Short Stories and Poems

Sigurdardottir’s poetic and hallucinogenically-beautiful stories, often written from the perspective of a naïve girl or young woman, grapple with violence in mid-twentieth century Iceland from the vantage points of marginalized voices. Her’s stories are considered unique, exhibiting the writer’s singular vision of people and the environment.

“Sigurðardóttir was one of the first writers to capture, from within a vernacular perspective, a truly urban discourse, growing out of the “raw” experience of the postwar era and a disillusioned view of its expanding bourgeois world. The energy of her stories emanates from a subcultural sphere of poverty and bohemianism, violated childhood, and wounded femininity.” ASTRADUR EYSTEINSSON, A HISTORY OF ICELANDIC LITERATURE (published by The University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London in 2006)