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Poems by Jakobína Sigurðardóttir. New and expanded edition.
Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (1918–1994) was a writer and poet. She was born and raised in Hælavík á Hornströndur, one of the most remote settlements in the country that is now deserted. She was the eldest of thirteen siblings, one of whom was the poet Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir. Jakobína moved away from home at the age of seventeen in 1935, and her parents moved away from Hælavík two years later. Jakobína moved to Reykjavík and planned to get an education, but little came of those plans because there were few opportunities for women of modest means at the time. She also worked for a time as a shopkeeper in Árnessýsla. In 1949, she moved north to the Mývatn region and started farming in Garður II with her husband, Þorgrímur Starri Björgvinsson. They had four children: Stefania (1950–2013), Sigrún Huld (b. 1952), Sigríður Kristína (b. 1956) and Kári (b. 1959). Jakobína lived in Garður for the rest of her life, but she died on January 29, 1994.
Jakobína is the author of four novels, three collections of short stories, a fairy tale, a book of poems and a memoir. She began her career as a poet, but her poems, many of which were satirical poems against the occupation and foreign armies, appeared in magazines in the 1950s and were published in the poetry book Kvæði in 1960. The year before, Jakobína published her first story, Sögun af Snæbjörtu Eldsdóttir og Ketilríður kotungsdóttir (1959), but although that book can be found in the children's sections of libraries, it is actually a political satire in the form of a fairy tale and in that respect a direct continuation of the satirical poems. Jakobína first attracted attention as a short story writer with the short story collection Púnktur á skakkum stað (1964) and the novel Dægurvísa (1965). This was followed by the novels Snaran (1968), Livandi vatník – – – (1974) and Í sama klefa (1981) and the short story collections Sjö vindur gráar (1970) and Vegurinn upp á fjallið (1990). Jakobína completed her last book on her deathbed, which was the memoir Í barndómi (1994).
Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (1918–1994) was a writer and poet. She was born and raised in Hælavík á Hornströndur, one of the most remote settlements in the country that is now deserted. She was the eldest of thirteen siblings, one of whom was the poet Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir. Jakobína moved away from home at the age of seventeen in 1935, and her parents moved away from Hælavík two years later. Jakobína moved to Reykjavík and planned to get an education, but little came of those plans because there were few opportunities for women of modest means at the time. She also worked for a time as a shopkeeper in Árnessýsla. In 1949, she moved north to the Mývatn region and started farming in Garður II with her husband, Þorgrímur Starri Björgvinsson. They had four children: Stefania (1950–2013), Sigrún Huld (b. 1952), Sigríður Kristína (b. 1956) and Kári (b. 1959). Jakobína lived in Garður for the rest of her life, but she died on January 29, 1994.
Jakobína is the author of four novels, three collections of short stories, a fairy tale, a book of poems and a memoir. She began her career as a poet, but her poems, many of which were satirical poems against the occupation and foreign armies, appeared in magazines in the 1950s and were published in the poetry book Kvæði in 1960. The year before, Jakobína published her first story, Sögun af Snæbjörtu Eldsdóttir og Ketilríður kotungsdóttir (1959), but although that book can be found in the children's sections of libraries, it is actually a political satire in the form of a fairy tale and in that respect a direct continuation of the satirical poems. Jakobína first attracted attention as a short story writer with the short story collection Púnktur á skakkum stað (1964) and the novel Dægurvísa (1965). This was followed by the novels Snaran (1968), Livandi vatník – – – (1974) and Í sama klefa (1981) and the short story collections Sjö vindur gráar (1970) and Vegurinn upp á fjallið (1990). Jakobína completed her last book on her deathbed, which was the memoir Í barndómi (1994).