Vilborg Davíðsdóttir


Vilborg Davíðsdóttir is an Icelandic writer and journalist. She lives in Reykjavík.
Vilborg has a diploma in journalism, and a BA in English and Ethnology. She wrote her MA thesis in Ethnology about oral tradition and storytelling.
Her novels The Well of Fates and The Witches' Judgement concern a slave in the Viking era and are influenced by the Icelandic sagas. She has also written a trilogy, historical fiction about Auður Djúpúðga, one of Iceland's most famous female settlers.
Vilborg's book Ástin, drekinn og dauðinn is her most personal story yet. There she writes the story of her husband's journey with terminal brain cancer, and her first year as a widow, during which both her mother-in-law and her father died as well.
Some of her books have been translated and published in The United States, Egypt, Germany and Faroe Islands.

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