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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir was born in Iceland in 1958, studied art history in Paris and has lectured in History of Art at the University of Iceland. Her earlier novel, The Greenhouse (2007), won the DV Culture Award for literature and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award. She currently lives and works in Reykjavik.

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Average rating: 3.76 · 39,762 ratings · 5,408 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hotel Silence 3.81 avg rating — 12,255 ratings — published 2016 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 7,968 ratings — published 2018 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rosa candida by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Catherine Eyjólfsson (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 6,609 ratings — published 2007 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon (Translator) 3.37 avg rating — 4,432 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon (Translator) 3.65 avg rating — 3,064 ratings — published 2020 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eden 4.01 avg rating — 2,009 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undantekningin - de arte poetica 3.68 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 2012 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le rouge vif de la rhubarbe by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Catherine Eyjólfsson (Translator) 3.47 avg rating — 977 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DJ Bambi 3.89 avg rating — 770 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss Island by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Tina Flecken 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through multiple layers of trees just to take a letter to the post office, have any conception of what it’s like to spend one’s entire childhood waiting for a single tree to grow?”
― Audur Ava Olafsdottir, The Greenhouse

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“Where are there towns but no houses, roads but no cars, forests but no trees?
Answer on a map
(Riddle on children's breakfast TV)”
― Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Undantekningin - de arte poetica

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“Ceux qui arrivent à entrer un court instant dans la vie des autres peuvent avoir plus d'importance que ceux qui y sont installés depuis des années. (Rosa Candida, p.136)”
― Audur Ava Ólafsdóttir

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