Kristín Steinsdóttir
Kristín Steinsdóttir (born March 11, 1946 in Seyðisfjörður in Iceland ) is an Icelandic writer, mainly of children's and young people's books and novels, as well as a translator from German into Icelandic.
Life
Kristín grew up in a place with fewer than 800 inhabitants at the end of a 17-kilometer-long fjord and completed her training as a teacher in 1968. She worked at a school in Reykjavík before living in Göttingen from 1972 to 1978 to study Danish and German. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iceland . In 1978 the author moved to Norway with her family .
Kristín has been working full-time as a writer since 1988 and lives in Reykjavík (as of 2011). From 1993 to 2001 she was a board member of the Icelandic Writers' Association. She was also the chairman of the Icelandic Association of Children's Book Authors. She wrote various plays with her sister Iðunn Steinsdóttir .
Works (selection)
- Books for children and young readers
- Engill í vestubænum.
- Fjólubláir dagar.
- Vestur í bláinn.
- Trú, 1992.
- Abracadabra.
- German: Abrakadabra . Mueckenschweinverlag, Stralsund 1999, ISBN 3-86139-010-8 .
- Franskbrauð með sultu.
- Plays written together with Iðunn Steinsdóttir
- 19 júní
- Randaflugur
- Mánablóm
- Novels
- Á eigin vegum
- German: Own ways. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-14040-9 .
- Ljósa
- German: In the shadow of the bird. Novel. CH Beck, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-406-62174-1
- CD
- Life in fish: Kristín Steinsdóttir tells the story of Iceland from her childhood. Supposé, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-932513-99-2 .
- translation
- Ursula Wölfel : Fljúganda Stjarna. (Flying Stars), Mál og Menning, Reykjavík 1994, ISBN 9979-3-0665-3 .
Awards (selection)
- 2004: Children's and Young People's Book Prize of the West Nordic Council for Engill í vestubænum
- 2003: The Nordic Children's Book Prize for the same book
- 1998: Nomination for the International Janusz Korczak Prize , Poland for Vestur í bláinn
- 1987: Icelandic Children's Book Prize for Franskbrauð með sultu
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kristín Steinsdóttir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic author and translator for children and young people |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seyðisfjörður , Iceland |