Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (July 8, 1918 – January 29, 1994) was an Icelandic writer.[1]

The daughter of Sigurður Sigurðsson and Stefanía Guðnadóttir, she was born in Hælavík on the Hornstrandir peninsula and grew up there. Her sister Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir was also a writer.[2][1]

In 1959, she published her first children's book Sagan af Snæbjörtu Eldsdóttur og Ketilríði Kotungsdóttur.[2] She is credited with being one of several Icelandic writers who introduced modernism into the Icelandic novel during the last 1960s and early 1970s.[3]

Several of Sigurðardóttir's poems have been turned into songs. Jórunn Viðar; composed Vökuró ("Vigil") later performed by Björk.[4] Jórunn Viðar also composed a song to the poem Vorljóð á Ýli. Then Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason and Guðmundur Óskar Guðmundsson wrote a song to the Christmas poem Jólakvæði in 2013. That appeared on Sigríður Thorlacius' Christmas album Jólakveðja.

She married Þorgrímur Starri Björgvinsson, a farmer, in 1949. The couple had four children.[1]

Selected works[2]

• Kvæði (1960)
• Púnktur á skökkum stað, short stories (1964)
• Dægurvísa, novel (1965)
• Snaran, novel (1968)
• Sjö vindur gráar, short stories (1970)
• Lifandi vatnið, novel (1974)
• Künstlerroman Í sama klefa, novel (1981)
• Vegurinn upp á fjallið, short stories (1990)
• Í barndómi, memoir (1994), published posthumously

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