Kristín Ómarsdóttir

Kristín Ómarsdóttir: was born in Reykjavík, spent her first years in Copenhagen, and lived for most of her childhood in Hafnarfjörður. She wrote her first play in 1985, which won her first prize in a playwriting competition run by The National Theater of Iceland. She has worked as a writer since the middle of the 1980s and has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Prize. In 2000, her novel Elskan mín ég dey (My Love I’m Dying) was nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2005, she won Playwright of the Year at Gríman — The Icelandic Performing Arts Awards. For her poetry book Sjáðu fegurð þína (See Your Beauty) she was awarded Fjöruverðlaunin — the Icelandic Women’s Literary Prize in 2008. Apart from writing novels, poetry, and plays, she has exhibited her drawings and worked in the field of visual art.