Born 1958 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2023 · Shortlist
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · 65 when first published
Novel · 183 pages
AI-generated summary:Bambi, a 61-year-old trans woman who once worked as a DJ and now studies human cells, tells her story from sharing the womb with her twin brother to beginning to take female hormones.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2022 · Shortlist
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · 64 when first published
Novel · 226 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:A linguist who specialises in minority languages decides to turn a barren plot of land into a garden of Eden, and the people of a nearby village unexpectedly take an interest in linguistics.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2020 · Shortlist
Dýralíf
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · 62 when first published
Novel · 192 pages
AI-generated summary:Just before Christmas, as an unprecedented storm approaches, a Reykjavík midwife living in the flat she inherited from her great-aunt finds the old woman's unfinished manuscripts in a banana box.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2018 · Shortlist
Ungfrú Ísland
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · 60 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Reykjavík, 1963: a young woman from the Dalir district arrives with manuscripts in her luggage, wanting to be a writer at a time when poets are men and young women are invited into beauty contests.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2016 · Winner
Ör
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · 58 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · War
AI-generated summary:Jónas Ebeneser, forty-nine, divorced and handy with tools, decides to end his life and sets off on a journey he does not mean to return from, taking his power drill with him.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Exception”
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · 54 when first published
Novel · 285 pages · Family, Love
AI-generated summary:On New Year's Eve a woman's husband Flóki comes out and moves in with his namesake and colleague, a fellow mathematician; in the basement lives Perla, a dwarf who works as a marriage counsellor and writer.