Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

1958 -

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country of citizenship: Iceland

native language: Icelandic

languages spoken, written or signed: Icelandic, French

educated at: University of Paris

occupation: writer

award received: Nordic Council Literature Prize

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (born 1958) is an Icelandic professor of art history, a novelist, playwright and poet. She received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Hotel Silence in 2018 and the Médicis Foreign Award for Miss Iceland in 2019. Source: Wikipedia (en)