Writer & artist
The Strongest Woman on Earth is a moving family saga about the search for happiness, personal weakness, and unexpected power.
Happiness is the most dangerous thing of all. It‘s a law of nature that much sorrow always follows this so-called happiness.
Siblings Gunnhildur and Eidur are allies in a family where their parents are never happy at the same time. When their family is torn apart, the siblings are separated – a change that affects their entire lives.
Eidur becomes a peaceful idealist who longs to do good, and Gunnhildur, who posesses superpowers (though she doesn‘t flaunt them), studies cosmetology and becomes a sought-after mortuary cosmetologist.
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Steinunn g. Helgadóttir
(b.1952) is a visual artist and well-known Icelandic poet and prose writer. She received The Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize 2016 for her novel Voices From the Radio Operator’s House. Helgadottir’s work has been exhibited at solo and group art exhibitions around the world. She has also curated numerous art exhibitions in several museums and galleries in Iceland. Steinunn G. Helgadottir’s story-telling talent is undisputed. Readers who‘ve discovered Voices from the Radio Operator’s House and All My Father’s Children know well the feeling of laughing one page and weeping the next, and accidentally staying up far too late reading.
“… juicy and full of surprises and entertaining anecdotes … a good
and joyous debut of a new novelist … Helgadottir is a professional
artist … well-written, sophisticated and intriguing work.”
MORGUNBLADID DAILY
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“All My Father’s Children is a brilliant book by one of the most interesting and talented writers I’ve read in a long time.”
AÐALSTEINN SVANUR SIGFUSSON