Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir (born 11 February 1974) is an Icelandic author and journalist. She is best known for her novels, such as The Fires, which was made into a feature film in 2025.

Career Sigríður was born in Reykjavík and studied history and Spanish literature at the University of Iceland and in Salamanca. She later studied journalism at Columbia University in New York. Since 1999, she has worked as a journalist at RÚV, the national public-service broadcaster in Iceland. She has held various posts there, including news reporter from Copenhagen, and Assistant News Director.

Sigríður published her first novel, the dystopian Eyland, in 2016 to critical praise, and was nominated for the Fjöruverðlaun Award as well as the DV Culture Award. In 2022, her novel, Hamingja þessa heims, was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize. since eruptions began in that area, previously dormant for more than 800 years, only four months after the novel was published in 2020.

She is married to the author Jón Kalman Stefánsson. Her maternal grandmother was the actress Sigríður Hagalín.

Novels

Eyland (Island, 2016) Hið heilaga orð (The Holy Word, 2018) Eldarnir (The Fires, 2020) Hamingja þessa heims (The Fortune of this World: A Knight's Tale, 2022) Deus (2023) Vegur allrar veraldar (The Ways of All the World, 2025)