Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

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Icelandic author Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir (b.
1974) studied history in Reykjavik and Salamanca, journalism at Columbia University in New York, and previously worked in Copenhagen before moving back to Reykjavík, where she lives with her husband, children and stepchildren.

Her bestselling debut The Island (2016) was nominated for the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize in 2017. When she isn’t writing, Sigríður works as a journalist and television news anchor. Björnsdóttir’s highly anticipated third novel, The Fires, was a bestseller and viral hit in Iceland. Her previous novel The Fortune of this World (2022) was an Icelandic bestseller..

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Works in translation

• Deus (Deus) 2023 

France (Actes Sud), Hungary (Cser Kft.)

• Hamingja þessa heims (The Fortune of this World: A Knight's Tale) 2022

Hungary (Cser Kft.)

• Eldarnir. Ástin og aðrar hamfarir (The Fires) Benedikt 2020

Czechia (Czech Republic) (Argo spol. s.r.o. Publishing House), Denmark (Lindhardt og Ringhof Forlag A/S), France (Actes Sud), Germany (Suhrkamp Verlag AG), Hungary (Cser Kft.), Norway (Det Norske Samlaget), Poland (Wydawnictwo Literackie), Russia (Polyandria No Age LLC), United States of America (Amazon Crossing).

• Hið heilaga orð (The Holy Word) Benedikt 2018

France (Gaia); Hungary (Cser Kft.); Israel (Lesa Press); Poland (Wydawnictwo Literackie)

 

• Eyland (Island) Benedikt 2016

Czechia (Czech Republic) (Knihy Dobrovsky), Denmark (Lindhardt og Ringhof Forlag A/S), France (Gaia Editions), Germany (Suhrkamp Verlag AG), Hungary (Cser Kft.), Norway (Cappelen Damm AS), Poland (Wydawnictwo Literackie), Russia (Polyandria No Age LLC). Film Rights sold to: Iceland (Truenorth Content ehf.)

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