Audur Jonsdottir (b.1973) has been working as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines.

A Different Life

(Annað líf, 2000)

An Icelandic farm worker takes a young Thai woman as his wife. His whole way of life changes as he is inspired by foreign ways of thinking.

Uncontrollable Happiness

(Stjórnlaus lukka, 1998)

Nomination for the Icelandic Literary Prize

A gripping novel of a young girl coming of age in a small town, describing various colourful characters.

The author presents warm and intimate depictions of colourful characters, where the fragile relationship besween mother and daughter is in the forefront.

"The relationship between mother and daughter is one of the fulcrums of the story. It is complex in the way that such relationships tend to be, in literature as in life. The mother and daughter clash, lose their tempers and forgive by turns, their fates are intertwined and at the end of the story it is the mother no less than the daughter who stands at a crossroads. ... In this story, Jonsdottir displays her talent for narrative, using it to provide her vivid characters with circumstances and destinies that matter to us."

DV newspaper