Kristín_Eiríksdóttir
Kristín Eiríksdóttir
Icelandic poet and writer
Kristín Eiríksdóttir (born 1981)[1] is an Icelandic poet and author.
Eiríksdótter's debut novel, Kjötbærinn (Meat Town) was published in 2004. This was followed by Húðlit auðnin (Skin-coloured Wasteland) in 2006 and Annarskonar sæla (A Different Sort of Bliss) in 2008. Her first two books were a mixture of poetry and prose while her third was entirely poetry.[2]
She was one of the winners of the Bókmenntaverðlaun starfsfólks bókaverslana with her 2014 book Kok (Cook).[3]
Her novel, Elín, ýmislegt (A Fist or a Heart), won the Icelandic Literary Prize[4] and was shortlisted for the 2019 Nordic Council Literature Prize.[5]