Jakobína Sigurðardóttir

Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (8 July 1918 – 29 January 1994) was an Icelandic writer.

Several of Sigurðardóttir's poems have been turned into songs. Jórunn Viðar; composed Vökuró ("Vigil") later performed by Björk. Jórunn Viðar also composed a song to the poem Vorljóð á Ýli. Then Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason and Guðmundur Óskar Guðmundsson wrote a song to the Christmas poem Jólakvæði in 2013. That appeared on Sigríður Thorlacius' Christmas album Jólakveðja.

She married Þorgrímur Starri Björgvinsson, a farmer, in 1949. The couple had four children.

Selected works

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Kvæði (1960) Púnktur á skökkum stað, short stories (1964) Dægurvísa, novel (1965) Snaran, novel (1968) Sjö vindur gráar, short stories (1970) Lifandi vatnið, novel (1974) Í sama klefa, novel (1981) Vegurinn upp á fjallið, short stories (1990) Í barndómi, memoir (1994), published posthumously