Sigurðardóttir, Steinunn

As a child, the Icelandic author Steinunn Sigurðardóttir spent a great deal of time at her local library or swimming pool. Reading and swimming were her favourite things growing up in Reykjavik, and she learned to read at an early age. Sigurðardóttir’s first work was a play meant to be performed in the family's garage (her father was a lorry driver), but it was censored as the mother of one of the actors found the language too coarse.