Born 1962 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2024 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Mother Love: Dream Assembly”
Kristín Ómarsdóttir · 62 when first published
Novel · 160 pages · Historical, Coming of age, Family · Móðurást, book 2
AI-generated summary:In the late nineteenth century in Biskupstungur, fifteen-year-old Oddný clings to childhood, dreading the toil of grown women, until a midsummer gathering reveals a hidden world of women to her.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Spiders in Shop Windows”
Kristín Ómarsdóttir · 55 when first published
Poetry · 93 pages
AI-generated summary:Sharp, vivid and unsettling poems in which the everyday turns into fairy tale and dream into horror, until bare reality is revealed.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2012 · Shortlist
Kristín Ómarsdóttir · 50 when first published
Novel · 314 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Milla is twenty-one and does not know what to do with her life; over three weeks in May love comes and goes, she writes countless letters to her grandmother, and at work she catalogues the ordinary Icelandic family.