Lit in Translation

Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

Born 1974 · Iceland

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    Icelandic Literary Prize 2022 · Shortlist

    Hamingja þessa heims

    Title translated by AI:“The Happiness of This World”

    Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir · 48 when first published

    Novel · 460 pages · Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:An exiled history professor accused of misconduct finds an unknown manuscript written in 1479 by an old servant of Ólöf the Rich, the most powerful woman in fifteenth-century Iceland.