Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir

Icelandic author Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir

Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir (born March 24, 1982) is an Icelandic author and folklorist. She started her writing career at fifteen when she co-authored the book Orðabelgur Ormars ofurmennis (The Wordballoon of Worm Wonderman). In 2011 she returned to writing with the children's book Flugan sem stöðvaði stríðið (The Fly Who Ended the War) which won the Icelandic Children's Book Prize (2011). Three years later she published the young adult book Hafnfirðingabrandarinn (The Local Joke) which won both the Icelandic Literary Prize (2014) and the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize (or Fjöruverðlaunin 2014).

Bryndís is a adjunct professor at Iceland Academy of the Arts.^[1]

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