Kristín Ómarsdóttir

Kristín Ómarsdóttir (born 1962) is an Icelandic author, poet and playwright.

Biography

Kristín Ómarsdóttir was born in Reykjavík; she spent her first years in Copenhagen and lived for most of her childhood in Hafnarfjörður. She wrote her first play in 1985, which won her first prize in a playwriting competition run by The National Theater of Iceland. In 2000, her novel Elskan mín ég dey was nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2005, she won Playwright of the Year at Gríman – The Icelandic Performing Arts Awards. For the poetry book Sjáðu fegurð þína she was awarded Fjöruverðlaunin – the Icelandic Women's Literary Prize in 2008. The poetry book Kóngulær in sýningargluggum, 2017, was nominated to Nordic Counsel Literature Prize in 2019. Her most recent novel translated to English is Swanfolk, published in UK and US in July 2022. In 2023 the first novel of a serial was published, Móðurást: Oddný; the novel tells of eight years old Oddný in 1871 rural Iceland. The second novel of the series, Móðurást: Draumþing, tells of Midsummernight when Oddný - the series's hero - turns fifteen. The novel got the Íslensku bókmenntaveðlaunin in literature for the year 2024.