What is Yrsa Sigurðardóttir?
{{Icelandic name|Yrsa}} [[File:YrsaSigurðardóttir2019.png|thumb|200px|Yrsa in 2019]] '''Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir''' (born 1963)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salomonssonagency.se/yrsa-sigurdardottir|title=Yrsa Sigurdardóttir|publisher=Salomonsson Agency|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref> is an [[Iceland]]ic [[novelist]]. She writes both [[Crime fiction|crime novels]] and [[Children's literature|children's fiction]] in [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]]. She has been writing since 1998. Her works have been translated into [[English language|English]] by [[Bernard Scudder]], Philip Roughton and Victoria Cobb. She is known for her Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir) crime novel series. As a children's writer, she won the 2003 Icelandic Children's Book Prize for ''Biobörn''. Yrsa was born in [[Reykjavík]]. She is married and has two children. Outside of writing, she has had a career as a [[civil engineer]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb name|nm2969464}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yrsa, Sigurdardottir}} [[Category:1963 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:European novelists]] [[Category:Writers from Reykjavík]] [[Category:Crime writers]] [[Category:Children's writers]] {{bio-stub}}