![]() ![]() Īuður latest novel, Grand Mal (Stóri skjálfti), became Auður's most successful novel to date. The publishing rights were sold to Random House (Germany), Tiderne Skifter (Denmark) and Presse de la Cité (France). It won the Fjöruverðlaun (Women's literary award) and was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize as well as the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. Secretaries to the Spirits (Ósjálfrátt) was published in 2012 and was the best-selling Icelandic fine literature fiction of the Christmas season. The show was a huge success with critics and audience alike. In 2009, Auður worked at the Reykjavik City Theater as an in-house writer for one year resulting in a play being adapted from The People in the Basement in the following year. Wintersun ( Vetrarsól), received positive reviews in Der Spiegel and Hamburger Abendblatt among others. It came out and was very well received in Denmark and Sweden in the same year. The People in the Basement won the 2004 Icelandic Literary Prize followed by a nomination for Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2006. ![]() In 2002 she wrote the children's book One self is the strangest of all (Skrýtnastur er maður sjálfur), a portrait of her grandfather, the Nobel prize-winning author Halldor Laxness. ![]() ![]() Career Īuður's debut novel, Bliss (Stjórnlaus Lukka), was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1998. Her novels deal with family, particularly mother-daughter relationships. Auður Jónsdóttir (born 30 March 1973) is an Icelandic author. ![]()
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