Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Alda Sigmundsdóttir is a writer, translator, journalist, and blogger. She is the author of several books about Iceland, including Unraveled: A Novel about a Meltdown and The Little Book of the Icelanders in the Old Days. Raised in Canada and having lived in both the UK and Germany, she is now based in Reykjavík.

What to Read Now: Iceland

January 2015
Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Iceland enjoys a powerful literary tradition, underpinned by the old Icelandic sagas and Eddaic poems and also by the Icelanders’ struggle for emotional and spiritual survival during centuries of pove…
Unraveled: A Novel about a Meltdown by Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Enska textasmidjan. 2013. ISBN 9789979723110 Unraveled is an absorbing read. It mixes the life story of the principal character, Frida, and the mechanisms she uses to survive abandonment by h…