About Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir
Born 1972. Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir is an Icelandic writer, gallerist and university teacher.
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.
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, Land of love and ruins, Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2016. ,
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Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir was born on 28 December 1972 in Reykjavík.
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Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir is a writer, gallerist and university teacher.
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Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir is Icelandic.
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