Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic professor of art history who also writes novels, plays and poetry. Her novel Hotel Silence received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2018, and Miss Iceland won the Médicis Foreign Award in 2019. Her fiction includes Butterflies in November, in which a woman in her thirties, suddenly responsible for a young child, road-trips around Iceland to revisit a place from her childhood.