Kristin Steinsdottir

Kristín Steinsdóttir (born 1946) is an Icelandic author. She first worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before turning to writing children’s books in 1988. In addition to children’s and young adult books, she has published novels for adults. Her novel *Eigene Wege* received the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize in 2007 and was nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize in 2008. She received the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize again in 2011 for *Im Schatten des Vogels*.