Jakobína Sigurðardóttir
Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (born July 8, 1918 - January 29, 1994 ) was an Icelandic writer.
Life
She was born into a farming family and grew up in the extremely sparsely populated northwest of Iceland. For a year she attended the teachers' college in Reykjavík and also took private lessons. She then lived in the south for 14 years. From 1949 she worked as a farmer on the Garður farm on Lake Mývatn in northern Iceland.
She wrote novels and published collections of poetry and short stories.
literature
- Editor: Bruno Kress , short biography Jakobína Sigurðardóttir in Erkundungen - 27 Icelandic storytellers , Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin 1980, page 277.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jakobína Sigurðardóttir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1918 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1994 |