The Icelandic Women's fiction Prize 2015
The prize for Children's and Young Adult books went to Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir for Hafnfirðingabrandarinn (The Local Joke).
The prize for Children's and Young Adult books went to Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir for Hafnfirðingabrandarinn (The Local Joke).
The winners of the 2015 Icelandic Women's Literature Prize (or Fjöruverðlaunin), were announced by the mayor of Reykjavik, Dagur B. Eggertsson, on January 21 in Höfði House in Reykjavík. The prize, an annual event for eight years running, was awarded in three categories: fiction and poetry, books for children and young adults, and nonfiction.
The Fiction and Poetry prize went to Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir poetry book Ástin ein taugahrúga : Enginn dans við Ufsaklett.
The prize for Children's and Young Adult books went to Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir for Hafnfirðingabrandarinn (The Local Joke).
Ofbeldi á heimili – Með augum barna (Violence in the Home: With the Eyes of Children), editor Guðrún Kristinsdóttir, received the nonfiction prize this year.
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For a complete list of this year's nominated works, click here.