Jakobína Sigurðardóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Jakobína.

Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (8 July 1918 – 29 January 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

Source:[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

References

  1. ^ a b c "Jakobína Sigurðardóttir - Minning Fædd 8. júlí 1918 Dáin 29. janúar 1994". Iceland Monitor (in Icelandic). February 5, 1994.
  2. ^ a b c "Jakobína Sigurðardóttir". History of Nordic Women's Literature.
  3. ^ Eysteinsson, Astradur; Liska, Vivian (2007). Modernism. p. 872. ISBN 978-9027292049.
  4. ^ "Björk's Saga". New Yorker. August 28, 2004.