Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (8 July 1918 – 29 January 1994) was an

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ic writer. The daughter of Sigurður Sigurðsson and Stefanía Guðnadóttir, she was born in Hælavík on the

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peninsula and grew up there. Her sister

Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir Fríða Áslaug Sigurðardóttir (born December 11, 1940, in Hornstrandir- died May 7, 2010, in Reykjavík) was an Icelandic novelist and short story writer. She made her literary debut in 1980 with the collection of short stories titled ''Þe ...

was also a writer. In 1959, she published her first children's book ''Sagan af Snæbjörtu Eldsdóttur og Ketilríði Kotungsdóttur''. She is credited with being one of several Icelandic writers who introduced

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into the Icelandic novel during the last 1960s and early 1970s. Several of Sigurðardóttir's poems have been turned into songs.

Jórunn Viðar Jórunn Viðar (7 December 1918 – 27 February 2017) was an Icelanders, Icelandic pianist and composer. Biography Jórunn Viðar was born and grew up in Reykjavík, Iceland. In 1937 she graduated from Reykjavík Grammar School, and the same ...

; composed ''Vökuró'' ("Vigil") later performed by

Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public per ...

. Jórunn Viðar also composed a song to the poem ''Vorljóð á Ýli''. Then Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason and Guðmundur Óskar Guðmundsson wrote a song to the Christmas poem ''Jólakvæði'' in 2013. That appeared on Sigríður Thorlacius' Christmas album ''Jólakveðja''. She married Þorgrímur Starri Björgvinsson, a farmer, in 1949. The couple had four children.

Selected works

Source: * ''Kvæði'' (1960) * ''Púnktur á skökkum stað'', short stories (1964) * ''Dægurvísa'', novel (1965) * ''Snaran'', novel (1968) * ''Sjö vindur gráar'', short stories (1970) * ''Lifandi vatnið'', novel (1974) * ''Í sama klefa'', novel (1981) * ''Vegurinn upp á fjallið'', short stories (1990) * ''Í barndómi'', memoir (1994), published posthumously

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jakobina Sigurdardottir 1918 births 1994 deaths Icelandic women short story writers Icelandic women novelists Icelandic children's writers Icelandic women children's writers 20th-century Icelandic novelists 20th-century Icelandic women writers