Authors
Gerður Kristný
About the author
Gerdur Kristný was born on June 10, 1970 and brought up in Reykjavík. She graduated in French and comparative literature from the University of Iceland in 1992. Her B.A. dissertation was on Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal. After a course in media studies at the University of Iceland from 1992-1993 she trained at Danish Radio TV. She was editor of the magazine Mannlíf from 1998 - 2004, but is now a full time writer.
Awards for her work include 1st prize in the National Broadcasting Service short story competition 1986, 1st prize in a TV culture programme poetry competition 1992, the Children's Choice Book Prize in 2003 for her book Marta Smarta, the Halldór Laxness Literary Award in 2004, for her novel Bátur með segli og allt (A Boat With a Sail and All) and the Icelandic Journalist's Award for Myndin af pabba - Saga Thelmu ( A Picture of Dad - Thelma's Story) in 2005. Höggstaður (Soft Spot) was nominated for The Icelandic Literature Prize in 2007 and she then won the prize in 2010 for her poetry book Blóðhófnir, which is based on the myth about Freyr and the poet's namesake Gerður Gymisdóttir from the Eddic poem Skírnismál.
Gerður Kristný has published poetry books, short stories, novels and a book for children, as well as a book about the Westman Islands Festival in 2002.Publisher: Mál og menning.
(from bokmenntir.is)
Further reading:
Fiction
Novels:
Bátur með segli og allt (A boat with sails and all), 2004: Mál og menning
Regnbogi í póstinum, 1996: Mál og menning
Short stories:
Eitruð epli, 1998, 2002: Mál og menning
Poetry:
Blóðhófnir, 2010: Mál og menning
Höggstaður, 2007: Mál og menning
Launkofi, 2000: Mál og menning
Ísfrétt, 1994: Mál og menning
Non-fiction
Biographical works:
Myndin af pabba: Saga Thelmu, 2005: Vaka-Helgafell
Sweden, Bilden av pappa, 2006, 2008: Bra böcker
Travel Stories:
Ég veit þú kemur. Þjóðhátíð í Eyjum 2002, 2002: Mál og menning
Plays
Plays:
Bannað að blóta í brúðarkjól, 2000: Performed in Kaffileikhúsið in Reykjavík in 2000.
TV-scripts:
Í kolli mínum geymi ég gullið, 1993 (co-authors: Björg Björnsdóttir and Guðmundur Sverrisson): Námsgagnastofnun
Children's books
Children's books:
Garðurinn (The Garden), 2008: Mál og menning
Germany, Die letzte Nacht des Jahres, 2011: Berlin Verlag
Prinsessan á Bessastöðum, 2009: Mál og menning
Ballið á Bessastöðum, 2007: Mál og menning
Vinir Afríku, 2007: Námsgagnastofnun
Land hinna týndu sokka, 2006: Mál og menning
Jóladýrin, 2004: Mál og menning
Marta smarta, 2002: Mál og menning