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Books Children in Reindeer Woods, Elskan min eg dey, In and out the window Nominations Nordic Council\'s Literature Prize | ||
Kristín Ómarsdóttir (born 24 September 1962) is a poet and a writer from Iceland. Her first play was produced in 1987, and her first book of poetry was published the same year. She is noted as a poet, playwright, and novelist. Ómarsdóttir currently lives in Reykjavík.
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Biography
Kristín Ómarsdóttir was born in Reykjavík, she spent her first years in Copenhagen and lived the best part of her childhood in Hafnarfjörður, a town near Reykjavík. She studied literature, Spanish and Icelandic at The University of Iceland. She wrote her first play in 1985, which won her the first prize in a competition run by The National Theater of Iceland. Ómarsdóttir has worked as a writer since the middle of the eighties. The first decade she also worked as a free lance journalist. Her novel, Elskan mín ég dey, translated into Swedish and French, was nominated to The Nordic Council Literary Prize, in 2000. For her play, Segðu mér allt, she won ''Gríman - the playwright of the year - in 2005. She lived and worked in Barcelona for couple of years. Apart from writing novels, poetry and plays, she has exhibited her drawings and worked in the field of visual art. Some of her books publish her drawings.
in danish
in english
in finnish
Olipa kerran tarinoita, Like, 1994
in french
T´es pas la seule à être morte, Le Cavalier Bleu, 2003
in galician
Meu amor, eu morro, rinoceronte, 2015
in german
Ewige Speigelungen, 2015
in swedish
Här, Kabusa Böcker, 2007 Gud hjälpe mig I och II, Kabusa Böcker, 2003 Älskling jag dör, Anamma, 1999
