13 Published BooksÁlfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir
Álfrún started writing in middle age, and published her first book, the collection of short stories Af manna völdum (Works of Man) in 1982. Prior to that time she had primarily been known as an academic: she was responsible for developing the study programme in comparative literature at the University of Iceland, after living abroad for many years, for instance in Switzerland and Spain.
She is a writer who has generally kept a low profile in literary debate in Iceland. Nonetheless, she has won a place as one of the country's leading writers, and has been consistently praised by critics and received awards for her work.
