Margrét Tryggvadóttir (born 20 March 1972 in

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) was a

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of the

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, the

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ic parliament from 2009-2013 for The Movement 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, ong 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

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( is, Háskóli Íslands ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' s ...

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

Iceland University of Education Iceland College of Education was a normal college in Iceland. It merged with the University of Iceland in July 2008 and is now called the School of Education. Enrollment was around 2300 students with more than half of them being distance learni ...

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

Mál og menning Mál og menning ('language and culture') is an Icelandic publishing house, established in 1937. The press has published the work of many of Iceland's best known authors, among them Þórbergur Þórðarson, Jóhannes úr Kötlum, Svava Jakobsdó ...

'' 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 in the wake of the Icelandic financial crisis. There had be ...

, Margrét became an Alþingismaður for the Suðurkjördæmi constituency 2009–2013 (Borgarahreyfingin, Hreyfingin). She chaired The Movement 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 memoires of her time in parliament were published in 2014 by Hansen og synir as ''Útistöður''.

References

External links

Althing biography
Living people 1972 births Margret Tryggvadottir Margret Tryggvadottir Margret Tryggvadottir Margret Tryggvadottir Margret Tryggvadottir {{Iceland-politician-stub