Born 1965 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Land of the Night”
Vilborg Davíðsdóttir · 58 when first published
Novel · 329 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Over a thousand years ago, Þorgerður leaves her grief in Iceland for Norway and travels with a fur trader to Garðaríki, to join Varangians sailing down the Dnieper with slaves and furs for Constantinople.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2009 · Shortlist
Vilborg Davíðsdóttir · 44 when first published
Novel · 267 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Auður, daughter of the Viking chieftain Ketill Flatnose, grows up proud and hot-tempered in the Hebrides; drawn to the monk Gilli and his faith, she is married to Óláfr the White, king of Dublin.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2005 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Raven”
Vilborg Davíðsdóttir · 40 when first published
Novel · 312 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Naaja, a young woman raised in an Inuit village in fifteenth-century Greenland, never fits in; branded a witch and driven out, she must survive in the wilderness, where her path crosses that of Norse hunters.