Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born in 1963) is an Icelandic writer of both crime novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime novel was translated into English by Bernard Scudder. The central character in her crime novels so far is Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir), a lawyer. Yrsa has also written for children, and won the 2003 Icelandic Children's Book Prize with Biobörn.

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir in 2022

Quotes

• Book people, no matter where they come from, are the best people!
  • Award-winning Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir talks about the Icelandic Noir book festival and her latest novel ‘The Fallout’
• I think the biggest part of me that seeps into my books is my appreciation of the weird, the uncanny and sometimes the horrible.
  • Interview With Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

• It is hard to try and avoid your own personality when writing. One must of course put oneself into the shoes of very variable characters and try to adapt to their mindset so that they behave realistically and in accordance to their “personality”. But to do this you have to rely on your own brain and thus some of you always seeps in.
  • Interview With Yrsa Sigurðardóttir