Ingunn Snædal

Ingunn Snædal: her first book of poetry, Á heitu malbiki (On Hot Asphalt), was published in 1995. Since then, she has published four other poetry books.  The first, Guðlausir menn — hugleiðingar um jökulvatn og ást (Godless People — Thoughts on Glacial Water and Love) won the Tómas Guðmundsson poetry award in 2006 and was nominated for The Icelandic Literature Prize.  Her third book, Komin til að vera, nóttin (Here to Stay, the Night) received the Fjöruverðlaun (Women’s Literary Prize) in 2010. Her collected poems were published in 2015, and her work has been widely translated into, for example, English, Swedish, Turkish, and German. In addition to wri\ting poetry, Ingunn is a literary translator.