Jakobína Sigurðardóttir, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Jakobína Sigurðardóttir

Icelandic writer

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1918

Date of Death: 29-Jan-1994

Profession: writer, poet, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (July 8, 1918 – January 29, 1994) was an Icelandic writer.The daughter of Sigurður Sigurðsson and Stefanía Guðnadóttir, she was born in Hælavík on the Hornstrandir peninsula and grew up there.
Her sister Fríða Á.
Sigurðardóttir was also a writer.In 1959, she published her first children's book Sagan af Snæbjörtu Eldsdóttur og Ketilríði Kotungsdóttur.
She is credited with being one of several Icelandic writers who introduced modernism into the Icelandic novel during the last 1960s and early 1970s.The text of one of her poems was set to music by Jórunn Viðar; this song Vökuró ("Vigil") was later covered by singer Björk.She married Þorgrímur Starri Björgvinsson, a farmer, in 1949.
The couple had four children.