Frida A. Sigurdardottir

(1940–2010) worked as a lecturer at the University of Iceland and as a librarian before turning exclusively to writing in 1978. Her first work was the short story collection Nothing Serious, published in 1980.

AWARDS

2001 - Honorary Writer’s Salary 1992 - The Nordic Council’s Literature Prize: Meðan nóttin líður (Night Watch) 1991 - DV Newspaper Cultural Prize for Literature: Meðan nóttin líður (Night Watch) 1990 - The Icelandic Literature Prize: Meðan nóttin líður (Night Watch) 1988 - The National Broadcasting Company’s Writer’s Fund 1982 - Award from The Icelandic Writer’s Fund

NOMINATIONS

1994 - The Icelandic Literature Prize: Í luktum heimi (In a Closed World)