Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Icelandic writer · Iceland · On the map · Writers · Born 1963 · age 63
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer of both crime novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime novel was translated into English by Bernard Scudder. The central character in her crime novels so far is Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, a lawyer.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is read about 154 times a day, in 25 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 110 days, one point a day.
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, Book people, no matter where they come from, are the best people!
I think the biggest part of me that seeps into my books is my appreciation of the weird, the uncanny and sometimes the horrible.
It is hard to try and avoid your own personality when writing.
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Yrsa has also written for children, and won the 2003 Icelandic Children's Book Prize with Biobörn.
