Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir (2 February 1845 – 14 November 1918) was an Iceland

Iceland

Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

ic author, who lived for many years in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. She is regarded as perhaps the first Icelander to make a living as an author. She published her first short story in Framfari—the first Icelandic newspaper published in North America—in 1879. Her first novel, Brynjolfur Sveinsson, was noted as both the first novel and first female author to be formally printed in Iceland.

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online