Kristín Ómarsdóttir

Kristín Ómarsdóttir was born in Reykjavík; she spent her first years in Copenhagen and lived for most of her childhood in Hafnarfjörður. She studied literature, Spanish and Icelandic at The University of Iceland. She wrote her first play in 1985, which won her first prize in a playwriting competition run by The National Theater of Iceland.[1] Kristín has worked as a writer since the middle of the 1980s, also working for some time as a freelance journalist. She has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Prize.[2] In 2000, her novel Elskan mín ég dey was nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize.[3] In 2005, she won Playwright of the Year at Gríman – The Icelandic Performing Arts Awards.[4] For the poetry book Sjáðu fegurð þína she was awarded Fjöruverðlaunin – the Icelandic Women's Literary Prize in 2008.[5] Apart from writing novels, poetry, and plays, she has exhibited her drawings and worked in the field of visual art.[6] Some of her books include her drawings.

• "Forlagið"
• Bokmenntir - on Kristín Ómarsdóttir
• Words Without Borders
• The City and the Writer
• A Saturday Afternoon with Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo
• Rumpus: Interview with Kristín Ómarsdóttir
• Iceland Wikipedia entry
• Oyeyemi, Helen (13 April 2012). "Under Siege". New York Times Sunday Book Review.