Oddný Eir
Appearance
Oddný Eir | |
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Native name | Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir |
Born | 1972 |
Nationality | Islandic |
Alma mater | Sorbonne University |
Genre | novels |
Notable awards | Icelandic Literary Award |
Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir (born 1972) is an Icelandic writer. She has written three autobiographical novels, her best-known work being Jarðnæði (Land of love; plan of ruins) which was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Award in 2011 and which won the 2012 Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize and the 2014 EU Prize for Literature.[1]
Life
Oddny Eir has a PhD from Sorbonne University. She runs a publishing company Apaflasa in collaboration with her brother the archaeologist Uggi Ævarsson.
Works
- Ways in between : Gudbjörg Lind, Gudrun Kristjansdottir, Kristin Jonsdottir = Leidin a milli, Reykjavik : Þjóðminjasafns Íslands, 2007, OCLC 488422859
- Land of love and ruins, Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2016. ISBN 9781632060723, OCLC 972330336
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