Margrét Tryggvadóttir (born 20 May 1972 in

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) was a member of parliament of the

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, the

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ic parliament from 2009–2013 for

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and the Citizens' Movement. She was chair of the Movement in 2009–10. She is also noted as a writer.

Biography

Margrét was born to Tryggvi Páll Friðriksson (b. March 13, 1945), a manager and art dealer, and Elínbjört Jónsdóttir (b. January 3, 1947), a textiles teacher and art-dealer; her partner is Jóhann Ágúst Hansen (b. 10. April 1969), a scholar of business studies and also an art dealer (son of Hans Jakob Hansen and Elínbjörg Kristjánsdóttir). Her sons are Hans Alexander (b. 1993) and Elmar Tryggvi (b. 1997). She graduated in 1992 from the Commercial College of Iceland and took a BA degree in General Literature at the

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in 1997. Margrét worked in business and gallery management 1992–2008 and was a literary critic for the newspaper '' DV'' 1996–1999. She has been a freelance consultant on children's books and children's culture since 1997. She was a part-time lecturer at the Námsflokkar Reykjavíkur, the

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and elsewhere 1997–2000. She was editor of the journals ''

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'' then the press Edda útgáfa 2000–2003. She was a freelance photo editor, translator and copywriter 2003–2009 and a children's author. Following the

2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests The 2009–2011 Icelandic financial crisis protests, also referred to as the Kitchenware, Kitchen Implement or Pots and Pans Revolution ( Icelandic: ''Búsáhaldabyltingin''), occurred after the 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis. There had ...

, Margrét became an Alþingismaður for the Suðurkjördæmi constituency 2009–2013 (Borgarahreyfingin, Hreyfingin). She chaired

2009–2010 and chaired the parliamentary group of The Movement 2010–2011 and 2012–2013.

Publications

In 2006, Margrét won the Icelandic Children's Book Prize for her ''Sagan af undurfögru prinsessunni og hugrakka prinsinum hennar'' (co-written with Halldór Baldurson). Her memoirs of her time in parliament were published in 2014 by Hansen og synir as ''Útistöður''. In 2021, she received the Guðrún Helgadóttir Children's Book Prize (''Barnabókaverðlaun Guðrúnar Helgadóttur'') for her book ''Sterk'' about a

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girl investigating a missing person case.

References

External links

Althing biography
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