Margrét Tryggvadóttir

Margrét Tryggvadóttir (born 20 May 1972 in Kópavogur) was a member of parliament of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament from 2009–2013 for The Movement and the Citizens' Movement. She was chair of the Movement in 2009–10.

She is also noted as a writer.

Biography

Margrét was born to Tryggvi Páll Friðriksson (b. March 13, 1945), a manager and art dealer, and Elínbjört Jónsdóttir (b. January 3, 1947), a textiles teacher and art-dealer; her partner is Jóhann Ágúst Hansen (b. 10. April 1969), a scholar of business studies and also an art dealer (son of Hans Jakob Hansen and Elínbjörg Kristjánsdóttir). Her sons are Hans Alexander (b. 1993) and Elmar Tryggvi (b. 1997).

She graduated in 1992 from the Commercial College of Iceland and took a BA degree in General Literature at the University of Iceland in 1997.