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Oddný Eir


Born
in Reykjavík, Iceland
December 28, 1972

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Oddný Eir (1972) is an Icelandic author whose novel Land of Love and Ruins won the EU Prize for Literature and the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize. In addition to publishing four novels and several books of poetry and essays, she has worked in the art world as a lecturer and gallerist, has received a grant to study archives and museums in Iceland, has been an environmental activist, and has collaborated with the musical artist Björk in composing lyrics for her albums Biophilia and Vulnicura. She has received advanced degrees in political philosophy from the University of Iceland and The Sorbonne. Oddný Eir lives in the Icelandic countryside, by the glacier Eyjafjallajökull.

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Average rating: 3.62 · 547 ratings · 67 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Land of Love and Ruins
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3.53 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions
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Blátt blóð
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Heim til míns hjarta
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Ástarmeistarinn: blindskák
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Opnun kryppunnar
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“I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins
tags: contemplation, peace, quiet, solitude, thoughts
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“I think that home shouldn't be a place you need to leave if you want to experience something in consonance with your innermost being. Home should be a place of experimentation and discovery, a place of peace and quiet where the most natural in each individual can be developed in fine-tuning to the desires and searches of others.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins
tags: discovery, home
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“Next I want to try living apart together, live in the same country, the same city, even the same building as whomever I'm in a relationship with, yet in a different apartment than him. Then it would be possible to pay him visits and still invite good friends over to my place. Do you think you have that it takes to maintain such a French arrangement? he asked. Well, no, probably not...but then again...? Maybe it would be better in the long run to stay in a more lasting relationship and not need to move so often.”
― Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins
tags: love, relationships
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