Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 and children's fiction

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime-novel was translated into English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 by Bernard Scudder

Bernard Scudder

Bernard John Scudder was an award-winning British translator from Icelandic into English. He died in 2007. His translations include the work of best-selling crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Scudder's translation of Indriðason's novel Silence of the Grave won the 2005...

. The central character in the crime novels is Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir), a lawyer.

Yrsa is married with two children, and she also has a career as a civil engineer.

Crime novels

• Þriðja táknið (2005), (English translation by Bernard Scudder
  Bernard Scudder
  Bernard John Scudder was an award-winning British translator from Icelandic into English. He died in 2007. His translations include the work of best-selling crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Scudder's translation of Indriðason's novel Silence of the Grave won the 2005...
  
  : Last Rituals, US:2007, UK:2008)
• Sér grefur gröf (2006) (English translation by Bernard Scudder
  Bernard Scudder
  Bernard John Scudder was an award-winning British translator from Icelandic into English. He died in 2007. His translations include the work of best-selling crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Scudder's translation of Indriðason's novel Silence of the Grave won the 2005...
  
   and Anna Yates: My Soul to Take, 2009)
• Aska (2007) (English translation by Philip Roughton, Ashes to Dust, UK:July 2010)
• Auðnin (2008) (Veins of Ice) (English translation by Philip Roughton, The Day is Dark, UK:2011)
• Horfðu á mig (2009)
• Ég man þig (2010)

External links

• Yrsa on Facebook

• Icelandic crime fiction writers