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Áslaug Jónsdóttir (born 31 March 1963) is an Icelandic writer of children's books, illustrator and playwright.


Early life and education

She grew up near Borgarfjörður in west Iceland and then attended
Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð ( en, Hamrahlíð College, and usually referred to as MH) is a public gymnasium located in Hlíðahverfi, Reykjavík, Iceland. The school was founded in 1966 by the Icelandic Ministry of Education; with the first ...
in Reykjavik. She then studied in Copenhagen, Denmark at Skolen for Brugskunst (later the School of Design of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts).


Career

She published her first children's picture book in 1990. Her recent work includes collaboration with two other authors Swedish Kalle Guettler and Faroese Rakel Heimisdal on a series of six "Monsters" books published in Icelandic, Swedish and Faroese, starting with ''Nei! sagði litla skrímslið'' (''No! Said Little Monster'') in 2004. In 2002 she and Andri Snær Magnason collaborated on ''Sagan af bláa hnettinum'' which won the West-Nordic Children's Literature Prize. It has since been translated and published in English (''The Story of the Blue Planet'', 2013, Pushkin: ), Danish, Faroese, German, Italian, Korean and Polish.


See also

*
List of Icelandic writers Iceland has a rich literary history, which has carried on into the modern period. Some of the best known examples of Icelandic literature are the Sagas of Icelanders. These are prose narratives based on historical events that took place in Icel ...
* Icelandic literature


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* 1963 births Living people Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Aslaug Jonsdottir Aslaug Jonsdottir Icelandic women children's writers Aslaug Jonsdottir Icelandic dramatists and playwrights {{Iceland-writer-stub