Kristín Ómarsdóttir (born 1962) is an Icelandic author, poet and playwright.

Biography

Kristín Ómarsdóttir was born in

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; she spent her first years in Copenhagen and lived for most of her childhood in Hafnarfjörður. She wrote her first play in 1985, which won her first prize in a playwriting competition run by The National Theater of Iceland. In 2000, her novel ''Elskan mín ég dey'' was nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2005, she won Playwright of the Year at Gríman – The Icelandic Performing Arts Awards. For the poetry book ''Sjáðu fegurð þína'' she was awarded Fjöruverðlaunin – the Icelandic Women's Literary Prize in 2008. The poetry book Kóngulær in sýningargluggum, 2017, was nominated to Nordic Counsel Literature Prize in 2019. Her most recent novel translated to English is Swanfolk, published in UK and US in July 2022. In 2023 the first novel of a serial was published, Móðurást: Oddný; the novel tells of eight years old Oddný in 1871 rural Iceland. The second novel of the series, Móðurást: Draumþing, tells of Midsummernight when Oddný - the series's hero - turns fifteen. The novel got the Íslensku bókmenntaveðlaunin in literature for the year 2024.

Bibliography

Novels and stories

Móðurást: Oddný
2023 *
''Borg bróður míns''
2021 *
''Svanafólkið''
2019 *
''Flækingurinn''
2015 * ''Eternal Reflections''
"Eilífar speglanir"
2013) * ''Milla''
Milla
2012) * ''We Belong to the Same Darkness: Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo, ("Við tilheyrum sama myrkrinu"'' 2011) * ''By the Bridge''
Hjá brúnni
2009) * ''A Story of a Small Crybaby''
Saga af lítilli grenjuskjóðu
2008) * ''Children in Reindeer Woods'' ("Hér" 2004) * ''Happiness I & II''
Hamingjan hjálpi mér I og II
2001) * ''My love I Die''
Elskan mín ég dey
1997) * ''The Narrow Doors''
Dyrnar þröngu
1995) * ''Black Wedding Dresses''
Svartir brúðarkjólar
1991) * ''Once Upon a Time Stories'' ("Einu sinni sögur" 1991) * "''On A Journey at Yours'
Í ferðalagi hjá þér
1987)

Poetry

KÓ, Ljóðasafn
2020 * ''Spiders in Display Windows''
"Kóngulær í sýningargluggum"
2017) * ''See Your Beauty''
"Sjáðu fegurð þína"
2008) * ''Christmas Poems'' ("Jólaljóð" 2006) * ''In and Out the Window'' ("Inn og útum gluggann" 2003) * ''A Special Day'' ("Sérstakur dagur" 2000) * ''Close Your Eyes and Think of Me'' ("Lokaðu augunum og hugsaðu um mig" 1998) * ''Waitress at an Old Restaurant'' ("þerna á gömlu veitingahúsi" 1993) * ''There is Fog in Our House'' ("Í húsinu okkar er þoka" 1987)

Other books

* ''Audition, Gjöf til mín yðar hátign, Stars,'' 2014

Theatre and radio drama

* ''A Spider Sleeps in the Mirror''
Í speglingum sefur kónguló
2011) * ''The Big Mermaid'' ("Kuðungarnir" 2011) * ''Short Stories'' ("Smásögur" 2007) * ''The Hospital Ship'' ("Spítalaskipið" 2004) * ''Tell Me Everything'' ("Segðu mér allt" 2004) * ''My Friend the World's End'' ("Vinur minn heimsendir" 2003) * ''The Birthday-Cake'' ("Afmælistertan" 2003) * ''Many Women'' ("Margar konur" 2000) * ''Margarethe the Great Radiodrama'' ("Margrét mikla útvarpsverk" 1999) * ''Lovestory III'' ("Ástarsaga III" 1997) * ''Margarethe the Great'' ("Margrét mikla" 1995) * ''Trumpet of the Heart'' ("Hjartatrompet" 1990) * ''Dreams Upside Down'' ("Draumar á hvolfi" 1987)

Exhibitions

* ''Audition'' (In collaboration with

Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir (born 1972) is an Icelandic visual artist. Works of art created by Hauksdóttir consist of audio, video, performance such as dance, sculpture, drawing and text. Early life and education Hauksdóttir was born in Reykjav ...

, AceArtGallery, Winnipeg, Canada, 2008) * ''Gjöf mín yðar hátign'' (In collaboration with

, Listasafn Así, Reykjavik, 2011) * ''Stars'' (In collaboration with

, The Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland, 2011)

Translated works

Danish

*
Billie og Rafael
', Jensen & Dalgaard, 2015 *

', Jensen & Dalgaard, 2018

English

"Swanfolk"

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, Harper Via Books, 2022 *''Waitress in Fall'',

Carcanet Press Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom. Originally a student magazine devised by undergraduates collaborating between Oxford and Cambridge, it was refounded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt. In 2000 it was nam ...

& Partus Press, 2018 *
Children in Reindeer Woods
',

Open Letter Books Open Letter Books is an American publishing house based at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. It was founded in 2008 by Chad W. Post, the Editor-in-Chief of Dalkey Archive Press. It specializes in translation, a less-populate ...

, 2012 *''In and Out the Window'' *''Poems in ''Brushstrokes of Blue'': The Young Poets of Iceland

Finnish

*''Olipa kerran tarinoita'', Like, 1994

French

*''T´es pas la seule à être morte'', Le Cavalier Bleu, 2003

Galician

*Meu amor, eu morro, rinoceronte, 2015

German

*''Ewige Speigelungen'', 2015

Swedish

*
Här
', Kabusa Böcker, 2007 *''Gud hjälpe mig I och II'', Kabusa Böcker, 2003 *''Älskling jag dör'', Anamma, 1999

References

External links

"Forlagið"Bokmenntir - on Kristín ÓmarsdóttirWords Without BordersThe City and the WriterA Saturday Afternoon with Marilyn Monroe and Greta GarboRumpus: Interview with Kristín Ómarsdóttir
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