Sigrún Davíðsdóttir (born 1955) is an Icelandic journalist and writer. She became the London correspondent for the Icelandic national broadcaster

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in 2000 and has been nominated as RÚV's Reporter of the Year.Mitzi M. Brunsdale, ''Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since 1967'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016), p. 213. She is particularly noted for her coverage, since the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis, of financial crime, tax avoidance, and corruption, documented through her blog ''Icelog''. She has, however, published a wide variety of books alongside her journalism.

Biography

Sigrún has three sons: Ingvar, Davíð and Ari Helgason. She moved from Iceland to Denmark in 1988, where she wrote a study of the return of manuscripts from Denmark to Iceland in the 1970s, before moving to London to work for RÚV in 2000.

Books

Cookery books

* ''Matreiðslubók handa ungu fólki á öllum aldri'' (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 1978) * ''Matur: sumar, vetur, vor og haust'' (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 1980) * ''Brjóstagjöf og barnamatur'' (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 1982) * ''Pottarím'' (Reykjavík: Íslenski kiljuklúbburinn, 1987)

Novels

* ''Silfur Egils'' (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 1989) inner of the Reykjavík City Literary Award 1990">Reykjavík_City_Literary_Award.html" ;"title="inner of the Reykjavík City Literary Award">inner of the Reykjavík City Literary Award 1990* ''Feimnismál'' (Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2006) [referred to in some sources by its intended English title, ''Uchronia''] * ''Samhengi hlutanna'' (Akranes: Uppheimar, 2011) [referred to in some sources by its intended English title, ''Not a Single Word'']

Research

* ''Håndskriftsagens saga i politisk belysning'', trans. by Kim Lembek, Odense University studies in history and social sciences, 216 (Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag, 1999), , *
Útrás íslenskra fyrirtækja til Lundúna
, ed. by Þór Sigfússon and Halldór Benjamín Þorbergsson, based on an idea and interviews by Sigrún Davíðsdóttir (Reykjavík: Viðskiptaráð Íslands, 2005)

Anthologies

* ''Antologi ur modern isländsk litteratur'', ed. by Sigrún Davíðsdóttir and Steingrímur Þórðarson (Reykjavík, 1980)

Translations

Sigrún has also translated numerous books, including food-writing and several of the

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children's books.''Sagan um Tuma kettling'', ''Sagan um Pétur kanínu'', ''Sagan um Jemínu pollaönd'' (all Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 1983).

References

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