to 1995 she was a representative of the then constituency of Reykjavík in the Icelandic parliament Althing , also for the People's Alliance, and from March to May 1999 as a non-party. She was the first woman to serve as president of the Althing between 1988 and 1991.

In 1974 Guðrún's first book appeared, Jón Oddur og Jón Bjarni , which was filmed in 1981 by Þráinn Bertelsson . In 1979 her play Óvitar ( English Infants ) was performed at the Icelandic National Theater. In 1981, Guðrún published Brian Pilkington's illustrated book Ástarsaga úr fjöllunum (literally A love story from the mountains ; translation was published under the title Flumbra - An Icelandic Troll Story ), one of the most popular children's books in Iceland.

Work (selection)

• Jón Oddur and Jón Bjarni. Iðunn, Reykjavík 1974.
• Óvitar. Iðunn, Reykjavík 1979 (play performed in 1979).
• Ástarsaga úr fjöllunum. Iðunn, Reykjavík 1981 (In German: Flumbra. Eine Icelandische Trollgeschichte. (German translation Helmut Lugmayr). Vaka-Helgafell, Reykjavík 2012, ISBN 978-9979-2-2061-9 ; also translated into other languages).
• Undan illgresinu. With illustrations by Gunnar Karlsson . Iðunn, Reykjavík 1990, ISBN 9979-1-0516-X .
• Englajól. Vaka-Helgafell, Reykjavík 1997, ISBN 9979-2-1278-0 .
• Odda flight. Vaka-Helgafell, Reykjavík 2000, ISBN 9979-2-1506-2 .

Nominations and Awards (selection)

• 1988: Nomination for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize
• 1992: Nordisk Børnebogspris ( Nordic Children's Book Prize ) for the book Undan illgresinu
• From 2004 to 2010 she was every year for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, ALMA) nominated.

Web links

• Guðrún Helgadóttir in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Guðrún Helgadóttir in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile on the homepage of the Icelandic Parliament (isl.)
• Guðrún Helgadóttir at Icelandic Literature , Reykjavík City Library (Engl./Isl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gudrun Helgadottir . In: Pearl Divers . Retrieved March 6, 2016.
2. ↑ Guðrún Helgadóttir: Awards ( English ) In: Icelandic Literature . Borgarbókasafn Reykjavíkur (Reykjavík City Library). Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 6, 2016. 
3. ^ Candidates ( English ) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Retrieved March 6, 2016.

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