Elín Ebba Gunnarsdóttir  Elín Ebba Gunnarsdóttir is an Icelandic writer born in 1953. She is noted for her short fiction. Her publications include "Sumar sögur : smásögur" ("Some Stories", , 1997: ) and "Ysta brún : smásögur" ("On The Edge", Vaka-Helgafell, 1999: ). Her "Sumar sögur" was translated into German by and published as "Jener Sommer in Island" (2000, Suhrkamp: ). Her story "Solmundur" was included in Gerd Schmidt Nielsen's 1999 collection "Nordiske noveller i 1990'erne" ("Nordic short stories in the 1990s", Systime, 1999: ).