Guðrún Helgadóttir
(1935-2022)
Icelandic children's writer and politician
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Guðrún Helgadóttir (7 September 1935 – 23 March 2022) was a prominent writer of children's literature in Iceland. She was born in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. Her first book, Jón Oddur og Jón Bjarni, appeared in 1974 when she worked at the National Health and Insurance Office. It concerned scheming twins and several more books in this series came out. In 1981 they became the basis for a film. By the late 1980s she won several awards and in 1988 she was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She has written a small amount of drama for adults, but most of her work is for children 7-13.
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7 September 1935 Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
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23 March 2022 (aged 86)
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