Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, birth and death according to the Icelandic writer

Icelandic writer Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir in studio at RFI (November 2021).

© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

1 min

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir lives in Reykjavík.

After studying art history in Paris, she directed the Museum of the University of Iceland.

She is the author of several novels including "Rosa candida", awarded by the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the highest distinction awarded to a writer from the five Nordic countries.

She also received the Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin, the most prestigious Icelandic prize, for “Ör”, and in France the Foreign Medici Prize for “Miss Iceland”.

It is translated by Eric Boury.

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